Conference

Chemicals Management for Electronics USA 2020

12–13 Nov 2020Virtual event (+ video recordings)

Regulatory updates and hot topics in electronics around the world

Chemicals Management for Electronics USA 2020

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Agenda

10:00 GMT

All times are in EST (Washington DC)

11:00 GMT

Welcome and introduction

Chair:

Michael Kirschner, Design Chain Associates, LLC, United States

11:01 GMT

Global regulations for chemicals in electronics

11:15 GMT

Chemicals in product sustainability standards for EPEAT

Holly Elwood, United States Environmental Protection Agency

11:40 GMT

Evaluating and managing TSCA high-priority chemical substances in electronics equipment

Kelly Scanlon, IPC, USA

12:20 GMT

Proposition 65 warnings and electronics

Mario Fernandez, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)

12:40 GMT

Q&A

12:55 GMT

RoHS around the world: a panel discussion

Discussing RoHS regulation across North America, Latin America, China, India, Russia and Ukraine

Panellists:

Michael Kirschner, Design Chain Associates, LLC, United States; Weiwei Luo, Of Counsel at Beveridge and Diamond PC in Washington, DC; Cristina Garcia, knoell

13:40 GMT

Q&A

13:55 GMT

Break and networking

Meet and network with your fellow delegates and the speakers in our virtual meeting room. We're excited to bring you our new networking area; a place to grab a virtual coffee with others - just like you would at a live event.

13:57 GMT

'Ask the expert' in our virtual networking area

14:00 GMT

'Ask the expert' forum: Standards for electronics with IPC

Join the IPC table to have your questions answered on all things standards for electronics. This is a 'drop in' session between 1-2pm and seats are limited.

Patrick Crawford, IPC

14:25 GMT

Chemical Watch

14:30 GMT

Chemical Watch Demo

14:55 GMT

Full materials disclosure and supply chain issues

15:00 GMT

Introducing resiliency to your RoHS supply chain

Exploring flexibility, diversity, and communications to allow your supply chain to function through and quickly recover from disruptions.

Robert (Bob) Trimble, Intertek, United States

15:25 GMT

Supply chain management: Full material declarations and SCIP compliance

Aidan Turnbull, BOMcheck, UK

15:50 GMT

Q&A

16:10 GMT

Industry hot topics panel discussion

Speakers include:

John Ortiz, Memjet; Matt Kelly, IPC; Aidan Turnbull, BOMcheck, UK

16:50 GMT

Q&A

17:15 GMT

End of day one