• Session 1: (Chairs: Alistair Craib, Stewart Grainger, Ric Schleijpen)

  • 09:45: Welcome address

  • 10:00: Noel Mulliner - UNMAS, USA, Is Humanitarian Demining Technology a broken promise? (Presentation PDF and Article PDF)

  • 10:30: Havard Bach - GICHD, Switzerland, Current Practice and Future Needs (PDF - 53 MB)

  • 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break

  • 11:15: James Trevelyan - University of Western Australia, represented by R Gasser, European Commission, DG Information Society, Engineering Skills in Mine Action (Presentation PDF and Article PDF)

  • 11:45: Robert Keeley - Imperial College London, UK, Measuring the effectiveness  of demining machines (PDF - 18 MB)

  • 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch

• Session 2: (Chairs: Alistair Craib, Noel Mulliner, David Daniels)

  • 13:30: Stewart Grainger - BACTEC, UK, Landmarks in Humanitarian Demining - A Contractor's View (Presentation PDF and Article PDF)

  • 14:00 Mao Vanna - GeoSpatial International, Cambodia, Costs, needs and a vision on the evolution of humanitarian demining (PDF - 101MB)

  • 14:30: A. Hauger - NPA, Norway, NPA adapting new technologies (PDF - 16 MB)

  • 15:00: Gerd-Henning Klein - DLR, Germany, Sounding the Potential of Data Analysis Methodology for Metal Detectors", on programmatic aspects (rationale, goals, approaches, funding philosophy, current status etc.) of the BMBF-funded German joint project HuMin/MD (PDF)

  • 15:30 - 16:30 Coffee break

  • 16:30: A. Hauger - NPA, Sri Lanka, Raking: safe, simple and cost effective clearance technique (PDF)

  • 17:00: Noel Mulliner - UNMAS, representing UNOPS, USA, UNOPS and a market view (PDF)

  • 17:30-18:00: Panel Discussion

Day 2: 6 October 2004

• Session 3: (Chairs: Alistair Craib, Noel Mulliner, Vincent Muylkens)

  • 09:00: Robert Donehy - U. S. Representative, International Test and Evaluation Program for Humanitarian Demining, USA, Briefing on US technologies being used in humanitarian demining (PDF - 48 MB)

  • 09:25: Russell Gasser - European Commission, DG Information Society, EC Research and the deployment gap (PDF)

  • 09:50: Curt Larsson - SWEDEC, Sweden, The International Test and Evaluation Program - ITEP (PDF)

  • 10:15: Jan-Ole Robertz - SWEDEC, Sweden, Standardization in Humanitarian Mine Action. The European Initiative of CEN BT/WG 126. “Present situation and future work.” (PDF)

  • 10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break

  • 11:00: David Daniels - ERA Technology, Concept to production for MINETECT - a more efficient dual sensor detector (PDF - 13 MB)

  • 11:25: Havard Bach - GICHD, Switzerland, REST: from Duckling to Swan (PDF - 45 MB)

  • 11:50: Hugh Graham Minelab - Australia, Minelab: Contributing to the Defeat of Hidden Killers (PDF - 31MB)

  •  12:15: Christina Müller - BAM, Berlin, Germany, "Measuring Demining Performance in a Modular Model and Field Tests" Lessons learnt from field trials in relation to reality and real requirements (PDF)

  • 12:40: Björn Liszka - SWEDEC-EOD-IS, Sweden, EOD IS – a study in successful software development (Article PDF)

  • 13:05 - 14:15 Lunch

• Session 4: (Chairs: Noel Mulliner, Russell Gasser, Havard Bach)

  • 14:15: Alistair Craib - DFID, UK, Needs Approaching 2009 – a Donor’s View (PDF)

  • 14:45: Manfred Merk - German Foreign Office and MoD, Germany, Germany's point of view, both mine action (FO) and military research and development (MoD) (PDF - PDF)

  • 15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break

  • 15:30: Simon Conway - Landmine Action, UK, Donors and End-users: the need for direct dialogue (PDF)

  • 16:00: David Barlow - JMU-MAIC, USA, Questions That Donors Should Ask (And We Should Be Able To Answer) (PDF)