The symposium program committee is pleased to announce this year’s WWAC2013 program:
(see also alphabetical technical speakers list)
Monday, August 5, 2013
| 8:00am-4:00pm | Cybersecurity Short Course (day 1 of 2)** |
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
| 8:00am-4:00pm | Cybersecurity Short Course (day 2 of 2)** | |
| 8:00am-4:00pm | Flowmeter Selection/Sizing Course (1 day)** | |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Early Symposium Registration & Badge Pick-Up |
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| 12:30pm-3:30pm | Tour of OCU South Water Reclamation Plant (transportation provided)*** | |
** Short courses are optional. Separate course registration required.
*** Limited capacity on tour. Tour bus leaves hotel lobby at 12:30pm. Invitations will be sent out 3 weeks prior to tour to registered symposium attendees. RSVP required.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
| 7:00am | Registration, Badge Pick-up, & Breakfast | |
| 7:45am | Opening Remarks | |
| 8:00am | Keynote Speaker Using Data from Municipal Water/Wastewater SCADA Systems (and Other Sources) to Make Smarter Operational, Maintenance, and Infrastructure Investment Decisions Carey E. Hidaka, Worldwide Smarter Water Solutions, IBM Software Group – view abstract |
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| 8:45am | Invited Speaker Managing Successful SCADA Retrofit Projects P. Hunter Vegas, Lead Project Engineer, Avid Solutions & co-author the book “101 Tips for a Successful Automation Career” – view abstract |
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| 9:15am | Invited Speaker High Performance HMI – Proof Testing in Real-World Trials Bill Hollifield, Principal HMI Consultant, PAS & author of several books including “The High Performance Handbook” – view abstract |
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| 9:45am | Coffee Break & Exhibits | |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |
| 10:30am | Seamless Replacement of a DCS in a Large Wastewater Treatment Plant: Lessons Learned from the City of Fort Worth Village Creek Water Reclamation Plant Nathan Mogaru, John Robinson and Luke Matus, CDM Smith – view abstract |
A Strategic Approach to SCADA Cyber Security – Water and Wastewater Network Architecture and Segmentation Norman Anderson and Bill Phillips, CH2M HILL – view abstract |
| 11:00am | WWTP Operator – The poor cousin? Opportunities for Better Wastewater Plant Control Room Design David Lee, User Centered Design Services – view abstract |
The Lights are on but no one is home: Automation Techniques for un-manned stations Jeffery S. Blue, Southern Nevada Water System (Nevada, USA) – view abstract |
| 11:30am | SCADA System Serviceable Life and Replacement Prioritization with Water and Wastewater Plants in Seminole County, Florida Jonathan Mitchell, CDM Smith and Tom Owens, Environmental Services Dept, Seminole County (Florida, USA) – view abstract |
Security Issues and Best Practices for Water/Wastewater Facilities Jeff Hayes, Beijer Electronics – view abstract |
| 12:00pm | Lunch & Exhibits | |
| 1:00pm | Owner Specific SCADA Standards – What They Are and Why Should You Have Them Emile Richard, Portland Water District (Portland, Maine, USA) – view abstract |
Trends, Issues, and New Standards for ICS Security David Mattes, Asguard Networks – view abstract |
| 1:30pm | Developing In-House Sewage Pumping Station Design Standards: Streamlining Integration of Pump Stations in Niagara Region Mark Presti, Provectus, and Ed Van Vliet, Niagara Region Public Works Dept (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) – view abstract |
Assuring Wastewater System Reliability – Industrial-Grade UPS Power Protection Mitigates Costly Throughput Issues Michael Stout, Falcon Electric – view abstract |
| 2:00pm | Use of Custom Code Generation Tool Allows Municipality to Rigidly Enforce Water/Wastewater SCADA Standards Bosco Bob Loncar, Regional Municipality of Halton (Ontario, Canada) – view abstract |
ISA99 – Security Standards in water treatment plants Marcelo Teixeira de Azevedo, Alaide Barbosa Martins, and Sergio Takeo Kofuji, Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo, (Sao Paulo, Brazil) – view abstract |
| 2:30pm | Poster Session, Coffee & Exhibits | |
| 4:00pm | Video: A New Type of Process Data – The Benefits of Visualizing Remote Assets Gregory Santos, Industrial Video and Control – view abstract |
So many wireless technologies! Which is the right one for my application? Don Dickinson, Phoenix Contact – view abstract |
| 4:30pm | Reinventing the Role of the SCADA Historian: Distributed Redundancy, Centralized Access Blair Sooley, Trihedral Engineering – view abstract |
SCADA Upgrades at the Jacksonville Beach WWTP: Lessons Learned from automating a 40 year old plant for unattended operations Chuck Saunders, City of Jacksonville Beach Water Pollution Control Plane (Florida, USA) and Gary Szilagyi, Archimedes Systems – view abstract |
| 5:00pm | Migrating Guelph Wastewater’s Data Monitoring Program To A Web-Based Reporting System – Turning Data into Meaningful Information Dennis Mutti, Tom DeLaura, Jason Low, Eramosa Engineering, and Tim Robertson, Gerald Atkinson, Jim Lilley, Wastewater Services City of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) – view abstract |
Is There an Oversight in UV Reliability: Examining the Critical Role of Reliable Power in UV Disinfection Grant Van Hemert, Schneider Electric – view abstract |
| 5:30pm | General Reception and Cash Bar | |
Thursday, August 8, 2013
| 7:00am | Breakfast | |
| 7:45am | Opening Remarks | |
| 7:55am | Preview of next year’s 2014 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium | |
| 8:00am | Invited Speaker The Current State of Cyber Security in Municipal Water Plants John Cusimano, Director, Security Services Division, exida & voting member of ISA99 Cyber Security Committee – view abstract |
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| 8:45am | Guest Speaker Automation Technology Trends in the Wastewater Sector Tom DeLaura, Chair, WEF Automation and Information Technology Committee & vice-president, Eramosa Engineering International – view abstract |
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| 9:15am | Guest Speaker Technology Trends and Outlook for the Municipal Water Sector – Michael Sweeney, Florida Section of the American Water Works Association (AWWA) & Deputy Executive-Director, Toho Water Authority – view abstract |
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| 9:45am | Coffee Break & Exhibits | |
| Track 1 | Track 2 | |
| 10:30am | Implementation of Solids Retention Time (SRT) Control in Wastewater Treatment Robert C. Smith, Sarah O. Elger, and Scott Mleziva, Sanitaire – view abstract |
Too Many Alarms: Where Do I Begin? Kevin Patel, Signature Automation – view abstract |
| 11:00am | Gaining control of Effluent Residual Narciso Santiago, EMA – view abstract |
Save Time and Money by Designing Effective Interface with Vendor-provided control systems Amar Hegde and Larry Reynolds, CDM Smith – view abstract |
| 11:30am | Know Your Options: Selecting the Right Wireless Communications – Technology for Your Collection & Distribution Systems Dustin Sayre, EMA – view abstract |
Introducing Alarm Management for Packaged Systems – ISA18 Standards Committee – Working Group 7 Graham Nasby, Eramosa Engineering – view abstract |
| 12:00pm | Lunch & Exhibits | |
| 1:00pm | Optimize your Ultrasonic Flow Meter for water & Wastewater applications Brent Baird, Instruments Direct – view abstract |
Simulate Your Way out of a Difficult Real Time Control Problem: Automatically Controlling Gates to Reduce Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) Maxym Lachance, Tetra Tech and Sid Lodewyk, City of Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) – view abstract |
| 1:30pm | Taking DeNitrification to the Next Level: An Upgrade of Proven Technology with 21st Century I&C Jaime A. Alba, CDM Smith – view abstract |
SCADA Control and Monitoring Of Groundwater Remediation Facilities: Past, Present And Planning For The Future Obadiah Kilonzo and Kevin Fleming, Carolina Automation Systems – view abstract |
| 2:00pm | Model analysis and controller design for aeration of textile industry effluent Jayakumar Sumathi, Pogalur Ramasamy Theerthagiri and Srinivasan Sundaram, Department of ECE & EIE, PRIST University (Thanjavur, India) – view abstract |
Specifying Adjustable Speed Drives for Improved Control and Integration Tom Schaefer, Rockwell Automation – view abstract |
| 2:30pm | The Industrial Internet – Enabling the New Water Operator Jill Burdette, Lee Jeelum, GE Intelligent Platforms – view abstract |
Featured Poster (part of poster session): Designing NFPA 820 Compliant Monitoring Systems for Wastewater Pumping Stations Tom Ridgik and Greg Yarberry, CH2M HILL |
| 2:30pm | Poster Session, Coffee & Exhibits | |
| 4:00pm | Risks of Smart Water Applications – Rigorous Risk Assessment of the Adoption of Smart Water Applications Andreas Hauser, Thomas Stoertkuhl, Klaus Estenfeld, and E. Earl Eiland, TÜV SÜD AG – view abstract |
Wireless Technology Opportunities in the Water and Wastewater Sectors Riz Amanullah, Cooper Bussmann Wireless, EATON – view abstract |
| 4:30pm | Smart Water Networks for Operational Efficiency Gains Brian Heimbigner and Mark Bitto, ABB – view abstract |
ISA100 Wireless Development and Certification Process Penny Chen, Yokogawa – view abstract |
| 5:00pm | Using Procedural Automation to Improve Operational Efficiency Marcus Tennant and Leila Myers, Yokogawa – view abstract |
Wireless Mesh Infrastructure Networks for Supporting Water Districts – Data, SCADA and Video Requirements Matt Selby, Firetide – view abstract |
| 5:30pm -5:45pm |
Closing remarks | |
