Initially, there were dedicated "ecosan conferences" to present and discuss research on ecosan projects: 
* A first workshop on ecological sanitation was held in Balingsholm, Sweden in 1997, where all the then established ecosan experts, such as Håkan Jönsson, Peter Morgan (winner of the 2013 Stockholm Water Prize), Ron Sawyer, George Anna Clark and Gunder Edström participated. 
* Workshop in Mexico in 1999 with the title "Closing the Loop - Ecological sanitation for food security" 
* Ecosan conference in Bonn, Germany in 2000
* First international ecosan conference in Nanning, China in 2001
* Second ecosan conference in Lübeck Germany in 2003 
* Third ecosan conference in Durban, South Africa in 2005
* Ecosan conference in Fortaleza, Brazil called "International Conference on Sustainable Sanitation - Water and Food Security for Latin America" in 2007
Since then the ecosan theme has been integrated into other WASH conferences, and separate large ecosan conferences have no longer been organised.