The Regulatory Summit USA is a unique event offering up-to-the minute information on chemicals regulations throughout North America.
 

This summit offers a unique opportunity to get ahead of the latest regulatory challenges facing the safe management of chemicals. The two-day event - including presentations, round table discussions and Q&As - brings together over 25 experts in global chemicals regulation.   

Session 1, on Day One, focuses on the new TSCA. For the first session of the Summit, Chemical Watch is pleased to have assembled an impressive faculty of TSCA experts representing the perspectives of industry, academia, NGOs, and US federal and state regulators who will share their expert knowledge.

Session 2 looks at other developments in North America, including State level activity together with updates on the review of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) plus the green chemistry ;

On Day Two, Session 3 focuses on Europe, and includes an update on REACH and the approaching 2018 registration deadline, and the impact of Brexit on the UK chemicals industry.

Finally, Session 4 is presented by expert speakers who will provide you with an up-to-the-minute view of key regulatory and compliance issues in Turkey, Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, the Middle East, and Australia.

Speakers include:

• Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner, Bergeson & Campbell,
• Jim Jones, Executive Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Industry Relations, Consumer Specialty Products Association
• Dimitri Karakitsos, Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
• Greg Schweer, Chief, New Chemicals Management Branch,  Environmental Protection Agency
• Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology & Policy and Director of the Technology & Law Program, MIT
• Richard A. Denison, Lead Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund
• Jeff Morris, Office Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency
• Karyn Schmidt, Senior Director, Regulatory and Technical Affairs Committee, American Chemistry Council
• Sara Beth Watson, Counsel, Steptoe and Johnson LLP
• Anthony Samson, Senior Attorney/Policy Advisor,  Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer
• Gina Solomon, Deputy Secretary for Science and Health, CalEPA
• Dan Bastien, Director of Business Development, Industrial Chemicals, Critical Path Services, LLC
• Amardeep Khosla, Executive Director, CEPA Industry Coordinating Group
• Richard Engler, Senior Chemist, Bergeson & Campbell
• Jean-Philippe Montfort, Partner, Mayer Brown
• Geert Dancet, Executive Director, ECHA
• Frederik Johanson, Partner, ReachLaw
• Jeffrey Hafer, Lead Chemist, Regulatory Affairs, Critical Path Services
• Yaprak Yüzak Küçükvar, Manager, RGS Turkey
• Ashley E. Pedersen, Policy Liaison, Local Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, King County DNRP, Water and Land Resources Division, King County, Washington State
• Meredith Williams, Deputy Director, Safer Products and Workplaces Program,  DTSC, California
• Ya-hui Ni, Deputy General Manager, Environment Resource & Information Co Ltd, Taiwan
• Hyun Pyo Jeon, Senior Researcher, KIST
• Lisa Zhong, Product Registration and Compliance Department, CNCIC
• Michael Wenk, Senior Regulatory Consultant, ACTA