Booky Oren has over 35 years of experience in different senior managerial roles. At the beginning of the millennium, he transited from Hi-Tech and joined the Water Industry and held senior roles such as Executive Chairman of Mekorot, Israel’s National Water Company (initiated and implemented WaTech™ – Center for Initiatives and Research, leveraging Mekorot’s 3,000 facilities as Beta sites for external innovation), Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Miya, and Chairman of WATEC Israel, a leading global water event.

In 2011, Booky established Booky Oren Global Water Technologies (BOGWT) to scale up these activities and address the challenge of “i2i” (innovation to implementation). Leveraging the combination of accumulated experience and expertise with public utilities, technology providers, and large vendors, along with its global coverage.

Recently, Booky has led various activities at different global events, aimed at shifting the market focus from technologies towards the “Voice of the Utilities”, highlighting their needs and challenges. In 2020, BOGWT established the K2i (Knowledge to implementation) Platform. This platform focuses on a structured process that enables global leading agencies to share their best practices. Currently, the K2i platform is combined of more than 20 global utilities that are serving more than 90 million people. Implementing a variety of methodologies of personal & virtual workshops and digital tools while continuing to create an ever-growing knowledgebase.

The K2i ensures continuous improvement of utility performance and saves time and financial resources for agencies by enabling them to learn from each other’s experience and avoid “Re-inventing the Wheel”.