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The Power of 10 - NWL Innovation Festival 2026

Episode Summary

Celebrate the Innovation Festival's 'Power of 10' theme with 10 stories from the festival including Gladiator 'Fury' (Jodie Ounsley) and Futurist Ant Morse.

Episode Notes

Taking on global challenges, using creative approaches and aiming to solve them in less than a week - this is the unique DNA of the Northumbrian Water Innovation Festival.  This year it's the festival's 10th birthday, so it was supercharged by the Power of 10. 

Join host Niki Roach as she spends 'Neon Day' - (Atomic Number 10) at the Festival hearing 10 stories....

• Resilience and the power of never giving up from Gladiator 'Fury' - Jodie Ounsley
• Being bold and interviewing a Gladiator with 10 year olds Teddy & Layla
• The Power of 10 from Head of Innovation, Angela MacOscar
• What actually happens in a 'sprint' from Cognizant's Gustavo Osos Rios
• What the future may hold from Futurist Ant Morse
• Guests from afar with Neil Robinson travelling across the Atlantic to be part of the experience
• Festival regular, Martin Shaw who's made every one since it all began
• The springboard the festival creates for startups with Hattie from Vyntelligence
• Find out why OFWAT - the water industry regulator - want to be at the festival
• How the festival has helped Northumbrian Water be the first utility globally to receive a BSI kitemark for Innovation
• Heidi Mottram, CEO of Northumbrian Water Group, shares her thoughts on what the festival means to the wider world