What is the Symposium About?
The Department of Environmental and Ordnance Systems of Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom is hosting the fourth Symposium on Ordnance Munitions and Explosives (OME) between 6th - 7th September 2006 at the Defence Academy Shrivenham. The symposium, again being held in conjunction with the MOD's Defence Ordnance Safety Group (DOSG), will this year focus on the environmental effects of OME.
Why You Should Attend?
Environmental concerns are now high on the world's agenda. Global concern over environmental issues has increased substantially in recent years. The Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and in Johannesburg in 2004 underlined the importance of sustainable development and its relationship with environmental protection. In the UK the Government has launched its sustainable development strategy which places environmental protection high on the UK's agenda. The MOD is responding through its own Sustainable Development programme which sets challenging environmental targets.
During their development, production, use and disposal, OME can have detrimental effects on the natural environment. This symposia will outline some of these effects and how the MOD and wider defence sector is addressing the challenge of environmental management. The symposium will cover aspects of Defence environmental policy, legislation and management and will describe the methodology used by MOD in managing environmental issues during acquisition. Case studies will illustrate some of the issues surrounding environmental management of OME at all stages of their life cycle. Finally the symposium will set out the forward plan for the environmental management of OME and discuss some of the technological, policy, legislative and management challenges which the OME community will face.
Who should attend?
The symposium will be attended by scientists and engineers working on the technology, by acquisition and logistics staff who acquire and manage capability, by operations staff who will bring the service perspective and by industry who design and manufacture munitions and associated equipment.
Format
This symposium is one of a series of Symposia at Shrivenham using a well proven format in a relaxed atmosphere within secure surroundings. Through presentations and plenary discussion, the purpose is to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, the development of new perspectives and the challenging of current thinking. Time is planned into the programme to allow formal and informal discussions both in the main lecture theatre and during the breaks for coffee, lunch and tea, and during the delegates’ reception and formal dinner. You will have the opportunity to network and discuss issues with your professional peers who are each addressing the challenge from their own direction.
Programme
We are delighted to welcome our keynote speaker, Dr Michael Rutter, Director Safety and Claims MOD, who will outline the issues for the defence sector. Other speakers have been invited to address a broad spectrum of associated topics.
Will there be an Opportunity to Display Equipment?
This symposium provides a highly targeted audience. Time will be especially allotted to the displays and we offer companies, departments and establishments an opportunity to display their equipment or advertise their capability. The Display Space Application Form shows the options available, and costs. Please complete and return the form by 2 August 2006.
Please Note: Display personnel need to register as delegates if they wish to attend symposium presentations and meals.
Timings and registration
The symposium will be held in the Whitworth Conference Centre at the Defence Academy at Shrivenham, starting at 1000 hours on Wednesday 6 September (registration from 0900 hours) and finishing after tea on Thursday 7 September. If you wish to attend the symposium, please complete and return the Registration Form before 2 August 2006. In order to keep the intimate atmosphere of the symposium, attendance is limited to 150. So please book early to ensure a place.
Accommodation
Blocks of rooms have been reserved at three selected hotels by Venues Unlimited. These selected hotels, from which a bus pickup service to the symposium and the formal dinner will be arranged, are listed on the Hotel Accommodation Request Form. Please return the completed form direct to Venues Unlimited. Also please note that this block booking of guaranteed hotel rooms will be open until 5 August 2006. Thereafter Venues Unlimited will endeavour to reserve rooms in other local hotels.
There is a very restricted number of rooms available in the Officers' Mess for UK serving officers and UK entitled civil servants. These categories should complete the appropriate box on the Registration Form if they wish to book this accommodation.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Sponsorship is invited for activities during this event which offer the opportunity for delegates and speakers to socialise and network, such as a reception on the first evening, pre-dinner drinks on the second evening, and the formal dinner itself. The benefits available can include complimentary registration fees and display space, the inclusion of the sponsor’s name, logo and possibly full page advertisement in the symposium programme, advertising the name of the sponsor, with logo, before each break in the programme and raising the sponsor’s flag or pennant. Please contact us as soon as possible to discuss options of sponsorship and the benefits to be gained.
Caroline Dawson
Symposia at Shrivenham
DCMT Cranfield University
Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Shrivenham, Swindon
Wiltshire, SN6 8LA
United Kingdom
Tel: 01793 785648
Fax: 01793 785325
Email: caroline@symposiaatshrivenham
http://www.dcmt.cranfield.ac.uk/symposia/ome06
