National Environmental Health Association - Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition 2017

Event contact title
To exhibit:
Event contact first name
Soni
Event contact last name
Fink
Email
sfink@neha.org
Event contact telephone number
303-756-9090 ext. 314
Description

Join us in Grand Rapids for the NEHA 2017 Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition. The NEHA AEC is so much more than a conference. It is the nexus for environmental health training, education, networking, and advancement. It is the event environmental health professionals attend to acquire practical and real-world information and expertise. It is the event from which environmental health professionals leave, trained, motivated, inspired, and empowered to further advance their organizations and themselves.

Exhibitor information
If your market is environmental health professionals, then your company can’t afford to pass up the business opportunities that await at the NEHA 2017 AEC. Exhibiting at this conference allows you to meet face-to-face with over 1,200 environmental health and healthy homes professionals from all over the nation. Network with colleagues, exchange information, and discover new and practical solutions to environmental health issues. Attendees rely on these meetings to provide them with products, services, information, and expertise to help them carry out their responsibilities as environmental health professionals.
Future dates
2018 AEC June 25 – 28 (Pre-cons June 22 - 24) Marriott Anaheim Hotel Anaheim, California 2019 AEC July 8 – 11 (Post-cons July 12 - 14) Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center Nashville, Tennessee 2020 AEC July 13 – 16 (Pre-cons July 10 – 12) Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel New York, New York
Partner Voices
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