Registration, Coffee, Paviljonki

Get-together party

08:00 – 08:50

09:00 – 09:10

Session I. Threat assessment/analysis and scenarios and prevention
Chair Col Jukka Sonninen / Co-chair LtCol Juhani Juutilainen

Plenary lecture: Richard Guthrie, CBW Events, United Kingdom, Reducing chemical and biological threats through international governance (SYMP.PROC.)

Jiří Matoušek, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic, CBRN terrorism and international legal constraints (SYMP.PROC.)

Tiina Santonen, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland, Finnish national risk analysis and prioritization of toxic industrial chemicals (SYMP.PROC.)

Monica Endregard, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway, Consequence management challenges after indoor dispersion of a toxic chemical (SYMP.PROC.)

Emmanuel Egger, Spiez Laboratory, Switzerland, Terrorist attacks with radioactive sources – Medical aspects (SYMP.PROC.)

13:00 – 13:30

Jeroen van Vugt, Ministry of Justice/NCTb, the Netherlands, A comprehensive approach: programme CBRN-terrorism and CBRN-security in the Netherlands (SYMP.PROC.)

Lars G. Larsson, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, Sweden, Crisis management foresight (SYMP.PROC.)

Morten Sickel, Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority, Norway, Norwegian co-operations for measurements in nuclear accidents (SYMP.PROC.)

15:00 – 15:15

Mark Johnson, Emergent BioSolutions, Germany, Bioagents, Effects, Potential Concerns, and Protection

Sebastien Keller, THALES SECURITY SYSTEMS, France, Sampling and preparation of complex biological agents in the field (SYMP.PROC.)

Patrick Fach, AFSSA-LERQAP, France, Detection of C. botulinum by real time PCR in food (SYMP.PROC.)

François Perraut, CEA French Atomic Energy Commission, France, Long time continuous flow immuno-detection of biowarfare agents (SYMP.PROC.)

Ali Öztuna, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Turkey, Aminated-poly(vinyl chloride) coated QCM sensor for rapid detection of Bacillus anthracis spores (SYMP.PROC.)

Johan Stenberg, Q-linea AB, Sweden, Microorganism detection and identification using amplified single molecule detection (SYMP.PROC.)

Charles Call, ICx Technologies, USA, Design, implementation and verification of a comprehensive bio-threat detection and mitigation system applied to an airport (SYMP.PROC.)

Chris Downward, Tradeways Ltd, USA, BioHawk® Integrated Collector/Bio-identifier (SYMP.PROC.)

15:00 – 15:15

Leo Schou-Jensen, Prolog Development Center A/S, Denmark, The ARGOS CBRN information system (SYMP.PROC.)

Joe Masella, Germfree Laboratories Inc., USA, Mobile laboratory projects: Define, Design, Deploy (SYMP.PROC.)

Berit Harstad Gilljam, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway, Field exercise for a sampling and identification of chemical agents (SICA) team (SYMP.PROC.)

Hans-Joachim Töpfer, Kaercher Futuretech GmbH, Germany, New technologies and decontaminants for highly mobile CBRN decontamination systems (SYMP.PROC.)

Duane Sword, Ahura Scientific Inc, USA, Advances in handheld, field-based chemical identification (SYMP.PROC.)

Catherine Gallou, CEA French Atomic Energy Commission, France, Chemical warfare detection by LIBS (SYMP.PROC.)

Wolf Münchmeyer, AIRSENSE Analytics, Germany, Features and use of hybrid sensor array technology – Gas Detector Array for chemical threat counteraction (SYMP.PROC.)

Marc Jacoby, CRISTANINI S.p.A., Italy, SX34 system for CBRN small and large sensitive equipment decontamination (SYMP.PROC.)

Session III. Training and simulation
Chair Prof Sisko Salomaa / Co-chair MSc Markku Kettunen

Irma Ylikangas, Vaisala Oyj, Finland, Customized user interface for weather and environmental information to improve safety of industrial areas and harbours; Kokkola Industrial Park (KIP) weather Pilot (SYMP.PROC.)

Thomas Vik, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway, CFD simulations of the evaporation from a liquid pool in a turbulent flow (SYMP.PROC.)

Leif Persson, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden, Estimation of atmospheric dispersion sources from sensor data with Bayesian methods (SYMP.PROC.)

Riitta Molarius, VTT, Finland, UHHA – a framework for emergency management in chemical accidents (SYMP.PROC.)

John Saunders, Argon Electronics LLP, Continuing advances in instrumented CBRN training (SYMP.PROC.)

Alan Traylor, Dycor Technologies Ltd, Canada, Development of a method for conducting outdoor field trials using a Compact Aerosol Test System (CATS) (SYMP.PROC.)

Paul Taylor, Bruhn NewTech A/S, Denmark, Realistic cost effective training for CBRN reconnaissance vehicles (SYMP.PROC.)

13:00 – 13:30

Christophe Bossuet, CEA French Atomic Energy Commission, France, French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA): Leader of the national R&D CBRN program (SYMP.PROC.)

Roy Pöllänen, STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland, Sampling of airborne radionuclides and detection of ionizing radiation using an unmanned aerial vehicle (SYMP.PROC.)

Petri Smolander, STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland, Mobile Radiation Measurement System with Remote Data Handling and Analysis (SYMP.PROC.)

Outdoor exhibition and Poster session

Session IVb. Detection, identification and analysis
Chair Doc Simo Nikkari / Co-chair Doc Tarmo Humppi

Plenary Lecture: Tim Brooks, Centre for Emergency Preparedness & Response, Porton Down, United Kingdom, Detection and reality in CBRNE (SYMP.PROC.)

Daniel Gillet, CEA French Atomic Energy Commission, France, CEA's Actions against biological threats within France's NRBC inter-ministerial program of R&D (SYMP.PROC.)

Janet Martha Blatny, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Norway, Tracking pathogenic biological agents in air - A case study of the outbreak of legionellosis in Norway (SYMP.PROC.)

Alfredo Morales, Sandia National Laboratories, USA, Insulator Based Dielectrophoresis (i-DEP) – A tool to detect, separate and concentrate aerosolized biological particles (SYMP.PROC.)

Thomas Elssner, Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Germany, Identification of bacteria and spores suitable as biological warfare agents by the MALDI Biotyper (SYMP.PROC.)

Best poster award

10:50 – 11:20

Jehudah Fehlauer, Beth –El Zikhron Yaaqov Industries Ltd, Israel, Force Protection: Meeting the challenge in a complex operational environment (SYMP.PROC.)

Vincenzo Mauro, Logistic Command of Italian Army, Italy, Strategies and procedures for recovery and safe management of orphan radioactive sources discovered by military forces during peacekeeping operations (SYMP.PROC.)

Paula Vanninen, VERIFIN, University of Helsinki, Finland, Degradation products of mustard gas in decontamination (SYMP.PROC.)

Walter Aue, Spiez Laboratory, Switzerland, Covering sources of toxic vapours with foam (SYMP.PROC.)

John Penton, Avon Protection Systems, United Kingdom, Avon Protection CBRN mask performance using new battlefield protection factor test methodology (SYMP.PROC.)

Andrew Kinniburgh, Smiths Detection, United Kingdom, Equipping emergency response teams for today's CBRNE threat (SYMP.PROC.)