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Schedule

  • Tuesday, August 26, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM EDT
    Speaker Ready Room Open
  • 7:20 AM - 7:50 AM EDT
    Speaker Breakfast
  • 7:30 AM - 5:30 PM EDT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM EDT
    Plenary Session - Conversation with Rafael Grossi, Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    13 - Emerging Nuclear Challenges: Safeguards Considerations
    Session Chair: Danielle Miller – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    14 - Creating the Next Generation of Security & Protection Experts II
    Session Chair: Emily Adams – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    15 - Innovative Measurement Techniques (Part 1)
    Session Chair: Catherine Romano – The Aerospace Corporation
    Session Chair: Craig Sloan – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    16 - Containment & Surveillance
    Session Chair: Heidi A. Smartt (she/her/hers) – Sandia National Laboratories
    Session Chair: Katharina Aymanns (she/her/hers) – Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management (IFN), Nuclear Safeguards
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    17 - Transport and Disposition of Plutonium
    Session Chair: Mike Valenzano – NAC International Inc
    Session Chair: Nicholas Antonio – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    18 - Detection for Nuclear Material Management
    Session Chair: Maggie Arno – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Sunil Chirayath – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
    13 - Emerging Nuclear Challenges: Safeguards Considerations
  • 9:30 AM - 5:15 PM EDT
    Exhibit Hall Open
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT
    Break / Visit Exhibits
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    19 - Considerations for Securing Advanced & Small Modular Reactors I
    Session Chair: Matt Bucknor – Argonne National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    20 - Lessons from the Field: Security & Protection Experiences from Around the World II
    Session Chair: Jodi Canaday – Argonne National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    21 - Innovative Measurement Techniques (Part 2)
    Session Chair: Christopher Ramos, PhD – DOE/NNSA
    Session Chair: Braden Goddard – Virginia Commonwealth University
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    22 - Export Control
    Session Chair: Andrew Castiglioni – Argonne National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    23 - Safety, Security and Safeguards
    Session Chair: Matthew Cannon – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Zachery Beauvais – Argonne National Laboratory
  • 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM EDT
    24 - Evolving Safeguards Frameworks
    Session Chair: Marco Marzo – Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials
    Session Chair: Luis Ocampo Giraldo – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM EDT
    Lunch on Your Own
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    25 - Panel: Non-Proliferation and Safeguards Aspects of Fusion
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    26 - Nonproliferation Technologies
    Session Chair: Christopher Ramos, PhD – DOE/NNSA
    Session Chair: Phoenix Baldez – Sandia National Labs
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    27 - Cyber Dynamics & Impacts for Security & Protection
    Session Chair: Matthew Zerphy – Penn State University
    Session Chair: Paul Adamson – National Nuclear Security Administration
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    28 - New Processing Technologies
    Session Chair: Michelle Silva – Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Session Chair: Leonard Manzanares – Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    29 - Safeguards and Nonproliferation Challenges with Uranium
    Session Chair: Glenn Sjoden – The Aerospace Corportation
  • 1:40 PM - 3:20 PM EDT
    30 - Operational Realities for Security & Protection
    Session Chair: Daniel Hartman – LIS Technologies Inc
    Session Chair: Kelly Jenkins – Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  • 3:20 PM - 3:50 PM EDT
    Break / Visit Exhibits
  • 3:50 PM - 5:10 PM EDT
    Poster Session B
  • 5:40 PM - 7:00 PM EDT
    NGFP 30th Anniversary Alumni Forum
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
    INMM Mixer