{"id":2309,"date":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-901\/"},"modified":"2018-03-22T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:45:10","slug":"innovation-anthology-901","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2017\/10\/03\/innovation-anthology-901\/","title":{"rendered":"#901: Techstock: Canada&#8217;s Water Accelerator Water NEXT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 901.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Water NEXT is one of many social enterprises that took part in Innovate Calgary&rsquo;s 2017 Techstock Tradeshow.<\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">As Steve Herman explains, Water NEXT is the brainchild of water advocate Dr Kim Sturgess.<\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">And it bills itself as Western Canada&rsquo;s Water Accelerator.<\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">STEVE HERMAN: <\/span>&nbsp; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So we want to take entrepreneurs in Alberta that have water related ideas and help grow them into businesses.&nbsp; An entrepreneur would come to us with an idea, related to water treatment, water use, reuse, monitoring, managing, anything like that, and we would help them develop their idea from a technical perspective and from a business perspective using our network of global experts.&nbsp; &nbsp; And once that idea and the company has been developed, we would want to connect them with investors who are interested in investing in the water space. &nbsp; &nbsp;And as you read the news whether it&rsquo;s the hurricanes in the south of the States, or the giant blob of gunk they pulled out of the sewers of London, water issues are certainly far reaching.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">Steve Herman says Water NEXT will help address the needs of a growing water economy in Alberta and export our expertise around the world.<\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic;\">Learn more at <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY.COM<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\" \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51);\">I&rsquo;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/span><\/span><br style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: monospace; font-size: 14px;\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02017-10-03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Herman from Water Next explains at Innovate Calgary&#8217;s Techstock Tradeshow how the startup works as an accelerator to help water related businesses grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship-commercialization","category-environment","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/17ic_SteveHerman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}