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Tall Building Fire Safety Network 3rd International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference University of Greenwich, London 8, 9, 10 th July 2015 Conference Programme and Delegate Information V8

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Tall Building Fire Safety Network

3rd International Tall Building Fire Safety Conference

University of Greenwich, London

8, 9, 10th July 2015

Conference Programme and Delegate Information V8

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Contents:

1. Sponsors, Speakers and Supporters

2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network

3. Conference Agenda

4. Speaker Profiles

5. Social Programme

6. Conference Location & Travel

7. Hotels

8. Help?

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1. Conference Speakers, Sponsors and Supporters

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2. Tall Building Fire Safety Network

Mission Statement:

“To collectively advance the understanding of fire risk management in tall buildings,

during design, construction, occupation and firefighting operations. This will be achieved

by group scrutiny of available research data, relevant innovative products and

development of a guidance document for fire safety in tall buildings”.

Terms of Reference:

1. Membership of the group will be formed primarily by staff representing

owner/management of tall buildings;

2. Membership of the group is also open to key stakeholders involved in fire safety

within tall buildings;

3. The group will meet twice a year at suitable venues convenient to the

membership;

4. The group will be administered by Horizonscan

(organisation of meetings speakers, minutes, etc.);

5. Membership of the group is voluntary, and any expenses incurred are down to

individual members;

Steering Committee:

Chair:

Secretary: Russ Timpson (Horizonscan)

Prof Ed Galea (University of Greenwich), Paul Stewart (London Fire Brigade), Tom Gilbert

(BB7), Jim Creak (MOE)

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3. Conference Agenda

Wednesday 8th July 2015

Session 1 – Fire Prevention and Management in Tall Buildings

Sponsor - FPA

08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre

09:00 Official opening – (TBC)

09:10 Keynote – “Fire and Life Safety in This the New Era of the Supertall Building”

Peter A. Weismantle FAIA, RIBA, Director of Supertall Building Technology,

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP, Chicago, US.

(note: all presentation timings include a 5 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Presentation 1: Lacrosse Incident, Melbourne – Justin Francis

10:15 Presentation 2: Fire Risk Management – Jim Glocking

10:40 Presentation 3: Fire Risk Management Process – Ben Bradford

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation 4: TBC

11:55 Presentation 5: “BIM and Tall Buildings” Peter Caplehorn DipArch RIBA

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

Session 2 – Fire Detection and Alarm in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – Advanced Alarms

13:30 Keynote –: New Innovations in Tall Building Fire Detection

- Advanced Alarms

14:00 Presentation 6: Time and the Tall Building: Case studies of new technologies

that are being implemented in the US to improve safety for occupants and emergency -

Nathan Wittasek

14:25 Presentation 7: Is phased evacuation credible? – Russ Timpson

14:50 Presentation 8: TBC

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:40 Presentation 9: Detection/Alarm and Fire Engineering – LFB Fire Engineering

16:05 Presentation 10: TBC

16:30 Panel Discussion

17:00 Conference Day 1 closes

19:30 Networking Social Event (see Social Programme)

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Thursday 9th July 2015

Session 3 – Fire Evacuation and Human Behaviour in Tall Buildings

Sponsor - TBC

08:45 Delegates to be seated in the Howe Lecture Theatre

09:00 Welcome – Tom Gilbert, BB7

09:10 Official opening Day 2 – Jim Creak, Means of Escape

09:20 Keynote – Prof. Ed Galea, Greenwich University

(note: all presentation timings include a 5 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Presentation 11: Fire Engineering & Escape – LFB Fire Engineering

10:15 Presentation 12: Evacuating Tall Buildings – people with reduced mobility

- Alison Hayward, Hospital Aids

10:40 Presentation 13: Evacuate and Disperse – Mike Wagland, Credit Suisse

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation 14: TBC

11:55 Presentation 15: Fire safety for tall buildings in Denmark – fire engineering

best practice & future challenges – Jens Husberg

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

Session 4 – Fire Containment and Passive Fire Barriers in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

13:30 Keynote – Gareth Dean, Sharpfibre TBC

14:00 Presentation 16: “How well do you know your buildings?” – Andy Jones

14:25 Presentation 17: “Tall buildings upside down – can we learn from London

Underground’s experience?” – Paul Bryant

14:50 Presentation 18: Fire Safety and Tall Building Facades – Steve Swales

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:40 Presentation 19: Timber and Tall Buildings – Jesse Heitz

16:05 Presentation 20: TBC

16:30 Panel Discussion

17:00 Conference Day 1 closes

19:30 Gala Dinner featuring Sir Ranulph Fiennes (see Social Programme)

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Friday 10th July – Tall Building Themed days

Theme 1 – Firefighting in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host – London Fire Brigade

08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre

09:00 Welcome – London Fire Brigade

09:20 Keynote – TBC

(note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Presentation 1: 500 decisions in 500 seconds – Justin Francis

10:40 Presentation 2: Current Tall Building Firefighting Issues – Mark Fishlock

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation 3: Tall Building Firefighting Command – Peter Cowup

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

13:30 Presentation 4: Tall Building Firefighter Training – West Mids F&R Service

14:20 Presentation 5: Tall Building Firefighting Equipment Innovation - LFB

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:40 Presentation 6: TBC

16:30 Panel Discussion

17:00 Firefighting in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

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Friday 10th July – Tall Building Themed days

Theme 2 – Security and Terrorist Threats in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host - CSARN

08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre

09:00 Welcome – Steve Watts, CSARN

09:20 Keynote – UK Government Security Advisor

(note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Real Time Mapping of Tall Building Security Incidents – Paul Snudden,

Andvance Laser imaging

10:40 Martin Smith, The Security Company

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Andy Coles, Frontline Security

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

13:30 NaCTSO

14:20 MPS firearms

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:40 TBC

16:30 Panel Discussion

17:00 Security in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

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Friday 10th July – Tall Building Themed days

Theme 3 – Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings

Sponsor – TBC

Host – Continuity Forum

08:45 Delegates to be seated in lecture theatre

09:00 Welcome – Sara McKenna

09:10 Official opening Resilience and Business Continuity in Tall Buildings Theme Day –

Russell Price

09:20 Keynote – TBC

(note: all presentation timings include a 10 minute Q&A session at the end)

09:50 Presentation 1

10:40 Presentation 2

11:05 Tea & Coffee Break

11:30 Presentation 3

12:20 Panel Discussion

12:40 Lunch

13:30 Presentation 4

14:20 Presentation 5

15:15 Tea & Coffee Break

15:40 Presentation 6

16:30 Panel Discussion

17:00 Resilience in Tall Buildings Theme Day closes

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4. Speaker Profiles

Ben Bradford Founder and Managing Director of BB7 Fire Risk + Resilience, voted by

IFSEC Global to be among the IFSEC 40 most influential people in fire and security, Ben

holds duel professional status as both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Surveyor. He

is the Chairman of the Fire Industry Associations (FIA) Professional Standards Working

Group and also a member of both the Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Engineering

Councils. Chairman of the Institution of Fire Engineers (London Branch) Marketing and

Events Committee and member of the IFE Competency and Ethics Committee. Ben also

sits on the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Building Control) Professional

Group Board and is the principle author of PAS 7: 2013 Fire Risk Management System

Requirements for and on behalf of British Standards Institution. Prior to founding BB7

he gained national and international experience as a Director for a large independent

Fire Engineering Consultancy, and has worked/presented in rapidly emerging countries

such as Vietnam, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Qatar, and Nigeria. He gained a sound

understanding of building pathology, Construction, Building Legislation, Codes and

Standards whilst working as a Chartered Building Control Surveyor in London and the

South East. During his career in Building Control he gained a BSc Hon’s in Building

Surveying, an MSc in Building Engineering which incorporated Evacuation Modelling

and he also gained an AMBA Accredited MBA via Kent Business School. In May 2014 he

will become Vice-President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers

Professor Ed Galea is the founding director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group (FSEG) of the University of Greenwich in London where he has worked in the area of Computational Fire Engineering (CFE) research since 1986. FSEG are developers of the EXODUS suite of evacuation and crowd dynamics software and the SMARTFIRE fire simulation software, which have users in 35 countries around the world. His personal research interests include human behaviour in emergency evacuation situations, crowd dynamics, evacuation and crowd dynamics simulation, fire dynamics and CFD fire simulation. His research has applications to the building, aviation, maritime and rail industries.

He is the author of over 300 academic and professional publications, the vice chair

of the International Association of Fire Safety Science and serves on a number of

standards committees concerned with fire and evacuation for organisations such as;

IMO, ISO, BSI and the SFPE Task Group on Human Behaviour in Fire. He has served

on several major Inquires and legal cases as an expert in fire and evacuation

including: the Paddington Rail Crash, the Swiss Air MD11 crash, and the Admiral

Duncan Pub bombing. He has successfully supervised 20 PhD students in fire and

evacuation related studies. He is a Guest Professor at Ghent University Belgium and

the Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et Mécaniques Avancés (ISMANS), Le Mans,

France where he teaches on Fire Safety Engineering MSc courses. He has won a

number of awards for his work including; 2001 British Computer Society Gold

Medal, 2002 Queen’s Anniversary prize, 2006 Royal Aeronautical Society Gold

Award; 2008 SFPE Jack Bono Award, 2010 Royal Aeronautical Society Bronze Award

and the 2014 The Guardian University Award for Research Impact. He is an

associate editor of the “Royal Aeronautical Journal” and open access journal ‘Fire

Science Reviews’.

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Mark Redding has over 20 years’ experience in the insurance industry advising commercial and corporate clients on all aspects of property and business interruption risk. Mark gained considerable experience of high rise office buildings working in Allianz Global’s financial sector where clients included Canary Wharf and Deutsche Bank and has more recently been closely involved in developing Mitsui Sumitomo’s approach to the assessment and underwriting of high rise buildings. Mark sits on a number of insurance related working groups where industry knowledge is shared and standards developed. With less academic credentials than some of his fellow presenters Mark would describe his approach to the subject of high rise buildings as experience-based and practical.

Peter Cowup is in his 33rd year of service with London Fire Brigade (LFB) and is an

Assistant Commissioner with responsibility for operational policy. Peter heads up a

department that takes the policy lead for LFB's firefighting, rescue, hazardous

materials, respiratory protective equipment and incident communications

capabilities. In practice, the department produces the risk assessments, policies and

procedures and training and equipment specifications which help to ensure that LFB

delivers a safe and effective operational response to a wide range of emergency

incidents. Peter’s role also includes attending and providing support to larger

operational incidents at both a tactical (Silver) and strategic (Gold) level of command.

During his career Peter has attended and taken command roles at a wide range of

significant operational incidents. These include a number of major fires, a major

incident at Chancery Lane LUL station and at Kings Cross station during the 7/7

London bombings. More recently Peter attended the helicopter crash in Vauxhall in

2013 as LFB’s principal media spokesperson and acted as the Gold fire commander for

the cable tunnel fire which occurred in Kingsway, Holborn in April 2015.

Through his work with CLG/CFRA, Peter took on the role of principal author for the

revised GRA that covers firefighting in high rise buildings. This was a significant

project, which run over three years and involved close working across the UK fire

service and with stakeholders such as trades unions and the Health and Safety

Executive. The GRA was published in February 2014 and provides UK fire services with

information on a range of hazards associated with high rise fires and guidance on how

these can be controlled through measures such as those associated with planning,

training and command and control.

Jim Glockling is the Technical Director of the Fire Protection Association.

Originally a Chemical Engineer, he did his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at the UK

Atomic Energy Authority before undertaking a post doctorate in fire extinguishing

technologies. He has worked as a university lecturer in Chemical Engineering &

Fire Engineering and as a Forensic Fire Investigator. Immediately prior to joining

the FPA he was the Associate Director of the Special Projects Group at LPC and

then BRE. Jim continues to undertake research into fire protection with his

sizeable team of experts with particular emphasis on solving high risk detection /

suppression issues and has worked extensively with the ABI, major UK insurers

and the MOD. He has responsibility for the annual UK insurer research budget

which is administered through the RISCAuthority scheme.

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Justin Francis - 19 years of experience within the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service has seen a significant amount of experience gained whilst working as an operational Station Officer within the Central Business District of Brisbane, Australia. This experience includes performing the role of incident controller at many incidents in tall buildings, 4 years of working within the Community Safety field focussed on Building Approvals of significant building developments, liaison with private industry and compliance and prosecution. This combined knowledge highlighted a shortfall in fire fighter skills and prompted establishment of training programs aimed at strengthening fire fighter knowledge on Special Fire Services within the built environment. My formal qualifications, a Bachelor Degree of Emergency Management from Charles Sturt University have assisted to extend my knowledge outside of my organisation. My current work area is operationally based and is broad in area, ranging from Technical Rescue through to bush fire management in the field of Bush Fire Behaviour Analysis.

Peter A. Weismantle - Director of Supertall Building Technology at Adrian Smith +

Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) in Chicago, is responsible for overseeing the

technical development of the firm’s supertall projects from concept to completion.

His current projects include Greenland Center, a 600+ meter tall project in Wuhan,

China; Dongcun Center, a 468 meter tall tower in Chengdu, China and the Kingdom

Tower, a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that, when completed, will be the tallest

building in the world at more than 1000 meters. Before joining AS+GG in 2008,

Peter was an Associate Partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

LLP, where he began his career in 1977 and served as senior technical architect on

several supertall towers, including Shanghai’s 88-story Jin Mao Tower and the 162-

story Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building.

He is currently the Chairman of the CTBUH Advisory Group, immediate past-

Chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings (CCHRB), President of

the Board of Directors of the Safety Glazing Certification Council (SGCC) and was

named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2010 and the

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in 2014.

Paul Bryant - Paul is the founder of Kingfell from 1995 which grew into a +£5m one

stop shop for fire engineering and protection. He divested his interest in system

engineering in 2011. Paul started his career with the Fire Offices Committee (FOC)

in the early 1980s, after receiving an honours degree in electrical engineering. As

Technical Officer he was responsible for the approval of fire detection and alarm

systems. When the FOC merged into the Loss Prevention Council, Paul’s remit

expanded into standards writing on an international basis.

He joined London Underground as Head of Fire Engineering in the 1990sand

oversaw a team of engineers responsible for the fire protection systems in all LU

stations. Today, Paul is recognised as an expert in the application of fire strategies.

He wrote British Standard PAS 911 as well as his book on the subject – “Fire

strategies – strategic thinking”. He lectures all over the world

Paul is also a Freeman of the City of London and a liveried member of the

Worshipful Company of Firefighters.

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Steve Watts - Strategic Security and Policing Consultant and Associate Director

CSARN

Steve served for over 31 years in UK Policing rising to become Assistant Chief

Constable of Hampshire Constabulary where as well as being part of the top team

directing the strategy of the Force, he was responsible for over 2,500 Police

Officers and Staff. In this far-reaching role, Steve was the force lead for areas

including: Critical Incident Management, Intelligence, Criminal Justice, Firearms

and High Tech Crime.

In addition to his Force responsibilities, Steve was active regionally and nationally

as part of the ACPO. He was South East Regional Lead on ACPO with responsibility

for professional management of the Regional Counter Terrorism Unit. National

Lead on the Investigation into Health care related deaths and for Investigative

Interviewing. In 2000 Steve commanded the UK team investigating War Crimes in

Kosovo on behalf of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the United

Nations,

In 2008 Steve took up a new challenge in the Middle East where, as Chief Strategic

Policing Advisor he leads a team supporting the strategic and operational

development of the ambitious Abu Dhabi Police in their plan to become a world

class policing leader. In 2010 Abu Dhabi Police was the top performing entity

(agency) in the Emirate.

Peter Caplehorn is the Policy Director and Deputy Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association, where he leads the work to ensure that the UK and EU policy and regulatory framework – particularly for technical and sustainability issues – supports a growing and profitable UK construction products industry. A Chartered Architect with more than 30 years of experience in construction, Peter has for more than 15 years engaged with the wider industry in a number of key national roles. He is currently working closely with the Royal Institute of British Architects, British Standards Institution, Building Research Establishment, Health and Safety Executive, and the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and & Skills. Peter is the deputy chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) and currently chairs CB- (the British Standards Institution’s strategic committee for construction). His main focus recently has been the new CDM Regulations, application of Building Information Modelling (“BIM”) within construction regulations and future building regulations. Prior to joining the Association, Peter was the Technical Director at the award-winning architectural practice Scott Brownrigg. Peter is the author of “Whole Life Costing: A New Approach” (Routledge, 2012) and has frequently published articles for the RIBA Journal, Building Design, Building and others. He has given evidence at several All Party Parliamentary Enquiries, and appeared on a number of television and radio interviews and live event programmes including Grand Designs Live. Peter was awarded the BA (Hons) from the Portsmouth School of Architecture, and

has been a member of the RIBA Council since 2009.

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Jesse Heitz - Jesse Heitz - obtained a BA from the University of St. Thomas in 2010. In July of 2014 he obtained a MA from King's College London. He is currently in the final months of a MSt in Building History from the University of Cambridge. Beginning in September 2015, he will begin studying for a Ph.D. in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews. He has written and presented over a dozen history research papers at both domestic and international conferences, with two additional research papers to be presented at conferences in 2015. He has two books due out in 2016-17. He has been a firefighter with the Chaska Fire Department since 2012, and has served as the Training Officer for the Carver County Fire Departments’ Hazardous Materials Response Group since 2014

Nathan Wittasek has twenty years of experience working in the fire protection and regulatory arenas. Nate brings a practical approach to the fire protection engineering field that reflects his diverse training and experiences in academia, codes consulting, fire protection engineering, sustainable design, and the fire service. His experience includes failure analysis, fire engineering, systems design and building codes consulting for commercial and infrastructure projects in North America, Asia, and the Middle East. Nate has specialized in fire life safety systems and approaches that are used in tall buildings, and is currently involved with several tall buildings projects in various stages of design and construction.

Nate is a registered fire protection engineer in the state of California, sits on

the fire safety committee for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat,

and is a regular instructor for the American Institute of Architects, California

Polytechnic University and the UCLA Extension, where he focuses on

regulatory issues, building, fire and zoning codes as well as accessibility.

Mike Wagland current role as Global Head of Health and Safety at Credit

Suisse Mike is responsible for developing and implementing the long term

strategy to the bank's operations across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. A

central part of this strategy involves working with the Bank’s global

outsourced FM partner organisation, to ensure their operational and

compliance health & safety risks are effectively mitigated.

Career Highlights include:

Introducing safe systems of work to deal with auditory shock and fire safety in Indian call centres.

Managing construction and operational safety systems in a datacenter network across eight European countries.

Developing a strategy and process for delivering health & safety-related sales and operational support to an international property management company.

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Jens Husbjerg started in 1991 his career at Rockwool Internationals. Jens was an

authority having jurisdiction that requires approvals compliance the Danish

building and fire code. Since then he has worked as fire consultant for 15 years for

major consultants and was in 2005 educated Master of Fire Safety from the

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with the master thesis developing a design

guideline in mechanical in-fire ventilation in Denmark.

Jens has extensive experiences with complex construction projects e.g. as

discipline leader for the development of fire safety strategies of sports arenas,

urban projects, airports in Oman, a new university in Beijing and a tunnel in

Sweden. He has performed fire analysis for structural steel and fire analysis for

hallow precast concrete planks.

Jens is chief fire consultant in MOE Consulting Engineers in Copenhagen and has in

the recently years worked intensively as PM and DL on larger projects with

international leading architects and engineers. MOE has developed the fire safety

strategy with BIG Architect for a new high rise building in Aarhus Harbor. One

current project proposal is the engineering report including the fire safety strategy

and authority approval for a new high rise office building, urban café facilities and

underground parking area. The building complex shall be located just in front of

Tivoli´s main entrance in central Copenhagen.

Jim Creak Editor Means of Escape web based publication and Managing Director of Jalite Plc manufacturers of photoluminescent escape route illumination materials and systems. Jim has been involved in Fire Safety for 30 years and Chairman of the British Standard Technical Committee responsible for the development of application Standards for escape route signing. Over those 30 years into escape behaviour, exit choice and escape route illumination has been influenced greatly by working with Dr Gerry Webber at the BRE , the late Dr Jonathan D Sime at Portsmouth Polytechnic and the late Dr Guylene Proulx at NRC in Canada.

Steve Swales Graduating in Building Construction then Architectural Science, Steve

was immediately employed by the Welsh School of Architecture to develop

specifications for fire resistant external cladding and façade systems. This lead to a

position with Rockwool where he delivered the first two third-party approvals for

construction products in the UK - perimeter barrier firestops for curtain walling and

fire-resistant stone wool lamella cores for composite panels. Upon joining the Siderise

Group in 1991, Steve spent sixteen years leading the development of the Lamatherm

brand and ultimately held commercial responsibility for the Group. Following six or so

years of directorships with various businesses in the composite panel and capital

equipment sectors, Steve re-joined Siderise in 2011 with responsibility for

commercialising the brand overseas, notably in the Middle East, and the provision of

support to key projects globally.

Currently Steve has Group responsibility for all Commercial, Marketing, Technical and

Product Development processes. Recent focus has included the undertaking of large

scale fire resistance tests to EN1364 Part 4, comprising non-rated curtain walling in

conjunction with edge of slab firestops.

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Martin Smith With nearly 40 years’ experience in the security and crime prevention industries, Martin Smith is a well-known, colourful (especially his jackets) and highly respected personality in the information assurance and cyber security world. He is an established and successful businessman and philanthropist, communicator, visionary, and internationally recognised author, speaker and (latterly) blogger on his passion of improving online trust. He has an extensive and enviable network of security contacts around the world. Martin gained his degree in behavioural psychology before spending 15 years as a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force Security (Provost) Branch employed on the whole range of policing and security duties. After being awarded the MBE for this work, he left the Service to establish a second career in the commercial sector. He joined Touche Ross Management Consultants before becoming the Senior Director of Corporate Security for Kroll Associates (UK). He then joined the Standard Chartered Bank as Head of Information Security before (in 1997) forming The Security Company (International) Limited. Martin is a Fellow of The Security Institute, and a Freeman of both the City of London and the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists. He is an active member of both ASIS International and the Information Assurance Advisory Council. He is a member of the Independent Advisory Panel of the Office for Nuclear Regulation.

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5. Social Programme

One of the main objectives of the conference is for delegates to meet and network with

colleagues from around the world. To that end the following social programme has been

arranged:

Wednesday 8th July, from 7pm: Networking

Reception at the Meantime micro-brewery.

With a wide selection of great beers and ales,

this venue is a great place to discuss the

subjects of the day. Pay as you go bar. Located

within the campus, 500 meters of the

conference venue.

Dress: informal + conference badges

www.oldbrewerygreenwich.com

Thursday 9th July, from 6:30pm: Gala Dinner in the Painted Hall.

The magnificent Painted Hall will provide a superb setting for the Gala Dinner. This is a

formal event. Black tie or dark lounge suit is the dress code. The meal is included in the

full delegate fee. Accompanying drinks (wine, soft drinks, etc.) will be available from a

cash bar. A string quartet will play during the evening.

The evening will feature an after dinner speech by the World renowned explorer,

Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Findraising for Help for Heroes will be part of the evening.

Often described as the ‘World’s Greatest Living

Explorer,’ Ran Fiennes is the first person to

reach both North and South Poles by foot. He

also made it into the record books by completing

seven marathons on seven continents (including

Antarctica) in seven days – soon after receiving

emergency heart surgery. Only then did he take

up climbing, starting with the North Face of the

Eiger. At the age of 65, at his third attempt, Ran

became the oldest Briton to conquer Everest.

In 2013 Ran launched The Coldest Journey, an

attempt to cross Antarctica on foot during the

southern winter where the temperature falls to

minus 90°C. He was forced to withdraw when he

suffered severe frostbite, but still claims that “if

you are lucky enough to be able to walk around

without a crutch, you might as well go for it.”

Ran Fiennes inspires and entertains conference

and after dinner audiences throughout the

world. Presentations draw a connection between

nature’s most dangerous and difficult challenges,

and the day-to-day hurdles we all face.

Teamwork, determination, patience, discipline

and creative thinking are all critical in

expeditions; we may not risk our own lives in

the same way, but the parallels are clear even in

less hazardous occupations.

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6. University of Greenwich

www.gre.ac.uk

Travel: http://www.visitgreenwich.org.uk/how-to-get-to-greenwich

Greenwich Campus is located in the old Royal

Naval College, which it moved into in the 1990s

when the premises were sold by the Royal Navy.

This makes it look like an old University when

actually it's a former polytechnic which only

became a university in the 1990s.

Three of the university’s schools are based here:

the Business School, the School of Computing and

Mathematical Sciences and the School of

Humanities & Social Sciences. The campus is also

home to the university’s Greenwich Maritime

Institute, a specialist maritime management,

policy and history teaching and research institute.

Trafalgar Tavern

Main

Conference

Venue

Painted Hall

Greenwich

Maritime

Docklands Light

Railway station

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7. Hotels

The conference hotel with a preferential conference rate is:

Devonport House Link: http://www.deverevenues.co.uk/en/venues/devonport-house/

Contact & quote booking code: HORI080715

Eileen Murnane - Reservations

De Vere Venues Devonport House

T: 0208 269 5443 | F: 0208 269 5422 |

E: [email protected]

Devonport House , King William Walk , Greenwich, London, SE10 9JW

8. Help?

Before the conference:

Updates and information will be posted on our Linkedin page

– Tall Building Fire Safety Network (please join if you have not done so already)

We will also send email updates regularly

During the conference:

We will have a delegate help desk operating during the conference.

A dedicated conference team will be on hand to answer your questions and make sure

you have the best conference possible.

At any time:

Contact conference director Russ Timpson:

Office: 02034 780678 Mobile: 07951 190576

Email: [email protected]

Web: www.tallbuildingfiresafety.com

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