| Prominent topics to be discussed will be national and international CBRN threat reduction programmes |
With NCT CBRNe USA 2015, taking place from April 29 to May 1 at the University of Maryland/ Washington D.C., approaching fast, the conference programme becomes very concrete and a number of new speakers is confirmed including the following:
Speakers:
- Brig. General James Burton, Commander, US Army 20th CBRNe Command, USA
- Edward Gabriel, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (PD-ASPR), HHS, USA
- Dr. Gerald L. Epstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for CBRN Policy, DoHS, USA
- Christopher Feder, Battalion Chief, Montgomery County Hazardous Materials Response Team, USA
The complete speaker line-up, including further representatives from DoS, DTRA, JPEO-CBD and many more can be found together with the conference programme on the website.
Participants from across the world:
NCT CBRNe USA 2015 is the 12th edition of the worldwide #1 CBRNe event series and will be organised with START, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. The two-day conference – including concurrent innovation streams discussing state of the art approaches and research papers in the field of CBRN – will also include a large exhibition and will welcome delegates from all over the world. Prominent topics to be discussed will be national and international CBRN threat reduction programmes, CBRN response SOPs, state of the art projects in biosafety and standardisation, risks of CBRN terrorism to densely populated areas and infrastructure, as well as first lessons learned from past incidents including the Ebola Outbreak.