2026 Event Schedule

This focused workshop is designed to equip water utility and wastewater professionals with the practical standards, modern architectures, and advanced strategies needed to transform SCADA alarm management from a compliance task into a core driver of efficiency and reliability. The curriculum has been broken out into two parts with specific timing and a break in between, enabling attendees to engage with one or both pieces:

• In Part 1 (1pm-2:30pm), presenters will cover the essential groundwork for reliable alarm management through a series of presentations. This begins with modern SCADA architecture for utility-wide systems and dives deep into applying key industry standards (like ISA-18.2). Attendees will learn actionable techniques to immediately reduce nuisance alarms, including state-based alarming, effective naming conventions, and utilizing SCADA functionality to ensure efficient operator response.
• Part 2 (2:45pm-3:15) will pull together a set of water utility experts explore high-impact applications that treat poor performance and risk as critical alarm conditions. This section details how to implement Peak Shaving Alarm/Event Logic to automatically minimize operational costs during peak demand windows. Crucially, it explores strategies for power resilience, including configuring alarms for automated power failure response and securing the specific SCADA-to-Grid interface points.

Attendees will leave with a technical blueprint to secure their SCADA system, the operational tricks to minimize distractions, and the strategic framework to integrate energy efficiency and power resilience into their core alarming protocols.