WEFTEC, the Water Environment Federation’s (WEF) Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference, is the largest conference of its kind in North America. The event seeks to provide global water quality professionals with high-level education and training.
Recognized as the largest annual water quality exhibition in the world, the expansive show floor offers access to the most cutting-edge technologies in the field. The exhibition serves as a forum for domestic and international business opportunities, while also giving peer-to-peer networking opportunities for registrants.
WEFTEC 2016 will be held at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, from Saturday, September 24, to Wednesday, September 28.
Expansive Show Floor
WEFTEC hosts more than 25,000 registrants from around the world and in all sectors of water quality, according to event organizers. With nearly 1,000 exhibiting companies, WEFTEC exhibitors bring their very best technical experts and the latest equipment.
The event offers a gateway into global water, wastewater, and resource recovery — and it is the only water show selected to be a part of the U.S. Commercial Service International Buyer Program.
Targeted events and sessions aim to help attendees better connect with others seeking ideas and solutions in their particular subject area. These areas will include facility operations and maintenance, as well as industrial issues and treatment technologies.
Education Sessions
The educational sessions feature technical papers selected through a rigorous process that included abstracts reviewed by an average of nine topic area experts.
The wide range of topics and focus areas allow registrants to design their own, unique learning experience, while earning up to 35 contact hours for continuing education units and nine professional development hours.
The technical program addresses a comprehensive list of contemporary water and wastewater issues and solutions. Within the operations and maintenance track, for example, presenters will examine how changing regulations, retiring labor forces, infrastructure replacements, and a challenging municipal fiscal environment have created significant needs and opportunities for new knowledge.
Similarly, the industrial issues track will explore how the management of water and wastewater presents various strategic, technical, and economic challenges for industry. Topics will include the modeling, design, and operation of industrial wastewater treatment systems, as well as a look at regulatory impacts and how some industrial facilities are recovering resources from their wastewater.
Other education topics include collection systems; energy conservation and management; membrane technologies; regulations; research; residuals and biosolids; stormwater; utility management; water reuse/recycling; and water quality and watershed management.