2025 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium

PRESENTATIONS

Open to All | Shifts to Members-Only Benefit April 21, 2025

VIDEOS

• Welcome from Arnau Izaguerri, Legal Officer, UN Trade & Development
• Welcome from Peter Feldman, Acting Chair, CPSC
• OPSS Delivery Report 2023-2024
• Carol Pollack-Nelson's Tribute to Ross Koeser

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

Monday, February 17, 2025

• Keynote 1 - Alejandra Barcelo, Google LLC

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• Keynote 2 - Ronald J. Masciantonio, Five Below

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• Keynote 3 - Sally Greenberg, JD, National Consumers League (NCL)

Thursday, February 20, 2025

• Keynote 4 - Hanane Taidi, TIC Council

PLENARY SESSIONS

Monday, February 17, 2025

• Plenary 1 - Market Surveillance and Product Recalls: Linking Policy to Action in Case of Online Sales
• Plenary 2 - Across the Recall Ecosystem: Leading Practices, Challenges & Lessons Learned

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• Plenary 3 - Leadership in Compliance
• Plenary 4 - Leveraging AI for Transforming Product Safety Learnings
• Plenary 5 - Safe for Me, But Not for You: In the pursuit of regulatory convergence and exploration of mutual recognition

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• Plenary 6 - Protect Consumers from Unsafe Products in the E-Commerce Era: Leveraging CPSC E-Filing and Testing to Ensure Safety and Compliance
• Plenary 7 - Americexit: Understanding the Increasing Divisions in the United States as Individual U.S. states Add their own Product Safety Requirements
  

Thursday, February 20, 2025

• Plenary 8 - Women Leaders in Product Safety
• Plenary 9 - Reese's Purpose: When a Product Safety Concern Becomes a Product Safety Requirement
• Plenary 10 - Stronger Together: Harnessing the Power of Advocacy and Manufacturing for Product Safety
• Plenary 11 - The Four C's of Product Safety Compliance Programs
• Plenary 12 - Exploring how Product Safety Impacts Public Health Internationally

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Monday, February 17, 2025

• Breakout 1 - Improving Consumer Product Safety Using Iterative Product Testing throughout the Product Development Lifecycle (CLE Credits)
• Breakout 2 - The Growing Impact of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Regulations on Products and Packaging
• Breakout 3 - Open Meeting: Strategic Committee Reports
• Breakout 4 - Exploring the Intersections between Consumer Rights and Recalls

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

• Breakout 5/9 (REPEATING) - ESG and Product Safety
• Breakout 6/10 (REPEATING) - How to deal with Frankenstein Product
• Breakout 7/11 (REPEATING) - Power in Little Hands: New Insights in Child Strength for Product and Safety Standards
• Breakout 8/12 (REPEATING) - Have Your Say: How can Stakeholders Make a Difference in Shaping Policy and Laws
  
• Breakout 13 - Global Crisis Management: Navigating Reporting Standards & Recall Procedures across the US, Canada, Europe and Australia (CLE Credits)
• Breakout 14 - Visualizing Consumer Complaints: A Data-Driven Approach to Enhancing Product Safety
• Breakout 15 - Gamechangers
• Breakout 16 - "Warning! This product will..." Recommendations from experts for dealing with Proposition 65
• Breakout 17 - Belonging Roundtable: Accessibility in Product Safety
• Breakout 18 - Love 'Em or Hate 'Em, PFAS are Forever: The Good, the Bad, the Forever (CLE Credits)
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  • Slide Deck 3
• Breakout 19 - Make your Case: The Importance of Data and Collaboration in Standards Development
• Breakout 20 - Navigating the Digital Landscape: Streamlining CPSC e-Filing for Compliance

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• Breakout 21 - Aligning Compliance Goals through Smart Chemical Testing Strategies
• Breakout 22 - Inclusive Toy Design through Collaboration
• Breakout 23 - Standardization and Product Safety in China, EU, and USA
• Breakout 24 - Implications of Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) in Product Safety and New Regulations

Thursday, February 20, 2025

• Breakout 29 - Ask the CPSC SBO
• Breakout 30 - One Product - Many Variations 
• Breakout 31 - Can AI in Products be Safe?

REGULATOR SESSIONS

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

• Regulator 1 - CPSC Updates with Jim Joholske, Stephen Lee and Jonathan Midgett
• Regulator 2 - Global Regulator Update
• Regulator 3 - Health Canada Updates
  

POSTER SESSIONS

• ANSI Z535.7 and Beyond - Introduction to the New Standard for Presenting Safety Information in Electronic Media
• Best Practices in Evaluation Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Dog Anatomy Data Collection - Research to Fuel the Dog Equivalent of the Small Parts Cylinder
• Improving Data Reporting to Avoid TSCA Pitfalls: A Call for Engagement of Downstream Users
• Inmetro's Advances in Market Surveillance in Brazil
  
• Made of Recycled PET?
• YouthShape.US: A New Study of Child and Youth Anthropometry and Physical Capability