Name: IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards
Start: 2018-11-05T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-11-08T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Vienna International Centre

IAEA Symposium on International Safeguards

from Monday, November 5, 2018 (10:00 AM) to Thursday, November 8, 2018 (6:30 PM)

Monday, November 5, 2018

10:00 AM Opening Plenary

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: M Building

1:00 PM Sponsored Women Luncheon
Sponsored Women Luncheon
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: TBD

2:30 PM Women's Panel: Policy, Law and Regulatory Careers in Safeguards
Policy, Law and Regulatory Careers in Safeguards
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: M Building

Women's Panel: STEM Careers in Safeguards
STEM Careers in Safeguards
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: M Building
4:00 PM [CHA] Keeping Pace with IT Security - Threat Intelligence for the IAEA/Nuclear Regulatory World
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
Contributions

4:00 PM IAEA Scene Setter - John Coyne (IAEA)

4:10 PM Quantum Computers and Preparing Future-Proof Encryption - Nicholas Doiron (McKinsey & Company)

4:15 PM Industrial cyber security standard - IEC 62443 - Erich Kronfuss (PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH)

4:20 PM Building Safeguards Technologies using Open Source Software and Hardware - Learning from the Maker Movement - Moritz Kuett (Princeton University)

4:25 PM A proactive approach: Stopping insiders’ threats with machine-learning technology - Jor-Shan Choi (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (retired))

4:30 PM Safeguards Information Security in Practice at Nuclear Regulatory Authority - Emmanuel Ampomah-Amoako (Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Ghana)

4:35 PM National Infrastructure Security in EU - Stephan Lechner

4:40 PM Cyber Security - Facility and Authority Perspectives - Timo Vjander

4:45 PM UNODC Perspective - Neil Walsh

4:50 PM Cyber Threat Expert - Bojan Simetic

4:55 PM IAEA Perspective - Bernard Wishard (iaea) Ingo Naumann (IAEA)
[TEC] Recent Examples of Innovation in Safeguards
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
Contributions

4:05 PM Soft Robotics for Safeguards Applications in Radiations Environments - Amanda Rynes (Idaho National Laboratory)

4:10 PM Robotics Challenges for Radiological and Nuclear Reconnaissance Applications - Frank Schneider (Fraunhofer)

4:15 PM Analysis of Select Unmanned Aerial Systems Application for International Safeguards - Steven Horowitz (Sandia National Laboratories)

4:20 PM Autonomous Mobile Directionally and Spectrally Sensitive Neutron Detectors - Robert Goldston (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

4:25 PM Robotics for Safeguards Inspection - Drum store inspection - Paul Flick (CSIRO AS)

4:30 PM The "BigLock" Smart Locking System - Victor KRYLOV (Russian Federation)

4:35 PM Radar Imaging for Reliable Safeguard in Harsh Environment - Reinhold Herschel (Fraunhofer-Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR)

4:40 PM Impact of UCMS on Safeguards effectiveness and efficiency - Raffaele Bencardino (European Commission, EURATOM Safeguards)

4:45 PM Safeguards at Post Accident Facility - Case of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Site - Osamu Aruga (Japan Safeguards Office)

4:50 PM Tamper-Indicating Enclosures with Visually Obvious Tamper Response - Heidi Smartt (Sandia National Laboratories)

4:50 PM Laser-Based Measurement Tools for Future Enrichment Plant Safeguards - Norm Anheier (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

4:55 PM Development of a new confocal-macro X-ray fluorescence spectrometer built on 3D printer - Imre Szalóki (Institute of Nuclear Techniques, Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

5:00 PM Nuclear Inspections in the Matrix: Virtual Reality for the Development of Inspection Approaches in New Facility Types - Moritz Kuett

5:05 PM iDROP, a Promising Virtual Reality Tool to Assist Operations in Nuclear Facilities - Caroline CHABAL (CEA)

5:10 PM Virtual Reality - ISCN's Effective Capacity Building Tool - Perpetua Rodriguez (JAEA/ISCN)

5:15 PM Augmented Reality off-the-shelf technologies for enhancement of on-site and post-inspection processes - Dmytro Cherkashyn (Institute for Security and Safety at the Brandenburg University of Applied Studies)

5:20 PM 3D Mapping and Visualization of Radioactive Sources for Nuclear Safeguards Applications - Andrew Haefner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:25 PM Human Performance Testing for Cognitive Science-Informed Information Provision for International Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors - Zoe Gastelum (Sandia National Laboratories)

5:25 PM Plutonium Diversion Detection Training (PDDT) for IAEA inspectors at the Idaho National Laboratory - Claude NORMAN (International Atomic Energy Agency)

5:25 PM 3S integration to support efficient and effective implementation of key Safeguard requirements: an overview of emerging state practices - Alberto Luigi Muti (VERTIC)

5:25 PM UAE Safeguards: A Frontline in Nuclear Non-Proliferation - Luay Qassim (FANR)
[REC] Launching Session: Working for the IAEA

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Boardroom A

5:00 PM Networking with IAEA Staff

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Outside Boardroom A

5:30 PM Reception
Reception
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Outside Press-room
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

9:00 AM ESPACE (Tuesday)

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
[CHA] Human Resources for Safeguards: Taking the Initiative
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M Building
Contributions

9:00 AM Department of Safeguards HR Challenges - Marie Monteith (IAEA) Nevest Perovic (IAEA)

9:05 AM Advancing Safeguards One Person at a Time: Developing "Safeguards Champions" - Oksana Elkhamri (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:10 AM APSN Surveys for the coordination of training efforts in Asia: results and challenges - Kalman Robertson Noriko Sumino (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) Perpetua Rodriguez

9:15 AM Enhancing SSAC’s capabilities - The Nuclear Regulatory Authority experience - Agostina Serrano Bentancour (Nuclear Regulatory Authority)

9:20 AM Canada’s Experience with Building and Maintaining Safeguards Capability - Omer Elahi (Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission)

9:25 AM Outreach Education and Training in Nuclear Safeguards and Non-Proliferation of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Willem Alfons Marc Janssens (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, DIR G, Nuclear Security and Safeguards Department)

9:30 AM Integrating Nonproliferation and Safeguards into the Mandatory Curricula of Undergraduate STEM Programs - Rian Bahran (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

9:35 AM Principles and attributes for positive safeguards culture within the State - Amira Elabd (Egyptian Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority (ENRRA),)

9:40 AM Insights from the IAEA Human Capital Development Conference - Matthew VAN SICKLE Shahid Mallick (IAEA)

9:45 AM IAEA Perspective - Maria Anguelova Naydenova (IAEA)
[NEW] The Safeguards Challenges of New and Advanced Reactors

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Boardroom A

[SGI] Enhancements and Innovation in Sample Collection and Analysis

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Press-room

11:00 AM [NEW] The Safeguards Challenges of New and Advanced Reactors

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Press Room

[SGI] Establishing and Strengthening State and Regional Systems of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material (S/RSACs)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: M Building
[TEC] Automating and Optimizing Data Collection and Processing at HQ
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Boardroom A
Contributions

11:00 AM Big Data Analysis for Non-proliferation Purposes - Ian Stewart (King's College London)

11:07 AM Analysts versus Algorithms? Exploring the design of effective information analysis systems in the age of ‘Big Data’ - Matthew Moran (King's College London)

11:14 AM Using machine learning and natural language processing to enhance uranium mining and milling safeguards - Jasmin Diab (University of New South Wales and Women in Nuclear Australia)

11:21 AM Autonomous Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Safeguards - Risa Haddal (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:28 AM Semantic Graphs for Safeguards Data Integration, Pattern Matching, and Event Classification - Zoe Gastelum (Sandia National Laboratories)

11:35 AM Report back on International Workshop on the Applicability of New Tools and Technologies for Non-Proliferation - Ian Stewart (King's College London)

11:36 AM OSIS 2.0: Optimizing Analyst-Driven Automation of Open Source Information Collection and Processing - Thomas Skoeld (IAEA)

11:37 AM Using iCore in Information Collection/Anlysis

11:42 AM STEPS for the Modernization of Safeguards Information Analysis Tools
2:00 PM [CHA] Globalization and the Changing Supply Chain for Knowledge, Expertise and Goods
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Boardroom A
Contributions

2:00 PM Scene Setter - Willem Alfons Marc Janssens

2:05 PM Responding to verification challenges caused by increasing nuclear-related trade - Malin Ardhammar (International Atomic Energy Agency)

2:12 PM Mapping technology and knowledge transfer networks - Justin Hastings (University of Sydney)

2:19 PM The Changing Architecture of Nuclear Trade: Trends in Manufacturing Base Supply and Demand - Andrea Viski (Project Alpha, King's College London)

2:26 PM Emerging dual-use technologies and global supply chain compliance - FILIPPO SEVINI (EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE)

2:27 PM Additive Manufacturing: The Future for Safeguards - Grant Christopher (Ridgeway Information)

2:34 PM The use of trade statistics to map States’ nuclear related industrial capabilities - Elena Marinova (IAEA)

2:41 PM Potential Proliferation Indicators through Analysis of Trade in Non-Controlled Industrial Goods - Stephen Francis (IAEA, SGIM)
[NEW] Experience in Safeguards by Design for New Facility Types

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: M Building

[SGI] Establishing and Strengthening State and Regional Systems

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: M Building
4:00 PM [CHA] Non-proliferation and the Globalized Marketplace – Perspectives of International Organizations, National Authorities and Industry
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M2
Contributions

4:00 PM UAE Nuclear Export Controls: a Success Story - Maryam Alsehaimy (United Arab Emirates)

4:05 PM Australian Counter-proliferation Architecture, Collaboration, Challenges and Opportunities - Matt Ferguson (Australian Government)

4:10 PM Trade networks and challenges for safeguards - Maryam Alsehaimy

4:15 PM UNSCR/1540 Expert’s Outreach to Relevant Parties - Mark Hibbs

4:20 PM Nuclear suppliers group – addressing evolving supply chain - Diego CANDANO LARIS

4:25 PM Industry perspective on proliferation resistance - Ralf Wirtz

4:30 PM Responding to evolving proliferation challenges – the experience of the AP - Laura Rockwood (Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)

4:35 PM IAEA Contribution - John DRUCE (IAEA)
[SGI] Tools, Approaches and IT Systems for State Safeguards Reporting

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
[TEC] Advancements in Instrumentation Data Processing and Analysis
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
Contributions

4:00 PM Verification Data Pattern Recognition and Change Detection at the Neutron Instrument Level - Louise Worrall (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

4:07 PM Developments in Fresh Fuel Collar Measurements with Fast Neutron Detection - Massimo Morichi (CAEN SyS)

4:14 PM IRAP: a new system for integrated analysis and visualization of multi-source safeguards data. Challenges and techniques - Andreas Smejkal (Euratom)

4:21 PM Disparate Data Integration for Advanced Facility Monitoring - Karen Miller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:28 PM Improved Analysis of Verification Data Using List Mode Neutron Data Collection - Alexis Trahan (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

4:29 PM Improved Cherenkov light prediction model for enhanced DCVD performance - Erik Branger (Uppsala University)

4:30 PM Fast Neutron Collar Tests at Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Plant in Brazil - Marcos Grund (Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear)

4:31 PM Estimation of Dead-Time Loss for High Neutron Count-Rates and associated Multiplicity Correction using Multi-Channel List-Mode Data - Ludwig Holzleitner (Europ. Commission, Joint Research Centre)
[TEC] Integration and Evaluation of Verification Data

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

9:00 AM ESPACE (Wednesday)

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Room: M Building
[CHA] Engaging Non-Traditional Sectors in Safeguards
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M2
Contributions

9:00 AM Scene Setter: IAEA experiences with engaging non-traditional sectors - Dimitri Finker

9:05 AM EC-JRC initiatives to sustain excellence and diversity in science - Yetunde AREGBE (EC-JRC-IRMM)

9:10 AM Safeguards by Design in Nuclear Engineering Design Courses - Jill Cooley (Y-12 National Security Complex)

9:15 AM Exploring Disruptive Technology for Safeguards Verification - Arden Dougan (DOE)

9:20 AM Nuclear Safeguards Communication in Thailand - Boonchawee Srimok (Office of Atoms for Peace)

9:25 AM Cross-sector Collaboration to Develop New Tools for Communication to Non-experts - Morgan Matthews (N Square Collaborative)

9:30 AM The Role of Professional Societies in Effective Communications for International Safeguards: How the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Supports Existing and Emerging Nuclear Materials Stewardship Communities - Zoe Gastelum (Sandia National Laboratories)

9:35 AM The European Research and Development Association (ESARDA) - Communication, coordination and collaboration in safeguards - Irmgard Niemeyer (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)

9:40 AM Strategic partnerships – Agency perspective - Constanze WESTERVOSS (IAEA)

9:45 AM Non-traditional sector R&D for safeguards in Australia - Robert Floyd
[NEW] Safeguards for New and Existing Facilities

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M Building

[SGI] Streamlining Information-related Workflows: Small Holders/LOFs and AP Declarations

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Press-room
[TEC] Blockchain and Safeguards
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M2
Contributions

9:00 AM Evaluation of a blockchain based nuclear materials accounting platform in Australia - Edward Yu (UNSW Sydney)

9:05 AM IT security and consensus mechanisms in private blockchains - Christian Berghoff (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik)

9:10 AM Distributed Ledger Technology used in nuclear non-proliferation safeguards? - Stefan Nonneman (European Commission - Joint Research Centre)

9:15 AM Blockchains for Safeguards: Technical, Legal and Political Considerations - Matthew Moran (King's College London)

9:25 AM Identifying Safeguards Use Cases for Blockchain Technology - Sarah Frazar (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

9:30 AM The Conceptual Introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain Technology in Nuclear Material Accounting and Control at Facilities - Jihye Jeon (Sejong University)

9:35 AM Blockchain and Safeguards Information Management: The potential for distributed ledger technology - Cindy Vestergaard (Stimson Center)
11:00 AM [New] Safeguards Techniques for New Facilities and Campaigns

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: M Building

[SGI] ISSAS Missions and SSAC Self-Assessment

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: M2
[TEC] Visualization for Information Integration
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Boardroom A
Contributions

11:00 AM Interactive data visualization techniques in the statistical analysis of multi-source data - Matthias Auer (Instrumental Software Technologies, Inc.)

11:20 AM Visualizing Safeguards Data in a Geographic Information System - Justin Reed (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:27 AM 3D technologies for Nuclear Safeguards applications: current and future developments - Vitor Sequeira (European Commission)

11:34 AM Geographic Data Integration/Interface - Michael Barletta (IAEA)

11:41 AM Developing a Tool for Acquisition Path Analysis and Strategy (TAPAS) - Clemens Listner (Consultant)

11:42 AM Examining Inspection Frequency under the State-Level Concept - Kenneth Jarman (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

11:43 AM Capabilities of the Acquisition Path Analysis Tool (APAT) for Integration of Multi-source Data - Karen Miller (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
2:00 PM [SGI] Improvements in the Field: Enhancements to Measurement Techniques

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Press-room

[SGI] Insights and Feedback from SSAC Discussions

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: M2

[TEC] Improving Coordination of Safeguards R&D

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Boardroom A

4:00 PM [NEW] Nuclear Newcomers – Strategies and Experiences with Enhancing Safeguards Infrastructure to Support the Introduction of Nuclear Power

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: M2

[SGI] Performance Monitoring in Safeguards

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Boardroom A

5:45 PM Sponsored Reception
Sponsored Reception
5:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: tbd
Thursday, November 8, 2018

9:00 AM ESPACE (Thursday)

9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Room: ESPACE

[SGI] Partnerships, Networks and Regional Collaboration

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Boardroom A

[TEC] Collection, Processing and Analysis of Satellite and Open Source Imagery Data: Collection, Processing and Analysis of Satellite and Open Source Imagery Data
Collection, Processing and Analysis of Satellite and Open Source Imagery Data
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M Building

[TEC] Collection, Processing and Analysis of Surveillance Data

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: M Building
11:00 AM [CHA] Capacity Building: National Initiatives
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: M Building
Contributions

11:00 AM Scene Setter: Recap from CHA-S2 Session - Therese Renis (IAEA)

11:05 AM ALGERIAN EXPERIENCE IN TRAINING PROGRAM OF SAFEGUARDS PERSONNEL - SMAIN KORICHI (CRND/COMENA)

11:12 AM Strategy for Strengthening Training and Qualification for U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s International Safeguards Analysts - David Hanks (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission)

11:19 AM Strengthening Safeguards Capabilities within Public Company Nuclear Facilities of Serbia - Miodrag Milenović (Public Company "Nuclear Facilities of Serbia")

11:26 AM Capacity Building in the UAE’s Young Nuclear Workforce - Huda Al Tamimi (FANR)

11:33 AM The strengthening of the national safeguards system through an integrated 3S approach: a Cuban perspective. - Jorge Luis Paredes Gilisman (Centro Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear)

11:40 AM OPTIMIZING SSAC HUMAN RESOURCES OF ARNR IN THE HYPOTHESIS OF A NUCLEAR PROGRAM - Enrique Fernando MORALES (Autoridad Reguladora Nacional en Radioprotección (ARNR) - URUGUAY)

11:47 AM Development of Safeguards Infrastructure for Nuclear Power Programme in Ghana - Emmanuel Ampomah-Amoako (Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Ghana)

11:48 AM The education and training offer in nuclear safeguards within the EURATOM Research and Training project “ANNETTE” - Riccardo Rossa (SCK-CEN)

11:49 AM An integration of Nuclear Safeguards with Nuclear Security - Garima Sharma (Scientific Officer G)

11:50 AM The Role of the Russian Methodological and Training Center in SSAC of Russia - Sergey Bogdanov (Alexandrovich)

11:51 AM SAFEGUARDS CAPACITY BUILDING – ARGENTINE EXPERIENCE - Stella Maris Bonet Duran (Autoridad Regulatoria Nuclear)

11:52 AM Education and training activities of the International Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security Academy of the ROK - JIN YOUNG LEE (Korea Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation and Control(KINAC))
[NEW] Finding Efficiencies without Compromising Effectiveness

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: M Building

12:45 PM Sponsored Innovation Luncheon
Sponsored Innovation Luncheon
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: tbd

2:00 PM Closing Plenary: Closing Plenary
Closing Plenary
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Boardroom B

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