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Golf Outing
Wednesday May 28, 2025 10:00am - 3:00pm CDT
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Plant Tour
Wednesday May 28, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
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Why Extreme Rainfall Events Appear to Happen Much More Often than Expected
Thursday May 29, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am CDT
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Student, Milwaukee School of Engineering
I am a graduate civil engineering student with an emphasis in environmental & water resources at Milwaukee School of Engineering. I am pursuing a career in wastewater process engineering and environmental restoration and responsible management. In my free time I like to go fishing...
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Break/Poster Session I
Thursday May 29, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
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PhD Student, Marquette University
I just finished my first year of grad school at Marquette University! I am investigating what happens to PFAS during biosolids drying (come check out my poster!), and I am in Dr. Patrick McNamara's research group. I can talk for hours about my research, but I also have a lot of interest...
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Technical Sales Rep, Midwest Chemical and Equipment
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Out With the Old, in With the New – A Systematic Approach to System-wide PLC Renewal
Thursday May 29, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
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Principal Engineer, Metropolitan Council
Electrical Engineer - Controls, Instrumentation, PLCs, Automation.
Worked with wastewater collection and treatment systems at Metropolitan Council since 1987. Prior to that I worked at 3M designing and commissioning control systems for machines that made 3M products.
11:30am CDT
Digital Tools Streamlining Collection System Operations and Management
Thursday May 29, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
Moderators BB
Director of Engineering, Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District
CW
MSA Professional Services, Inc.
Digital OneWater Director, Jacobs Solutions, Inc.
I have been working in the water industry for over 23 years, mainly focused on wet weather conveyance and storage for the majority of that time. I worked for about 4.5 years in Indianapolis, IN following my Ph.D. at Purdue University, and then have been with CH2M/Jacobs since 2006...
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Watershed Approaches to Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Nutrient Removal: Illinois Crosses the Rubicon
Thursday May 29, 2025 11:30am - 12:00pm CDT
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District Manager, Northern Moraine WRD
Executive Director, Applied Ecological Institute
Bartlett is the CEO of The Nature's Registry, and Executive Director for Applied Ecological Institute, building a soil carbon trading registry to help fund the transition to regenerative agriculture and mitigate carbon emissions during this transition period. https://www.aeinstitute.org/natures-registryBartlett...
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Safety Fundamentals for Wastewater Treatment Plants
Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 1:30pm CDT
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University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Mr. Evangelisti is a Senior Lecturer who has developed and/or taught the following courses in the Department of Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health in Face-To-Face and online formats since 2015:SAFETY 201: Personal and Public SafetySAFETY 220: Environmental ManagementSAFETY...
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Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Whitewater
Shoji Nakayama, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. In this position, he teaches safety and health courses and works on various applied projects with the local industry to help promote safe...
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Leading in the Age of “Be Ready for Anything, Anytime” - Panel Discussion
Thursday May 29, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm CDT
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Water Market Strategic Growth Leader, Jacobs Engineering Group - USA
Rick Warner is a Strategic Leader at Jacobs. His experiences include delivering complex capital projects, forming inter-agency collaborations, and creating community partnerships. Rick’s expertise spans drinking water, wastewater, and water recycling. His leadership positions within...
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Former Executive Director (Retired), NEW Water
Led initiatives at NEW Water for 17 years, before retiring in January. Watershed Adaptive Management, enhancing employee culture, utility consolidation, and improving aging infrastructure were initiatives undertaken during his tenure.
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Break/Poster Session II
Thursday May 29, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Speakers
PhD Student, Marquette University
I just finished my first year of grad school at Marquette University! I am investigating what happens to PFAS during biosolids drying (come check out my poster!), and I am in Dr. Patrick McNamara's research group. I can talk for hours about my research, but I also have a lot of interest...
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Technical Sales Rep, Midwest Chemical and Equipment
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D.O.G.E. Biosolids
Thursday May 29, 2025 3:00pm - 3:30pm CDT
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Wastewater Engineer, MSA Professional Services, Inc.
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7S Meeting
Thursday May 29, 2025 3:30pm - 3:45pm CDT
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Intensifying Research and Innovation for a Resilient and Sustainable Future
Friday May 30, 2025 9:00am - 9:30am CDT
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Project Manager, Black & Veatch
Dave Diehl is a Project Manager in Governments & Environment for Black & Veatch. His 15 years of experience includes project management, planning, design, construction related services and startup involving wastewater conveyance and wastewater treatment facilities. Dave is a licensed...
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Novel Wastewater Treatment Process for PFAS Removal
Friday May 30, 2025 9:30am - 10:00am CDT
Moderators CW
MSA Professional Services, Inc.
Director of PFAS Residuals Management, ECT2
Focus areas include water/wastewater/leachate process equipment design and technology development, including removal of PFAS and other emerging contaminants. Technology offerings include Foam Fractionation, Ion Exchange, and NanoSORB.
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Break
Friday May 30, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
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Flexibility in Biological Phosphorus Removal System Design: Case Studies
Friday May 30, 2025 11:00am - 11:30am CDT
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Wastewater Engineer, MSA Professional Services, Inc.
Strand Associates, Inc.
Nick Bartolerio, P.E. is a wastewater process engineer at Strand Associates, Inc.® based in their Madison, Wisconsin office. Nick graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an...
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Engineering Ethics and Resiliency in the Built Environment
Friday May 30, 2025 1:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
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PhD Student, Marquette University
I just finished my first year of grad school at Marquette University! I am investigating what happens to PFAS during biosolids drying (come check out my poster!), and I am in Dr. Patrick McNamara's research group. I can talk for hours about my research, but I also have a lot of interest...
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Milwaukee Metro Sewerage District
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Formation of Granular Sludge with Low Strength Wastewater
Friday May 30, 2025 2:00pm - 2:30pm CDT
Moderators BB
Director of Engineering, Urbana and Champaign Sanitary District
Product Manager - AquaNereda, Aqua-Aerobic Systems Inc.
Brett has been in the water/wastewater industry since 2016. He has 9 years’ experience doing process design for biological treatment systems and cloth media filters. He has 8 years’ experience working with the AquaNereda Aerobic Granular Sludge Technology.Brett’s primary roles...
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