Now in its 14th year, Water UK’s City Conference is the foremost financial event for the water sector. By bringing together the industry’s leaders with regulators and government bodies alongside investors, analysts, ratings agencies and city institutions to discuss future finance and investment, the conference has become a key event in the annual calendar

The conference will be chaired by Chris Loughlin, Chief Executive, South West Water with an industry keynote speech from Colin Skellett, Chief Executive, Wessex Water.

City Conference 2014 explores the environment that will attract sustained investments to UK water in a time of global economic uncertainty and changing regulatory requirements.

With a core brief of creating resilient water resources via infrastructure investments and sustainable initiatives while adopting customer-facing strategies, how can water companies remain competitive and yet maintain shareholder value?

How have companies responded to a less prescriptive regime that allows more room for innovation? And what does the future hold for water companies, their investors and customers?

In 2013 City Conference was attended by over 180 delegates and provided a complete review of the current industry challenges and its future direction with emphasis on the importance of the industry’s gold standard regulatory model.