The 2018 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition concluded on 21 September as a great success: 10.000 water leaders, 88 technical sessions with 352 papers presented, 252 global exhibitors...
The 2018 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition concluded on 21 September as a great success. Nearly 10.000 water leaders from governments, utilities, academia, private companies, and international organizations came together in Tokyo, Japan, to debate on the world's pressing water problems. The International Water Association together with the Japanese Partners (Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Bureau of Waterworks, Bureau of Sewerage, Japan Society on Water Environment, Japan Water Works Association and Japan Sewerage Works Association) are proud to have provided a strategic platform for the key stakeholders within and outside the water sector to discuss and co-create solutions to our global water challenges.
This 11th edition of the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition drew 9815 participants from 98 countries. The Congress programme included a total of 49 workshops, 88 technical sessions with 352 papers presented, 633 posters, 27 poster sessions with 462 presentations, 6 leadership forums, 7 plenaries, 3 master lectures, and 19 training and skills development sessions. This adds up to more than 280 hours of activities in the course of the congress week and made it the biggest #WorldWaterCongress & Exhibition to date.
As an integrated and key element of the event, the Exhibition brought together 252 global exhibitors, proving once again that the exhibition offers a valuable networking place in the Congress, where exhibitors and delegates exchange solutions and innovations to shape our water future. The exhibition presented a full picture of the global water sector: water utilities, governments, consultants, contractors and technology providers presented their contribution to sustainable solutions globally.
In Tokyo last week, water professionals from around the world set agendas for the water sector and beyond. We discussed and worked on utilities, cities, and basins of the future with a key focus on the digital economy, megacities, diffusion of innovation, disaster resilience, and sustainability. See some highlights of this memorable week below.
IWA would like to thank the Congress & Exhibition delegates for helping to shape our water future. And looking forward to welcoming you at the 12th IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2020!
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