5.6.2022 - Welcome to Lahti
Raija Forsman (CEO VisitLahti) welcomes you to Lahti !
Get‐together & Exhibition Opening, 18:00-20:00
6.6.2022 - Opening of NBC 2022
Mayor Pekka Timonen's Welcome remarks
Sibelius Hall, 9:00-...
Sunday 5th June
12:00 – 14:00 | Pre-Symposium Lake Cruise |
15:00 – 17:00 | Exhibitors Move-in |
17:30 – 19:00 | Registration to NBC 2022 Symposium |
18:00 – 21:00 | Get-together |
Monday 6th June
08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
09:00 – 10:00 | OPENING OF THE SYMPOSIUM |
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome remarks, NBC 2022 Organising Committee (Finland) |
09:10 – 09:20 | Welcome remarks, Mayor of Lahti Pekka Timonen (Finland) |
09:20 – 09:30 | Music |
09:30 – 09:45 | OPENING SPEECH OF THE SYMPOSIUM - Finland preparing for the Future CBRN challenges in Europe, Kimmo Kohvakka, Director General of the Rescue Services, Ministry of the Interior, Finland (Finland) |
09:45 – 10:00 | Surprise |
10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee/tea break |
10:30 – 16:40 | SESSION I |
10:30 – 11:15 | Keynote Presentation 1 – Beyond Lessons Learned from COVID: US Actions Planned and Implemented, David (Chris) Hassell, PhD, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Senior Science Advisor (to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the US Department of Health and Human Services) (USA) |
11:15 – 11:35 | How COVID-19 pandemic has improved preparedness in Finnish health and social care?, Lasse Ilkka (Finland) |
11:35 – 11:55 | Building material preparedness with cooperating networks, Joni Metsola (Finland) |
11:55 – 12:40 | Keynote Presentation 2 – Comprehensive security and the Pandemic: Did we learn anything ?, Mika Salminen, Director of Health Security, The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) (Finland) |
12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch |
Large-Scale Cleaning of Disposable FFP2 and FFP3 Respirators by Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour – Parts 1-5 | |
13:40 – 14:00 | Part 1. Coordination and Collaboration, Katri Laatikainen (Finland) |
14:00 – 14:20 | Part 2. Logistics and Collecting the Respirators from Hospitals, Susanna Tella (Finland) |
14:20 – 14:40 | Part 3. Constructing the Decontamination Facility, Markku Mesilaakso (Finland) |
14:40 – 15:10 | Coffee/tea break |
15:10 – 15:30 | Part 4. Mechanical and Physical Quality Assurance, Ilpo Kulmala (Finland) |
15:30 – 15:50 | Part 5. Microbiological Quality Assurance, Satu Salo (Finland) |
19:00 – 21:00 | Lahti City Reception, Host: Sonja Falk (Lahti City Council, Deputy Chair) Lahti Museum of Visual Arts Malva |
Tuesday 7th June
08:30 – 10:30 | SESSION II |
08:30 – 09:15 | Keynote Presentation 3 – Chemical disarmament today-challenges and obstacles, Paula Vanninen, Professor, Director of Finnish Institute for Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (VERIFIN) (Finland) |
09:15 – 09:40 | New approach in the assessment of impact of arsenic-based chemical warfare agents on marine environment, Hanna Niemikoski (Finland) |
09:40 – 10:30 | Poster session & Coffee/tea break |
10:30 – 16:30 | SESSION III |
10:30 – 10:50 | Only Fictional Heroes Accomplish Missions Alone, Mika Saarinen (Finland) |
10:50 – 11:10 | End user perspectives on using quantitative real-time PCR and genomic sequencing in the field for detection and identification of biological threats, Kenneth Yeh (USA) |
11:10 – 11:30 | European programme for the establishment of validated procedures for the detection and identification of biological toxins (EuroBioTox), Anne Puustinen (Finland) |
11:30 – 11:50 | Analysis of Aerosolized Opioids and Chemical Warfare Agents in the Field Using Handheld Mass Spectrometry, Matthew Aernecke (USA) |
11:50 – 12:10 | Ultra sensitive detection of chemical threats by atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry, HJ Jost (Finland) |
12:10 – 13:10 | Lunch |
13:10 – 13:30 | Finland's National Nuclear Security Detection Architecture, Kari Peräjärvi (Finland) |
13:30 – 13:50 | Refining EU member states’ preparedness in CBRNE response – experiences of the development process among security authorities in Finland, Jaana Kuula (Finland) |
13:50 – 14:10 | EU H2020 project PROACTIVE: putting people at the heart of CBRNe preparedness & response, Laura Petersen (France) |
14:10 – 14:40 | Coffee/tea break |
14:40 – 16:30 | CBRNE protection and equipment demonstration (Outdoors) |
18:15 | Departure to Symposium Dinner (buses from Hotels) |
19:00 – 22:30 | Symposium Dinner (Radalla Resort) |
22:30 | Departure from the Symposium Dinner |
23:15 | Arrival at Hotels |
Wednesday 8th June
09:30 – 12:40 | SESSION IV |
09:30 – 10:25 | Keynote Presentation 4 – Successes, Challenges and Setbacks: Israel and the Fight Against COVID-19, Asher Salmon, MD, PhD, MHA, Director, Department of International Relations, Ministry of Health (Israel) |
10:25 – 10:45 | Airborne Spread of COVID-19 Indoors, Ilpo Kulmala (Finland) |
10:45 | Contributing to fighting the COVID-19 and other CBRN threats, Renato Bonora (Italy) - unfortunately had to leave early |
10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee/tea break |
11:00 - 11:20 | Estimation of the Heat Strain in PPE Using Human Thermophysiological Model, Kamila Lunerova (Czech Republic) |
11:20 – 11:40 | PIDE Project: Cleaning of Disposable Pipette Tips – Coordination of a Multisectoral, Multidisciplinary Project, Katri Laatikainen (Finland) |
11:40 - 12:00 | PIDE-FISE Project: Cleaning of Pipette Tips – Constructing and Use of Laboratory Cleaning Facility, Rickard Knutsson (Sweden) |
12:00 – 12:20 | Versatile hydrogen peroxide vapor decontamination technology for field use against chemical and biological agents, Jukka Riekkinen (Finland) |
12:20 – 12:50 | Crisis communications – what, why and how, Riikka Kouhi (Finland) |
12:50 – 13:50 | Lunch |
13:50 – 15:00 | NBC2022 SYMPOSIUM CLOSING PANEL Is this the end ? What's the next global threat: another pandemic or something else ? |
Panelists: Maarit Muikku (Finland), Asher Salmon (Israel), Paula Vanninen (Finland) Moderator: Irma Ylikangas (NBC2022 Organising Chair) |
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Symposium Summary: Anna-Mari Heikkilä (Finland) | |
15:00 – 16:00 | CLOSING OF THE SYMPOSIUM |
Coffee/tea | |
16:00 – 18:00 | Exhibitors Move-out |