Symposium Sponsors and Exhibitor Sign-up is Now Open

WWAC2014_IMG_5384Symposium attendees will enjoy full catered breakfasts and lunches in the exhibit hall.

We are currently looking for additional exhibitors and sponsors for the 2015 ISA WWAC Symposium.

The Exhibitor and Sponsorship Prospectus is now available.

Save the date: August 4-6, 2015 in Orlando, Florida at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort.

See Prospectus

Meet the 2015 General Symposium ChairKevinPatel

Kevin Patel, PE

Kevin Patel is an experienced automation engineer from the Dallas, Texas area who has been working the municipal water/wastewater sector for over 12 years.  Kevin is a principal at Signature Automation.

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Symposium Continues to Earn Positive Reviews

WWAC2014_IMG_5565At WWAC2014, over 150 instrumentation, automation and SCADA professionals came to a packed house to share ideas, learn, and network.

40+ professionals from water/wastewater utilities attended full-day cyber security and hands-on instrumentation and control troubleshooting courses

Over 30 technical presentations and speakers. CEUs and PDHs certificates for all attendees.

Save the date for next year: August 4-6, 2015 at the Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort in Orlando, Florida

Wyndham-Lake-Buena-Vista-ResortAnnouncing WWAC 2015!

2015 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium

  • August 4-6, 2015
  • Wyndham Lake Buena Vista Resort
  • Orlando, Florida, USA

Learn more…Call for Abstracts

Invited Speaker: Open Secure Automation

Albert Rooyakkers will be presenting an invited talk on how the reduction in the system attack surface can impart simplification, while hardening embedded systems from the inside out to cyber, electromagnetic pulse, and other forms of malicious nation state attacks resulting in improved reliability and mean time between failures.

Albert is the Founder, CTO, and VP of Engineering of Bedrock Automation. The ongoing work at Bedrock is rapidly realizing an entirely new and innovative cyber ICS architecture called Open Secure Automation, OSA.

Come to WWAC 2015 to find out about how to harden your SCADA systems.

Read about Albert’s seminar

Invited Speaker: Best Practices for Situational Awareness

Industry expert John Krajewski will be presenting our invited talk on Best Practices for Situational Awareness for HMIs (human machine interfaces).

John has 19+ years experience in industrial automation and control systems. He joined Invensys Wonderware in April 2000 as a Senior Application Developer in the Product Marketing Department. For the past 5 years John has served in multiple Product Management roles for Invensys HMI/Supervisory Control products.

Come to WWAC 2015 to find out about how to implement situational awareness in HMIs.

Read about John’s HMI seminar

Earn PDHs and CEUs

Attendees can earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from attending the sessions and the ISA training courses.

Engaging in continuing education and professional development is an ongoing requirement for many professional designations, certifications and licenses.

Attend the symposium to help satisfy your credential’s and your employer’s continuing education requirements.

Read about PDHs and CEUs

Affordable Professional Development

Attendees can earn Professional Development Hours (PDHs) and Continuing Education Units (CEUs) from attending the sessions and the ISA training courses.

2.5 days of professional development for only $425!
(Discounts for ISA, AWWA, WEF, and ITA members)

Employers: Send your plant operations, instrumentation and automation staff for continuing education.

Individuals: Attend the symposium to help satisfy your employer’s and credential’s continuing education requirements.

Read about PDHs and CEUs… Register Today

Local Anaerobic Digestion and Energy Production Facility Tour

Attendees have the option of signing up for a tour of the Harvest Power Energy Garden:

Harvest Power’s Energy Garden

Located in Central Florida, the facility is designed to simultaneously address four challenges – to recover energy and nutrients from food waste, manage odors, process biosolids beneficially, and improve the fertilizer end product quality – with one integrated solution.

Read about the Facility Tour…

Meet the Program Committee

The program committee chair for this year’s symposium is Joe Provenazno who has over 50 years of experience int he water/wastewater sector.

Joe is heading up a dedicated committee of seasoned professionals from public utilities, private sector service providers, engineering firms, consultants, and national level vendors to select this year’s symposium program

Meet the Program Committee

What attendees are saying...

I have had the pleasure of attending the last three WWAC Symposiums and plan to attend again. I would encourage anyone in the water and waste water industry to attend…it is time well spent!

– Daniel Machado, Technology Support Group Manager, Cobb County, Georgia

I want to thank you and all of your volunteers for the great training session and very informative symposium. Cyber Security information and training is paramount to secure and safe water delivery in the US and the world.  The plant  tour was very informative and the hosts were very personable to us all.

The symposium had a wide variety of topics for control system design and operational considerations. The speakers were very diverse and shared a wealth of information with us all.

Thank you again for heading up a great team of dedicated ISA/AWWA  Water/Wastewater volunteer professionals. My hat is off to you.

– Jeff Blue, CAP - Southern Nevada Water System

I would like to encourage anyone who has the chance to attend the next symposium – whether as an attendee or a presenter – and get a fresh perspective on the issues you face every day.  Maybe even share your experience with others. You’ll be glad you did.

– Matt Phillips (participant from Canada)

I found the WWAC Symposium…to be extremely informative and useful. As a water/wastewater instrumentation and controls engineer based in the Northeast, I appreciated the insight of others working in the same field from around the country, as the industry in my area can sometimes feel very insulated. The opportunity to share thoughts and ideas with those individuals, and attend presentations about topics that I tackle on a daily basis was priceless. The different perspectives and methods to solving problems provided me inspiration to approach projects from a different direction and will directly benefit my clients in both the short- and long-term

– Jon Grant, Senior I&C; Engineer, Woodard Curran

In the 2011 WWAC Symposium…we learnt the importance in developing SCADA standards where to describe all the needs of our user groups, the final clients expectations and the organizational goals.  We have started to implement our own SCADA Standards, nowadays we are in the position to clearly  define what we want.

– Giancarlo Osorio Osorio (participant from Mexico)

All of the WWAC Symposia I have attended have always been very informative and excellent networking opportunities.  Plant managers, technicians and engineers have received an abundance of information regarding state-of-the-art I&C technology directly related to timely Water &Wastewater applications. The presentations have been awesome.  I’m looking forwarding to this year’s symposium.

– Michael Fedenyszen

The Alarm Management Course offered at the 2011 WWAC Symposium has provided us with important information to setup an Alarm Philosophy for both the Water and Wastewater SCADA Systems. This will provide a template for future work by System Integrators that will have to be followed and provide consistent information for the operators. It was one of the best courses that I have taken in awhile.  I’m looking forward to the full-day Automation/SCADA Security short course  they will be offering along with this year’s upcoming WWAC Symposium!

– Bob Dusza, Project & Technical Support Manager, Manchester Water & Sewer

The 2011 ISA WWAC symposium was my first and I found it very enjoyable and useful. It covered topics directly related to current water/wastewater issues such as commissioning and SCADA. The get-togethers at lunch and afterwards allowed me to meet people in my industry and discuss common issues with my industry peers.  One of the great benefits is that it provides a venue to share experiences and advice that is relevant to our water/wastewater sector.  I am looking forward to attending the WWAC symposium again.

– Wally Ingham, Stantec

Congratulations on this successful summit [2012 WWAC Symposium]. You did an outstanding job organizing this, sticking to the schedule and keeping us informed. I learned a lot, met some great people (including colleagues at CDM Smith) and was very impressed by your leadership. Not to mention Graham’s sense of humor. Superb!

– Michael Waddell - Principal, Application Development Practice Leader, CDM Smith

You and the other members of the symposium team did a masterful job. I am looking forward to next year when I hope to bring other members of the staff, here at the North Broward Regional Wastewater Plant. I came away from that three day event “loaded for bear” in terms of how I want to influence my organization with our many upcoming projects. I sincerely thank you for the opportunity afforded me during that awesome event.

– Tom McGovern, Water & Wastewater Services, Broward County, FL

Thank you  for a great Symposium, I will certainly recommend an ongoing attendance for the staff in my group of Electrical and I & Engineers in the future as this was a great learning experience for all and a chance to show other industry experts what we and our company is doing in the Water and Wastewater field and a great opportunity to meet and talk with other professionals in the industry.

– David R. Wilcoxson, PE - Vice President, MWH Americas

The 2012 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium was the best conference I’ve ever been to!

– Paul J. McGuire, P.E. - Senior Project Engineer, Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District