Your Expertise is Needed: Submit an Abstract for ESTECH 2027

We invite you to contribute your expertise to ESTECH 2027, 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 February 13, 2027. 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
  • Robotics and Smart Cleanrooms
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Cleanroom robotics
      • Autonomous environmental monitoring
      • Smart garments
      • Wireless cleanroom sensors
    • Cleanroom Design, Construction, and Future Facilities
      • Topics include but not limited to:
        • Dry cleanrooms
        • Modular facilities
        • Sustainability
        • Hybrid construction builds
        • Nanofaciilites
        • Data centers
        • Semiconductors
  • Protecting People and Product
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Gene/cell therapy
      • Decentralized manufacturing
      • ATMP contamination challenges
      • Sterile compounding
  • Cleaning, Disinfection, Materials Transfer, and Consumables
    • Topics also to include but not limit:
      • Microorganisms
      • AMC/SMC
      • Data centers
  • Implementing the New Regulator Landscape
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Annex 1
      • Impact assessment
      • CCS
      • Operation control program
      • ISO 14644-5
  • Testing, Monitoring, Qualification, and Investigations
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Smoke studies
      • Predictive environmental monitoring
      • Glove testing
      • Viable monitoring
      • Ineffective CAPAs
      • AMC/SMC
  • AI-driven CCS
  • AI-assisted investigations
  • Workforce transformation in the era of AI
 Test and Reliability Topics
  • Test Planning, Lab Operations, and Execution
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Reducing test time
      • Running a test lab
      • Autonomous test laboratories
  • Vibration and Shock Testing
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Multi-axis testing
      • 6DOF systems
      • Force-limited vibration
      • Fixtures
  • Extreme Environmental and Climatic Testing
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • Thermal cycle and vacuum testing
      • Corrosion/Salt fog
      • Humidity
      • Solar
  • Reliability, Risk, and Safety Engineering
    • Topics include but not limited to:
      • HALT
      • HASS
      • ALT
      • ESS
      • Physics of failure
  • Instrumentation and Accelerometers
  • Test Requirements and Qualifications
    • Topics include not not limited to:
      • Requirement writing
      • Qual by sim/qual by analysis
      • Write a qualification test plan
  • AI-driven test planning
  • AI-assisted reliability engineering
  • Workforce transformation in the era of AI

 

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