Local organizer
Water New ZealandIn an innovative departure from business as usual, the International Water Association (IWA) is joining forces with Water New Zealand to create an event that combines IWA-ASPIRE 2025 with the annual Water New Zealand Conference and Expo. It will provide a meeting platform for international water and sanitation professionals and practitioners and New Zealand WASH professionals, scientists and experts around common themes.
Theme: Empowering Tomorrow – Smart Water Solutions for Resilient Communities
Empowering Tomorrow
- Automation
- Artificial intelligence
- AR / VR and remote management
- Machine learning
- Digital transformation / digital twins
- Utility leadership
- Future workforce
Smart Water Solutions
- Smart networks (source – customer –discharge)
- Decarbonisation
- Water reuse
- Circular economy & Resource recovery
- Customer engagement
- Affordable outcomes
- Rehabilitation over replacement
- Successful innovation ecosystems
Resilience
- Extreme weather events
- Seismic & volcanic activity
- Climate adaptation
- Remediation
- Pollution control
- Nature based solutions
- Wastewater surveillance
- Water Sanitation Safety Planning
- Sustainability & SDGs
- Emerging chemicals and microbes
- Nanoplastics
- Asset resilience
Communities
- Indigenous peoples’ relationship with water
- Te Mana o te Wai
- Regulatory framework
- Water stewardship & conservation
- Farming & industry
- Environmental outcome focussed
- Post disaster community participation
- Diversity, equity & inclusion
Thematic areas
Basins and Water Resources, Urban Water Management, Drinking Water Systems, Wastewater Systems (small scale), Industrial Water and Wastewater, Wastewater Systems (large scale), Information and Communications Technology, Water and Health, Resource Recovery and Reuse, Water Governance, Regulation and Utility Management, Treatment Technologies, InnovationEvent topics
Empowering Tomorrow
Smart water solutions
Resilient
Communities
Organizing Committee
Marion Savill
Affordable Water
New Zealand
Yes
Gillian Blythe
Water NZ
New Zealand
Yes
Helen Atkins
Atkins Law
New Zealand
Yes
Robert Bos
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Netherlands
Yes
Joan Rose
Michigan State University
United States Of America
Yes
Pang Chee Meng
PUB
Singapore
Yes
Annalisa Contos
Atom Consulting
Australia
Yes
Darryl Day
Wongulla Waters
Australia
Yes
Ian Garside
Project Max
New Zealand
Yes
Tsair-Fuh Lin
National Cheng Kung University
Taiwan, China
Yes
Melanie Walker
Avenues Event Management
New Zealand
Yes
Programme Committee
Robert Bos
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Netherlands
Yes
Joan Rose
Michigan State University
United States Of America
Yes
Ed Beling
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Outfall Systems
Australia
Yes
Ricardo Bello-Mendoza
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
Yes
Hugh Blake-Manson
Waugh Infrastructure Management
New Zealand
Yes
Indira Chakravarty
Institute of Public Health and National Cancer Institute
India
Yes
Dan Deere
Water Futures
Australia
Yes
Rob Fullerton
Beca
New Zealand
Yes
Brent Gilpin
ESR
New Zealand
Yes
Karina Gin
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Yes
Jim Graham
Taumata Arowai
New Zealand
Yes
Theuns F P Henning
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Yes
Xia Huang
Tsinghua University
China
Yes
Hiroyuki Katayama
University of Tokyo
Japan
Yes
Jurg Keller
University of Queensland
Australia
Yes
Masaaki Kitajima
Hokkaido University
Japan
Yes
Saburo Matsui
Kyoto University
Japan
Yes
Kate Medlicott
WHO
Switzerland
Yes
Mark Milke
University of Canterbury
New Zealand
Yes
Majid Mohammadian
University of Ottawa
Canada
Yes
Jae-Woo Park
Hanyang University
South Korea
Yes
Genandrialine L. Peralta
Independent Consultant
Philippines
Yes
Daisuke Sano
Tohoku University
Japan
Yes
Gary A. Toranzos
University of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Yes
Kobus van Zyl
University of Auckland
New Zealand
Yes
Yu Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China
Yes
Norhayati Abdullah
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Malaysia
Yes
Previous editions of this event
9th IWA-ASPIRE Conference, Taiwan
8th IWA-ASPIRE Conference, Hong Kong
Type Conference and expo
Country New Zealand
City Christchurch Ōtautahi
Start date 29 Sep 2025
End date 3 Oct 2025
Upcoming deadlines
16/08/2024
Call for papers open
06/12/2024
Abstract submission deadline
24/01/2025
Extended abstract submission deadline
01/02/2025
Registration opens
21/05/2025
Authors’ notification
11/07/2025
Early bird registration deadline