The SMTAs renowned Lead-Free Symposium is scheduled to take place during its annual SMTA International conference. This years conference and exhibition will be held at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Fla. The conference will take place October 7-11, and the exhibits will take place October 9-11, 2007. The conference event will feature some of the industrys finest lead-free research. Organized by the SMTA for the 7th consecutive year, many events are planned for industry professionals with an interest in lead-free soldering technology and environmental compliance issues. To help industry professionals understand the challenges of lead-free and RoHS, this years event will feature the following lead-free specific offerings: 10 courses, more than 40 technical papers, the ever-popular Lead-free Soldering Symposium, a new Global RoHS Symposium and other special events. A variety of short courses also will be offered. The topics include: bull; Lead-Free Rework bull; Lead-Free Design for Manufacture bull; Lead-Free Reliability bull; Pin-in-Hole/Intrusive Reflow with Lead-Free bull; Ten Deadly Sins of SMT and Lead-Free Assembly bull; Lead-Free Solution for Military, Avionics and Space bull; Lead-Free Soldering bull; Lead-Free Reflow and Wave Soldering Guidelines bull; BGA Inspection Lead-Free Defects Guide bull; Lead-Free China RoHS. Organized by Dr. Paul T. Vianco of Sandia National Labs, the Lead-free Soldering Symposium will consist of a Lead-Free Plenary Presentation on China RoHS, as well as technical sessions on Solder Joint Reliability of SAC Alloy Variants, Lead-Free iNEMI Projects, Advances in Lead-Free Solder Joint Reliability and Lead-Free Case Studies. Additionally, this years conference will include a new half-day Global RoHS Symposium, organized by Rob Rowland of RadiSys Corp. This symposium will feature a session on The RoHS Revolution and Environmental Compliance Case Studies: No One Said It Would Be Easy. As another resource, a free session is scheduled for Wednesday, October 10. Regulatory Marking of Boards and Components for Pb-Free Worldrdquo; will be presented by Steve Greathouse, Greathouse Solutions, LLC. For full details on SMTA International and for event registration, visit the event Web site at www.smta.org/smtai or contact SMTA Executive Administrator JoAnn Stromberg at 952-920-7682 or joann@smta.org.