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 \u2014 the work Isle does every day \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s what you’ll find inside.<\/span> Foresight AI<\/b> 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).<\/span><\/p>\n FIDO Tech<\/b> detects and locates leaks on pressurized pipes of any material, at scale, ranking them by size so the biggest losses get fixed first \u2014 through Leak Locate, Network Monitor, and Aqua Plus.<\/span><\/p>\n 8power<\/b> builds battery-free wireless sensors that harvest energy from equipment vibration, giving utilities ten years of “fit and forget” condition monitoring on rotating assets \u2014 predicting failures before they become downtime.<\/span><\/p>\n Mode Labs<\/b> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Holloid<\/b> 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Variolitica<\/b>, a Fraunhofer spin-off, helps wastewater treatment plants cut their climate impact by tracking nitrous oxide, methane, and CO\u2082 in real time and using AI to optimize aeration and nitrogen management \u2014 lowering energy, chemical use, and emissions together.<\/span><\/p>\n Emulsion Flow Technologies<\/b> brings an advanced solvent-extraction platform \u2014 originally developed for Japanese nuclear research \u2014 to two circular-economy problems at once: recovering critical metals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries, and removing PFAS from industrial wastewater.<\/span><\/p>\n Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)<\/b> 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 \u2014 the kind of independent evidence base the whole Hub is built on.<\/span><\/p>\n At the center of the Hub is an interactive wall posing a single question:<\/span> what’s the biggest challenge innovation needs to solve in water?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Every visitor can add their answer. Over the week, responses are grouped and visualized into a live, evolving picture of where the sector sees its most urgent gaps \u2014 then captured in a post-event report shared back with the community. It’s a genuine, crowd-sourced read on sector priorities, and a natural way to start a conversation at the stands.<\/span><\/p>\n Alongside daily technology presentations from all eight companies, the Hub stage hosts a focused program, including:<\/span><\/p>\n Exhibitor presentation times are being finalized \u2014 check the Innovation Hub stage schedule for the latest.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n The Isle Innovation Hub is open throughout the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, 4\u20138 October, at the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow. Come to see the technology, meet the teams, and add your voice to the wall.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Step inside the Isle Innovation Hub at IWA Glasgow 2026: eight curated water technologies, a live stage program, and the sector’s own view on innovation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":18201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-and-conferences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\nEight technologies, curated around real problems<\/b><\/h4>\n
Finding what you can’t see \u2014 leakage and network risk<\/b><\/h5>\n
Knowing the health of your assets and processes \u2014 monitoring and sensing<\/b><\/h5>\n
Cutting emissions and recovering value \u2014 sustainability and circularity<\/b><\/h5>\n
The science underneath \u2014 independent research<\/b><\/h5>\n
One question, answered live by the sector<\/b><\/h4>\n
On the stage<\/b><\/h4>\n
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Come find us<\/b><\/h4>\n