Meet Our Featured Speakers

The Urban Drainage UK 2027 forum brings together water utilities, local authorities and developers to strengthen capacity, reduce sewer overflows and improve flood resilience through focused senior-level discussion.

Benefits of attending include:

• Two days of focused presentations and peer discussion on drainage capacity, sewer overflow reduction, and surface water flood resilience across the water, housing, and local government sectors.
• A senior meeting ground where water utilities, local authorities, and developers address shared drainage decisions in one room.
• Insights into how connected sewer monitoring, digital twin models, and smart drainage networks are moving from pilots into network-wide intervention.
• Case material on cutting combined sewer overflow spills, raising capacity, and integrating nature-based drainage into new development.
• Guidance on evolving sustainable drainage standards and outcome-based design, and what they mean for planning submissions and lifecycle compliance.
• A networking environment connecting drainage buyers with the manufacturers, consultancies, and technology providers serving all three buyer sectors.

• Assess how the national water investment cycle is translating into live drainage procurement, and where capacity and network-upgrade budgets are being directed.
• Compare how connected sewer monitoring, digital twins and event duration monitoring are cutting combined sewer overflow spills across the network.
• Understand what emerging sustainable drainage standards and outcome-based design mean for your planning submissions, water quality and biodiversity obligations.
• Learn how coordinated approval across water utilities, developers and local authorities can release stalled housing sites and withheld community contributions.
• Leave with a working view of how to cut combined sewer overflow spills, treat contaminants in surface water, and build flood resilience across your networks.