Interspill Conference Schedule and Highlights Conference Chairs - Rob Cox and Rob James The heart of Interspill is the Conference which presents an opportunity for professionals from the international spill response community, private sector, government, and non-governmental organizations to come together to tackle the greatest challenges facing us with sound science, practical innovation, social engineering, global research and imagination. The external environment in which the response community works is difficult and evolving at pace. Oil prices have been unstable, there is an evolving energy mix with many emergent fuel technologies as regulators and manufacturers drive to reduce emissions. Vessels are increasing in size and becoming more automated in operation; the oceans are increasingly busy, but their health is declining and pollutants including debris and plastic threaten the diversity and wildlife within and on which we rely. Oil production is increasingly focused on mature basins, often with ageing infrastructure which poses an oil spill risk,
meanwhile corporate rationalisation has recently seen a lot of internal oil spill resource and corporate knowledge retire from corporations. At the same time our most important resource, the people in our industry, are drawn from different cultures, religions and genders. When a major incident occurs teams from different nations are expected to work seamlessly together as part of a team to achieve success and safe partnership working. Our conference will be a face-to-face forum to discuss these issue, showcase innovation and hear case studies that will improve global readiness. It will add true value to those invest in capability, work in response and use the oceans for commerce. We have been delighted to receive a large number of high quality abstracts whose authors have been invited to submit extend abstracts for the conference committee to finalise the content for the conference in March. We have created 21 sessions and will be running two, possibly three streams each session.
These can be summarised as follows: Tuesday 21 June
Wednesday 22 June
FROM
TO
Conference Stream 1 Room E102 Hall 10
13:30
15:00
Session 1 Incident Management #1
Session 2 Contingency Planning & Preparedeness
Session 3 Outreach & communications #1
17:00
Session 4 Offshore Response
Session 5 Surveillance Modelling & Visualisation #1 (modelling)
Session 6 Shipping Risks #1
15:30
Conference Stream 2 Room E103/4 Hall 10
Conference Stream 3 Room E105 Hall 10
TO
Conference Stream 1 Room E102 Hall 10
Conference Stream 2 Room E103/4 Hall 10
Conference Stream 3 Room E105 Hall 10
11:00
12:30
Session 7 Incident Management #2
Session 8 Hazardous & Noxious Substances (HNS)
Premiam Conference*
14:30
16:00
Session 9 Subsea Response
Session 10 Shipping Risks #2
Premiam Conference*
16:30
18:00
Session 9 Dispersants
Session 12 Inland
Premiam Conference*
FROM
Thursday 23 June FROM
TO
Conference Stream 1 Room E102 Hall 10
Conference Stream 2 Room E103/4 Hall 10
Conference Stream 3 Room E105 Hall 10
09:00
10:30
Session 13 Incident Management #3 Exercises and Good Practice
Session 14 Surveillance Modelling & Visualisation #3 (use of satellites)
Session 15 Plastics & Marine Litter
11:00
12:30
Session 16 Outreach & Communications #2
Session 17 Wildlife
Session 18 Shoreline Response
13:30
15:00
Session 19 Surveillance Modelling & Visualisation #2 (monitoring)
Session 20 Emerging technology
Session 21 Case Histories
The conference will not be live streamed. However it will be recorded and the streams will be available to view through www.interspill.org approximately one month after the event with the conference proceedings. Note * Premiam conference is provisional at the time of going to press but will be covered in detail in the next newsletter.
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