The next Instrumentation Control & Automation conference (ICA 2017) will take place in Quebec City, Canada and will be organized by Peter Vanrolleghem (chair, modelEAU, Universite Laval) and Leiv Rieger (co-chair, inCTRL Solutions). The ICA conference series is organized by the International Water Association (IWA) and is returning to North America for the first time since 1993.