09.00 Chairman’s Welcome & Introduction

Chris Abbott
Chair
Emergency Planning Society Professional Working Group

09.10 Keynote Presentation – Ensuring UK Resilience In A State Of Budgetary Flux

• Outlining UK fire brigade and local government responsibilities in maintaining UK CBRN resilience
• Reinforcing effective interoperability between key stakeholders

Sir Ken Knight
Chief Fire and Rescue Advisor
Department of Communities and Local Government

09.45 Civil Contingencies Secretariat

• Role of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat
• Analysis of UK emergency preparedness
• Ensuring business continuity

Felicity Oswald
CBRN Lead, Civil Contingencies Secretariat
UK Cabinet Office

10.50 The National Police Improvements Agency – Focus On Interoperability

• Achieving interoperability – what is it?
• How is it achieved?
• How successful are we?

Detective Chief Superintendent Michael Hallowes
Head of Strategic Operations
National Police Improvements Agency

11.25 Use Of Training To Improve Interoperability And Inter-Agency Cooperation

• Solutions for improving Blue Light coordination and interoperability
• Solutions for improving inter-agency coordination after the first response
• Problems and Challenges

Stephen Johnson
Defence Academy of the UK

12.00 London Fire Brigade And Interoperability

• What does interoperability mean to the LFB?
• How is it being achieved?
• How successfully has it been adopted?

Commissioner Ron Dobson
Chief
London Fire Brigade

13.45 Interactive Panel Session On Interoperability

• What are the key issues relating to interoperability?
• Working culture or equipment issues?
• How can inter-agency interoperability be improved and developed?

Hosted by Chris Abbott
Chair
Emergency Planning Society Professional Working Group

14.20 UK Mod Perspective

• Role of UK ‘home’ military CBRN protection
• Fitting in with Blue Light responders
• Viewpoint on training and interoperability

Commander Jim Watt
UK CT Resilience and Plans 1, Ops Directorate
UK MoD

15.20 The European Defence Agency – Interoperability, Training And Activities Relevant To Civil Cbrn Resilience

• Work of EDA – equipment capability, training issues, interoperability, CBRN counter-measures
• Use of training solutions to improve interagency cooperation, interoperability and coordination
• Military crossover to civil responders
• Conclusions

15.55 EU CBRN Resilience Programme And Civil Protection

• Overview of CBRN Action Plan
• Role in CBRN Incident Response and Improving Capability
• Future role of EU CBRN Action

Mr Yves Dussart
Principal Administrator
EU ECHO

16.30 Chairman’s Final Remarks And Close Of Day One