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VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ Symposium Is Here!
Be Prepared—Know Before You Go
In just a few days we'll be in St. Louis for the kickoff of safety and health's most impactful networking, professional development—and fun—event, VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ Symposium. Here's everything you need to know before heading to the Gateway to the West—from what to pack to what to do. Keep reading to be in the know for when you meet us in St. Louis!
Download the Safety+ App and Be In The Know!
Did you know that everything—and we mean EVERYTHING—you need to know about VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ can be found in the mobile app? From the most updated schedule to exhibit hall maps, attendee networking to city resources, the mobile app is THE best source for real-time information while in St. Louis.
Click below to download for Apple and Google devices.
Registration Hours
No badge=no fun. Be sure to pick up your Safety+ badge at the self check-in kiosks conveniently located at the entrance to the exhibit hall during these times:
- Monday, August 11: 10 AM-7 PM
- Tuesday, August 12: 7 AM-5 PM
- Wednesday, August 13: 7:30 AM-5 PM
- Thursday, August 14: 7 AM-10 AM
Your badge will contain everything you'll need for the week, including networking event drink tickets.
Still need to register? Visit the registration desk by the entrance to the exhibit hall—we'll take care of you!
VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ Exhibit Hall
With more than 130 exhibitors showing off the latest to help you in your continuous improvement journey (and the return of the Fun Zone), the Exhibit Hall at VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ is sure to keep you busy.
In between connecting with exhibitors, try your hand at fun games located throughout the hall. Compete against your fellow attendees. And, connect with our VPPPA Ambassadors, whose job it is to make sure you're making new friends (and having fun)!
New this year is the Roco Rescue Scaffold Demo Powered by Peri Group. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on rope rescue training in a live scaffold environment throughout exhibit hall hours. Be sure to visit the Roco Rescue booth (#735) to register as a participant.
Hot Days, Cool Rooms—What to Pack
St. Louis in the summer can be described as...pleasantly warm, with the occasional pop-up shower. Thankfully, VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ is mostly indoors but, for the times you'll venture outside (Tailgate Reception, VPPPA's Night at the Ballpark, St. Louis' various dining and nightlife options...) be sure to pack an umbrella. Because, as safety people, we're always prepared!
Indoors (sessions)=business casual.
Outdoors (fun)=comfort.
Don't forget to pick up your 2025 Safety+ t-shirt when registering!
Opening General Session: Mark Denton on Leadership Through Adversity
We're kicking off VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ with a keynote who's been around the world. Mark Denton is a leadership, team and resilience expert with vast experience navigating turbulent waters. In his professional sailing career he’s competed in countless races and sailed over 80,000 miles across the worlds’ oceans.
Mark will lead attendees on an ‘edge of your seat’ multi-media journey through the ups, downs, twists and turns of leading an amateur team to success in the ‘world’s toughest’ around-the-world yacht race. And as this epic journey unfolds, the secrets are revealed that allowed this team to thrive when facing constant adversity, change and competition.
Even better? Join Mark after the opening general session in the exhibit hall at the VPPPA booth for the opportunity to meet the adventurer!
Closing Keynote: Former NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino
VPPPA's 2025 Safety+ closes with a legend who's...been around the world (but from a higher altitude).
Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. He received a BS from Columbia University, and MS degrees in mechanical engineering and in technology and policy, as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mike was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1996, and is the veteran of two space flights, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009. Mike has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission, and he was also the first person to tweet from space.
VPPPA 5K Fun Run/Walk—See St. Louis and Work Out!
Back by popular demand, VPPPA's Safety+ 5K Fun Run returns on Monday, August 11 at 6:30 AM and combines networking with good old fashioned exercise. Starting in front of the Hilton Ballpark Village, participants will walk or run a lap around beautiful Kiener Park Plaza and Citygarden Sculpture Park before ending back at the Hilton.
Click here to RSVP.
We're Talkin' Baseball (and a Tailgate Sponsored by ISN)
We said that this year's Safety+ would be fun, didn't we? Join your friends at FanDuel Live! in St. Louis' vibrant Ballpark Village Tuesday, August 12 as we give new meaning to Tailgating.
Enjoy drinks and snacks pregame before VPPPA's Night at the Ballpark next door at Busch Stadium, where the St. Louis Cardinals take on old VPPPA friends, the Colorado Rockies (separate ticket required).
Thirsty? Have a Drink on Honeywell Wednesday, August 13!
It's the end of day 3 at VPPPA's Safety+. Your brain is overloaded with knowledge from two full days of learning and networking.
You need a break. Fortunately, Honeywell has you covered.
Visit the Honeywell booth (#835) and grab your ticket for a beer or wine of your choice in Room 120 Wednesday from 4-5 PM. Wind down after a long day with fellow attendees and make plans for an evening out on the town.
*one drink ticket per registered attendee while supplies last
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