2007 AEC & Exhibition survey feedback and winners.

After every NEHA Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition, NEHA staff spend numerous hours reading, compiling, and reviewing the feedback received from attendee and exhibitor surveys. Every comment is read and every rating noted--NEHA values these opinions.

Feedback for NEHA's 71st AEC & Exhibition, which was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, June 18-21, 2007, was positive. The feedback also gave NEHA many good ideas for improving future conferences. For many attendees, the conference highlight continues to be either the education offered or the networking opportunities. Of the attendees who submitted surveys, 95 percent indicated that they would attend another AEC & Exhibition, 92 percent indicated that the conference met their expectations, and 90 percent felt that their investment in the conference was of good value.

As a show of appreciation, NEHA enters every attendee survey and every exhibitor survey into separate drawings for free or discounted NEHA memberships. Congratulations go to 2007 AEC & Exhibition attendee Kathleen Holmes from the Burlington County Health Department in Westampton, New Jersey, who won a free one-year NEHA Individual Membership. Congratulations also go to AEC exhibitor Advanced Drainage Systems, Inc., which won $200 off a NEHA Sustaining Membership. Advanced Drainage Systems has exhibited at past NEHA conferences and has reserved a booth at the 2008 AEC & Exhibition in Tucson, Arizona.

NEHA thanks everyone who completed these important surveys. The feedback is crucial in assisting us to design even more relevant, beneficial, and successful conferences for our attendees and exhibitors. Planning for the upcoming AEC & Exhibition in Tucson, Arizona, June 22-25, 2008, is under way. Tucson promises to be a spectacular setting for another outstanding conference--the perfect place to explore new vistas in environmental health. For more information about the conference, please visit www.neha.org.