2026 Presenters

Frank Adams
WSP USA Inc.

Saroj Adhikari
Chaoyang University of Technology

Rarosue Amaraibi
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Meghan Amaral
FluxLab

Meshach Ando
University of North Florida

Lindsey Angell
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Alireza Arhami Dolatabad
University of Missouri

Joe Ayala
Econward Tech

Orhun Aydin
Saint Louis University

Appala Raju Badireddy
University of Vermont

Anwesha Banerjee
McGill University, 
Montreal, Canada

Brian Barninger
BEL Environmental 
Engineering, LLC

Steve Batiste
Brown and Caldwell

Joe Benco
Republic Services

Craig H. Benson
University of 
Wisconsin-Madison

Christelle Bou Nehme Sawaya
University of Southern California

Suzie Boxman
Environmental Research & Education Foundation

Halley Brantley
WM

Ami Bryant
WM

Erin Bulson
WM

Thomas Chapman
Brown and Caldwell

Jiannan "Nick" Chen
University of Central Florida

Raf Crowley
University of North Florida

Mohan B. Dangi
California State University, USA

Luc De Baere
Dranco Inc.

Jorge Del'Angel
Purdue University

Florentino De la Cruz
University of North Florida

Anna Dengler
Great Forest

Sabina Devkota
National Soil Science Research Center, NARC

Christopher Dohner
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Michael Donovan
CETCO

Livingstone Dumenu
Geosyntec Consultants

Md Elius
University of California Berkeley

Victoria Evans
SCS Engineers

Firman Firmansyah
Waste Data & Analysis Center, Stony Brook University

Christopher Garaventa
Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc.

Anish Ghimire
Asian Institute of Technology

Meggy Gidula
Brown and Caldwell

Rick Gillespie
Revive Environmental

Abigail Gilson
TRI Environmental, Inc.

Michael Gonzalez
Civil & Environmental Consultants

Regina Gonzalez Moguel
FluxLab

Brad Granley
Leachate Management Specialists

Julie Hall
Weaver Consultants Group

Jarett Henry
Qube Technologies Inc.

Jared Hett
Afitex-Texel

Jeremy Heyerly
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc.

Erica Higa
University of Pennsylvania

Victoria Hoffmann
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Richard Holt
RESPEC Company, LLC

Erika Houtz
Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies, Inc.

Kate Howe
Weaver Consultants Group

Samantha Howell
Geosyntec Consultants

Donald Hullings
Tetra Tech

Syeed Md Iskander
North Dakota State University

Terry Johnson
WM, Inc.

Troy Kechely
Blue Ridge Services

Russell Keckler
Aptim Environmental & Infrastructure, LLC

Milind Khire
UNC Charlotte

Krishna Kataria
GHGSAT

Katie Kinley
HDR

Arie Kremen
Tetra Tech

Jeffrey Kuhn
TRI Environmental

Sarah Ledogar
Environmental Research & Education Foundation

Deane Little
New Sky Energy

Hong Liu
Oregon State University

Derek Manheim
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Leonard Mankowski
WSP

Ryan March
Leachate Management Specialist and FlowScience Inc

Happiness Mbando
University of North Florida

Sean McGinnis
COEFFICIENT

Patrick McKeown
ECT2

Dilshad Mondegarian
GHD Services Inc.

Samuel Nicolai
Casella Waste Systems

Richard Nie
StreamGo Water Solutions Inc.

Sean O'Donnell
Geosyntec Consultants

Ronald Overholt
US Water Industrial Group

Veronica Pardo
Resource Recovery Coalition of California

Xin Peng
Geosyntec Consultants

Marco Polverari
STREAMGO Water Solutions

Tawsif Sultan Raaz
University of Delaware

Krista Ramirez
Axine Water Technologies

Rob Rebodos
Brown and Caldwell

Brian Reyes
SWT Engineering, Inc.

Sandhya Rijal
Chaoyang University of Technology

Paul Rodriguez
Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies, Inc (ECT2)

Kyuhwan (Kevin) Shim
Yolo County Integrated Waste Management Division

Ga-In Sim
EPFL

Bradford Smith
GHD

Bryan Staley
Environmental Research & Education Foundation

Matt Stutz
Weaver Consultants Group

Timothy Taylor
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Senam Tengey
MEDICAL WASTE SERVICES LTD (Jospong Group) and Liverpool John Moores University

Kuo Tian
George Mason University

James Tinjum
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michael Van Brunt
Reworld

Emmanuel Varona-Torres
Weaver Consultants Group

Regan Welch
Geosyntec Consultants

Zhiyong Xia
GHD

Rebecca Yandam
Zoomlion Ghana Limited

Kyungwoon Yang
University of California, Berkeley

Ramin Yazdani
University of California at Davis-Air Quality Research Center

Steve Yuchs
Montrose Environmental Group

Lingke Zeng
Sanborn Head & Associates, Inc

Renzun Zhao
North Carolina A&T State University

Ming Zhu
Watershed Geosynthetics