12th Water Business Forum
Objective
The Water Business Forum (WBF) is particularly designed for the networking platform for all multi stakeholders in gloal water sectors. To activate global business of local enterprises, the forum provides cutting-edge information such as knowledge, experience, technology of agencies/organizations and businesses. It also provides networking opportunities among key decision makers. Among all of these, it contributes to enforcing cooporative relations with nations/regions/international organizations by discovering potentially cooperative issues.
Participants
Water-related Governments, Local authorities, Public and Private sectors, Academia, International Organizations, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), etc.
Short Description
Theme | (Morning) Water Management Improvement through Smart Technology, (Afternoon) Global Water Industry and Financing |
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Host | Ministry of Environment |
Organizer | Korea Water Forum |
Participants | About 100 participants from water-related governments, local authorities, public and Private sectors, academia, MDBs, etc. |
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Program
Time(min) | Details |
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10:00-10:05 (5) | Welcome Remarks |
10:05-10:10 (5) | Congratulatory Remarks |
10:10-10:15 (5) | Commemorative Photo |
Water Management Improvement through Smart Technology | |
10:15-10:25 (10) | Boosting Global Competitiveness As a tool of sharing most recent information of national strategy, this session will cover the ‘water Industry Development Strategy - encompassing broaden support measures from Technology Development to Market Launch’ Dr. Jin-Woo Jeong, Team Manager, Korea Environment Corporation |
10:25-11:25 (60) | Water Management Trends and Innovation This session will constitute delievering presentations in connection with the ‘Project Cooperation Opportunities for Water Management’. The Speakers invited in this session would be considered representing the countries where in high demand of global business oooprtuniies in water sector.
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11:25-11:35 (10) | Smart Technology for Global Water Business As a future new hub of World Water Industry, the Water Industry Platform Center has been and will be functioning to collect both resources needed and capabilities. This session will cover the ‘Supporting the life cycle for growth and development of water-related companies’ by Water Industry Platform Center, Korea Mr. Manjae Kim, Water Industry Platform Center, Korea |
11:35-13:05 (90) | Best Practices : Water Technology Development and Global Business by company
As the most featured session to the companies particiapted in this Forum, this session will be allocated for sharing up-to-date information on e.g. technology development, innovation, business development, global partnership, and discussing potential business opportunities following presentations above.
*To be confirmed from more than two start-ups |
13:05-13:20 (15) | Q&A Session - Best Practices and Future Strategies
Moderated by Prof. Seung-Hyun KIM, Kyungnam University |
Global Water Industry and Financing | |
13:20-14:05 (45) | Global Water Project and Cooperation by region
This session will include perspectives, know-hows and experiences from financial cooperation experts. Those presentations would be delivered in an aspect of practical use, reflection of business needs, and specific to the region maintaining integrated view of Water Financing and Global Business.
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14:05-14:20 (15) | Q&A Session - Utilizing Potential Support for Water
Moderated by Prof. Seung-Hyun KIM, Kyungnam University |
14:20-17:00 (160) | Water Partner Square 1:1 business matching Technology Demonstration Technical Presentation by company |
KIWW2019 Previous Outcome
In the 12thWBF,public-privatecorporations from 6countries (Indonesia,Egypt,China,Pakistan,Germany,Australia) along with the host county of the KIWW, Rep. of Korea and twoMultilateral DevelopmentBanks (WorldBank,KoreaOverseasInfrastructure&UrbanDevelopmentCorporation)attended. Approx. 50participants including 16speaker sandmoderators from 7countries and international organizations joined the forumandbuiltandstrengthened their partnership.
The 12theditionoftheWBFprovided the right place for sharing cutting-edge technologies and knowledge with up-to-date information based on insightful analysis and on-going researches. It also offered the opportunities for networking among key decision-makers seeking for cooperation on the field projects.
The forum contributed to enforcing strategic relationship with nations, regions, international organizations, and enterprises by discovering potentially cooperative issues of water industry.