Isle Americas Celebrates Five Years of Water Sector Peer Networking
Peer networking for water sector professionals covers areas from AI to PFAS
Isle Americas’ Partnership Project program celebrates 5 years of connecting US water sector experts through peer networking and collaborative learning. The Partnership Program fosters knowledge exchange, exploring the real-world use of innovations and novel technologies. By spotlighting utilities’ forward-thinking work, the program also positions utilities as climate and innovation leaders – crucial for employee recruitment and retention.
So far, 15 Partnership Projects have been launched, engaging over 90 utilities nationwide. Topics address key industry challenges and provide a closed, safe space for utilities to share experiences and learnings. A sampling of current projects includes:
- AI Horizons, which builds foundational knowledge of AI and examines current tools and sector-wide implications for artificial intelligence
- Data fusion and visualization, which helps utilities navigate implementation, sharing best practices and common barriers to success
- O PFAS project provides a space to exchange insights and highlight and discuss PFAS treatment and destruction technologies
Benefícios da abordagem/inovação
- Enhanced networking: Utilities build their network of peer leaders with interests in a similar topic area.
- Shared knowledge: Partner utilities share insights, lessons learned, and experiences to build a shared compendium of best practices.
- Broadened understanding: Participants come away with a more holistic understanding of the technological landscape within each topic area.
- Tailored technologies: Utilities gain access to a compendium of best practices and technologies tailored to each Partnership Project’s specific goals.
Serviços especializados envolvidos:
- Workshop facilitation: Developed themed workshops to facilitate sharing peer expertise on a range of topics.
- Needs assessment: Delved into the needs, strengths, and opportunities of each cohort to help share the program.
- Technology scan: Provided a comprehensive review of technologies and best practices for each topic area.
- Compare and contrast: Offered high-value comparisons between the most promising technologies.
Resultados:
- Thought leadership: Utilities built expertise in a range of topic areas from AI to PFAS. This helps professionals become thought leaders and position their utilities as industry leaders in innovation and best practice.
- Novel technologies: Technology scans completed for each Partnership Project encompass an average of 65 new technologies. Free and open sharing of information helps utilities roadmap technologies, smoothing the path to implementation.
- Knowledge sharing: Developed an ecosystem of peer experts who can share their lessons and insights with the broader industry. Greater transparency highlights applicability and use cases to make best use of technology and resources.
Principais contatos:
Para perguntas e informações adicionais, entre em contato com Alejandro Toro ([email protected]), Director of Project Delivery at Isle Americas