TUESDAY, MARCH 17 2015 Drinking water Wastewater Air and climate change 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. Programs and tools for distribution system optimization (AWWA) Innovation for utilities of the future (WEF) Partnership for Safe Water – A tool for water utilities to demonstrate achievement Vulnerability assessments, resiliency developments and funding initiatives at a utility Innovation in the world of solar energy Jonathan Reeves, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority Hydro kinetic energy Barb Martin, AWWA Successful application of the Partnership for Safe Water distribution system optimization program in Halifax Reid Campbell, Halifax Water Financing innovative technologies in the water sector Jonathan Grant, Water Tap Ontario Innovative tools for distribution system monitoring and optimization Peter Gallant, Veolia Water 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. Renewable energy development innovation Ludvig Bellehumeur, Rackam Waste 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. Innovative technologies Calcium-based mechanical sorting process for household and ICI waste management Sébastien Hue, VIRIDIS Nejib Mhamdi, École Polytechnique de Montréal To be confirmed Potable reuse partnerships and regulatory advances Ifetayo Venner, Arcadis Soils and underground water 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. Technological innovations in remediation Pilot testing of an electrokinetic barrier to prevent off-site migration of dissolved chloride - former CN landfill in Irma, Alberta Sylvain Hains, Golder Associés Remediation and recycling of treated wood waste using inorganic compounds Lucie Coudert, Institut national de la recherche scientifique Co-Composting of Soil Impacted by PAHs, TPH, BTEX and BCEE Sustainable development 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. The basic component of circular economy To be confirmed Daniel Normandin, Institut de l’environnement, du développement durable et de l’économie circulaire (EDDEC) Robert Cadieux, Pratt & Whitney Canada Ecodesign Sylvain Plouffe, University of Montreal Eric Bergeron, Golder Associés Industrial ecology Benefits of dry anaerobic digestion of organic waste to Quebec Does the Choice of Soil Mixing Equipment Really Matter? Christian Cabral, Veolia Water Technologies Canada Paul Lear, Envirocon 10:30 to 12:00 a.m. The circular economy and its related Sustainable innovation: make more concepts (Institut EDDEC) with less (CRIQ) Claude Maheux-Picard, Centre de transfert technologique en écologie industrielle The circular economy for water To be confirmed Carl Blanchet To be confirmed François Simard, Protec-Style To be confirmed Michel Langelier, Association pour le développement de la recherche et de l'innovation du Québec Sébastien Sauvé, Institut de l’environnement, du développement durable et de l’économie circulaire (EDDEC) How to triple organic waste collection without a three-streamed collection system Denis Provencher, Mabarex The DRANCO technology: a unique digestion technology for solid organic waste Winfried Six, Organic Waste Systems 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Water loss control – New approaches for water utilities (AWWA) Exploring the latest update to the AWWA water audit software v5.0 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Post-catastrophe treatment intervention A sharing or functional service economy Jean Paquin, Sanexen Services Environnementaux Speaker to be confirmed Quebec pork producers: An approach to social responsibility Quebec major project on reduction at source Louis-César Pasquier, Institut national de la recherche scientifique Marianne Maltais-Guilbault et Jérôme Cliche, RECYC-QUÉBEC John Neate, GLOBE Performance Solutions Carbon capture and storage at the Bounday Dam power station Life cycle analysis : Fed up with the cup Combined sewer overflow (CSO) improvements in Ottawa Jean-Luc Allard, SNC-Lavalin Maxym Lachance, Tetra Tech George Kunkel, Philadelphia Water Department To be confirmed 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Sustainable development approaches by sector Mineral carbonation processes for industrial carbon emission sequestration Performance testing and verification of stormwater filtration device 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. The circular economy and its related concepts (Institut EDDEC) Advances in pervious pavement Doug Buch, PaveDrain 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Lac-Mégantic, remediation and reconstruction following the environmental disaster Carbon sequestration Reinhard Sturm, Water Systems Optimization One city’s comprehensive approach to managing non-revenue water 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Reduction at source (RECYC-QUÉBEC) Stormwater innovations (WEF) Andrew Chastain-Howley, Black & Veatch Exploring the Water Research Foundation’s water loss component analysis model 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Jérôme Cliche et Sophie Fallaha, RECYC-QUÉBEC Jean Larose, Éleveurs de porcs du Québec Reverse logistics Characterization and emergency site restoration at Lac-Mégantic Jean-Marc Frayret, École Polytechnique de Montréal How the Canadian forest products sector earned the reputation as having among the best environmental records in the world Life cycle analysis and decisions making from a circular economy standpoint David Lindsay, Forest Products Association of Canada Denis Millette, Golder Associés Zero waste program Description of processes used to treat contaminated soils Dominique Traineau, Ademe François Dubé, LVM Manuele Margni, École Polytechnique de Montréal Oservations from the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development: Are the Federal Ministries ready to take up the future challenge? Julie Gelfand, Office of the Auditor General of Canada 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Drinking water distribution Emerging contaminants Sustainable mobility La collecte sélective de demain Condition assessment of buried drinking water assets : state of the science John Albert, Water Research Foundation Drinking water reservoir cover systems Choices of geosynthetics and performance testing Stéphane Fourmont, Texel Management of unconventional contaminants Martine Gélineau et Isabelle Guay, Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques Emerging contaminants and the presence of medication in the environment Sébastien Sauvé, Université de Montréal Challenges of validating a novel automated microbiology method for detection of E.coli and total coliform bacteria in distribution systemsdans les systèmes de distribution Removal of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) from wastewater – a review of existing treatment solutions Peter Gallant, ENDETEC Achim Ried, Xylem Water Solutions To be confirmed How does the electric car fit in Quebec? Christophe Ménigault, Deloitte Faisability of electric vehicles sharing for municipalities Alain Desjardins, Ville de Plessisville La modélisation économique et opérationelle au service de la gestion des matières recyclables 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Lac-Mégantic, remediation and reconstruction following the environmental disaster PANEL DISCUSSION: National and international development strategies for a circular economy (Institut EDDEC) To be confirmed Overview of French and European circular economy-related initiatives Perimeter Air Monitoring Jean-Luc Plante, Éco Entreprises Québec Ghyslain Cadieux, Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Jocelyn Marcotte et Denis Lalonde, Aecom Analyse comparative de la collecte privée et publique au Québec The reconstruction process from an energy-efficiency and sustainable-development standpoint Nom à venor, Conseil des entreprises en technologies environnementales du Québec Speaker to come La gestion intégrée micro localisée des matières résiduelles : le cas du DIX30 et les façons de le transposer à d’autres secteurs Ginette Lehoux, Carbon Leo Grégory Giavarina, Institut de l’économie circulaire 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. Social acceptability Facts on difficult social context management: the reason the traditional public relations strategies do not and will not work Cédric Bourgeois, Transfert Environnement et Société Panelists: Grégory Giavarina, Institut de l’économie circulaire Christel Evrard, Ministère de l'Économie de Wallonie Protocle for social acceptability: stakeholders in the heart of the impact assessment Hélène Marchand, Golder Associates