1:00-5:00pm

Presentation Coaching

Plus set up exhibits!

Sign up for Your Onsite Coaching Time
in the DC Water Boardroom
where you will present on Pitch Day

Please sign up for your Presentation Coaching Time plus 1, 2, or all 3 clinics with experts

(When booking your Presentation Coaching Times, note times of the clinics you want to attend)

Water Entrepreneurship Clinics

1:15-2:15pm
"Shulman Rogers NEXT Startup Law Clinic"
Anthony Millin Esq., NEXT Powered by Shulman Rogers

2:30-3:30pm
"Water Startup Storytelling & Sales: Strategic Systems to Land Contracts, Secure Funding & Scale Your Impact"
Kristen Noelle, KN Digital Consulting

3:45-4:45pm TBC
"Keys to Water in Congress (KWIC) Clinic for the Water Entrepreneurship Community and WaterPitch! Congresssional Startup Briefing"
Dr. Cat Shrier, WaterCitizen.Org

Karen Zuccardi

Nadine Zerrini

Kristen Noelle

Anthony L. Millin, Esq.

Cat Shrier, PhD

9:15am - 10:00am

Startup Pitches Round I

Water/Wastewater Monitoring, Extraction of Metals & Minerals & Energy,
Corporate Water Sustainability, Plus Strategic Storytelling

• Segura Water (Oxford, UK) Jose Castro, "Easy and affordable on-site heavy metals testing in under five minutes through an easy-to-use digital interface."
• Forager Station (Sterling, VA) Patrick Ho "Tackling the global lithium shortage with patent-pending refining technology, delivering higher efficiency, water savings, and broad industry applications to support clean energy innovation"
• CarbonBridge (New York, NY) Manu Pillai "Transforming biogas into low-carbon methanol with proprietary bioreactor, turning wastewater emissions into profitable solutions while supporting denitrification compliance"
• GelPure (Akron, OH), Moni Mahesh Ghosh and Brandon T. McReynolds "Delivering a groundbreaking polymer gel technology that removes harmful PFAS to parts-per-trillion levels, ensuring safer, compliant, and cost-effective drinking water solutions."
• BlueCredits (Alexandria, VA) Dr. Nathan Barasa-Wangusi "BlueCredits aims at becoming the leading global marketplace for water sustainability trading, facilitating the global transition to a water-positive future"
• KN Digital Marketing (Washington, DC), Kristen Noelle "Supporting water professionals and entrepreneurs struggling to speak in the language of decision makers"

11:30am - 12:15pm

Startup Pitches Round 2

Municipal Water/Wastewater Operations, Reuse & Freshwater Recovery, Communications, Outreach, and Decisionmaker Education

• FYLD.AI (London, UK) Daniel Barron-Smith "FYLD empowers Water companies with AI-driven solutions to enhance the productivity, safety, and operational efficiency of the field workforce"
• Sunfish.AI (Austin, TX) Alberto Lopez "Sunfish addresses the challenge of remote, autonomous underwater inspection and exploration of complex systems."
• Active Membranes (Los Angeles, CA) Arian Edalat"Active Membranes minimizes desalination costs and environmental impact with patented electro-active membrane technology"
• Better Together Agency (Washington, DC) Catharine Montgomery, MBA "Supporting organizations that focus on making a positive impact on people by ensuring they not only talk about their desired impact but put that talk into action - and ensuring that AI does not reflect anti-DEI bias"
• The Rare Perspective (Washington, DC) Evan Morsell "Hand-crafting stories that humanize and influence cultural growth for organizations through film, photography and audio"
• Hilltop-App (Washington, DC) Aubrey Cox Ottenstein "AI-powered bill matching, AI-supported message drafting, and integration into lawmaker CRM to ensure messages flow seamlessly into legislators' existing systems."

2:30pm - 3:15pm

Startup Pitches Round 3

Water in Buildings & Residential,

Consumer-Focused Water Product,
Sustainable Food & Beverage and Packaging

• H2O Connected LLC LeakAlertor (Coatesville, PA) Susan Springsteen "Accurately Measures Toilet Water Loss in Gallons and Dollars Wasted"
• Dandelion Foodscapes (Hyattsville, MD) Arman Milanian "Incorporating a regenerative landscape design with medicinal and edible plants in order to return nutrient dense food back to their dining tables and at the same time assist our earth's ecosystem to become healthier as well"
• Reyuz Shower Funnel Kit (South Pasadena, CA) Alvin Parra "Providing a new way to capture and reyuz (reuse) every drop of the cold pre-shower water we take for granted and let go down drain"
• EarthCan (Arlington, VA) Colin Campbell "Connecting kids and families with sustainability, climate change, and tasty organic juice in 100%pastic-free packaging in infinitely recyclable cans featuring kids' artwork - a percentage of sales goes to a great environemntal cause!"
• Revyve Water Solutions (Saratoga Springs, UT) Jared Rogers "Providing oxygenated water to aid exercise recovery, flush toxins out of the body, and improve alcohol metabolism"
• Namara Water Technologies, Inc. (San Diego, CA) T.J. Cooley and Beulah Toth, "Smart water management system that makes it easy to protect your home from expensive repairs and save 30% on water – without changing a thing"

Policy Day Events

8am-10am

Breakfast with Washington Insiders' Updates at 101 Constitution Ave NW
then Walk to Cannon House Office Building (8am-10am)

10am-Noon

Congressional Briefing by Water Startups

Noon until ???

Additional Congressional Office Visits On Your Own