BlueTech Forum 2023

Alireza Abbassi Monjezi, Founder and CEO, Waterwhelm

Alireza Abbassi Monjezi, Founder and CEO, Waterwhelm

Dr Alireza Abbassi Monjezi is the Founder and CEO at Waterwhelm, and the inventor of the game-changing forward osmosis technology. Ali completed his PhD in 2016 on forward osmosis desalination and worked as a post-doctoral researcher for 3 years where he published... Read More

Rick Bacon, CEO, Aqua Metrology Systems

Rick Bacon, CEO, Aqua Metrology Systems

Rick Has been CEO of Aqua Metrology Systems since 2011. Prior to that he was Manager of Severn Trent Water’s European Water Treatment Technology Division. Rick has held senior executive and non-executive positions with several publicly quoted and private... Read More

Grundfos

Grundfos develops, produces and sells pump solutions, which help reduce water-related challenges globally. We create research and product development based solutions to meet growing demands of customers and the outside world for minimizing the consumption of resources... Read More

Frank Rogalla, Director of Innovation and Technology, Aqualia

Frank Rogalla, Director of Innovation and Technology, Aqualia

Frank Rogalla is Director of Innovation at Aqualia in Madrid, Spain, which provides water services for 20 M people. He studied Environmental Engineering in Germany, followed by a MSc as a Fulbright student in the US. After ten years at Veolia Research Center in... Read More

Kimberly Kupiecki, Senior Director, Gingko Bioworks

Kimberly Kupiecki is a Senior Director in the Sustainability & Energy Business Group at Ginkgo Bioworks. She is responsible for working with customers to develop sustainability applications leveraging Ginkgo’s horizontal synthetic biology platform including soil... Read More