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The WEFTEC Innovation Pavilion 2026 brings together some of the world’s most promising emerging water technology companies in New Orleans. Hosted by BlueTech Research in partnership with the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and Imagine H2O, the Pavilion showcases breakthrough solutions, independent technology assessments and executive thought leadership during WEFTEC’s 99th Annual Technical Exhibition & Conference.

Ernest N. Morial Convention Center | New Orleans, LA | September 26-30, 2026

The Road to 100:
weftec 2026

As WEFTEC approaches its landmark 100th edition, the 2026 event is a unique moment to reflect on a century of progress while looking ahead to the technologies defining the future of water. More than 20,000 water professionals will gather September 26–30 in New Orleans for the industry’s premier meeting place for ideas, partnerships, and innovation.

For over 15 years, BlueTech Research has partnered with WEF and Imagine H2O to spotlight emerging technologies through the Innovation Pavilion — connecting breakthrough solutions with utilities, investors, and industry leaders shaping tomorrow’s water sector.”

BlueTech Innovation Pavilion

Discover the companies shaping the next generation of water technology. The BlueTech Innovation Pavilion brings together a carefully curated cohort of innovators selected for their potential to solve pressing water challenges. Meet the teams behind breakthrough solutions, explore their technologies, and learn why they are attracting attention from utilities, industrial water users, investors, and strategic partners.

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BlueTech Breakfast Briefing

Begin your WEFTEC experience with one of the week’s most anticipated executive gatherings. The invitation-only Breakfast Briefing brings together industry leaders, utilities, investors, and BlueTech analysts for market intelligence, technology insights, and networking.

The 2026 programme will be announced soon. Whether you’re interested in joining the audience or exploring sponsorship opportunities, we invite you to register your interest today.

BlueTech Innovation Pavilion Cohort 2026

Every company in the BlueTech Innovation Pavilion has been selected through BlueTech Research’s technology scouting and evaluation process. Throughout the year, our analysts monitor hundreds of emerging water technology companies worldwide. They then assess commercial readiness, market potential, and the ability to solve real industry challenges.

The 2026 cohort represents a broad mix of technologies. For example, visitors will discover advanced membranes, industrial wastewater treatment, AI-driven network intelligence, contaminant detection, decentralised treatment, and resource recovery. Each company is also profiled in the BlueTech Innovation Tracker using the same evaluation framework. The result is one of the most concentrated showcases of emerging water technologies at WEFTEC.

"The VelRay X System is designed to address today’s Industrial water processing challenges by maintaining continuous performance when solids vary; slashing treatment costs, reducing unplanned shutdowns and escalating operating costs.”

Accelerated Filtration, a U.S., Michigan based company founded in 2020, is an advanced manufacturer and developer of the VelRay X Suspended Solids System. The VelRay X System provides industrial sectors the ability to filter, concentrate and reuse heavily contaminated, dirty water in a cost-efficient and sustainable manner.
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Accelerated Filtration

Technology offering: A high-throughput mechanical filtration system (VelRay X) to remove high total suspended solids (TSS) from variable industrial water streams.

Innovation Tracker

"As PFAS contamination continues to be identified across the U.S., we're proud to join BlueTech Research at WEFTEC and contribute with our proven technology to the solution."

instrAction develops proprietary absorber resins for the selective removal of PFAS, heavy metals, and recovery of precious metals from water — enabling circular, compliant water treatment at an industrial scale.
website

instrAction

Technology offering: Intelligent absorber (iA) resin platform tailored for PFAS and heavy metal removal as well as precious metal recovery.

Innovation Tracker

"Water efficiency begins with understanding your data, not replacing your meters."

LeakZon delivers an Al-powered water loss management platform that creates an actionable digital twin of water networks. Its hybrid solution seamlessly combines AMI, AMR, and SCADA data, enabling utilities to monitor, analyze, and act in near real time, even with partial infrastructure. Fully vendor-agnostic, LeakZon integrates with any meter or system, empowering utilities to reduce non-revenue water, optimize operations, and turn data into measurable water savings.
website

Leakzon

Technology offering: AI-driven platform that combines AI analytics with existing infrastructure for water loss detection and network efficiency

Innovation Tracker

Revolutionizing Desalination

NEXT TFX, Inc. is a UCLA spinout developing compaction-resistant, ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalination, brine concentration, direct lithium extraction, and zero liquid discharge applications. Its proprietary TFX membrane structure maintains permeability and salt rejection at pressures up to 120 bar and temperatures up to 85C, where conventional membranes fail. Led by Eric Hoek, co-founder of NanoH2O (acquired by LG Chem), NEXT TFX is advancing pilot validation with ACWA, the world's largest private seawater desalination developer.
website

Next Membrane

Technology offering: Compaction-resistant, ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) membranes

Innovation Tracker

Physical Al for Critical Infrastructure

Sand makes critical systems and infrastructure intelligent. Its platform, SandOS, helps power modern society, from water networks and energy grids to telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and government operations. Sand defines a new category of Physical Al: combining data, scientific models, and operational intelligence to create a unified platform for sensing, analysing, and acting across complex physical systems. SandOS is already operating in 18+ countries and trusted by organisations including Southern Company, Thames Water, MTN, Severn Trent and others.
website

Sand

Technology offering: Sand Technologies offers SandOS, a Physical AI platform for modeling infrastructure data and supporting operational decisions.

Innovation Tracker

"Contamination doesn't wait weeks for lab results. Neither should you."

Segura delivers rapid heavy metals detection in under five minutes. Our electrochemical platform — disposable test strips, a Bluetooth reader, and a cloud SaaS dashboard — replaces weeks-long laboratory workflows to a single-operator task. Purpose-built for utilities and industrial operators, Segura enables real-time compliance monitoring, rapid incident response, and distributed field testing without specialist training.
website

Segura

Technology offering: Handheld onsite heavy metal detection sensor

Innovation Tracker

"We’re harnessing nature's power to shape lasting change."

For 25 years, Syrinx has pioneered nature-based solutions to solve complex environmental challenges. Our multidisciplinary specialists deliver strategy, design and implementation across biodiversity, water and climate, translating deep research into real-world results. A standout example is EnPhytoBox®, our patented wetland-in-a-box wastewater treatment innovation, which shows how Syrinx turns scientific expertise into scalable, sustainable outcomes for industry and communities.
website

Syrinx

Technology offering: EnPhytoBox system, a nature based decentralized water treatment system

Innovation Tracker

"The VelRay X System is designed to address today’s Industrial water processing challenges by maintaining continuous performance when solids vary; slashing treatment costs, reducing unplanned shutdowns and escalating operating costs.”

Accelerated Filtration, a U.S., Michigan based company founded in 2020, is an advanced manufacturer and developer of the VelRay X Suspended Solids System. The VelRay X System provides industrial sectors the ability to filter, concentrate and reuse heavily contaminated, dirty water in a cost-efficient and sustainable manner. The VelRay X System is an automated, self-cleaning filter/concentrator system that maximizes TSS filtration efficiency to minimize maintenance.
website

Accelerated Filtration

Technology offering: A high-throughput mechanical filtration system (VelRay X) to remove high total suspended solids (TSS) from variable industrial water streams.

Innovation Tracker

"As PFAS contamination continues to be identified across the U.S., we're proud to join BlueTech Research at WEFTEC and contribute with our proven technology to the solution."

instrAction develops proprietary absorber resins for the selective removal of PFAS, heavy metals, and recovery of precious metals from water — enabling circular, compliant water treatment at an industrial scale.
website

instrAction

Technology offering: Intelligent absorber (iA) resin platform tailored for PFAS and heavy metal removal as well as precious metal recovery.

Innovation Tracker

"Water efficiency begins with understanding your data, not replacing your meters."

LeakZon delivers an Al-powered water loss management platform that creates an actionable digital twin of water networks. Its hybrid solution seamlessly combines AMI, AMR, and SCADA data, enabling utilities to monitor, analyze, and act in near real time, even with partial infrastructure. Fully vendor-agnostic, LeakZon integrates with any meter or system, empowering utilities to reduce non-revenue water, optimize operations, and turn data into measurable water savings.
website

Leakzon

Technology offering: AI-driven platform that combines AI analytics with existing infrastructure for water loss detection and network efficiency

Innovation Tracker

Revolutionizing Desalination

NEXT TFX, Inc. is a UCLA spinout developing compaction-resistant, ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis membranes for seawater desalination, brine concentration, direct lithium extraction, and zero liquid discharge applications. Its proprietary TFX membrane structure maintains permeability and salt rejection at pressures up to 120 bar and temperatures up to 85C, where conventional membranes fail. Led by Eric Hoek, co-founder of NanoH2O (acquired by LG Chem), NEXT TFX is advancing pilot validation with ACWA, the world's largest private seawater desalination developer.
website

Next Membrane

Technology offering: Compaction-resistant, ultra-high-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) membranes

Innovation Tracker

Bringing Operational Intelligence to Water Utilities

Sand makes critical systems and infrastructure intelligent. Its platform helps power modern society, from water networks and energy grids to telecom infrastructure, healthcare systems, and government operations. Sand defines a new category of Physical AI: combining data, scientific models, and operational intelligence to create a unified platform for sensing, analysing, and acting across complex physical systems. Sand is already operating in 18+ countries and trusted by organisations including the City of St Louis, the City of Baltimore, Thames Water, Southern Company, and others.
website

Sand

Technology offering: Sand Technologies offers SandOS, a Physical AI platform for modeling infrastructure data and supporting operational decisions.

Innovation Tracker

"Contamination doesn't wait weeks for lab results. Neither should you."

Segura delivers rapid heavy metals detection in under five minutes. Our electrochemical platform — disposable test strips, a Bluetooth reader, and a cloud SaaS dashboard — replaces weeks-long laboratory workflows to a single-operator task. Purpose-built for utilities and industrial operators, Segura enables real-time compliance monitoring, rapid incident response, and distributed field testing without specialist training.
website

Segura

Technology offering: Handheld onsite heavy metal detection sensor

Innovation Tracker

"We’re harnessing nature's power to shape lasting change."

For 25 years, Syrinx has pioneered nature-based solutions to solve complex environmental challenges. Our multidisciplinary specialists deliver strategy, design and implementation across biodiversity, water and climate, translating deep research into real-world results. A standout example is EnPhytoBox®, our patented wetland-in-a-box wastewater treatment innovation, which shows how Syrinx turns scientific expertise into scalable, sustainable outcomes for industry and communities.
website

Syrinx

Technology offering: EnPhytoBox system, a nature based decentralized water treatment system

Innovation Tracker

Planning to visit WEFTEC Innovation Pavilion 2026?

Be sure to stop by the Innovation Pavilion to meet this year’s innovation cohort, speak directly with the companies behind the technologies, and discover why these emerging solutions are attracting attention across the global water sector.

Innovation Pavilion, Booth 251 Hall B1 | Ernest N. Morial Convention Center | New Orleans, LA | September 26-30, 2026

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