Your Expertise is Needed: Submit an Abstract for ESTECH 2026

We invite you to contribute your expertise to ESTECH 2026, the premier conference for contamination control and environmental testing professionals. This is your opportunity to present your research and innovations to an engaged audience of your peers and industry leaders. Your work helps shape the future of our field—join us.

Submission is Easy:
Simply email your abstract to hwooden@iest.org by January 31, 2026. Your submission should be no more than 300 words and include:
Title: What's your talk about?
Authors: Who contributed to this work?
Summary: What is the problem, how did you solve it, and what did you find?

Why Present at ESTECH?
Gain Visibility: Get your research in front of a targeted audience of hundreds of professionals.
Connect with Peers: Build relationships with key players and potential collaborators.
Drive the Conversation: Position yourself as a thought leader in your specialty.

Contamination Control Topics
  • Environmental monitoring, contamination control, or operations considerations for semiconductor, pharmaceutical, or medical device manufacturing  
  • Contamination control and ESD concerns for battery manufacturing
  • Environmental or contamination control considerations for data centers
  • Assessing, selection, or monitoring of cleanroom consumables
  • Design, construction, or qualification of controlled environments
  • Design, construction, or qualification/maintenance of high purity water or gas systems for controlled environments
  • Airflow visualization (AFV) and computational flow dynamics (CFD) in controlled environments
  • The use or implementation of AI or automation in controlled environments
  • Contamination control failures and their solutions
  • Regulatory considerations and changes in pharmaceutical and other life-sciences industries
 Test and Reliability Topics
  • Dynamics Testing
  • Climatics Testing
  • Battery Testing and Hazards
  • Testing of Space Hardware
  • Testing of Aviation Equipment
  • Fixture Design and Control Techniques
  • Accelerometer Selection
  • Reliability Testing
  • AI for Testing
  • Sustainability in Test Labs

 

IMPORTANT: The distribution or presentation of commercial messages for business solicitation during ESTECH is prohibited. Presenters must avoid unnecessary or gratuitous reference to product model names, individuals, companies, or trade names in the presentation. Presenters must not promote training classes or publications available on a commercial basis that are not organized or published by IEST. Product or service descriptions may only be included when they provide relevant supporting information for a legitimate technical theme and may not be used for commercial advantage. Performance claims and results must be relevant to the paper theme and substantiated by data in the presentation. Subjective evaluations and extrapolations and comparisons with other similar products or services should be approached with extreme caution.

Presenter Requirements

  • Presenters must pre-register for the conference with one of the below options:
    • Free One-Day Conference Session Registration - includes admittance into conference sessions on the day presenter/chair will be speaking. Does NOT include admittance into Working Group meetings, networking events, or continuing education training courses and does NOT include conference presentations or new membership/membership renewal.
    • Three-Day Conference Session Add-on Package - includes admittance into all conference sessions, Working Group meetings, networking events, new membership/membership renewal, and online access to conference proceedings. Does NOT include continuing education training courses.
  • Presenters must be available to present on any of the days of the conference. The final schedule will be available for presenters in early 2026