"Innovate 4 Water"is a marketplace to build bridges between all key stakeholders leveraging water-related sectors opportunities in the Geneva region. It is organised by InTent and Waterpreneurs.

Why “Innovate 4 Water”?

"Innovate 4 Water " fosters interactions between global and local players from the private sector, the public sector and the civil society to shift financing towards innovative impactful local solutions.

"Innovate 4 Water " addresses critical challenges in the water nexus, sanitation, energy, food health, circular economy, off grid and smart technologies, climate change mitigation and adaption and innovative finance, to name a few.

Thematics

• Innovative finance for water-related solutions.
• Water, peace and development.
• Water stewardship in corporate supply chains.
• New water technologies linked to the knowledge and exploitation of the resource: circular economy, nature-based solutions, food security.
• Promotion of sustainable solutions in water management and planning: sanitation (recovery of by-products),new wastewater treatment technologies, drinking water(treatment and storage).†
• NEXUS: water, energy, environment, agriculture/conservation/biodiversity/water and peace.†
• Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and water security, IWRM in the Rhone transboundary basin between Switzerland and France.

 Objectives

• Creation of an environment of trust that allows cross-sector collaboration.† 
• Improved understanding of financially viable relevant business models and the benefits of social and environmental impact.
• Built capacity in the entrepreneurial community.
• Creation of integrated approaches (i.e.coalitions, consortia) accelerating the financing of the sector.
• Action-oriented partnerships formed for impactful implementation, market-based solution-driven networks created.

Audience

• SMEs and multinational companies with interest in the water nexus sector
• utilities and civil engineering
• primary and manufacturing industries
• investors (banking, asset management, private banking, corporates, venture capital, private equity)
• water nexus institutions (foundations, coalitions, associations)
• non-government and governmental organisations, national and local
• universities / incubators / research institutions

More information: On the website of Innovate 4 Water