IFAT India 2026 ConferenceIndia's Leading Conference on Water, Sewage, Solid Waste and Recycling
Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai
About the Conference
The IFAT India Conference returns in 2026, bringing together India's leading voices in environmental technologies to drive meaningful dialogue and action in the fields of water & wastewater treatment and solid waste management.
As India's cities continue to urbanize and industries expand, the need for resilient, resource-efficient, and circular solutions has become increasingly critical. Building on the success and momentum of previous editions, the 2026 Conference presents an enhanced, thoughtfully curated platform designed to move beyond discussions and accelerate the adoption of practical, future-ready solutions.
Co-located with IFAT India, the country's leading trade fair for water, sewage, solid waste, and recycling technologies, the conference will convene an influential network of municipal leaders, policymakers, regulators, industry experts, technocrats, researchers, innovators, and solution providers. Through insightful keynote sessions, panel discussions, technical presentations, case studies, global best practices, and policy-focused dialogues, the conference will foster knowledge exchange and collaborative action to address India's evolving environmental challenges.
With a strong focus on innovation, sustainability, digital transformation, circular economy practices, and scalable implementation strategies, the IFAT India 2026 Conference offers an unparalleled platform for stakeholders to exchange ideas, build strategic partnerships, and contribute to shaping the future of sustainable waste and water management in India.
Who Should Attend?
- State municipality representatives from Water & Solid Waste, IT, Public Health, Environmental Management, Land & Estate, Town Planning, Urban Development departments
- ULB, SPCB, Municipality, & Municipal Corporation secretariats
- Corporate EHS & ESG professionals and sustainability teams
- Government & Industry Relations, Regulatory, and Policy heads
- Productivity, Operations, Manufacturing, Process & Digital Excellence unit heads
- TQM, QMS, Sig Sigma & related certified quality professionals
- Manufacturing, Plant operators & site heads
- Ethics & Compliance leaders
- Recyclers, Upcyclers, & Resellers
- Manpower & Fleet operators
- Waste transporters & collectors
- Waste treatment, storage & disposal operators
- Material Recovery & Material Collection Facility operators
- AI, IoT, Blockchain developer teams
- Data Scientists & AI engineers
- City, Town, & Urban planners and architects
- PE/VC & Green Finance teams
Why Attend?
- Get a thorough understanding of how to combat legacy problems in waste movement and how tech, finance, policy, regulation, & legislation come together to solve this
- Not-to-be-missed occasion for corporate India, circularity experts, and sustainability champions to align with what policymakers are thinking, planning & doing
- Sector-focused round tables drawing attention to the pain points, grievances, asks, needs, & demands of industries grappling with the waste menace
- Opportunity for ULB secretariats to rub shoulders with industry & citizenry alike and drill down the importance of adopting sustainable waste management practices
- Understand what bullish policymakers have in mind to develop environment-friendly, eco-conscious, future-ready, city, suburban & rural dwellings
- Learn from regulators on how to better manage finite water resources with exposure to case-study illustrations on water use efficiency & treated water reuse
- Interact with cutting-edge startup teams to learn about tomorrow’s energy-efficient, carbon-conscious, solid waste management & water treatment technologies
Blue Stage
| Day 1 – September 9, 2026 | |
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12:00 – 13:30 | Opening Plenary Session |
12:00 - 12:05 | Welcome Remarks |
12:05 - 12:15 | Setting the Context: Why One Water Matters for India's Urban Future |
12:15 - 12:25 | Opening Remarks: Accelerating Urban Water Resilience: AMRUT 2.0 and the Path to Viksit Bharat 2047 |
12:25 - 13:30 | Mega Cities Water Alliance: Indian Leadership in Urban Water Security |
13:30 - 14:30 | Break & Networking |
14:30 - 15:00 | Leaders' Dialogue: Shaping Water-Secure Cities |
15:00 - 17:00 | Technical & Strategic Sessions: Advancing Water Security through |
Day 2 – September 10, 2026 | |
10:30 – 11:30 | Blended Finance and Corporate Philanthropy as Investment Enabler in Water Sector |
11:30 – 12:30 | Smart Water Network (SWAN) Forum Session |
12:30 – 13:30 | Scaling Water Reuse: Role of Private Players, Bridging Infrastructure Gaps, |
13:30 – 14:00 | Networking Break |
14:00 – 15:00 | Use. Treat. Repeat. – German Technologies for Water Reuse in India |
15:00 – 16:00 | Global Utility Knowledge Sharing: Driving Innovation, Resilience, and |
16:00 – 17:00 | Strengthening Water Services Through Jan Bhagidari (Community-Led Governance) |
17:00 – 18:00 | From Water Compliance to Water Stewardship: Driving Business Resilience in a Water-Risk World session by International Water Association (IWA) |
Orange Stage
| Day 1 – September 9, 2026 | |
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14:00 – 15:30 | Session by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) |
15:30 – 17:00 | Session by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) |
17:00 – 18:00 | Dutch Solutions to Waste Management |
Day 2 – September 10, 2026 | |
11:30 – 12:30 | Integrated OFMSW Management in India: From Biogas to Carbon-Rich Soil Amendments |
12:30 – 13:30 | From Global Agendas to Local Action: Waste, Climate and Circularity in India |
13:30 – 14:00 | Networking Break |
14:00 – 15:00 | Maximizing Resource Recovery from Mixed Waste in India: A Circular Economy Approach through Recycling and RDF-Based Energy Recovery |
15:00 – 16:00 | Nadhi Dialogue: Building the Climate Economy |
16:00 – 18:00 | How Indian Railways is Driving India's Swachhata, Circular Economy |
Green Stage
| Day 1 – September 9, 2026 | |
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14:00 – 15:00 | Accelerating India’s Circular Economy: DRS and Solid Waste Management |
15:00 – 16:00 | Accelerating India’s Circular Economy: Recycling and Resource Recovery |
16:00 – 17:00 | Transforming Solid Waste and Recycling Challenges into Scalable Solutions: Innovation, Technology and Collaboration |
Day 2 – September 10, 2026 | |
10:30 - 11:30 | Fundamentals, Practical Insights & Emerging Technologies |
11:30 – 12:30 | The New Gold Rush: Recovering Value from E-Waste Through Technology, Traceability, and Circular Economy - E Waste Social |
12:30 – 14:00 | People and Partnerships for a Circular Future: Driving Behavior Change in Solid Waste Management and Recycling |
16:00 – 17:30 | Redesigning Fashion: Loop & Recovery, Where Fashion Meets Circularity, Technology & the Future Session by IFBEC |
Speakers' Corner
| Day 1 – September 9, 2026 | |
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14:00 – 15:00 | Session by Netherlands Water Partnership |
15:00 – 16:00 | The ZLD Balance Sheet: From Compliance Cost to Investable Asset |
16:00 – 17:00 | From Waste to Wealth: Can Technology & Digitalisation Make the Circular Economy Bankable? |
Day 2 – September 10, 2026 | |
11:00 – 11:15 | Application of Hollowfibre Nanofiltration (HFNF) across different municipal and industrial segments - NX Filtration |
11:15 – 11:30 | High-Temperature Heat Pump & MVR Solutions for ZLD Industries - Piller Global |
11:30 – 11:45 | Innovations in Industrial Wastewater and Brine Concentration - Hydranautics |
11:45 – 12:00 | New Membrane Solutions for Industrial Wastewater - Nitto Denko Corporation, Hydranautics |
12:00 – 12:30 | Beyond Purity: Advancing UPW excellence with Qua Technologies |
12:30 – 13:30 | New Perspectives, Enduring Wisdom: Bridging Generations in Water by IWA |
13:30 – 14:00 | Networking Break |
14:30 – 15:00 | From Wastewater to Water Transformation: Veolia’s Next-Generation Solutions for Industrial Water Reuse - Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions |
15:00 – 15:30 | Wastewater Solutions Enabling Circular Water Economy: Technologies for Water Reuse & Resource Recovery - Ion Exchange India Limited |
15:30 – 16:00 | From Water Treatment to Water Intelligence: Enabling the Digital Future of Water Management - Ion Exchange India Limited |
16:00 – 17:00 | From Sludge to Revenue: Unlocking the Economics of Resource Recovery |
University Challenge
| Day 3 – September 11, 2026 | |
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10:15 – 13:30 | University Challenge by Prof Anupam Singh Part 1 |
14:00 - 17:00 | University Challenge by Prof Anupam Singh Part 2 |