Heading to CBRNe Convergence Canada?
This conference is heading back to Ottawa for the third Canadian CBRNe Convergence.
Bringing the highly successful CBRNe Convergence brand to Canada once again, we will have expert speakers’ discussion on relevant topics, workshops, capability demo and the largest CBRNe/Hazmat exhibition in Canada.
Look for Us in the Exhibit Hall, Booth 202
We would love to meet with you and discuss how we can help with trace-level chemical threats in the field.
Speaking Sessions
Chris Carpita
Director of Sales
908 Devices
Outclassing Emerging Threats with Emerging Technology: Novel Threats and Aerosols
Tuesday, 23 April
14:30 – 15:00
For the emergency responder, the threat landscape is diverse and continuously evolving. Fourth generation agents (FGAs aka Novichoks), pharmaceutical based agents (PBA), and other materials demonstrate that chemical warfare agents have continued to evolve since WWII. Following the use of FGAS in Salisbury, UK, the US Department of Health and Human Services published a safety awareness bulletin for on-scene responders, noting that the ability to detect FGAs was limited. Pharmaceutical based agents, such as those used in the Moscow Theater Crisis (2002) demonstrate the effectiveness of highly toxic synthetic materials being dispersed as an aerosol—a threat which legacy CW equipment can’t monitor or detect reliably. Learn how and why these emerging threats challenge legacy equipment, and how emerging technology can help not only detect but identify these materials in the solid, liquid, vapor, or aerosolized form to allow for real time, tactical decision making on PPE, casualty management, sampling, and decontamination operations.
What is MX908?
This durable, portable mass spectrometer is utilized by highly skilled emergency personnel across the globe for immediate identification and detection of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), potential biological agents (PBAs), and toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) at extremely low concentrations.
