Water Tech Innovation Theme Meeting

+15 years of experience in turning new knowledge into solid businesses. Matching startups, scaleups and SMEs with flexible infrastructure, new knowledge, relevant network and financial support as important tasks. Founder of many initiatives and programs in the ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship. Experienced board member and investor. Educational background in economics as MSc. In International Business.

With an industrial background in engineering, automation/robotics, international sales and CEO appointments, Steen has a broad knowledge within technical companies. As a former director of a spinout/startup hub in Aarhus he has experience with the startup landscape and advising companies and startups in creating a commercial business. Today Steen is, as a Business Developer, using his expertise helping university startup/spinouts creating their business.

Experienced green transition manager with a broad approach to sustainably innovation activities within both public and private stakeholders and NGO’s. Since 2008 Thomas has build extensive experience in driving and navigating transformative programs and projects across complex organizational constellations and developing valuable partnerships covering large scale sectors and eco-systems in Denmark, the Nordics and internationally.

Søren Mayland serves as the Manager of The Spring Incubator and Den Gode By Co-Working Space. He is a fundraising and strategy specialist with a strong focus on Startups. With over a decade of experience in the Startup community, Søren's journey is fueled by his insatiable curiosity and constant craving for new challenges. Having gained hands-on expertise through his involvement with preseed investment company Capnova and Innovation Fund Denmark, Søren has also contributed significantly as a member of the leadership team at a rapidly ascending Startup. His diverse background uniquely positions him to fortify the WaterTech Startup ecosystem at The Spring.

Janni is the Head of Business Innovation and Acceleration at Water Valley Denmark, where she focuses on enhancing innovation in the water sector and supporting watertech startups/scaleups. She oversees Water Valley Denmark's acceleration program and mentor network. With over 15 years of experience, Janni specializes in facilitating innovation and driving change processes within organizations. Her expertise lies in the water sector, with a particular emphasis on business development, utility venture, challenge-based innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.

Aguardio digitalises any standard bathroom within minutes with easy to place interactive IoT sensors. Aguardio Shower Sensor reduces hot shower water use by up to 30% and Leak Sensor detects leaking toilets to save water, energy & money on utility expenses. Elevate the sustainability of buildings by leveraging the valuable bathroom data, optimizing both operational efficiency and maintenance practices.

E-CIP Concept is founded by experienced forces, with solid knowledge and experience in engineering, commissioning and optimization of hygienic process plants such as dairies, breweries and biotech. We have developed and patented an optimized cleaning process, which can save significant amounts of water and wastewater during CIP-cleaning (Cleaning In Place) of large hygienic process plants. This without compromising on product quality and food safety.

The company core capabilities are within advanced sensor technologies, signal analyses and Early Warning Analytics (EWA), creating smart and advanced sensors for predicting failures on rotating machines. Early Warning Analytics is based on combined sensor technologies (e.g. vibration and magnetic field), in several dimensions (x-, y-, z-dimension) and knowledge about fault signatures in time and frequency domains. This creates strong and robust parameters. The sensor analytics creates parameters for machine faults, but also process and operation parameters.

Our mission is to deliver easily accessible data about water quality as well as reducing climate footprint. Business areas are within environment, groundwater, drinking water and reducing climate gas emission in WWTP. We have developed our own solutions in measuring nutrients in surface water and nitrate/saline in drinking water boreholes. These solutions we want to scale up for the purpose of exporting.