| Day one – Wednesday 29 April 2026 |
| All presentations will take place in the Concorde Room (ground floor by the reception desk) |
| 08.30-09.30 | Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits – Concorde Room |
| 09.30-09.40 | Welcome address – Introduction to the programme | Tom Bertenshaw
GKN Aerospace Services Ltd, UK, and Chair of the West of England Branch
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| | Session 1A: State of the industry | Chair: To be confirmed |
| 09.40-10.00 | State of vision acuity and colour perception standard – How NANDTB UK perceives the current state | Patrick Boulton
BINDT, UK
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| 10.00-10.20 | Title to be confirmed | Chris Minton
South West School of NDT, UK |
| 10.20-11.00 | Exhibition, tea and coffee – Concorde Room
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| | Session 1B: State of the industry continued | Chair: To be confirmed |
| 11.00-11.20 | UK Update – State of industry | Tim Barden
Rolls-Royce plc, UK, and RCNDE |
| 11.20-11.40 | Managing change within aerospace NDE and measurement | Tom O’ Hare
Short Brothers plc, a Boeing Company, UK
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| 11.40-12.20 | Exhibitor spotlight session |
| 11.40-11.42
11.42-11.44
11.44-11.46
11.46-11.48
11.48-11.50
11.50-11.52
11.52-11.54
11.54-11.56
11.56-11.58
12.58-12.00
12.00-12.02
12.02-12.04
12.04-12.06
12.06-12.08
12.08-12.10
12.10-12.12
12.12-12.14
12.14-12.16
12.16-12.18
12.18-12.20
| Tieval Ltd
JME Ltd
Foerster UK Ltd
Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch
HTSL
Eddyfi Technologies
ETher NDE
Baugh & Weedon Ltd
SREM Technologies
Peak NDT Ltd
Scantron Industrial Products Ltd
TPAC NDT UK Ltd
Dakota NDT
Sonaxis SA
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
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| 12.20-13.50 | Exhibition and lunch – Concorde Room |
| | Session 1C: State of the industry – Feedback session | Chair: Tom Bertenshaw |
| 13.50-14.10 | Panel session: state of the industry open discussion | Tim Barden
Rolls-Royce plc, UK |
| | Session 2A: NDT regulations | Chair: To be confirmed |
| 14.10-14.30 | Updates to EN4179 | Kevin Pickup
BAE Systems, UK |
| 14.30-14.50 | Title to be confirmed | Tony Warren
Airbus, UK
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| 14.50-15.10 | Revision of TR14748 – Qualification of NDT | Tom Bertenshaw
On behalf of BSI Group, UK
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| 15.10-15.30 | Exhibition, tea and coffee – Concorde Room |
| | Session 2B: NDT regulations continued |
| 15.30-15.50 | Composite conversion for NDT technicians | Rob Rose
National Composites Centre, UK |
| 15.50-16.10 | Online remote training – Procedures put in place following COVID-19 | Patrick Boulton
BINDT, UK
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| 16.10-16.30 | ET requirements and syllabus development update: the introduction of learning outcomes and progress on the expansion to scope | Howard Garlick
BINDT, UK
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| 16.30-17.00 | Q&A session |
| 17.00 | Day one raffle and closing address |
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| Day two – Thursday 30 April 2026 |
08.30-09.30
| Registration, tea, coffee and biscuits – Concorde Room |
| 09.30-09.40 | Welcome address – Introduction to the programme | Tom Bertenshaw
GKN Aerospace Services Ltd, UK, and Chair of the West of England Branch
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| | Session 3A: Changes in the air and NDT of new materials and processes | Chair: To be confirmed |
| 09.40-10.00 | Beyond the capillary: the evolution of surface inspection from ancient metallurgy to nano liquids and digital physics | Hasan Yasin Celik
WiNDT, UK
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| 10.00-10.20 | From tradition to automation: tap testing for today’s materials
| Sam Hurrell
TWI, UK |
| 10.20-10.40 | Cart/AGV approach with aerospace water wedge | Etienne Grondin
Evident Europe GmbH – UK Branch |
| 10.40-11.00 | µ-VIS X-ray imaging centre computed tomography facility: a focus on best practice, training and certification
| Katy Rankin
University of Southampton, UK |
| 11.00-11.20 | Shearography | John Tyrer
Laser Optical Engineering Ltd |
| 11.20-11.30 | Q&A session |
| 11.30-12.10 | Exhibition, tea and coffee – Concorde Room |
| | Session 3B: Changes in the air and NDT of new materials and processes continued
| Chair: To be confirmed |
| 12.10-12.30 | Addressing non-conformity between the digital twin and reality on complex-shaped parts | Thomas Gramberger
Fill GmbH, Austria
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| 12.30-12.50 | From sound to sight: bringing defects into focus with 4D views and advanced POD techniques | Matt Day
Dolphitech Ltd, UK
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| 12.50-13.10 | Robotised laser-excited UT for contact-free and water-free composite inspection | Stefan Wunderl
XARION Laser Acoustics GmbH, Austria
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| 13.10-13.30 | Embedded self-sensing overload sensing for composite structures
| Meisam Jalalvand
University of Southampton, UK
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| 13.30-13.40 | Q&A session |
| 13.40-14.40 | Exhibition and lunch – Concorde Room |
| | Session 4: Quantum leaps – academic research in NDT
| Chair: To be confirmed |
| 14.40-15.00 | Ultrasonic inspection of fastener-hole cracks using a 2D array | Yanghao Wu
University of Bristol, UK
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| 15.00-15.20 | Case studies of laminography in aerospace | James Bennett
Co-Lab Consulting, UK
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| 15.20-15.40 | Electromagnetic testing – Securing technological advancement for the inspection of layered structures | Apostolos Kotouzas and Xenia Merivani
Technology & Quality Control Centre (TQCC)
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| 15.40-16.00 | Title to be confirmed | Speaker to be confirmed |
| 16.00-16.10 | Q&A session |
| 16.10 | Day two raffle and closing address of event |
