We are excited to offer the opportunity to propose a speaker or panel session during the 2026 Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Conference. The deadline to propose a session is June 16, 2025.

Requirements

All speakers, panelists, and session chairs must attend the conference in-person. All speakers, panelists, and session chairs are each financially responsible for their own in-person registration fee and travel/lodging expenses. You are limited to one other speaker/panelist from your own organization.

Notifications of speaker or panel session acceptance will come by June 30, 2025. The ECEC26 committee reserves the right to make final decisions about the conference agenda. Speakers solicited by the session chair must use the ECEC26 speaker abstract submission form and be accepted to the conference by the ECEC26 conference planning committee.

Speaker Session Details

• The full session time is 1.5 hours.
• The session can be led by the chair or the chair and one co-chair.
• The session is composed of six 15-minute talks.
• It’s recommended that speakers talk for about 10-13 minutes and leave 2-5 minutes for questions at the end.
• Speakers must keep to the time limit. Moderators are responsible for ensuring their speakers keep to a strict 15-minute time limit. (ECEC26 organizers will assist with timekeeping.)
• The session chair (and co-chair, if applicable) must recruit to fill at least three of the six slots.
• Remaining open slots will be filled by the open call for abstracts.
• If you are having trouble filling the slots, please contact the ECEC26 committee for assistance.
• Zero to six sessions will be selected for ECEC26.

Speaker Session Form Requirements

• Chair’s Information: your name, your email, job title, organization, biography (tell us about yourself, 250 words max), photo of yourself or your organization
• Co-chair’s Information (if applicable): your name, your email, job title, organization, biography (tell us about yourself, 250 words max), photo of yourself or your organization
• Speaker Session title (10 words max)
• Speaker Session keywords (1-3 words)
• Short description of the speaker session (used as advertisements on the agenda, 250 words max)
• Long description of the speaker session (999 words max) – please describe your plans for the session:
  • Why is your session topic important?
  • What knowledge gaps are you hoping to fill?
  • Who are you thinking of inviting? (You don’t need to have contacted speakers yet or have a complete list but have a list of 3-10 speaker ideas)
  • How will these collection of speakers create an in depth look at your session theme?

Panel Session Details

• The panel session time is 1.5 hours.
• The session can be led by the chair or the chair and one co-chair.
• At the beginning, the chair should introduce themselves and have the panelists introduce themselves.
• The panel chair (and co-chair, if applicable) is responsible for moderating the panel session.
• Questions to the panelists should be a mix of questions from the chair and questions from the audience, with a focus on questions from the audience.
• The moderator is expected to have backup questions in case of a lag in questions/discussion from the audience.
• Zero to one panel submission will be selected for ECEC26.

Panel Session Form Requirements

• Chair’s Information: your name, your email, job title, organization, biography (tell us about yourself, 250 words max), photo of yourself or your organization
• Co-chair’s Information (if applicable): your name, your email, job title, organization, biography (tell us about yourself, 250 words max), photo of yourself or your organization
• Panel Session title (10 words max)
• Panel Session keywords (1-3 words)
• Short description of the panel session (used as advertisements on the agenda, 250 words max)
• Long description of the panel session (999 words max) – please describe your plans for the session:
  • Why is your session topic important?
  • What discussions are you hoping to generate?
  • Who are you thinking of inviting? (You don’t need to have contacted panelists yet or have a complete list but have a list of 3-7 panelist ideas.)
  • How will the collection of panelists create an in depth look at your panel session theme?