Northumbrian Water's Innovation Festival 2024 to include 30+ project sprints

Northumbrian Water’s next annual Innovation Festival will run from 8-11 July.

This year, the theme is ‘speed and scale’. Northumbrian explained: “Our festival citizens always produce the most incredible ideas year after year . . . so we thought we’d do things a little differently this time! We want to harness the same energy and can-do spirit our citizens bring and look at existing projects which could benefit from a little innovation magic. We want to ignite these projects so they can move at speed within our businesses. We’ll also focus on projects already in motion and see how we can scale them up so we can share our successes across a wider community.”

The event will feature over 30 design ‘sprints’ to address major water sector issues – a style of workshop which follows a structured five stage process. In addition, there will be eight  ‘daily dashes’ which compress a sprint into a day.

The schedule is available here: https://www.innovationfestival.org/

Details on the sprints and daily dashes can be found here: https://www.innovationfestival.org/the-festival/