Upcoming Events
2024 Conference
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2024
Location: Film House at Main Street Landing
Lake & College Building
60 Lake St, Burlington, VT
The VEC is pleased to present our Spring 2024 Conference:
Weathering the Storm: Building a Resilient and Sustainable Environment.
We have an exciting agenda lined up with utilities, academic institutions, state agencies, nonprofits, consultants, and service providers scheduled to present. Presentations will focus on climate change impacts and response, with an emphasis on local examples and success stories. Review the agenda.
Registration is now open for sponsors and attendees (see below). Please join us at the Film House at Main Street Landing in Burlington, Vermont on Thursday, May 2, 2024!
2024 Conference Sponsor Opportunities Available - Who Should Sponsor?
Engineering and construction firms, environmental organizations, government agencies, insurance providers, energy companies, utilities, academic institutions, technology providers, consulting firms, construction material suppliers, water management companies, and those who value environmental stewardship and community resilience.
Sponsorship pricing ranges from $300 to $800. Download the Sponsor Registration Brochure to learn more.
**Exhibitor space (Gold & Silver level sponsorship) is full. Bronze level sponsorship is still available.**
2024 Conference Attendee Registration is Open - Who Should Attend?
Community planners, developers, municipalities, disaster management professionals, geologists, and geospatial experts, government officials and policymakers, environmental conservationists, climate scientists, transportation planners, risk management experts, non-governmental organizations, energy sector professionals, and others with a vested interest in building a resilient and sustainable Vermont.
Join VEC as a member to save on conference registration! Registration pricing is as follows:
Members: $125
Non-members: $175
Government/Municipalities/Planning Commissions/Non-profits: $50
Students/Speakers: Free
Optional add-on: $50 for CEUs
Our 2024 Conference Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
April Networking Event
Date: Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
Location: The Reservoir; 1 South Main Street, Waterbury
Please join us for our April Networking Event at the Reservoir in Waterbury on April 24th (Wednesday) from 5-7pm. The event will be held in their private event space upstairs (follow the signs). Appetizers will be provided.
Capacity is limited. If you plan on attending, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vermont-environmental-consortium-networking-event-april-2024-tickets-872434263367.
Click here if you are interested in sponsoring an upcoming networking event.
Past Conferences
VEC held its first annual conference in 2012. Initially VEC’s annual conference focused on water quality; more recently VEC has strived to use its annual conference to focus on a variety of topics relevant to Vermont’s environmental sector.
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Conference description coming soon.
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VEC held a half-day virtual conference in June 2021 titled “Recent Experience with Brownfields and PCB Contamination.”
The conference covered brownfield process and available funding, PCBs, and four (4) case studies.
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VEC held a half-day virtual conference in October 2020 titled “The State of Vermont’s Water III.”
The conference covered PFAS studies in Vermont; PFAS occurrence, testing, and treatment; and other contaminants (arsenic and chloride).
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VEC held a conference in June 2019 at Vermont Technical College titled “The State of Vermont’s Water II.”
The conference covered relevant rule updates, watershed protection, and stormwater planning and permitting.
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VEC held a conference in June 2018 at Vermont Technical College titled “The State of Vermont’s Water.”
The conference covered relevant rule updates, water quality topics, an update on PFAs, and lake cleanup topics.
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VEC held a conference in 2017 in partnership with the VT Department of Environmental Conservation at the Vermont Technical College.
The conference was titled “Evolving Regulations and Emerging Contaminants”, and covered new and proposed regulations related to groundwater, contaminated and Brownfield properties, hazardous waste, aboveground storage tanks, as well as an update on Vermont’s testing and regulation of emerging contaminants, such as PFOA.
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VEC held its 5th Annual Water Quality Conference in June 2016 at Vermont Technical College.
The conference covered topics related to wastewater, stormwater, agriculture, and resiliency.
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VEC held its 4th Annual Water Quality Conference at Vermont Technical College.
The conference focused on examining some of the organizational structures and innovative approaches that have succeeded and might be applied to improvement of water quality.
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VEC held its 3rd Annual Water quality Conference in Burlington, VT.
At the event Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law The Shoreland Protection Act. The legislation set new permitting standards for building within 250 feet of the state’s lake shorelines and applies to all lakes and ponds greater than 10 acres in size.
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VEC held its 2nd Annual Water Quality Conference in Burlington, VT.
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VEC held its first Annual Water Quality Conference at Middlebury College in partnership with the VT Department of Environmental Conservation and VT Agency of Agriculture.
The conference focused on public policy tools used to address agricultural water pollution in Lake Champlain.