Austin Alexander, Vice President of Artificial Intelligence at Xylem, returns to the show to discuss the unique partnership between Xylem and Amazon that saves water in Monterrey and Mexico City. Plus, Reese Tisdale joins us for another Bluefield on Tap segment discussing Bluefield Research’s recent analysis of water rates.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- What Austin has been up to since her last appearance and what she’s doing now at Xylem
- Why Xylem is delving into artificial intelligence
- The background on Xylem’s partnership with Amazon in Mexico
- How the Xylem and Amazon partnership came together
- How Amazon’s water positive targets spurred Xylem’s use of its technologies to reduce non-revenue water
- The technology used to pinpoint leakage in the Monterey and Mexico City water utilities to reduce non-revenue water more efficiently
- How Xylem and Amazon convinced the utility to adopt the proposed solution
- Austin’s take on building trust with utilities
- The ancillary benefits of the partnership that will provide returns to the utility well into the future
- How Xylem is scaling the success from the public-private partnership
- A primer on Xylem’s recent white paper, Watering the New Economy: Managing the Impacts of the AI Revolution
Resources and links mentioned in or relevant to this session include:
- Austin’s LinkedIn profile
- Xylem’s website
- Mexico Business News article on the Xylem-Amazon partnership
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