We welcome you to the 14th IWA International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICA) in Oslo

Welcome to ICA2025

Hamanth Kasan

President of the IWA, Professor

As the world faces unprecedented challenges, the importance of embracing latest approaches in instrumentation, control and automation toward achieving water security cannot be over emphasised. Looking forward to the engagements and outcomes of this exciting event.

Kala Vairavamoorthy

Executive Director, IWA

Digitalization is a vital tool for making our utilities smarter, more efficient, and cost-effective, which is why it is such a high priority for IWA. Today’s huge potential for digital transformation builds on the long and continuing contribution of ICA. The forthcoming ICA conference, the 14th in the series, will introduce key innovations to address the evolving needs of utilities, and I look forward to welcoming you to Oslo in 2025.

Janelcy Alferes

Chair, ICA IWA Specialist Group
Project Leader Monitoring technology & WaterClimateHub – VITO, Belgium

With the increasing challenges that the water sector is facing, ICA is more than ever a crucial enabler towards more efficient and resilient water and wastewater systems. Join us to dive in this transformation journey from data to smart decision making.

Harsha Ratnaweera

Conference Chair,
Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Founder, DOSCON AS, Norway

We are honoured to host the 14th ICA in Oslo at a time when the water sector is rapidly embracing digitalisation. Join us for an unforgettable stay in Norway, where we will explore the latest innovations and shape the future of ICA in water together.

Keynotes

Gustaf Olsson

Professor emeritus, Lund University, Sweden
Keynote: ICA - long way to where we are today

Dragan Savic

Global Advisor Digital Sciences, KWR, Netherlands Professor of Hydroinformatics, University of Exeter, UK
Keynote: ICA - the way forward

Peter Vanrolleghem

Professor and Canada Research Chair on Water Quality Modeling at Université Laval, Canada.
Keynote: Towards the 15th ICA

Pernille Ingildsen

CEO Odsherred Utility, Denmark.


Let us welcome you to exotic Oslo

to experience not only a unique history, culture and architecture, but also uniqueness in water and wastewater facilities rapidly embracing ICA

Oslo, Norway

Norwegian Water Utilities: Ultra-Modern,
Powered by State-of-the-Art ICA Solutions!

Ultramodern utilities

Real-Time Sensors with Intelligent Process Monitoring and Control for Seamless Performance!

Topics/Abstracts

Abstracts are invited along one of the below thematic areas, addressing the status and
performance of utilities (water distribution, sewers and stormwater networks and
water supply and water resource recovery facilities)

Greener utilities

Role of ICA in achieving energy-neutral, zero-waste operations and reduction of greenhouse gases from the utilities

Water quality monitoring

physical, virtual and hybrid sensors including emerging contaminants, microbiological quality, DBP etc.

Performance optimisation

Process control, Integrating Big Data with SCADA systems in water utilities, AI-and machine learning driven process control and performance forecasting, Digital Twins

Asset management

IoT and Big data analytics for proactive asset management, AI- and machine learning for predictive maintenance in water systems including leakage management

Risk management

ICA in managing natural and man-made process disruptions: early warning, decision support, cyber security, etc.

 Selected manuscripts will be submitted to relevant IWA journals

Submission guidelines

  1. Before you begin
    • All papers should be submitted through the online form below. Logging in to the electronic platform is required prior to submission.
    • After the submission deadline, all submissions are reviewed by the scientific committee for presentation at the conference as a poster, oral or short oral presentation
    • If a paper is selected for oral, short oral or poster presentation, at least one author must register for the conference and present the paper. However, no individual can present more than two submissions. Any further papers must be presented by a co-author.
    • All presenters will be required to register for the conference by 15th of March 2025. Presenters, who have not registered by this date, will not be included in the conference program.
    • Full manuscripts (8 pages) are due by 10th of June 2025 and will be included in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will be recommended for publication in one of the IWA Publishing peer-reviewed Open Access journals (https://www.iwapublishing.com/journals)..
  2. Submission format
    • Abstracts to the conference will be in form of a 2-4 A4 pages (including text, references and figures + tables). Please use the provided template below.
  3. Preparing your submission
    • All submissions must be written in English.
    • Submit your abstract in Word format (doc./docx.) using the Conference template.
    • All authors named in the submission should be listed in the order you would like them to appear in the conference program and certificate.

Organising Committee

Harsha Ratnaweera

(Chair)

Viktoria Yavorska

(DOSCON, Secretary)

Agineszka Cuprys

(Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Rasha Hassan

(Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Benedek Plosz

(Oslo Metropolitan University)

Tone Muthanna

(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Norwegian Water Cluster

(tbc)

Arne Haarr

(Norwegian Water / IWA Norway)

Murad Ahmad

(Oslo Water)

Svein Erik Bakken

(SWECO Norway)

Scientific committee

Harsha Ratnaweera

(Chair, Norway)

Janelcy Alferes Castano

(ICA SG Chair, Belgium)

Agnieszka Cuprys

(Secretary, Norway)

Abhilash Nair

(Norway)

Angel Robles

(Spain)

Dragan Savic

(Netherlands)

Hanchang Shi

(China)

Ismail Koyuncu

(Turkey)

Marian Barbu

(Romania)

Natalia Sivchenko

(Norway)

Oscar Samuelsson

(Sweden)

Peter Vanrolleghem

(Canada)

Ramon Vilanoa

(Spain)

Rita Ugareli

(Norway)

Ulf Jeppsson

(Sweden)

Viktoria Yavorska

(Norway)

Xiaodong Wang

(China)

Yair Farber

(Israel)

Zhiguo Yuan

(Australia)

Tiina Komulainen

(Oslo Metropolitan University)

Partners

Key Dates

For Authors

01/10/2024: Call for papers

15/12/2024: Deadline for submission of abstracts

15/02/2025: Notification of acceptance of submitted papers

15/03/2025: Deadline for registration by authors

10/06/2025: Deadline for full papers (8 pages)

 

For participants

10/01/2025: Opening of registration

15/03/2025: Deadline for early-bird registration

16/03/2025: Open standard fee

Registration

Registration will be opened on 1st February 2025. The tentative registration fees are as below

 Before 15th March 2025After 16th March 2025
IWA members HIC600€700€
Non members HIC700€800€
Students300€350€
IWA members LIC400€500€
Non members LIC500€600€
Accompanying persons100€100€

Venue

The ICA2025 will be held at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel, Oslo. The hotel is centrally located in the Oslo downtown, with direct access from the Oslo airport by 20 minutes by train.

Accommodation

There are many options for accommodation in Oslo to fit every budget. We have reserved some rooms at the conference hotel, and there are many hotels offering single/double rooms around 100-200€/night, and shared rooms for 30-40€ per person/night. We will provide with a booking code for the conference hotel during registration process.

See you in Oslo!

Contact: post@iwa-ica2025.net

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