Selected panels, conference appearances, and webinars on WASH, data systems, AI, and the practical work of building useful products.
· Hybrid panel · Approximately 100 participants
WASH 2035
UKWN SMP panel session
Beyond Aid: Building New Alliances for the Future of WASH
What I discussedAI, future WASH finance, data sovereignty, and the growing leverage of individuals and small teams
I joined a panel exploring how constrained aid, climate resilience, health, agriculture, and economic development are reshaping the alliances behind WASH. The session brought together approximately 100 participants online and in person. My contribution focused on how AI may reduce the cost of creating software, collecting and verifying data, and coordinating institutions; how stronger evidence could connect finance to verified performance and climate resilience; and why control of expanding data flows makes data sovereignty a consequential source of power. I also argued that the individual may be the most underestimated actor in WASH: technology can give a utility engineer, civil servant, or small ambitious team capabilities that once required a much larger organisation. I closed by calling for closer collaboration with people building AI agents, resource-discovery and assurance systems, digital public goods, and public-interest technology.
Panellist · Petri Autio, Head of Product at mWater and Solstice
Participants at the WASH Forum, convened by the UK WASH Network and Scotland Malawi Partnership.Petri Autio, right, during the “Beyond Aid” panel discussion.
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The Integrator: Connect mWater to Everything
Connecting external systems to mWater: importing data with agentic AI and sharing data through API endpoints. The Integrator was funded by UNICEF Madagascar.
Turning operational processes into structured workflows, with a walkthrough of the no-code designer, a water point repair demonstration, and questions from users.
A demonstration of customer management and accounting in mWater, covering customer profiles, billing, financial transactions, the mobile app, and live questions.
