Events in 2026

This field-based technical demonstration provides a hands-on experience to observe and interact with real-world application processes and solutions for industrial anticorrosive coating protection.

This joint event with the Pipeline Integrity Management Seminar Latin America brings together experts in corrosion, materials, inspection, and integrity management for energy infrastructure. It fosters technical exchange, innovation, and collaboration among industry, academia, and service providers, while promoting practical knowledge, emerging technologies, and the active participation of new generations in addressing current industry challenges.

This conference, with the motto 'Protecting What Moves Energy Forward,' will bring together pipeline, corrosion, and asset-performance professionals. It will share proven practices, emerging technologies, and practical solutions to help owners, operators, engineers, contractors, and providers strengthen critical infrastructure for the future.

The conference will bring together leading electrochemistry researchers to discuss energy conversion and storage, corrosion, electroanalysis, sensors, advanced electrochemical materials, environmental and industrial applications, molecular and bioelectrochemistry, and fundamental electrochemical science.

This certification prepares professionals to design, install, and maintain cathodic protection systems by mastering advanced theoretical concepts, design calculations, and practical field applications. It is aimed at experienced individuals responsible for protecting assets such as pipelines, tanks, and concrete structures from corrosion using both galvanic and impressed current systems. Certified specialists demonstrate leadership in corrosion analysis, regulatory compliance, and knowledge sharing, ensuring asset integrity and the successful implementation of CP technologies.

This course focuses on in-service inspection and maintenance planning for fixed offshore structures, with an emphasis on corrosion control and integrity management. Participants learn to assess platform corrosion-control systems, apply test methods, identify safety risks and critical areas, understand data-collection systems and platform types, and evaluate key protection systems, including coatings, splash-zone systems, and cathodic protection.

The course develops advanced competencies in corrosion analysis, technical regulations, and galvanic anode design for buried and immersed metallic structures. Building on Level 2 skills, it prepares professionals to assume full responsibility for the design and management of cathodic protection systems.

This program offers an intensive introduction to coating application and inspection, focusing on both technical principles and practical applications for structural steel projects. It is an accredited certification for coating inspection, mainly designed for trainees but also valuable for professionals in related fields. The course covers topics such as coating materials, inspection procedures, surface preparation, testing methods, and documentation.

This introductory course covers corrosion fundamentals, including types, mechanisms, and influencing factors across marine, industrial, and civil environments. Topics include detection methods, protection strategies (coatings and cathodic protection), and case studies. Designed for technical professionals, engineers, supervisors, and students in related fields.

This talk examines hot-dip galvanizing as an effective method for protecting steel against corrosion, covering protective mechanisms, environmental corrosivity, international standards, duplex systems, and Chilean case studies.

This technical course covers surface preparation, conversion treatments, and metallic and functional coatings for industrial applications. Aimed at process, quality, and production engineers, it addresses critical parameters, defect prevention, and optimization of degreasing, pickling, phosphating, anodizing, nickel, zinc, hard chrome, plating on plastics, and friction-modifier technologies.

This course is grounded in API 580/581 risk-based inspection principles and focuses on identifying, monitoring, and treating Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC). Designed for engineers and integrity managers, it bridges electrochemical theory and industrial practice to deliver effective strategies for screening, biocide management, and pipeline asset protection.

This two-module course covers the metallurgy, corrosion resistance, and fabrication of stainless steels. It equips engineering, design, manufacturing, and quality control professionals with the knowledge to select the appropriate grade, apply sound anti-corrosion design criteria, and optimize welding, machining, and forming processes.

This AWWA seminar equips utility professionals with practical tools to improve reliability, optimize investments, and meet regulatory and community expectations. Through presentations, case studies, and interactive exercises, participants learn to implement level-of-service goals, conduct criticality assessments, apply life-cycle costing, and use risk-based decision-making frameworks to achieve more mature, strategic asset management.

It spans intelligent design, nanostructures, biomedical interfaces, energy and sustainability, adaptive systems, and smart electronics. It highlights how advanced material architectures, functional surfaces, and responsive systems can mitigate deterioration while enabling innovative, durable, and conservation-focused applications across sectors.

An asset integrity event featuring collaboration, knowledge sharing, expert presentations, and a tradeshow showcasing industry solutions and innovations.

This course covers the fundamentals of coating adhesion, substrate surface effects, and coating failure mechanisms. Participants will learn to identify, understand, and prevent common failures, with a practical focus on how coating formulation strategies can optimise adhesion and long-term protective performance.

This event provides a practical, cross-industry program on detecting, assessing, and controlling corrosion throughout an asset’s lifecycle. Combining fundamentals, monitoring and prevention techniques, and real-world failure cases, it aims to help engineers of all experience levels achieve continuing professional development, gain subject-matter expertise, and enhance networking opportunities to reduce corrosion risk and overall life-cycle costs.

Investigating liquid metal embrittlement (LME) during resistance spot welding of galvanized TWIP steel, this Ph.D. defense seminar integrates characterization techniques and finite element modeling to analyze crack initiation, Fe-Zn phase breakdown, grain boundary penetration, and the effects of stress.

This conference brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss advances in materials science, civil engineering, and architecture. It covers emerging topics in functional and structural materials, durability and performance, non-destructive testing, reliability assessment, coatings, and surface treatments to enhance long-term performance, safety, and lifecycle value of critical structures and components, fostering collaboration, innovation, and global partnerships across disciplines and applications.

Designed for pipeline corrosion integrity management professionals, this course covers pipeline integrity management and threat assessment. Participants learn to interpret data, quantify risks, and implement remediation strategies in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations CFR 49, enabling them to make critical risk-management recommendations to company executives.

Brings together academia, industry, and government to discuss electrochemical science and technology. Includes a corrosion symposium addressing analytical methods, coatings, corrosion in energy systems, and emerging materials behavior.

This meeting features a Nickel-based alloys roundtable on design, fabrication, and NDT, along with failure case studies, forum presentations, and project development committee sessions covering refractories, graphite/SiC heat exchangers, HDPE degradation, liquid metal embrittlement, and project funding requests, including fiber optics and laboratory analyses.

This course focuses on AC, DC, and telluric interference, teaching participants to identify causes and effects, test for interference, and perform calculations to predict AC interference. Through lectures, discussions, in-class experiments, case studies, and group exercises, experienced CP practitioners learn to describe parasitic current effects, recognize coating types, detect stray, AC, and telluric currents, and design mitigation and monitoring strategies to address harmful AC/DC interference on metallic structures.