The 2023 ASNT Fall Conference

The ASNT Fall Conference, held in Houston, Texas, from 23-26 October 2023, was a huge success, with attendance exceeding pre-COVID conferences. There were a total of 225 exhibitors, including BINDT, and in excess of 2000 attendees. Committee meetings included the Annual General Meeting of the North American Branch of BINDT, chaired by Brian Shannon, which was very well attended.

One of the highlights, from a BINDT point of view, was the induction of the Institute’s Chief Executive Officer David Gilbert as a Fellow at the awards banquet; see the photo on the right, where he is pictured with his table companions.

As always, there was a large contingent from the UK represented in the exhibit hall with most of them present for the traditional photo at the BINDT booth. Following the photograph, there was a book-signing event for the first section of my book A Peripatetic Scotsman, published through the auspices of BINDT and with the proceeds being contributed to the BINDT Benevolent Fund.

The opening speaker was the elite world-class decathlete John Register, who hyperextended his knee and severed the popliteal artery. He started swimming to aid in his recovery, made the US Paralympic Team and won a silver medal in the long jump, as he set an American record and sprinted to fifth in the 100 m and 200 m at the Sydney Olympics. His story is an inspirational one.

The closing speaker was Dr Brent Seales from the University of Kentucky, who described discovery and revelation of the Hebrew text of Leviticus. “The text revealed today from the En-Gedi Scroll was possible only because of the collaboration of many different people and technologies,” said Brent. “The last step of virtual unwrapping, done at the University of Kentucky through the hard work of a team of talented students, is especially satisfying because it has produced readable, identifiable biblical text from a scroll thought to be beyond rescue.

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