Executive Summits · by the Facility Management Alliance
City Water & Wastewater Summit
Meet the city water leaders paying to treat water that leaks out before it reaches a meter.
Each summit is capped at 20 sponsors. Talk to Joe before it fills.
Who’s coming so far
24 organizations have confirmed they will send facility leaders: 6 hospitals, 8 universities and 10 commercial buildings.
- Cleveland Clinic
- Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital
- The Christ Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital
- OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital
- Ohio State University
- University of Michigan
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Kentucky
- University of Pittsburgh
- Kent State University
- Ohio University
- Wayne State University
- Key Tower
- Terminal Tower
- Great American Tower at Queen City Square
- 200 Public Square
- Sherwin-Williams Headquarters
- Carew Tower
- LeVeque Tower
- Huntington Center
- One Nationwide Plaza
- AEP Building
Two days with public works directors, utility directors, water and wastewater superintendents and city engineers from cities, towns and regional sanitary districts who own the pipes and the treatment works: water lost before the meter, lead service lines to find and replace, sewers older than anyone on staff, and aeration blowers that run all day. Pre-scheduled 1-on-1 meetings. No expo hall.
The people who sign the PO for water & wastewater projects.
Invited from facilities across Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Every delegate is screened by title and facility.
Titles
- Public Works Director Owns the pipes, the streets and the budget
- Utility Director Water, sewer and the rate case
- Wastewater Superintendent Runs the treatment works around the clock
- Water Distribution Manager Meters, leaks and main breaks
- City Engineer Writes the spec and the capital plan
Industries we're inviting
- Cities and towns Meters, leaks and lead lines
- Regional sanitary districts Treatment capacity and permits
- Combined-sewer cities Overflow fixes under consent orders
- Universities and government campuses Their own water and sewer systems
- Growing suburbs Capacity for new homes and businesses
Past FMA delegates include energy and facility leaders from Toyota, General Motors, Sanofi, The Estée Lauder Companies and Walgreens.
Who came before.
The organizations and titles that came to past FMA summits, and the facility leaders who spoke. Past delegates are not 2027 attendees; they show who this audience is.
Who decides on water & wastewater projects
Run the buildings
Director of Facilities
Facilities Manager
Facility Manager
Own energy costs
Energy Manager
Energy Engineer
Energy Program Manager
Write the spec
Electrical Engineer
Mechanical Engineer
Director of Engineering
Lead sustainability
Director of Sustainability
Sustainability Manager
Sustainability Coordinator
Build and renovate
Project Manager
Architect of the Capitol
Architectural Draftsman
Past facility delegates in each role, with the most common titles. Each person is counted once, in the first role their title fits; the other 194 of the 721 hold other titles.
Past speakers and delegates, by type of facility
Universities, colleges and schools
21 speakers · 188 delegates
Hospitals and health systems
9 speakers · 86 delegates
Office towers, corporate campuses and stores
16 speakers · 141 delegates
Data centers
5 speakers · 17 delegates
Cities, counties and government
35 speakers · 168 delegates
See seniority and past speakers
Seniority of past delegates: 74 C-suite, presidents & VPs · 215 directors · 248 managers · 96 engineers & specialists · 88 with other or no titles. Total 721.
See every organization and the titles it sent, by type of facility
Counts come from past FMA delegate lists, not confirmed attendance. Organization names show where past delegates and speakers worked. They are not sponsors of FMA Summits and do not endorse it.
They came back.
Past FMA sponsors, and how many summits each one sponsored, from the printed programs.
- 2Badger MeterWater & wastewater · 2 summits
- 2SloanWater & wastewater · 2 summits
- 2Wahaso - Water Harvesting SolutionsWater & wastewater · 2 summits
- 2Zurn IndustriesWater & wastewater · 2 summits
- 18US LED18 summits
- 17Kaeser Compressors17 summits
- 14Covanta14 summits
- 14Solution Dynamics14 summits
- 10Advanced Power Technologies10 summits
- 8Smardt Chiller Group8 summits
- 7BASF7 summits
- 7LG Electronics7 summits
See the other 102 companies that sponsored two or more FMA summits
3M 2 · Acuity Brands 4 · Advanced Green Technologies 3 · Advantix Systems 8 · AERCO International 5 · AgriPower 6 · Air Balance 2 · AmbiRad 3 · Ameresco 2 · Armstrong Fluid Technology 5 · Be Power Tech 2 · Bio-Reaction Industries 2 · BLUEFIN 4 · Bosch Thermotechnology 2 · Burns & McDonnell Engineering 3 · Camfil 2 · Capstone Turbine 2 · Chelsea Group 2 · Cleaver-Brooks 4 · ConDex Energy 2 · Constellation Energy 5 · Control Instruments 2 · CopperTree Analytics 3 · Cushman & Wakefield 2 · Cypress Envirosystems 5 · Doosan Fuel Cell America 3 · DTE Energy Services 2 · Dyson 4 · Eaton 3 · EcoSafe Zero Waste 2 · EDF Renewable Energy 2 · Edison Energy 2 · Emerson Climate Technologies 2 · Energy Management Systems 4 · Energy Source 2 · EnerNOC 2 · Enertech Global 2 · EnterSolar 2 · Environmental Resources Management 2 · EQUIDEX Energy 7 · ERS International 3 · ETwater Systems 2 · Every Watt Matters 2 · Eye Lighting International 3 · Facility Solutions Group 2 · FacilityConneX 2 · Fellon-McCord & Associates 3 · GDF SUEZ Energy NA 2 · GE Distributed Power 2 · GE Solar 2 · Gexpro 3 · GI Energy 2 · Green Ballast 2 · Greenstar Recycling 6 · Greenworks Energy Solutions 3 · Harris Lighting 2 · Heritage Interactive Services 2 · Hurst Boiler & Welding Co. 2 · IBM 4 · ICETEC Energy Services 2 · ICONICS 3 · Invensys Operations Management 2 · JLL 4 · Jorgensen Facilities Services 5 · K+S Services 2 · KDC Solar 2 · KERAMIDA 2 · Knauf Insulation 2 · KVAR Energy Savings 3 · LEDtronics 2 · Lutron Electronics Co. 3 · MaxLite 2 · MCEnergy 2 · MEP Associates 2 · MPC Energy 5 · Munters 2 · Newton Distributing Company 2 · Nortec 3 · North America Power Partners 2 · North American Roofing 2 · OAKLEAF 4 · Optimum Energy 2 · Orion Energy Systems 2 · OSRAM SYLVANIA 5 · Pfister Energy 2 · PowerSecure 5 · Rinnai America 2 · Rockwell Automation 2 · ROXUL 2 · Rubicon Global 2 · SAP America 2 · Schneider Electric 6 · Shaw Environmental & Infrastructure 5 · Solar UV Solutions 3 · Solatube International 3 · Steril-Aire 2 · Synergy Investment 6 · The Dow Chemical Company 2 · Thermal Energy International 3 · Trane 2 · Tremco Roofing and Building Maintenance 2 · Viridity Energy 2
In writing, from past sponsors and delegates.
Their words, not ours.
“This was the best networking event I have attended.”
Past sponsorSandy DiehlSenior Advisor, Dolphin WaterCareRead the whole quote
“As former SVP, Global Strategy and Marketing for Otis Elevator (division of United Technologies) for 15 years. This was the best networking event I have attended. Well done and orchestrated.”
“The FMA Summit was a great event for Dolphin WaterCare. The opportunity to present to and meet with the leaders of facilities, sustainability and EH&S for key regional enterprises was exactly what we wanted. The quality and engagement of participants was fantastic!”
Past sponsorAnupam BhargavaPresident, Dolphin WaterCare“…you truly deliver what you claim- the leaders in the industry”
Read the whole quote
“…I greatly enjoyed the chance to present some of the great things we’re doing at GSA and the chance to meet and speak with current and prospective contractors. … the qualifications of those whom you scheduled to present were astounding; you truly deliver what you claim- the leaders in the industry. Very high-powered. …”
“…The amount of knowledge and networking will help me for many more years to come. …”
Past delegateBrandon IloiloEnergy Manager, General Services Department, City of Kansas City, Mo.See 4 moreShow fewer
“Great job! The FMA Summit was a wonderful experience combining presentations packed with relevant and useful information followed by breaks to meet the presenters at their booths. Loved the format!”
Past delegateMichele MarkovitzResilience Metric Analyst, Miami-Dade County“…The Summit was a great opportunity to see what others are doing, and to interface with colleagues. …”
Past delegateAnthony MaiellaroCity of Chicago“FMA hosted a great event with a good format, excellent speakers and amazing food!”
“…I enjoyed the Future Facilities Summit and look forward to future meetings.”
Past delegateDr. Charles MarshallDirector, Asset Management, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)Set up Wednesday. Two full days of meetings. Home Friday afternoon.
Same schedule in Columbus and Detroit.
- Wednesday afternoonSponsors set up their exhibits. Everyone checks in.
- ThursdayThe full day: facility case studies, booked 1-on-1s, the reception and dinner.
- FridayMorning case studies, more 1-on-1s, closing lunch. On the road by mid-afternoon.
The hour-by-hour plan and the venues
| Time | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast at your company table | Breakfast at your company table | |
| 8:00–10:00 AM | Facility case studies | Facility case studies | |
| 10:00 AM | Coffee and shop talk in the exhibit room | Pre-booked 20-minute 1-on-1s at your table | |
| 11:00 AM | Facility case studies | Facility case studies | |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch with your booked 1-on-1 meetings | Closing lunch with your booked 1-on-1 meetings | |
| 1:00 PM | Facility case studies | Facility case studies, then head home | |
| 2:00 PM | Sponsor setup and check-in | Pre-booked 20-minute 1-on-1s at your table | |
| 3:00 PM | Sponsor setup and check-in | Coffee and shop talk in the exhibit room | |
| 3:30 PM | Sponsor setup and check-in | Facility case studies | |
| 5:00–7:00 PM | Sponsor setup and check-in | Reception and dinner, with more 1-on-1s |
The full package's 15 pre-booked 20-minute 1-on-1s run Thursday and Friday: in the meeting blocks above, at lunch, and at the reception. Each is with a facility leader who asked to meet you, at your company table. You get your meeting schedule before you arrive, and the delegate list, with names, titles and organizations, 30 days before the summit.
Venue photos via Wikimedia Commons: Hilton Columbus Downtown by Ɱ (CC BY-SA 4.0); Renaissance Center by Crisco 1492 (public domain).
The program: facility leaders come to hear how other facilities fixed it.
The program is built from projects facilities actually finished, presented by the facility and the company that did the work. Every water & wastewater category has room for more. If you've solved a problem like these, your story belongs on this program.
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Metering & pipe rehabilitationInvited
City of Goshen, Indiana classifies 4,700 unknown service lines for under $300,000
Statistical predictions on top of an Esri inventory: the city spent well under $300,000 on physical investigations, a cost savings of nearly 90%, and submitted its inventory with every service line classified as non-lead and no unknowns (as reported by BlueConduit, Jan 2025)
The problem: About 4,700 of Goshen's roughly 12,000 service lines were of unknown material, and digging up every one would have cost nearly $3 million.
Published result: Statistical predictions on top of an Esri inventory: the city spent well under $300,000 on physical investigations, a cost savings of nearly 90%, and submitted its inventory with every service line classified as non-lead and no unknowns (as reported by BlueConduit, Jan 2025)
Invited: BlueConduit and Esri, with the City of Goshen · Read the published case
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Treatment equipmentInvited
Four Rivers Sanitation Authority, Illinois removes 20% more solids with cloth-media primary filters
AquaPrime cloth-media primary filters, substantially complete in June 2024, show a 20% higher removal efficiency for TSS and BOD than the existing primary clarifiers (average removal 84% TSS and 52% BOD), which means more biogas and less aeration; no energy figure given (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems)
The problem: The Rockford authority's 40 MGD treatment works, serving over 277,000 residents, wanted better primary treatment to raise biogas output and cut aeration energy.
Published result: AquaPrime cloth-media primary filters, substantially complete in June 2024, show a 20% higher removal efficiency for TSS and BOD than the existing primary clarifiers (average removal 84% TSS and 52% BOD), which means more biogas and less aeration; no energy figure given (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems)
Invited: Aqua-Aerobic Systems and Donohue & Associates, with Four Rivers Sanitation Authority · Read the published case
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Metering & pipe rehabilitationInvited
Capital Region Water, Pennsylvania relines a 1911 sewer interceptor under a riverfront park
Insituform's cured-in-place lining, designed with AECOM as the first major U.S. project to use MOP145 for non-circular CIPP design, structurally extended the interceptor's life by at least 50 years; Trenchless Technology's 2024 Rehabilitation Project of the Year (as reported by AECOM)
The problem: The Front Street Interceptor in Harrisburg, built in 1911 and carrying over 20 million gallons a day in wet weather, runs nearly three miles beneath the Capital Area Greenbelt, where digging it up wasn't an option.
Published result: Insituform's cured-in-place lining, designed with AECOM as the first major U.S. project to use MOP145 for non-circular CIPP design, structurally extended the interceptor's life by at least 50 years; Trenchless Technology's 2024 Rehabilitation Project of the Year (as reported by AECOM)
Invited: Insituform (Azuria Water Solutions) and AECOM, with Capital Region Water · Read the published case
See all 6 stories, in 2 categories, and how a session runs
- 1The problemWhat was happening at the facility.
- 2The costEnergy, maintenance, downtime or lost output.
- 3The decisionThe options they weighed, and why this one.
- 4The workWhat changed, how long it took, what went wrong.
- 5The resultsMeasured before and after. Achieved, estimated or identified, said plainly.
- 6The lessonsWhat another facility should check first.
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Treatment equipment
3 stories invited · 1 open slot-
Invited
Four Rivers Sanitation Authority, Illinois removes 20% more solids with cloth-media primary filters
AquaPrime cloth-media primary filters, substantially complete in June 2024, show a 20% higher removal efficiency for TSS and BOD than the existing primary clarifiers (average removal 84% TSS and 52% BOD), which means more biogas and less aeration; no energy figure given (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems)
The problem: The Rockford authority's 40 MGD treatment works, serving over 277,000 residents, wanted better primary treatment to raise biogas output and cut aeration energy.
Published result: AquaPrime cloth-media primary filters, substantially complete in June 2024, show a 20% higher removal efficiency for TSS and BOD than the existing primary clarifiers (average removal 84% TSS and 52% BOD), which means more biogas and less aeration; no energy figure given (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems)
Invited: Aqua-Aerobic Systems and Donohue & Associates, with Four Rivers Sanitation Authority · Read the published case
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Invited
City of Zeeland, Michigan saves $47,000 a year in lime with a new aeration process
Xylem's Sanitaire Casperon process with Flygt mixers and Oscar controls expanded capacity from 1.65 to 3.5 mgd average flow with effluent phosphorus consistently below 1 mg/L; the city has realized $47,000 a year in lime savings, a $20,000 a year cut in biosolids hauling and more than $22,000 a year in energy savings (as reported by Xylem, Oct 2020)
The problem: Manual aeration and poor mixing over-aerated the Zeeland Clean Water Plant and wasted energy, and a plan to expand it had stalled for years.
Published result: Xylem's Sanitaire Casperon process with Flygt mixers and Oscar controls expanded capacity from 1.65 to 3.5 mgd average flow with effluent phosphorus consistently below 1 mg/L; the city has realized $47,000 a year in lime savings, a $20,000 a year cut in biosolids hauling and more than $22,000 a year in energy savings (as reported by Xylem, Oct 2020)
Invited: Xylem and Moore & Bruggink, with the City of Zeeland · Read the published case
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Invited
City of Rushville, Indiana ends untreated sewer overflows for $1 million less than a storage tank
AquaStorm cloth-media filters with UV disinfection, started up in July 2017: no untreated overflows have occurred, the system cost $1 million less than the original storage tank design and was finished five years earlier than the state required; it will keep approximately 50 million gallons of raw sewage out of the river a year (projected) (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems, 2019)
The problem: A 2007 consent order covered untreated combined sewer overflows into the Flatrock River, and the city had planned a 1 MGD stormwater storage tank.
Published result: AquaStorm cloth-media filters with UV disinfection, started up in July 2017: no untreated overflows have occurred, the system cost $1 million less than the original storage tank design and was finished five years earlier than the state required; it will keep approximately 50 million gallons of raw sewage out of the river a year (projected) (as reported by Aqua-Aerobic Systems, 2019)
Invited: Aqua-Aerobic Systems and the City of Rushville · Read the published case
- Open slot
Your customer's story goes here.
Solved a facility problem in this category? Propose it for the program.
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Metering & pipe rehabilitation
3 stories invited · 1 open slot-
Invited
City of Goshen, Indiana classifies 4,700 unknown service lines for under $300,000
Statistical predictions on top of an Esri inventory: the city spent well under $300,000 on physical investigations, a cost savings of nearly 90%, and submitted its inventory with every service line classified as non-lead and no unknowns (as reported by BlueConduit, Jan 2025)
The problem: About 4,700 of Goshen's roughly 12,000 service lines were of unknown material, and digging up every one would have cost nearly $3 million.
Published result: Statistical predictions on top of an Esri inventory: the city spent well under $300,000 on physical investigations, a cost savings of nearly 90%, and submitted its inventory with every service line classified as non-lead and no unknowns (as reported by BlueConduit, Jan 2025)
Invited: BlueConduit and Esri, with the City of Goshen · Read the published case
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Invited
Capital Region Water, Pennsylvania relines a 1911 sewer interceptor under a riverfront park
Insituform's cured-in-place lining, designed with AECOM as the first major U.S. project to use MOP145 for non-circular CIPP design, structurally extended the interceptor's life by at least 50 years; Trenchless Technology's 2024 Rehabilitation Project of the Year (as reported by AECOM)
The problem: The Front Street Interceptor in Harrisburg, built in 1911 and carrying over 20 million gallons a day in wet weather, runs nearly three miles beneath the Capital Area Greenbelt, where digging it up wasn't an option.
Published result: Insituform's cured-in-place lining, designed with AECOM as the first major U.S. project to use MOP145 for non-circular CIPP design, structurally extended the interceptor's life by at least 50 years; Trenchless Technology's 2024 Rehabilitation Project of the Year (as reported by AECOM)
Invited: Insituform (Azuria Water Solutions) and AECOM, with Capital Region Water · Read the published case
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Invited
City of Elmhurst, Illinois cuts non-revenue water to 12% with new meters and acoustic leak detection
All 15,000 meters replaced in less than a year on an Aclara RF network, with ZoneScan acoustic leak detection on 610 hydrant valves: unaccounted-for water down to 8% and non-revenue water to 12%; 131 million gallons kept from leaking in 2020 and a $1,000,000 cut in purchased water cost in 2019; residents use nearly 7% less water (as reported by Aclara, 2023)
The problem: Elmhurst was losing about 800,000 gallons a day, about 20% of the water it bought, or $1.4 million a year.
Published result: All 15,000 meters replaced in less than a year on an Aclara RF network, with ZoneScan acoustic leak detection on 610 hydrant valves: unaccounted-for water down to 8% and non-revenue water to 12%; 131 million gallons kept from leaking in 2020 and a $1,000,000 cut in purchased water cost in 2019; residents use nearly 7% less water (as reported by Aclara, 2023)
Invited: Aclara (Hubbell) and the City of Elmhurst · Read the published case
- Open slot
Your customer's story goes here.
Solved a facility problem in this category? Propose it for the program.
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"Invited" means invited: none of these companies has confirmed. Results are as published by the supplier; we ask every presenter for dates, baseline costs and verified results before the program is final.
Real FMA Summit rooms. No stock photography.
Get in front of the decision makers, not the crowd.
Full package
- 15 guaranteed pre-scheduled meetings
- A 20-minute case-study session
- A fully furnished exhibit
- Your corporate dining table
- Three people at full access
Add meetings up to 40 at $1,500 each.
- Any booked meeting that doesn’t happen is added to your next summit, written into your sponsor agreement.
- Each summit is capped at 20 sponsors, each solving a different problem for the people in the room.
Want the category to yourself? Each summit is capped at 20 sponsors. To talk about your category, .
- Facility leaders ask to meet you. We seat the ones who asked at your table.
- Your booked meeting schedule arrives before the summit.
- Any booked meeting that doesn't happen is added to your next summit: miss 3, and you get 15 plus 3. It's written into your sponsor agreement.
- You get the delegate list 30 days before the summit: names, titles and organizations.
- Three people are included with full access. Extra passes are $2,900 each.
Or pick only what you wantMeetings from $15,000, talk $15,000, exhibit $15,000, dining table $10,000
One category, one summit. Prices in USD. Whatever you pick includes three people with full access. Meetings are booked on an opt-in basis before the summit; any booked meeting that doesn't happen is added to your next summit.
No vendor walks the show. Solution providers attend only as sponsors. A vendor that has not sponsored cannot register, attend or work the room, so the facility leaders you meet are not being chased by your competitors in the hallway.
The ten questions every sponsor asks.
Past sponsors answer all ten in one 5-minute film. Pick a question and the film jumps to its answer.
Now ask your own questions.
Answered on camera by past FMA sponsors. Recorded at past FMA summits.
Who's behind it.
Started FMA in Montreal in 2007 and has run every summit himself: 35 of them, 17,000+ meetings. Capped at 20 sponsors per summit, meetings booked before anyone arrives, and no vendor walks the show.
Read the full story
Water & wastewater sponsors were in 7 of the 35 summits. Every sponsor and speaker, as printed.
Open any programBadger Meter, Xylem and SUEZ have all presented at FMA summits. The summit is capped at 20 sponsors.
Twenty minutes with Joe Piazza: who is coming to your summit, where your company fits among its 20 sponsors, and what the agreement says. The sponsor brief has the delegate profile, the full agenda and the itemized pricing.
35 summits since 2007. Joe Piazza, who founded FMA, runs every summit himself. The videos on this page are from past summits.