The American Filtration & Separations Society is providing a 2 Track Program at its fall Conference September 23-25th in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event will be preceded with its traditional filtration full day 8 short courses on September 22nd. The main Conference will consist of two separate tracks. Track I is titled Infrastructure & Sustainability; Filtration Growth Market. The sub-title of the Track is Underscoring Most Critical Un-Met Needs in Filtration and Separations. Track II is titled Filter Testing; Evaluation, Procedures and Validation.
 
The Conference will conclude with a half-day workshop titled Water and Air Infrastructure Needs and the Role of Filtration in the Interdependency Market. This important Application Workshop is a must for organizations and individuals to tie together the un-met needs with the opportunities in order to structure a strategy and action plan for new product development and company growth. The workshop will be lead by Anita Highsmith of Highsmith Environmental Consultants, former Head of the Water Quality Activities for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The workshop will address all topics and aspects of the Infrastructure and Sustainability Conference.
 
The workshop will summarize Un-Met needs discussed at the AFS conference by leading members of industry, academia and government. The Workshop will take the next step and put these Un-Met needs into perspective and opportunity. The Conference is titled Water and Air Infrastructure Needs and the Role of Filtration in the Interdependency Market.
The topics of the conference will bring these proposals in real time:
 
Discuss what it means to be interdependent and why this is crucial to meeting needs facing our failing infrastructure .
Examine how microbial, chemical, physical, and intellectual states impact on our air and water infrastructure.
Define emerging and reemerging pathogens and contamination caused by “drugged waters”.
Review old and new filtration and separation technology to show how positive changes can be implemented.