Attendees at BlueTech Forum 2017 in Dublin praise the event's shift to interactive roundtables over large presentations, crediting Paul Callaghan's West-Coast initiative for fostering deeper connections. AI, IoT, and biotechnology are reshaping the water market, with both multinationals and smaller firms using the forum to learn new technologies and advance sustainability programs.
It really combines many different things, such as, say, artificial intelligence, Internet of things, advancements in material science, biotechnology. Many of these are changing the global marketplace and impacting water as well.
When Paul Callaghan started this initiative on the west coast of the United States, it was a great opportunity to meet clients, to meet partners, to meet other players in the field in a somewhat relaxed atmosphere.
I think Paul's done a great job and I love the blue tag guys. And I think it's very important to keep the dialogue going and just try to energize these conferences with the little examples that are cropping up everywhere there's a green shoots.
I say that this conference specifically has done a really great job in the two years that I've been coming to it to really move away from the big presentations, general session presentations, where we begin to have roundtables here and begin to get the interaction. And in many cases, these roundtables allow you to have interaction with a number of different topics.
It's forums like this that enable organizations understand new technology as it arises and drive forward that sustainability program in terms of resource efficiency. The fact that it allows me to meet people in similar positions to myself in other companies, large multinational companies, and not so large companies as well, and to share a little bit the experiences with them.
Coming together here is one of the reasons for us to come back to be a sponsor and to support this event.
Sam.
