Photos from the 2012 ISA water/wastewater symposium

The symposium committee is pleased to share the following photos from the 2012 ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium:

Symposium Opening Remarks

First day of the symposium program

 

On the bus to the symposium plant tour

 

Symposium Sponsors

 

Assembling the group at the symposium tour

 

Bob Dusza being introduced by Graham Nasby

Tour at Orange County Utilities
Southern Regional Water Supply Facility

Symposium Short-course on cyber security

Cyber Security short course

Rodney Jones manning the symposium registration desk

Keynote address by Celine Hyer on asset management

Bryan Singer speaking about cyber security

 

Mark Presti from Gray Matter Systems setting up a demo in the exhibitor hall

 

Tom DeLaura being introduced by chair Graham Nasby

 Bill Hollifield speaking about High Performance HMIs  Kim Kunihiro from Orange County Utilities speaking

Full House in the speaking room

 

Lunch at the symposium

 Restaurant for the speakers dinner with hotel in background  Photos from onsite volunteer dinner
 

Pavol Segedy speaking about mobile SCADA

 

Pavol Segedy demonstrates iPad-based SCADA

 

Brandon Erndt speaking about mobile SCADA

 

Tom DeLaura talking on wastewater automation trends

 

Creig Wilson speaking about process simulation tools

 

Grant Van Hemert talking about leveraging SCADA

 

David Wilcoxson presenting on lift station efficiency

 

Exhibit Hall at Lunch

 

Francisco Alcala speaking about industry trends

 

Tim Wiley presenting about integration pitfalls

 

Graham Nasby speaking about ISA standards

 

Jeff Hayes presenting about rugged HMIs

 

Jon DiPietro speaking about social media and Twitter

 

Bob Dusza speaking

 

Larry O’Brien speaking about Foundation Fieldbus

 

Exhibitor Hall at lunch

 

Marcello Avendano speaking about virtual machines

 

Mark Presti speaking about SCADA and CMMS

 

Michael Waddell speaking about SCADA and GIS

 

Michael Maccharelli talks about solar-power instruments

 

Tom McGovern speaking on cyber security

 

Chris Cagliotti speaking about ultrasonic flowmeters

 

Norman Anderson speaking about secure networks

 

Robert Lagrange speaking about ammonium probes

 

Noune Garounts speaking about Otay WTP upgrades

 

Scott Whitmore speaking about control system design

 

Raed Nuaimi speaking on efficient water distribution

 

Jason Hamlin accepting social media/Twitter award

Pavol Segedy accepting Twitter award from Jon DiPietro

 

Marcello accepting social media/Twitter
random prize draw from Jon DiPietro

 

Symposium Tour Group Shot

 

Symposium Hotel

 

Getting off the bus at the OCU tour

 

Graham Nasby symposium chair, Joe Provenazno
program chair, and ISA President Bob Lindeman

Joe Provenzano, program chair, giving opening remarks

 

Don Dickinson being introduced by Graham Nasby

 

First day program schedule

 

Tom McGovern speaking on security best practices

 

Mark manning the registration desk

 

Bill Hollifield speaking about how not to design an HMI

 

Paul Lanzillotta, one of our moderators, speaking

 

Back of the speakers room

 

Moderator Graham Nasby and time-keeper Jon DiPietro keeping an eye on speakers

 

Graham Nasby thanks the speakers as part of closing remarks

About GrahamNasby

Graham Nasby, P.Eng., PMP, CAP is a project manager and automation engineer who lives in Guelph, Ontario Canada where he is the Water SCADA & Security Specialist for the City of Guelph Waterworks. Graham was the chair of the 2012 and 2013 ISA water/wastewater symposiums, and is currently the editor of the ISA Water/Wastewater newsletter. He can be contacted at www.grahamnasby.com