Innovation Hub Opportunities

The Innovation Hub is a curated space designed to celebrate and embrace change. If you are looking for a place to showcase your innovative solutions that help solve water sector challenges — you can find it here! 

Solving the complex challenges facing the water community in 2050 will take innovation – and collaboration. The Innovation Hub is a curated space designed to celebrate and embrace change, highlight emerging technologies and trends, and engage in meaningful conversations to advance a sustainable and resilient water future. This makes the Innovation Hub an ideal space to showcase the thought leadership of water solutions providers, through select exhibit and sponsorship opportunities not found anywhere else at ACE23.

AWWA’s Water 2050 Initiative tackles the most critical drivers impacting the water community’s future – Sustainability, Technology, Economics, Governance, and Social/Demographic. Similarly, the work of Water 2050 has also highlighted the need to engage strategic partners to address challenges encountered along the way. Throughout the conference, the Innovation Hub’s engaging professional program and suite of networking events bring together key stakeholders to inspire the innovative thinking needed to address the water challenges of today – and create an extraordinary Water 2050 future of tomorrow.

The centralized “hub” provides a place for thought leaders to come together and share creative ideas and designs, and fosters connections and collaboration on such topics as:

• Cyber and data security
• Novel approaches to resiliency
• Global trends in non-revenue water
• Resource recovery
• Water reuse
• Application of drone technology
• Leveraging artificial intelligence for optimization
• 21st Century Infrastructure
• Cutting-edge Source Water Protection Measures
• Next generation treatment technologies

• Space within the Innovation Hub, which is centrally-located in the Exhibit Hall
• Furnishings: one high-top cocktail table (42 inches high x 36 inches wide), two stools, standard electrical, carpeting and signage 
• Company name and description listed in the mobile app and in the Onsite Program, if received by cutoff deadlines
• Two (2) Exhibitor Full-Conference registrations (technical sessions and exhibits, no lunch)
• Exhibit Hall 24-hour perimeter security 
• Exhibitor access to the Exhibit Hall, professional sessions and networking events
• ACE23 Conference Proceedings for registered booth staff

Pull-up banners are NOT allowed in the Innovation Hub. The exhibiting company is responsible for ordering internet if needed.

Each year the Innovation Hub continues to grow and offers exciting new professional sessions meant to stimulate innovative thinking and best practices. The centralized “hub” provides a place for thought leaders to come together and share creative ideas and designs, and fosters connections and collaboration.

ZONE SPONSOR

The sponsorship opportunities were developed with the hub and spoke concept in mind with the nucleus surrounded by four linked Technology Zones from the “spokes.” Sponsors can find a perfect spot within one of the water themed Zones to showcase their leading-edge products and services.

INNOVATION CABANA HOST

Scaleups and startups alike will find the Innovations Hub a perfect place to showcase their cutting-edge innovation — within their own space — in one of the Innovation Cabanas. These 10’x10’ stations will be uniquely designed by each Sponsor and will serve as an excellent exchange platform to disseminate your latest findings, designs, and ideas, all in a private space.

All ACE INNOVATION HUB SPONSORS CAN ENJOY:

• Sponsor logo on Innovation Lounge pages on the ACE23 website and Innovation Hub brochure
• Two (2) Exhibitor Full Conference registrations (professional sessions and exhibits, no lunch)
• ACE23 Pre- and Post-Attendee mailing lists

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A robust lineup of programming and speakers, a wide range of exhibitors, and networking events make the Innovation Hub the focal point for solution-oriented and forward-thinking early adopters. 

Powered by Isle, the ACE23 Innovation Hub will tie in global trends and also address regional challenges that demand creative approaches. The Innovation Hub is where conversations are taken a step further, whether it’s step changes of innovation to the core business or industry to transformative innovation.