Millimeterwave Security Sensor Benchmark Meeting UK

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to cover workshop costs such as conference room costs, food (Social Reception plus breakfast/lunch plus breaks), booklet copying, audio/visual costs, etc.

These costs will be $ 489.00 (USD) per person. (IWPC Members only.)

ALL Hosts, Speakers, Panel Members and Attendees will be asked to pay this fee in advance with either Visa, Mastercard, American Express, cash, personal check or business check.

Make checks payable to IWPC.

HOTEL:

Hilton London Kensington
179-199 Holland Park Avenue
London W11 4UL, UK
Phone: +44 (0)20 7603 3355
Fax: +44 (0)20 7602 9397

Please contact the hotel directly for reservations. Mention the IWPC room block rate of £119.00 single, £129.00 double. If booking rooms on-line send email to [email protected] and quote block code: IWP110907.

Cut-off date for reservations is August 20, 2007. After that date rooms cannot be guaranteed at the IWPC rate.

AUDIO VISUAL:

A Computer Projector will be available for the speakers.

In addition, we audiotape all presentations and the interactive discussions. Post workshop, presentations are made available to IWPC Members on the IWPC WEB site, along with “movies” of all presentations and panel sessions.

BUSINESS CARDS:

Business cards will be collected at the door from all attendees. We will make copies of these cards, which will be available to all who provided a business card.

DRESS:

Business casual suggested. No ties, please !!

HANDOUT MATERIALS:

IWPC prepares a handout binder with ALL presentation materials delivered to the IWPC on or before the deadline.

For ALL IWPC members:

All IWPC members are invited to submit a maximum of 4 pages of materials to include in this handout binder. These pages should NOT BE SALES MATERIALS. Rather, we suggest it contain technical information about your technology as it relates to the workshop topics.

For all companies who will be making a presentation at the Workshop:

You are asked to submit an advance copy of your presentation, complete with graphics and illustrations.

These materials will be copied and handed out at the workshop and included in the IWPC Web site.

Please submit these materials either by email, as a Word for Windows file, Power Point files or PDF files.

Please send electronic materials (any size file) to:

sent any size email attachment to:
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Workshop Background: At an IWPC workshop in Dulles, VA in February 2007, which addressed *Millimeterwave Sensor Solutions for Government Security Applications,** industry participants made a plea for the establishment of performance guidelines against which different millimeterwave security systems can be evaluated. Governments typically are not willing or able to publicly declare the exact requirements they will establish for equipment which they expect to procure and they need to encourage the continued updating and improvement of these requirements. It was therefore proposed that the IWPC foster the establishment of a cooperative exercise to be led by industry leaders in millimeterwave security system supply to develop a document embodying such industry wide benchmarks. This workshop is a step in the process of moving this forward. *Millimeterwave in this agenda is to be interpreted from 20 GHz to Terahertz
Workshop Goals: To formulate a plan of action and a process for cooperative development of a common document benchmarking representative performance of millimeterwave security systems. To establish relative roles of the involved participants and their expected contributions To establish a framework for possible roles for government organizations To establish how, if necessary, the cost of the management, administration and control of the project, and resultant documentation will be supported. Other working group objectives to be determined at the meeting.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
12:00 PM	Registration
1:00 PM	Opening Remarks	IWPC
1:15 PM	Self Introductions	Each person is asked to introduce him/herself and help us understand what they wish to learn and contribute to this event.
1:40 PM	INTRODUCTION TO NEED FOR PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS AND WORKING GROUP The nature of the issues and the need and importance of having common performance benchmarks for the millimeterwave security sensor equipment industry will be reviewed. Representative documents for similar requirements will be reviewed	Background and Review of Progress to Date VP, Business Development Brijot Imaging Systems
2:10 PM	Threat Scenarios and Expectations GOVERNMENT REPRESENTATIVES Government speakers will review, recap and update government requirements and restrictions which they must adhere to in the establishment of security procedures and systems. Several representative threat scenarios will be described. Suggestions for representative measurables will be made. Types of threats: Concealed Weapons Detection Explosives Detection Illegal substances detection Contraband detection System types to be addressed include: Portal Security Systems Stand-off Detection Systems Topics to be addressed will include e.g. Operational constraints and expectations Integration and use of sensor information Relative roles and responsibilities of various agencies.	Government Keynote Presenters Why a Benchmarking Document- A Government Perspective Head of Explosives and Drug Detection Scientific Development Branch UK Home Office Concealed Weapon Detection Systems Program Manager Concealed Weapons Division NIST
3:10 PM	NETWORKING BREAK
3:30 PM	OPEN DISCUSSION Description and review of Draft Benchmark Document and progress to date Discuss "voting" method for document content Discuss role of document vis-a-vis other known standards development activities Review structure of the working group. Confirm plans for mechanisms and ongoing communication (web discussions, conference calls, etc.) Establish relative roles and responsibilities of various participants Discuss roles of various agencies such as ICONAL, NIST, TNO and IWPC. Others	Government Participants UK Home Office UK Transec French SGDN NIST US Department of Homeland Defense Aeroport de Paris Industry Participants BAE Systems Brijot DefenderTech GE Security L3-SafeView Millivision QinetiQ Smiths Detection ThruVision
5:00 PM	WRAP-UP, ACTION ITEMS AND NEXT STEPS	All Participants
5:30 PM	ADJOURN FOR THE DAY

7:00-9:00 PM	Social Reception and Registration for Millimeterwave Sensors for Transportation Security Applications	At Hotel