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Reminder to submit your presentation proposals! 

7th annual Great Lakes PFAS Summit Dec. 1 - 3 and the PFAS Treatment Technology Symposium, Dec. 9 - 10

Presentation proposal deadline: June 28, 2026

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) invites you to participate as a presenter at the *2026 Virtual Great Lakes PFAS Summit [ [link removed] ]* that takes place 
December 1-3, including the *Virtual PFAS Treatment Technology Symposium* that takes place December 9-10. 

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to present some of the biggest challenges in chemical contamination across the world. The Great Lakes PFAS Summit will bring together environmental program managers, policy experts, researchers, and contractors from around the world, to share new methods of addressing this contamination and present innovative technical solutions developed to address these “forever” chemicals.  

This year's Summit will also feature the PFAS Treatment Technology Symposium on December 9-10*. *While the Great Lakes PFAS Summit has served as a forum to share new research and methods for addressing critical issues involving PFAS, its ability to incorporate PFAS treatment technology has become limited—even though this field has seen rapid expansion and growth. Therefore, EGLE will host "two additional days" for a virtual event focused specifically on advancements in PFAS treatment technologies. "All registrants will have access to both events!"

Participants may include local, state, and federal government officials; environmental consultants and vendors; academic researchers and students; industry managing PFAS contamination; and community organizations.

EGLE will select roughly 24 proposals among the Summit submissions and up to 20 proposals for the Symposium and will notify presenters in September 2026. Additionally, proposals will also be considered for EGLE’s Remediation and Risk Management webinar series. All primary presenters will receive a complimentary Summit registration.

Summit Topic Areas

Please review the topics below to consider the category where your presentation would best fit. Authors may suggest additional topics that are not on the list, but they must fit a general topic area related to PFAS. 


* *Regulation:* Example topics: PFAS policy and legislation; restrictions and bans; PFAS alternatives and assessment of toxicology of alternatives; biosolids management
* *Human Health Impacts and Community Outreach:* Example topics: outreach to impacted communities; case studies involving specific groups of people (farmers, tribal communities, environmental justice areas, non-English speaking areas)
* *PFAS in Consumer Products:* Example topics: testing methods; restrictions and bans; PFAS/ingredient labeling; PFAS in food and consumer products; educating the public
* *Ecological Impacts:* Example topics: PFAS in fish and wildlife; PFAS in agriculture and plant uptake
* *Fate and Transport:* Example topics: fate and transport in various media; site investigation and rapid characterization; forensics; precursor transformation; vapor intrusion

Treatment Technology Symposium Sessions

Please review the topics below to consider the category where your presentation would best fit.


* Full-scale and pilot-scale implementation, peer-reviewed publications, and case studies with independent third-party and/or peer-reviewed data
* Demonstrations confirming treatment system performance, fluorine mass balances, evaluation of incomplete combustion/destruction products, etc.
* Treatment of water and aqueous solutions (drinking water, municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, landfill leachate, contaminated groundwater, industrial stormwater)
* Treatment of soils and sediments
* Treatment for the destruction of PFAS in residuals or concentrated materials (AFFF, foamate, etc.)

Submission deadline is 11:59 p.m., June 28, 2026.

*Submit Presentation Proposal* [ [link removed] ]


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Questions?

*Summit abstract content: *
Nicole Sanabria: [email protected]

*Treatment Technology Symposium abstract content*:
Cade Borgeson: [email protected]

*Abstract submission process:*
Alana Berthold: [email protected]













 

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