Bilexys, the winner of Imagine H20’s Third Annual Business Plan Prize for Water Startups, will be a designated Technology Showcase exhibitor at the 2012 BlueTech Forum, one of the industry’s premier conferences featuring innovative technologies in the water and wastewater treatment industries. Bilexys (Brisbane, Australia) won the Prize’s Pre-Revenue track while Nexus eWater (Canberra, Australia), and Tusaar, Inc. (Lafayette, Colorado) were named runners up. New Sky Energy (Boulder, Colorado) won the Prize’s Early Revenue track.
Bilexys, a market revolutionary with its patent pending technology that converts wastewater to valuable chemicals, was presented the prize by Imagine H2O March 20 at the Winners Ceremony and Water Entrepreneurs Showcase held in San Francisco. Bilexys won the prize from among the nine finalists, which were all “promising new businesses with innovative wastewater solutions that unlock the unrealized value in the wastewater sector,” explains Scott Bryan, Imagine H2O’s Director of Operations. Another part of the ImagineH2O prize is that the winner in the early revenue track, New Sky Energy, will receive a BlueTech Research Premium subscription
“We are an ardent supporter of water entrepreneurship and innovation and are pleased to have been a media partner and participating sponsor in the Imagine H2O competition. Bilexys will be a great addition to the 2012 BlueTech Forum Technology Showcase exhibitor slate,” says Paul O’Callaghan, CEO of O2 Environmental.
Imagine H2O inspires and empowers people to solve water challenges and turn them into opportunities. The organization offers annual prize competitions for water innovation, including the 2009 Water Efficiency Prize and 2010 Water-Energy Nexus Prize. In addition to cash prizes for the best ideas, Imagine H2O fosters an Accelerator program to help competing entrepreneurs turn their plans into game-changing real-world solutions. To learn more about Imagine H2O’s global ecosystem for water innovation and connect with water innovators from around the world, please visit www.imagineh2o.org.
