I first attended ANTEC in 1989 in New York, where I presented a paper. However, I walked away from the conference with a lot more than what I presented. Since then, I have been a member of SPE. My association with SPE has nurtured my professional growth in many ways - opportunities to associate with plastics professionals from industry and academia, development of leadership skills through volunteering in Division and Section activities and access to sheer wealth of technical knowledge available through ANTEC and TopCons. I would encourage everyone involved in plastics to become a member of SPE. It is definitely a winning combination.
   — Vaman G. Kulkarni

SPE is a unique organization, providing a forum for the industrial and acadamic professional to interact technically, socially, and also do business. This has been my strongest motivation for joining SPE in 2000. The other benefit about SPE is that it is adaptive to the changes in the polymer field and education. These have been reflected in the running of SPE as an organization and in the yearly ANTEC conference.
  — Dr. Domasius Nwabunma