Past event: Countering Explosive Threat and Demining Conference

The annual gathering of the world's EOD community

While 2021 has seen the end of the military commitment in Afghanistan, the explosive legacy of the conflict remains. With NGO's and demining agencies continuing to operate in the Middle East, the military reorganising and redeploying to new theatres in Africa and security forces at home bracing against new forms of terror attack, the need for the global EOD community to collaborate and share resource and experience remains critical.

The Countering Explosive Threat and Demining conference reflects this requirement for global knowledge sharing, providing a unique opportunity for military, NGO, homeland security and industry to educate each other in latest developments in explosive mitigation, evolving threats, enhanced search capabilities and munition storage across the globe. This truly unique forum brings together key stakeholders and decision makers from the complete, global Counter-EO community.  

Led by senior policy drivers from government, NGO's and military and supported by industry leaders across all three pillars of EOD - prepare the force, attack the network and defeat the device - the conference will outline the new, joint approach to countering the explosive threat.

5 Key Benefits of Attending

• Enhance international collaboration with EOD partners from civilian, military and humanitarian sectors to develop joint strategies for demining and explosive ordnance clearance
• Engage directly with policy directors from leading NGO's and government bodies to support their ongoing clearance objectives across the globe
• Identify the new explosive threat landscape through briefings from operational clearance leaders, and align your operating procedures to defeat the new threat
• Understand new international directives towards demining and C-IED for both military and civilian sectors, with dedicated sessions on the new International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) framework
• Use technical capability demonstrations from leading experts in detection and disposal systems to develop cutting-edge defeat-the-device capabilities

British Army bomb disposal experts at work

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Operators are responsible for defusing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), booby traps created to kill and maim indiscriminately.The job is one of the most highly skilled and dangerous jobs in the Armed Forces. It requires intelligence, fitness and courage, as the soldiers in this job can be routinely placed in complex and dangerous situations. EOD operators are some of the most highly decorated soldiers of the British Army.Sgt James Slade is one of those soldiers. Here he talks about what it's like, as you approach something designed to destroy life, to remove it from the Battlefield. Those who make that approach call it, 'the long walk.'

Chairman

• Lieutenant Colonel (ret) Mark Wickham, Chairman, Counter-Explosive Threat and Demining

2021 Speakers

• Richard Boulter, Chief of Strategic Planning and Operations Support, United Nations Mine Action Service
  
• Colonel Zarach Scott, Defence Intelligence Capability Assessments Special Projects, British Army
• Mr Andy Duncan CBE DSO, Global Chief Technical Advisor, the HALO Trust
• Colonel Daniel Reyland, Commanding Officer 29 Group EOD and Search, British Army
• Lieutenant Colonel James Cackett, Commanding Officer, 35 Engineer Regiment (Explosive Ordnance Disposal & Search), British Army
• Major Stacey Fox, DI Land SO2 EOD, UK MoD
• Matthew Middleditch, SO15 EOD, Metropolitan Police Service London
• Bert Appleton, Head, Counter Explosive Ordnance Defence Engagement, UK Ministry of Defence
• Melanie Moughton, Chief Executive, Felix Fund – the bomb disposal charity
• Lieutenant Colonel Magdalen Miller, Commanding Officer 11 EOD&S Regt RLC , British Army
• Lieutenant Commander Nathan Isaacs, Commanding Officer Southern Diving Group, Royal Navy
  
• Michael 'Ginge' Brown, expert advisor to National Crime Agency and former senior NATO adviser and mentor, Operation Resolute Support, Gine Brown Consultancy
• Major Martin Laverack, Operations Major, Joint Service EOD Operations Centre

Venue

Copthorne Tara Hotel
Scarsdale Pl, Kensington, W8 5SY
London, UK

Website
Phone: +44 20 7937 7211

Accommodation
Group Rate: We have two options available; Standard rooms for £95.00 or Club Rooms for £120.00 per night, Including breakfast and VAT.

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