Symposium program

Symposium Themes

The ISTSS Symposium themes will be:

• Risk
• Risk & Security 
• Human Behaviour
• Passive Fire Protection & Construction 
• Active Fire Protection 
• Active Fire Protection & Fire Fighting 
• Ventilation
• Fire Dynamics

Each day is opened by two invited Keynote Speakers, leaders in their field, providing an overview of their topic of expertise as an introduction to the themes of the day.

We are glad to present the following Key Note Speakers:

	Kenneth Cummins Sound Transit, USA	Kenneth Cummins is the Chief Security Officer for Sound Transit; the Greater Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority based out of Seattle Washington. Ken has more than 15 years of military and security management experience. He holds degrees in business administration and security management.
	Jeffrey A. Slotnick Setracon Inc., USA	Mr Slotnick, PSP, is an internationally renowned security industry consultant with more than 27 years of experience in providing professional development and training to security, law enforcement, military personnel and conducting Security Risk Assessments.
	Anders Lönnermark             SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden	Dr Lönnermark is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Fire Technology. He has long experience of performing fire tests, both in model-scale and full scale. A highlight of his illustrious carrier to date is the running of the large-scale fire tests in the Runehamar tunnel in 2003.
	Alan Brinson European Fire Sprinkler Network, UK	Mr Brinson is the Executive Director of the European Fire Sprinkler Network, a fire safety coalition whose members wish to see an improvement in fire safety through the widespread use of fire sprinkler systems. Alan serves on a number of standards and code-writing committees and is a member of the committee for NFPA 502.
	Reinhard Ries Frankfurt am Main Fire and Rescue Services, Germany	Prof. Ries is the Chief Fire and Rescue Officer of the Frankfurt am Main Fire and Rescue Services. He is responsible for all affairs regarding the city’s preparedness for fire, rescue and HAZMAT incidents, disaster management and the EMS- service’s ground and air operations.
	Arnold Dix Queensland University of Technology, Australia	Prof. Dix is recognized as the world’s pre-eminent independent technical/ legal tunnel risk expert adviser. He combines dual qualifications in Law and Science, Professorships in Engineering and Medicine with appointments to PIARC, NFPA, ITA and ITIG.