DAY ONE November 6th
8.00: Registration and Coffee
8.40: Chairs Welcome: Major Gen (ret.) Steve Reeves.
08.50: Chief William Swann, Fire Director, Nashville Fire Department.
09.00: Mr Don Alway, Assistant Director of the WMD Directorate, FBI.
09.30: Plenary. From Research to Responders: Suzanne S Milchling, Director of Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army CCDC.
10.00: Plenary. Homeland Defense and the Evolution of the CBRN Response Enterprise: Steve Cichoki, Program Manager, CBRN Response, NORAD & USNORTHCOM
10:30: Plenary. SCDF’s CBR Capability- Transformation Through Innovation: Commissioner Eric Yap, Singapore Civil Defence Force
11.00: Coffee & Exhibition.
Stream A – Regional
11.30: History and Current Configuration of Metro Nashville PD SWAT Team: Lt Scott Byrd, Nashville PD
12.00: TEMA and CBRN: Patrick Sheehan, Director of Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
12.30: When One Disaster Is Not Enough: Bob Royall, Assistant Chief, Emergency Ops Harris County (TX) Fire Marshal’s Office.
Stream B – National
11.30: Operation Ebb and Flow: Detective Chief Inspector Noel Harris, Welsh Extremism and Counter Terrorism Unit, UK.
12.00: Post Incident Decon & Recovery – Lessons Learned: Paul Kastner & Ron Dicks, Mail Screening Facility Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
12.30: The Benefits of a Reional, Multi-Discipline Response for Criminal CBRNe Issues: Detectives Patrick Halligan & Roger Haskins, Armor Task Force, NVDPS – Investigation Division.
1.00: Lunch & Exhibition.
Stream C – Homemade WMD
2.30: Applications of Portable GC/MS in Fire
and Hazmat Response: Clint Wichert, Director
of Product Management, FLIR Systems.
3.15: Common Items Uncommon Uses, Recognition of Homemade WMDs: SA Kevin Richards, Counter Terrorism WMD & Hazmat
Unit, Virginia State Police.
Stream D – Extremist WMD
2.30: CBIRF – Past, Present & Future: LTC Sean Wright, Executive Officer, CBIRF
3.15: Innovation Decontamination for Sensitive Surfaces: Bill Gugliemlmo, CEO ITL/Cristanini
4.00: Coffee, Exhibition & Poster Presentation.
Stream E – The Growing Peril
5.00: Synthetic Opiods: Realistic Protection & Detection: Gary Sharp, Director of Training, Federal Resources.
5.30: The Other Side of the Opioid Crisis, the WMD Threat: Dave De-Gregorio, Director,
Hazmat Emergency Response Division, Massachusetts Department of Fire Services.
Stream F – The Big One!
5.00: Integrating DoD into Civillian Reposnse: Mr Casey Collins, Deputy to the Commander, JTFCS.
5.30: The Changing Landscape of Decon- Hybrid Decon: Chris Hodge, CWA Decon Subject Matter Expert, First Line Technology.
6.00: Drinks Reception