Technical Program

Join the technical program with over 200 technical presentations, workshops, panels and inspiring keynote speakers.

Sponsor

Raise your organisational profile with AWA members and everyone working with water by sponsoring a range of options at Ozwater.

Exhibit

Inspire your ideal water audience when you join 200+ exhibitors and 4,000 attendees over 3 days.  

Review

Volunteer your water expertise to review Full Papers and contribute to the selection of this year's Best Papers. 

Site Tours

Choose your own adventure before Ozwater kicks off - visit innovative water and wastewater facilities around Sydney or historical walking tours.

Wednesday 10 May

As an industry, how can we think outside the box to create diverse and inclusive, modern workplaces whilst optimising the use of digital tools? How can we plan for a resilient future whilst responding to current extreme events? Today’s presentations are asking the tough questions and will get you thinking about your role in shaping the sector's answers.

Day One also features the Student Water Prize stream, Water Leaders Forum, Directors Forum and Happy Hour.

Thursday 11 May

Culture, customer, collaboration and co-design. How can a sector traditionally focused on technical know-how draw knowledge from all skill sets to optimise operations, create progressive governance frameworks and make reconciliation real? 

Day Two also features the Water Services Association of Australia stream and AWP International Partnerships for Water & Climate Action stream.  Join us on Day Two for the Ozwater'23 Gala Dinner and Australian Water Awards.

Friday 12 May

Be challenged to ask the big questions about improving water quality, new treatment solutions and the challenge of tackling emissions whilst planning our energy future. Be informed, be bold and be inspired with this day of thought provoking sessions.

Day Three will conclude with closing networking drinks.

Patricia Falcetta 

Founder and Director, Social Living Solutions

Patricia is a passionate advocate for neurodiverse individuals and celebrates the uniqueness they bring to the world and the workplace. Through her presentation “Mindset Shifts”, she is hoping to create an environment of true inclusivity of all diversity, and create an understanding of what unconscious bias is and how it influences us in all aspects of our lives. She also seeks to educate on intersectionality and how this comes into play in a diverse workforce. 

Neurodivergent herself, Patricia is President of the APFACTS Board and a committee member of the Marymead Autism Committee. She is an active volunteer in her local community and abroad through the Global Goodwill Ambassadors network. Patricia has also been a finalist in the ACT Chief Ministers Inclusion awards in 2019 and was a finalist again in the 2022 Awards.