Some of the world’s leading businesses and innovative minds will gather in Essex later this month to tackle major social and environmental challenges at a special ‘Day of Innovation’.
The Day of Innovation will take place at Essex & Suffolk Water’s Hanningfield Treatment Works near Chelmsford on Tuesday 18 September.
The event will build on the ideas generated at Northumbrian Water Group’s Innovation Festival 2018, which took place in Newcastle last July and was attended by thousands of people over five days. The event saw 13 ‘sprint sessions’ take place to work on solutions to some big questions, including:
– How can we reduce the impact of single use plastics?
– How can we reduce the water consumption by 110litres by 2025
– How can business improve the lives of people who are visually impaired?
– How can we prevent flooding?
– What is the future of transport?
The Day of Innovation will be an opportunity to update on the progress of each sprint so far, and for innovative minds to come together again to move each idea forward.
There will be updates on two ‘hackathons’, which saw over 70gb of data crunched during the Innovation Festival to generate innovative solutions for tackling flooding and leakage.
As well as the sprint and hackathon updates there will also be tech demonstrations, wellbeing and mindfulness activities, creative speakers, competitions, live music and much, much more.
For more information on the Day of Innovation visit https://innovationfestival.org/essex.
