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Providing a Platform for Water Sector Innovation Is at the Heart of WEF's Providing a platform for water sector innovation is at the heart of WEF’s mission. WEFTEC is the opportunity to showcase dynamic thinking, facilitate conversations that transform ideas into solutions, and make new connections to solve your operational challenges now. 1 Innovation trends in the industrial The WEFTEC Innovation Showcase puts and municipal markets Financial innovation and the spotlight on water sector innovation 2 investment opportunities and provides access to the leaders and the 3 Piloting and partnering with technologies making it all happen. Embrace new technology companies Building the regulatory environment learning through exhibits, educational 4 to support innovation sessions, and networking events covering: Using data to underpin industrial 5 and municipal system upgrades WEF Chats will facilitate informal discussions to give you a WEF CHATS chance to share your ideas and meet experts with solution. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 10:00 am – 10:30 am Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “PureBlue”, Ryan Vogel/ Egils Milbergs 10:00 am – 10:30 am WRF Booth “Workforce of the 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “The Water Future”, Walter Graf Council”, Karen Frost 10:00 am – 10:30 am Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Accelerate H20”, 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Workforce Pavilion “Using Employee Richard Seline Resource Groups and Other Tools to Help 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Workforce Pavilion “Operator Training Engage Your Workforce”, Ari Copeland Solutions at Small and Medium Sized 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Workforce Pavilion “Tribal Nations Utilities: Utilities”, Becky Haugen A Growing Workforce”, Margaret Washko, PE 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “IndianaWater.org”, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm Workforce Pavilion “Working with Local Erik Hromadka Corps Networks to Develop a Local 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm WRF Booth “Risk Communications for Water Workforce”, Mary Ellen Sprenkel Sector Leaders”, Alice Fulmer/Allison Deines 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Workforce Pavilion “Capturing the Value of 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Workforce Pavilion “Water Warriors Diversity in Your Workforce”, Larry Bullock, Initiatives: Recruiting Veterans”, James Minority Contractors Assoc. Barsanti (NEWEA) 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “TMA 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Video Studio, Booth 5168 “Value of Water in BlueTech”, Tamara Kahn Space”, Kathleen Schubert (NASA) 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm US EPA Booth (Hall B, 7921) “Water 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Gwinnett County Sector Funding and Financing”, Sonia Water Innovation Center”, Melissa Meeker Brubaker, Jorianne Jernberg, Tara Johnson, Alison Souders – EPA’s Office 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Meet the Brewers”, of Wastewater Management Sharon Waller, Paul Strome, Valerie Lucas 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Food and Water 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Cleveland Water Synergy: Ideas and Opportunities”, Haley Alliance”, Bryan Stubbs Falconer lead, speakers: N. Green, M. 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm WRF Booth “Agricultural Research and Nalesso, J. Crawford, G. Macdonald Technology Innovation”, Fidan Karimova 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “Meet the Brewers”, 3:10 pm – 3:30 pm Workforce Pavilion “Maintaining Your Patrick Dube, Mark Jockers Workforce”, Matthew Phillips 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Workforce Pavilion “How to Write Successful Grant Applications”, Karl Rockne TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 3:00 pm – 3:20 pm Workforce Pavilion “Supply and Demand of the Workforce”, Matthew Phillips 9:00 am – 9:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Growing Sectors in the 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm WRF Booth “Hydrothermal Processing Water Industry”, Val S. Frenkel – Transforming Wastewater Sludge 9:30 am - 10:00 am Beer Garden, Booth 7748 “DOE into BioFuels”, Aaron Fisher(WRF)/Jeff DeSalination Hub Discussion”, Diana Bauer, Moeller(WRF)/Jim Oyler (Genifuel) Melissa Klembara 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm US EPA Booth (Hall B, 7921) “Draft National 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of Water Reuse Action Plan”, John Ravenscroft – Credentialling – PEs”, Matthew Phillips EPA’s Office of Science & Technology 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of Credentialling – Environmental Engineers WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 and Scientists”, AAEES, Andy Shaw 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of 10:00 am – 10:20 am Workforce Pavilion “Tools for Operator Credentialling – Green Infrastructure”, Professional Development “, John Bennett, NGICP, Jeff Greenwald Chair, Ops Challenge Committee” 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of 10:00 am – 10:30 am WRF Booth “Food – Energy – Water Credentialling – Underground Infastructure (FEW) Nexus: What’s all the hype about?”, Maintenance and Rehabilitation”, Ashwin Dhanasekar/Kristan VandenHeuval/ NASSCO, Sheila Joy Stephanie Fevig 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of 10:00 am – 10:45 am US EPA Booth (Hall B, 7921) “EPA Action on Credentialling – Certified Operators”, Water Workforce”, Martha Shimkin, Acting ABC, Paul Bishop Deputy Office Director – EPA’s Office of 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of Wastewater Management; Yu – Ting Guilaran, Credentialling – Certified Mission Critical P.E., Acting Deputy Office Director – EPA’s Professionals, CMCP”, Bryan Kainrath and Office of Ground Water & Drinking Water Lisa McFadden 10:10 – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “How to Approach a 10:00 am – 10:30 am Workforce Pavilion “Benefits of Job Search”, Matthew Phillips Credentialling – Tribal Nation Certifications”, 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm WRF Booth “Integrated Stormwater Margaret Washko, PE Management and Flood Resilience: 10:00 am – 10:30 am WRF Booth “Occurrence, Removal, Fate, and Best Practice and Innovative Transport of Microplastics in Wastewater and Approach”, Harry Zhang Drinking Water Treatment”, Lola Olabode/ Ashwin Dhanasekar/Alice Fulmer INNOVATION SHOWCASE AT-A-GLANCE Participate in presentations and discussions related to innovative technologies and problem solving in the Innovation Theater, and when the presentations are over, head “back stage” to continue the conversation. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 10:00 am – 11:00 am IP01 Don’t Hate, #Innovate: What’s 9:00 am – 9:30 am IP12 DOE SWIFt Accelerator: Tools Happening in the Innovation & Planning for Infrastructure Neighborhood Improvement in the 11:00 am – 11:30 am IP02 The SDGs, Circular Wastewater Sector Economy, and ReNEW 9:30 am – 10:00 am IP13 LIFT SEE IT: Seeing the World 11:30 am – 12:30 pm IP03 Pure Water Brewing Alliance and the of Innovation World’s Most Sustainable Beer 10:00 am – 11:00 am IP14 Get Connected with the Dutch 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm IP04 Considerations to Successfully Supply on Water Tech Innovation Water in One of the Fastest Growing 11:00 am – 11:30 am IP15 LATAM Spotlight: Water and Metro Areas in the US: The San Sanitation Company of the Antonio to Austin Corridor 21st Century 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm IP05 Hydrofaction Advanced Renewable 11:30 am – 12:00 pm IP16 Imagine H2O’s Urban Water Transportation Fuels From Sewage Challenge: Tomorrow’s Sludges and Urban Organic Solids Solutions Today 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm IP06 Accelerating Innovation in the Water 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm IP17 Challenging the Status Quo: Smart Sector Using Utility-University-Industry Water Technology Advancements Partnerships 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm IP18 A Look Inside The Water Council’s 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm IP07 Out of Industry, Pivoting Into Water Startup Accelerator 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm IP08 We Got Bought, Now What? Stories 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm IP19 Brave Blue World: The Journey of from Innovation Pavilion Alumni Re-Inventing Water 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm IP09 “C” Suite View on Fostering Innovation 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm IP20 TWENTY65: Achieving Sustainable 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm IP10 Disruptive Innovation in Water Clean Water for All by the Year 2065 Technology: A Meaningful or 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm IP21 Working for the Watershed: How Meaningless Term? Utilities Have Built Transformational Partnerships to Meet Water Quality 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm IP11 The CROC Tank: Imagine H2O Water Start-Ups Pitch to Our Experts Standards on a Watershed Scale 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm IP22 Controversial Questions: Three Water Luminaries Take on Some of the Biggest and Most Controversial Questions Facing the Industry Today 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm IP23 The CROC Tank: BlueTech Water Start-Ups Pitch to Our Experts WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 9:00 am – 10:00 am IP24 Israel – US Water Initiative 10:00 am – 11:00 am IP25 G2G Panel: Water Reuse in Israel and the US – Lessons Learned and Opportunities 11:00 am – 11:30 am IP26 CMCP Awards: Excellence of Mission Critical Operations 11:30 am – 12:30 pm IP27 Operator Excellance: Operations Ingenuity Contest Winners 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm IP28 ABC Professional Operator Pinning Ceremony 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm IP29 Cybersecurity - It’s More Than Just Compliance Pure Water Brew samples will be poured: Monday & Tuesday 12:00 - 4:00 PM | Wednesday 11:00-3:00 PM. PURE WATER SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS LLC/UNRECONCILED BREWING BREWING Astro Amber Ale—Drink Like an Astronaut Brewed using water from the North Shore Channel, Astro Amber Ale ALLIANCE is the first effluent home brewed beer made in Chicago! Booth 7751, North Hall McCormick Place CDM SMITH 12-Log Lager and RO-AOP Monday-Tuesday Home-brewed by Tim Rynders, Process Engineer (CDM Smith; Denver, CO) 8:30 am – 5:00 pm (Visit CDM SMITH in the Innovation Pavilion Booth 8249) Wednesday 8:30 am—3:00 pm Unwind in this new lounge environment, CLEAN WATER SERVICES/PURE WATER WAGON where you can experience industry and 4 different beer styles: Lager/Pilsner, Belgian/French, utility partners’ recycling and reuse American Ale, Light Hybrid innovations.
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