4 – 8 October, 2026
Glasgow, UK
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Informazioni sull'evento
Il IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition 2026 is one of the water sector’s most influential global gatherings, bringing together professionals from across the full water cycle to explore the future of water resilience, sustainability, and innovation.
Hosted by the International Water Association, the 2026 edition in Glasgow will welcome around 10,000 participants from utilities, academia, government, technology, finance, and industry. Through technical sessions, leadership forums, exhibitions, and collaborative discussions, the event creates opportunities to share practical solutions and advance action on climate resilience, water security, sanitation, and ecosystem protection.
Centered around the theme “Water action – the path to resilience and prosperity,” the Congress highlights the essential role of water in supporting communities, economic development, and environmental health, while showcasing emerging technologies, nature-based solutions, and integrated approaches shaping the future of the sector.
Women in Water Programme
Isle is proud to be supporting the Women in Water Programme at IWA Glasgow 2026 is bringing together people, ideas and action from across the global water community. Through leadership conversations, mentoring, networking, technical and innovation sessions and opportunities to connect across Congress, the programme aims to amplify diverse voices, encourage inclusive participation and create relationships that continue beyond Glasgow.
At its heart is the Women in Water Connection Hub, Stand 015 in the Main Exhibition Hall — a welcoming space to connect, learn, recharge and belong. Open to Congress delegates and exhibition visitors, the Hub provides a place to meet people from around the world, share ideas, access mentoring and career conversations, build new connections and become part of a growing global Women in Water community.
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Inside the Isle Innovation Hub at IWA Glasgow 2026
At this year’s IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, Isle is curating a dedicated space on the exhibition floor that brings together eight water technology companies, a live stage program, and an interactive feature capturing what the sector itself sees as its most urgent challenge. It’s independent, evidence-led technology scouting — the work Isle does every day — made physical for the week. Alongside the scouting, Isle brings the structure to act on it: de-risking the choice, accelerating implementation, and tracking outcomes that can actually be measured, turning a good conversation on the stand into a better decision back at the utility.
Eight technologies, curated around real problems:
Foresight AI connects the siloed data sitting across a utility’s network and applies AI to reduce risk: faster leak investigation (Leak Response), pipe-failure prediction for investment planning (Failure Indicator), and an AI-driven digital twin for critical water mains (Ground Truth).
FIDO Tech detects and locates leaks on pressurized pipes of any material, at scale, ranking them by size so the biggest losses get fixed first — through Leak Locate, Network Monitor, and Aqua Plus.
8power builds battery-free wireless sensors that harvest energy from equipment vibration, giving utilities ten years of “fit and forget” condition monitoring on rotating assets — predicting failures before they become downtime.
Mode Labs delivers lab-grade chemical sensing in the field, using micron-scale quantum sensing for continuous, real-time measurement of phosphorus, ammonia, and other analytes across wastewater process control, environmental monitoring, and aquaculture.
Holloid turns holographic microscopy and AI into real-time bioprocess and water monitoring. Its “Hollometers” analyze microorganisms and microparticles as they occur, flagging contamination early across water, food, and pharma.
Variolitica, a Fraunhofer spin-off, helps wastewater treatment plants cut their climate impact by tracking nitrous oxide, methane, and CO₂ in real time and using AI to optimize aeration and nitrogen management — lowering energy, chemical use, and emissions together.
Emulsion Flow Technologies brings an advanced solvent-extraction platform — originally developed for Japanese nuclear research — to two circular-economy problems at once: recovering critical metals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, and removing PFAS from industrial wastewater.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) anchors the Hub with more than 55 years of independent marine science and over 600 global collaborations. Through its commercial arm, PML Applications, it offers marine environmental consultancy and technology testing — the kind of independent evidence base the whole Hub is built on.
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