🙏World Water-Tech creating a great format to get real around what is holding back innovation in water. Eric Sullivan SewerAI and I have no quarter. Jim Herberg Orange County Sanitation District and Michael Thomas MWD of SoCal are world class leaders in water (and great sports)! More of that please 🤩

Clayton MacDougald of Emerald Technology laments says that proving out the ROI for digital in water can be tough, but some are doing it well #worldwatertech

50% in the water industry will retire in the next five years. Wow. More important than ever to institutionalize data and process. #worldwatertech

Mike App of Electro Scan Inc.: “Everyone in water should be fired” “only baseball allows a percentage this bad” in response to the amount of water that is leaked annually. 😮 #worldwatertech

Victoria Edwards if FIDO Tech Ltd is a great speaker at #worldwatertech. Refreshing to here her perspective as someone who comes from outside of the water space. It’s going to take collaboration of a lot of perspectives to crack the challenges here

Maybe my favorite AI generated video so far. Prompt: "A fluffy baby sloth with an orange knitted hat trying to figure out a laptop, close up, highly detailed, studio lighting, screen reflecting in its eye.mp4" killer work @MetaAI !!

Adel Hagekhalil of MWD of SoCal says Gavin Newsom has done a good job of engaging with water leaders. Says we cannot conserve our way out of this challenge/drought #worldwatertech

Hagakhalil MWD of SoCal Smart Water Mgmt is the key. Need to identify new ways to store. Need to clean up ground water basins. Build conveyance to move water. Hope funding will be attached to delivering on these metrics #worldwatertech

Robert Ferrante of Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts says we still have significant capacity in LA to store water underground in basins. “One Water” strategy & reusing water in all of its forms critical #worldwatertech

Josh Kennedy (not that one) Dir at Orange County Water District hopes that someday addressing water needs will be as streamlined as building sporting arenas #worldwatertech

Roger Gorke of U.S. EPA highlighting importance of water reuse not just in urban settings but in agricultural setting as well #worldwatertech

Kennedy Orange County Water District stresses importance of communicating with the public. I’ll be honest, most of these utilities seem pretty behind the curve when it comes to using technology to communicate with their customers—you need to go them in their forums #worldwatertech

Conversations about public trust is powerful. There seems to be awareness that the end consumer is going to look for someone to blame when things get bad (less product, higher cost) #worldwatertech

There is a role for the technology vendors and GIS professionals to play in solving the biggest challenges facing humanity jackdangermond Geo Week - @AROverlay believes this 💯. We are making the most powerful GIS & reality capture tech easy & affordable

Excited for what Apple has to say about its new mixed reality headset. I’ve got a feeling this might make Overlay’s #ai #ar experiences all the more powerful. Nobody comes close to what we are doing in industrial AR with iOS

The VR/AR Association (VRARA) Enterprise & Training Forum was a lot of fun to participate in this year. Kris Kolo describes what he thought made it “very interesting”… thevrara.com/blog2/2023/5/2…

Location centric rather than user centric #AR has incredible untapped value in industry

With respect, Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ of WIRED misses on Apple Vision Pro. She’s hung up on the current form factor. It’s wrong, but not more off than the clunky deck of cards that put 1000 songs in your pocket for $500 (now replaced by 1 app on an iPhone that costs less). It’s a journey.

There is no doubt Leica BLK Original solutions are technical marvels. #respect They are also expensive & over-engineered for many use cases. The best 3D scanner? The one you have with you. Our app works on the phone, and integrates with our AI for object ID. overlay.Com.ar

Wow. $82M in stock & crypto set aside for charity in November & December? On Daffy? Incredible. 🤯 Word must be getting out. Putting aside some of those 2024 gains is good for charity & good for your taxes. 🤓 Not too late! 🙏