You won’t want to miss our biggest WWEM and AQE ever!

On the 9th and 10th of October this year at The NEC in Birmingham, WWEM and AQE 2024 will bring together suppliers, regulators, and researchers to advance collaboration in the environmental monitoring sectors. Our biggest event yet, with the most exhibitors and the most expansive conference programme, WWEM and AQE 2024 promises to be an unparalleled opportunity to foster new connections, strengthen existing partnerships and glimpse the future of our industry.   

Over nearly two decades, WWEM has continually evolved to become the leading water and wastewater monitoring event in the UK. With over 200 of the industry’s top suppliers gathered in one place, there is no better chance to compare products and source new instruments through face-to-face interaction that can save months of outreach. Beyond the exhibition floor, our conference schedule is fully packed with over 100 hours of free technical workshops and presentations, delivered by regulators, accreditation bodies, standards committees, researchers, citizen scientists and technicians from industry. To look over the full schedule, visit the websites for either WWEM (www.ilmexhibitions.com/wwem) and AQE (www.ilmexhibitions.com/aqeshow).  

In these rooms, with speakers from the Environment Agency, many of the major water companies, the Rivers Trust, the National Physical Laboratory, and DEFRA (among many others), you will find talks and discussions filled with up-to-the-minute information and expert insight. Get to know the most advanced methods, reporting practices, validation protocols, standards and regulations for monitoring methane emissions. Explore how new digital platforms can help manage storm overflows and asset maintenance. Update your knowledge on emissions monitoring standards, like CEN, ISO and MCERTS, and the assessment of uncertainties. Take a tour around the UK’s air quality monitoring networks. Learn the latest methodologies for gas detection. Harness artificial intelligence and machine learning to solve your big data challenges. Expand your understanding of monitoring odours, TOCs, mercury, PM2.5, fine dust, and PFAS in air. Be the first to glimpse what emissions monitoring regimes will look like as the energy transition progresses, with presentations on hydrogen fuel as well as carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS). Learn about the innovative initiatives seeking to address the skills deficit in the water industry. Hear about the latest developments in telemetry, automation and cyber-security. Stay ahead of the regulations on flow, level, spills and storm monitoring, stay up-to-date with monitoring for Section 82 of the Environment Act, and stay compliant with regulations on pathogens, pollutants and emerging chemicals of concern, including phosphates, ammonia, and E. coli. Experience the cutting-edge of air quality and emissions monitoring technologies, with presentations on thermal desorption cavity ringdown spectroscopy (TD-CRDS) and multi-scale sensor integration. See how today’s river water and ambient air quality models are delivering insights for industry. From the theoretical and academic to the practical and commercial, WWEM and AQE 2024 will undoubtably widen your horizons and help you to stay competitive in this rapidly changing industry. 

There will be plenty of presentations on recent case studies to provide some practical ideas that can be implemented within your solutions. A few speakers will detail novel experiments in getting to zero spills, including trials run by Severn Trent Water. Another speaker will discuss developments in the Forth Environmental Resilience Array, a living laboratory providing environmental data and analytics to promote more efficient environmental management, including flooding, biodiversity and air quality. One researcher from the University of Sheffield will showcase outcomes from the Pipebots project, which attempted to develop autonomous robotic inspection for buried sewers and clean water pipes. Another discusses a trial using remote earth observation techniques, like satellite-based synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which locates leaks using backscatter signals from microwave exposure to identify wet soil and wastewater’s signature. Using the cellular communications network as an air quality monitoring network will be discussed by a representative from Vodafone. 

To shine a light on some of the most important developments in the sector, awards will be handed out for the environmental monitoring sector’s most innovative product and service, best partnership, as well as for achievements in network monitoring – in fact, for the first time ever, visitors can vote for this year’s nominees on our website.

Don't forget to vote for your winner!

The winner will be selected based on a combination of your votes and a panel of independent industry judges. The winner will be announced at the gala party during WWEM and AQE 2024. Here are the awards: 

Air and Emissions Monitoring 

• Best supplier and end user Partnership 
• Most innovative Instrument product or Digital solution 
• Best Air Quality network monitoring award 

Water Monitoring 

• Best supplier and end user Partnership 
• Most innovative Instrument product or Digital solution 
• Best supplier service Digital or Instrument supplier 
• Smart network monitoring award 

To vote, please click here. 

Alongside, the Sensors for Water Interest Group (SWIG) will be awarding the winner of their Early Career Researcher Poster Competition at WWEM 2024, bringing attention to the best new research and solutions and offering a completely unique opportunity to get a taste of what’s next for the sector. Each of the three finalists will deliver presentations on their projects and posters detailing their work will be displayed for visitors to read at any time at designated areas within the exhibition hall. All of these awards will be presented during WWEM 2024’s gala party.

Dance the night away at the WWEM and AQE Gala Party!

To be held in the evening of the show’s first day (9th October) at the Vox Venue within the NEC Campus, the gala party is the best way to enjoy WWEM and AQE in style. For £140 plus VAT, guests can continue the days’ conversations at a drinks reception and then, over a three-course dinner, complete with half a bottle of wine per guest – all in elegant black tie (but don’t worry, this isn't mandatory!). Don’t miss out – book your tickets online today!  

There’s no doubt about it: WWEM and AQE 2024 promises to be the UK’s most important environmental monitoring event since 2022. Whether you're a laboratory technician, a process operator, an instrument user, an environmental manager, a regulator, a policymaker, a consultant or a researcher, WWEM and AQE 2024 offers valuable insights and networking opportunities for everyone doing any sort of work in the sector. A celebration of industry excellence, a forum for the most pressing issues and our most extensive exhibition, don’t miss this exceptional opportunity to learn, network and be the first to learn where the sector will go next.   

Registration is now open and is absolutely free of charge! All visitors to either WWEM or AQE will have total access to both co-located events. Just head to our website to get registered today for the environmental sector’s most unmissable events!