Back to NGA WebinarsRecorded Webinar: “Effective Technology Validation Key for Removing Barriers of Adoption“
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- Amanda Tharp, FTD — Why Technology Validation Matters Now
Session 5 focuses on technology validation as a critical enabler of adoption. The discussion frames how structured validation approaches reduce risk, shorten the path from innovation to deployment, and define the criteria required for successful implementation across integrators and end users. - Andreas Neuber, FTD — From Innovation to Implementation
Technology validation is positioned as a response to increasing water management complexity and historically slow adoption of new solutions. NGA provides a collaborative framework that connects IRDS-defined needs with real-world deployment pathways, enabling faster movement from development into operational use. - Lior Eshed, FTD — Reducing Risk Through Structured Validation
Technology validation serves as the bridge between solution providers and end users by reducing uncertainty, verifying performance claims, and aligning solutions with real market needs. A structured process including value assessment and FMEA-based risk analysis enables stakeholders to understand limitations, quantify risks, and accelerate adoption with greater confidence. - Chuck Dale, Veolia — Compressing the Adoption Timeline
Traditional innovation cycles in semiconductor water systems can take 7 to 15 years due to fragmented validation and repeated piloting. NGA compresses this cycle by standardizing early validation steps and reducing redundancy, allowing technologies to be validated once and scaled across multiple sites, significantly accelerating time to adoption. - Felipe Pavez, Intel — End User Confidence and Decision Speed
From an end user perspective, technology validation reduces both application and adoption risk by translating technology claims into practical performance. It enables faster decisions, increases confidence through shared data, and supports cross-site scalability by reducing the need to repeat validation when risks and variables are well understood. - Mark Hunsaker, Xylem — Discipline and Integration in Innovation
Successful adoption requires clear prioritization, structured evaluation, and disciplined processes such as stage-gate frameworks. Innovation must solve real problems, integrate into existing systems, and demonstrate measurable outcomes. Collaboration and structured validation are essential to scaling new technologies effectively. - Q&A — Data, Transparency, and Shared Learning
Discussion reinforces that effective validation depends on data quality, transparency, and collaboration. End users must become more comfortable leveraging shared validation insights, while solution providers must provide sufficient data to enable meaningful risk reduction. Validation is most effective for technologies at TRL 7 and above where performance and deployment readiness can be assessed.