DC-XYLEM
20.9.2022 11:01:33 CEST | Business Wire | Press release
Global water technology company, Xylem, has awarded a team of hackathon participants who developed an innovative app to promote sustainable water consumption. Team WatApp won HackZurich 2022’s Xylem Water Challenge with their social gaming app that helps people make smart water choices in their everyday lives, build long-term water-saving habits, and share their results with friends.
Having sponsored the event for the last two years, Xylem continues to challenge teams to solve global water issues with a unique, digital approach. This year, Xylem asked hackathon participants to develop a multi-faceted solution to change the public’s water habits and increase awareness of water threats through a revolutionary social gaming app that would improve water sustainability. WatApp achieved this over a non-stop 40-hour hackathon event in Zurich, Switzerland.
With water scarcity affecting billions of people globally each year, the WatApp team created an app that would improve water consumption habits by suggesting more sustainable choices using educational gaming features. The recommendations are generated from answers to personalized weekly challenges, taking data on current habits and location into consideration. The app also presents water savings within a local context, for example, if you live in Switzerland the app will compare the amount of water you save to the daily average water consumption of a Swiss person.
“This year, Europe experienced the worst drought in 500 years. It has never been clearer how urgently we need to develop new, innovative, digital solutions to improve water sustainability,” said Hayati Yarkadas, Xylem’s President for Europe. “The participants in the annual Xylem Water Challenge are inspiring examples of the potential within the next generation of innovators. Their passion for solving real-world water problems will help make our world more sustainable.”
“I would never have imagined how much water goes into the development of consumer goods, particularly through indirect consumption. If we can make more people aware of sustainable water consumption, we can drive meaningful change,” said Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris, a member of the WatApp team.
Xylem’s partnership with HackZurich is part of the Xylem Ignite program, a global initiative to build and empower a network of student leaders passionate about water solutions and driving change in the water industry. The program has already engaged more than 6,600 students in learning about and solving water challenges.
About Xylem
Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to solving critical water and infrastructure challenges with innovation. Our 17,000 diverse employees delivered revenue of $5.2 billion in 2021. We are creating a more sustainable world by enabling our customers to optimize water and resource management and helping communities in more than 150 countries become water secure. Join us at www.xylem.com.
About HackZurich
HackZurich is Europe‘s largest and most renowned coding marathon. It’s a platform where brilliant and diverse minds work together on new ideas and concrete outputs to increase innovation capability. For more information on HackZurich: https://hackzurich.com/
To view this piece of content from cts.businesswire.com, please give your consent at the top of this page.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220920005638/en/
About Business Wire
Subscribe to releases from Business Wire
Subscribe to all the latest releases from Business Wire by registering your e-mail address below. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Latest releases from Business Wire
NelsonHall Recognizes LTM as a Leader in GenAI & Process Automation for Banking4.3.2026 13:45:00 CET | Press release
LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, has been recognized as a Leader in the ‘Overall’ market segment in the NelsonHall NEAT Evaluation for GenAI & Process Automation in Banking 2025. In the NEAT framework, Leaders are vendors that demonstrate high capability relative to peers in delivering immediate client benefit while also meeting future client requirements. The recognition positions LTM among the top-performing vendors evaluated for their ability to deliver both immediate business impact and long-term innovation capability in GenAI and process automation services for the banking sector. The evaluation highlights LTM’s depth of experience in financial services, which accounts for a large portion of its overall revenues, and its focused investments in GenAI, agentic AI, and process automation capabilities delivered through its BlueVerse™ platform. LTM has digital agents dedicated to manage GenAI and process automation services, supporting banking cl
Americhem Expands Aircraft Interior Portfolio with PFAS-Free Thermoplastic Platform Meeting 55/55 OSU, Low Smoke, and Low Toxicity Requirements4.3.2026 13:00:00 CET | Press release
Americhem is expanding its aircraft interior materials portfolio with ColorFast® SFT5500, a PFAS-free high-performance thermoplastic engineered to meet FAA 14 CFR 25.853, Appendix F, Part IV, 55/55 OSU heat release requirements while delivering low smoke and low toxicity characteristics for aircraft interior applications. PFAS-free thermoplastic systems capable of achieving 55/55 OSU performance while maintaining low smoke and low toxicity characteristics remain limited in the aerospace market. ColorFast® SFT5500 addresses this need with demonstrated 55/55 OSU heat release performance, low smoke emission characteristics, and low flaming-mode toxicity performance in a high-performance thermoplastic platform designed specifically for injection-molded interior components. Aircraft interior thermoplastics must meet stringent fire standards while maintaining durability, thermal stability, and process consistency. As legacy fluorinated material systems face increasing regulatory scrutiny, ma
NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities4.3.2026 12:05:00 CET | Press release
AI Adoption, coordinated botnets, and persistent hacktivists groups drove millions of attacks NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing sophisticated attacker collaboration, resilient botnets, and compromised IoT infrastructure that drove more than eight million DDoS attacks worldwide – some as large as 30 terabits per second (Tbps) – marking a new era of hyper-scale, coordinated threat activity that continues to outpace global takedown efforts. Meanwhile, the accelerating growth of DDoS-for-hire services is empowering a broader range of threat actors, intensifying operational risk to digitally connected organizations and enterprises. Implications for security professionals extend far beyond volumetric concerns and include reconnaissance and adaptive evasion which challenge traditional defense paradigms. Organizations must match adversarial innovation with intelligen
WHOOP Announces 2026 Hiring Surge, Adding More Than 600 Roles as It Scales Wearable Health Platform Globally4.3.2026 12:00:00 CET | Press release
Expansion Signals Acceleration in AI, Clinical Innovation, and International Growth WHOOP, the human performance company, today announced plans to add more than 600 new roles across Software, Research & Design, Hardware, Product, and Marketing as the company continues to scale globally. The hiring expansion reflects a clear strategic priority: bolstering a team that will define the future of human performance and health technology. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260304866977/en/ WHOOP Announces 2026 Hiring Surge, Adding More Than 600 Roles as It Scales Wearable Health Platform Globally “Right now, companies are debating whether to hire more people or just invest in AI,” said Will Ahmed, Founder and CEO of WHOOP. “We are doing both. We are doubling down on exceptional talent and doubling down on world-class AI tools because the combination is what wins. Health monitoring is becoming one of the most important p
Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU Infrastructure in Vietnam, Enabling Cloud Gaming and AI Services4.3.2026 11:00:00 CET | Press release
Radian Arc, part of inferX, Submer’s AI cloud and GPU infrastructure platform has partnered with VNPT, and COMIT, to launch Cloud Gaming powered by Radian Arc’s GPU Edge Platform and Blacknut’s global cloud gaming service. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260303986657/en/ Radian Arc, VNPT and Blacknut Launch GPU infrastructure in Vietnam, enabling cloud gaming and AI services This deployment expands Radian Arc and Blacknut’s global cloud gaming partnership into the Vietnam market with VNPT and lays the foundation for future AI-native services and sovereign infrastructure together with COMIT. The deployment represents a commercial proof point of Radian Arc’s carrier-embedded GPU model, combining monetizable consumer services today with scalable AI infrastructure that can support sovereign AI workloads. “With VNPT’s market reach and Blacknut’s premium gaming catalog we’re bringing the next generation of interacti
In our pressroom you can read all our latest releases, find our press contacts, images, documents and other relevant information about us.
Visit our pressroom