STORMCON 2026 I CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Monday, August 25, 2025
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM	Pre-Conference Workshops CISEC Certification Course (Day 1 of 2)
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Registration Open
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
7:30 AM - 5:30 PM	Registration Open
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM	Pre-Conference Workshops CISEC Certification Course (Day 2 of 2)
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM	Dubsdread Golf Course
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM	Kennedy Space Center
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM	NMSA Annual Public NMSA Meeting
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Opening Reception
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM	Keynote Opening Keynote: From “D” to “A”: Reengineering America’s Stormwater Future Sarah Matin - Water Quality Manager - Southeast - ASCE Region 5 Director
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM	Coffee Break
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM	Exhibit Hall Open
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM	BMP Monitoring Maintenance Evaluations for Manufactured Treatment Devices Doug Howie - Senior Stormwater Engineer - WA Department of Ecology Carla Milesi - Emerging Stormwater Technologies Coordinator - University of Washington, Tacoma	Erosion Control Restoring a River to Keep the Lights On Rick Besancon - Senior Project Manager - Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc		NMSA Implementation of the Stormwater Testing and Evaluation for Products and Practices (STEPP) Program Jay Holtz - Director of Water Quality Technology - Oldcastle Stormwater Greg Williams - Director of Water Quality Technology - StormTrap Seth Brown, PE, PhD - Executive Director - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance		Industrial, Commercial, Residential Stormwater Management Enhancing Stormwater Management: Osceola Creek Restoration in Fort Lauderdale, FL Deborah Cueva - Project Manager II - City of Fort Lauderdale Lucia Medina - Associate - Hazen and Sawyer
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM	NMSA National Legal and Stormwater Policy Anya Kwan - Associate - Best, Best and Krieger, LLP David Rathke - Executive Director - Resiliency Florida Kevin Coyne - Director of Regulatory Affairs - Florida Stormwater Association Seth Brown, PE, PhD - Executive Director - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance		Industrial, Commercial, Residential Stormwater Management Go Big! Meeting Advancing Regulatory Requirements through Regional Stormwater Control Measures Jeremiah Lehman - Executive Director - CONTECH Engineered Solutions		BMP Monitoring Operation TRAP – Using Storm Drain Interceptor Devices for Trash Reduction Monica Wilson - Coastal Debris Project Coordinator - University of Florida
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM	Attendee Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM	NMSA National Leadership in the Stormwater Sector – National Stormwater Leadership Coalition James Houle - Director/Vice Chair - University of New Hampshire Gary Belan - Senior Director - Clean Water Supply, American Rivers Will Stallard - Civil Engineer - City of Kingsport - Utilities Department Seth Brown, PE, PhD - Executive Director - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance	BMP Monitoring Hydrodynamic Separators - New Protocols, New Products and New Tradeoffs Vaikko Allen - Director - Stormwater Regulatory Management - Contech		Erosion Control Innovative Design of a Customized Grade Control Structure for Infrastructure Protection Chris Thompson - Water Resources Technical Manager - AtkinsRèalis		Industrial, Commercial, Residential Stormwater Management Washington State: The Nation’s Most Stringent Industrial Stormwater Permit and How a Port is Adapting Jane Dewell - Senior Manager, Marine Stormwater Utility - Port of Seattle Mindi Kellar - Senior Manager, Water Quality - The Northwest Seaport Alliance
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Industrial, Commercial, Residential Stormwater Management Key Strategies to Prevent PFAS from Entering Stormwater Deven Brown - Engineer - Freese and Nichols Viraj DeSilva - Engineer - Freese and Nichols	BMP Monitoring Navigating the Standards: A Comparative Look at BMP Monitoring Programs for Stormwater Quality Shane Decker - Senior Regulatory Manager - Oldcastle Infrastructure Jay Holtz - Director of Water Quality Technology - Oldcastle Stormwater		Erosion Control Three Florida Projects Highlight the Safe and Effective Use of Anionic Polyacrylamide (aPAM) for Dust Control, Soil Stabilization and Water Clarification Brian Free - Director of Sales & Business Development - Applied Polymer Systems Eddie Snell - Technical Specialist - Applied Polymer Systems, Inc.		NMSA EPA Stormwater Centers of Excellence James Houle - Director/Vice Chair - University of New Hampshire Alan Heyvaert - Associate Research Professor - Desert Research Institute Jason Vogel - Director/Professor - University of Oklahoma Adrienne Cizek - Water Resources Engineer - Center for Watershed Protection
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM	Panel Panel Discussion: Storm Preparedness and Resiliency Throughout Florida Athena Tipaldos - Stormwater Assistant Division Manager - City of Orlando, FL Michael Perry - Lakes Manager/Senior Stormwater Operations Manager - City of St. Petersburg, FL Michelle Monteclaro - Environmental Program Manager - City of Dunedin, FL
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM	Networking Reception
Thursday, August 28, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
7:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Registration Open
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM	Programs, Permits & Compliance Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Create Smart Connected Watersheds Matthew Rea - Director of Strategic Partnerships - The Nature Conservancy Joe Shuttleworth - Digital Lead - Water - Arup	Flood Modeling & Mitigation SESSION CANCELED: Evaluating Flood Mitigation Strategies in Hialeah, Florida Maliha Ali - Graduate Research Assistant - Florida Atlantic University		Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Stormwater Quality Approach to Complex California Transportation Projects Bill Flores - Senior Project Manager - HDR		Green Infrastructure Green Infrastructure and Outdoor Education - A Learning Partnership Rick Besancon - Senior Project Manager - Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	NMSA Center of Excellence for Stormwater Infrastructure Technologies Deep Dive and Listening Session James Houle - Director/Vice Chair - University of New Hampshire Scott Taylor - Project Specialist/Chair - AtkinsRèalis/NMSA Alan Heyvaert - Associate Research Professor - Desert Research Institute Adrienne Cizek - Water Resources Engineer - Center for Watershed Protection Jason Vogel - Director/Professor - University of Oklahoma Seth Brown, PE, PhD - Executive Director - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance			NMSA NMSA Meeting
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	Flood Modeling & Mitigation Innovative Resilience: Creating an Integrated Flood Protection System in Manhattan Joseph Lione - Associate Commissioner, Coastal Resiliency - Construction - NYC Department of Design and Construction	Green Infrastructure Permeable and Porous Surfaces; Unicorns or a Complex Solution in Disguise? Jason Bailey - Commercial Director - Komline-Aquashield		Programs, Permits & Compliance Trends and Lessons Learned in Stormwater Master Planning Mark Van Auken - Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Practice Leader - Arcadis Anwer Ahmed - Vice President - Arcadis		Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Solving Complex Urban Flooding with Progressive Design-Build Andy Sauer - National Stormwater Management Practice Leader - Burns & McDonnell Lauren Moore - Project Manager - Burns & McDonnell
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM	Exhibit Hall Open
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM	Flood Modeling & Mitigation Stormwater Quality Management and Modeling of Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed Yu-chun Su - EWRE Technical Director - LAN Sheeba Thomas - Lead Technical Engineer - San Antonio River Authority Ka Leung Lee - Technical Director - LAN	Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Investigating Resiliency at FDOT District 2 Douglas Dycus - District Environmental/Permit Engineer - Florida Department of Transportation		Programs, Permits & Compliance Funding Rural Community Stormwater Projects Vicki Perry - Sr. Training and Technical Services Specialist - Rural Community Assistance Partnership		Green Infrastructure A Global Perspective on Green Infrastructure Optimization J. Michael Trapp - National Water Resources Market Lead - AtkinsRéalis
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM	NMSA National Stormwater Leadership Coalition Deep Dive and Listening Session Gary Belan - Senior Director - Clean Water Supply, American Rivers James Houle - Director/Vice Chair - University of New Hampshire Seth Brown, PE, PhD - Executive Director - National Municipal Stormwater Alliance
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM	Green Infrastructure NYC DEP Right of Way Green Infrastructure: Implementing Precast Porous Concrete Panels in the Gravesend Bay Neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY Sean O'Donnell - Civil Engineer - NYC Department of Environmental Protection	Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Flood Resilience Measures Design Considerations for Large Sites Anwer Ahmed - Vice President - Arcadis Mike DeVuono - Practice Lead Stormwater Design - Arcadis Thomas Naquin - Senior Civil Engineer - Arcadis		Programs, Permits & Compliance Successful Pollution Prevention? Well-run Sanitation is Key Robert Van Den Akker - Environmental Operations Manager - Buckeye Public Works		Flood Modeling & Mitigation Taking a Broader Look to Enhance CIP Local Flood Risk Reduction Effectiveness Tom Heinemann - Project Manager - Freese and Nichols, Inc.
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Attendee Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM	Passport Prize Giveaway			SWS Top Project Awards
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM	Flood Modeling & Mitigation From Concept to Resilient Reality: Construction of Flood Gate for City of Lumberton, North Carolina Amit Sachan - Sr. Project Director - AtkinsRèalis Rob Armstrong - Public Works Director - City of Lumberton	Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Advancing Stormwater Real-Time Controls from Site-Specific Solutions to Smart Watershed Networks Dayton Marchese - Director of Sales & Partnerships - OptiRTC Jeff Littlejohn - President - National Stormwater Trust		Green Infrastructure City of Tampa Nature-based Solutions to Flooding Shayne Paynter - US Water Resources Technical Director - AtkinsRéalis Amanda Serra - Florida Water Resources Technical Manager - AtkinsRéalis Daniel Parsons - Division Manager - AtkinsRealis USA Inc		Programs, Permits & Compliance Beyond the Bureaucracy: A Multifaceted Approach to Resilient Stormwater Management Aujuah Jackson - Operations Manager - City of Savannah
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Transportation & Construction Stormwater Management Staying Within The Lines Richard Brooks - Project Manager - Fayette County GA Bryan Keller - Director, Environmental Management - Fayette County Georgia	Flood Modeling & Mitigation Leveraging Large Scale Watershed Models for Use in Smaller Project Level Analysis Justin West - Water Resource Engineer - Michael Baker Afaq Durrani - Michael Baker Tanveer Ahmed - Michael Baker		Green Infrastructure Green Infrastructure Inspections as an Opportunity for Education, Outreach, and a Good Time! Sarah Wilkerson - Engineering Technician - Toth & Associates Christopher Fujimoto - Watershed Protection Stormwater Investigator - City of Palo Alto		Programs, Permits & Compliance MS4 Below Sea Level Sami Khalil - Stormwater Management Supervisor - Jefferson Parish Department of Environmental Affairs Andrew Woodroof - Practice Leader - Water Resources - Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc
2:45 PM - 7:00 PM	A-First Project Tour

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