Tuesday, June 16, 2026
08h30
Welcoming participants
International Legal Context
Presidents:
• Laurence Lanoy, Lawyer in Environmental Law - Laurence Lanoy Avocats, France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC (Inogen),
CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert, France
08h55
Welcome speech & introduction to the congress
Dr. Frank Karg, Organization & President of International PFAS Congress
09h00
Origin of PFAS pollution in soils and water from industry sludges
Anne-Françoise Stoffel, R&D Director - Eurofins Environnement (France)
09h30
PFAS regulatory framework: Developments, harmonisation and compliance
challenges at national and international levels
Joanna Peltzman, Lawyer - Osborne Clarke (France)
10h00
New MVA applications,
including multivariances, multi-statistics, machine learning, clustering (AI)
and a large data-bank of enviro-chemical spectrums of (historical) commercial
PFAS products for identification & differentiation of PFAS contamination sources
Dr.
Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC (Inogen),
CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert (France)
10h30
Coffee & Tea break
11h00
The legal issues and financial implications of PFAS
Laurence Lanoy, Lawyer -
Specialist in Environmental Law - Laurence
Lanoy Avocats (France)
11h30
Between
heterogeneity and regulatory uncertainty, how can we best protect ourselves
from PFAS risk?
Élodie Simon, Partner & Gaspar Cottard, Senior Associate - Jones Day
(France)
12h00
First feedback: Monitoring the crucial choice of the PFAS compounds
analyzed
Jérôme Texier, R&D Engineer - XSEM (France)
12h30
Lunch
14h00
AFFF Fire System Conversion
• Rick Parkman, PFAS Lead - Ramboll Europe (United Kingdom)
• Frédéric Leveau, PFAS Lead - Ramboll (France)
14h30
Advancing treatment technologies and integrated risk management for
water, soil, sediment, and air in vulnerable african ecosystems
Paul Orengoh, Principal Consultant - JP Consult & Associates, Ltd (Kenya)
Identification & characterization of PFAS Sources (Part. 1)
15h00
Inter-laboratory differences in PFAS determination in aquatic vegetation
Ivar Lanting, Senior Advisor Environment & Energy - Antea Group / Inogen (Netherlands)
15h30
Coffee & Tea break
16h00
Real-time
PTR-ToF-MS calibration and flow-tube PFAS emissions measurements from consumer
materials
Marie-Joe Akiki, PhD student – Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Aix
Marseille University (France)
16h30
Assessing ambient air PFAS exposure: validated active sampling methods
for risk evaluation
Paola Verza, Special Projects Technical Manager - Mérieux NutriSciences (Italy)
17h00
PFAS with ppt sensitivity
Vincent Bouchiat, Researcher - Grapheal Fluorograph (France)
17h30
Consolidation of returns of experience for the change out of fluorinated
AFFF in different firefighting systems : from characterization to waste
treatment – perspectives
Matthieu Hirrien, Responsable des projets spéciaux et de l'innovation -
Hazardous Waste Europe (France)
18h00
End of the first day
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
08h30
Welcoming participants
Identification & characterization of PFAS Sources (Part. 2)
Presidents:
• Philippe Bodenez, Head of the Health, Environment, and Circular Economy
Department at the Directorate-General for Risk Prevention - French Ministry of
Ecological Transition, Energy, Climate, and Risk Prevention, France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC (Inogen),
CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert, France
09h00
What you should know about trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and other
ultra-short chain PFAS
Jacques Martelain, Environmental consultant specializing environmental
forensics & Judicial expert - Terraquatron (France)
09h30
PFAS in fire-fighting foams: regulation and analytical approaches
Anne Le Cudonnec, Sales Engineer - SGS Environmental Analytics
(France)
10h00
PFAS in atmospheric fallout from industrial sites
Ahmad El Masri, Engineer - French National
Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks, Ineris (France)
10h30
Coffee & Tea break
11h00
Inter-laboratory differences in PFAS determination
in aquatic vegetation
René Sloof,
Project Manager International Environment & Safety - Antea Group &
Board Member - Inogen Alliance (Netherlands)
Site Investigations, Environmental Chemistry and Transfer
Modelling
Environmental and Health Risk Assessments, Toxicology & Epidemiology
11h30
PFAS in Stormwater Biofiltration Basin Soils: Occurrence and Remediation
Sangchul Hwang, Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering - Texas State University (USA)
12h00
Consideration of poly-fluorinated PFAS precursors and their intermediary
and final metabolites for Human Health Risk Assessments (HHRA & TERQ): The
Question of the FTOHs in soils, water and air
Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC
(Inogen), CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert (France)
12h30
Lunch
14h00
PFAS released by landfill waste: how effective are the treatments?
Alice Senet, CIFRE Doctoral Student - Serpol & INSA (France)
14h30
Trends and actions on PFAS in Denmark
Dorte Harrekilde, Team lead – Ramboll (Denmark)
15h00
PFAS flux-based decision-making: an industrial case study
William Leys, PFAS Lead Europe - AECOM (Belgium)
15h30
Coffee & Tea break
16h00
Potential for PFAS transfer through the passive barrier of a hazardous waste
landfill
Jean-Yves
Richard, Head of Innovation - SARPI Veolia (France)
16h30
First PFAS quantitative ambient air measurements in the vicinity of Lyon
Metropolis
Albane Barbero, Chemical Research Engineer (Emerging Pollutants) – Atmo
AuRA (France)
17h00
Measuring PFAS in Air - The next frontier
Heather Lord, Global PFAS Practice Lead - ALS Global (Canada)
17h30
Industrial feedback of hazardous waste treatment
facilities on the monitoring campaigns of air emissions of PFAS conducted in
France under the ministerial order of October 31st, 2024, and
evaluation of health risks associated with the emissions
Azevedo Gonçalves, Environmental Monitoring Officer - French union of
professionals in recycling, recovery, regeneration and treatment of hazardous
waste, Sypred (France)
18h00
End of the second day
Thursday June 18, 2026
08h30
Welcoming participants
Remediation Plans and Remediation Goals, Management Experiences of
ultrashort-chain PFAS (TFA, etc.) and Volatile PFAS (FTOHs, etc.)
Presidents:
• Prof. Géraldine Gouhier - CARNOT i2C Sales Director & Professor - CARMeN Institute, France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC
(Inogen), CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert, France
09h00
Degradation of PFAS in historically contaminated soils: evidence of biotic
processes
Lamyae El-Mrabet, Doctorant (PFAS) - French
National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks, Ineris (France)
09h30
Field Demonstrations of PFAS Destructive Treatment Using an Innovative UV-Based
Technology
Zhong (John) Xiong, Principal Engineer - Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (USA)
10h00
Combined in-situ Depollution of PFAS, via microbiological pre-treatment
of Precursors and biochemical aquifer and soil washing
Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC
(Inogen), CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert (France)
10h30
Coffee & Tea break
11h00
Removal of short- and
long-chain PFAS compounds using a multi-regenerable ion-exchange resin with
charge-switching technology
Farhad Farnia, Co-founder and CEO -
Ecofilter Tek (Québec, Canada)
11h30
PFAS treatment with ion exchange:
Worldwide compliance to everchanging regulations
Catherine Swanson, Director of Business Development for Emerging Markets -
Ecolab, Purolite Resins (USA)
12h00
Modular solutions to eliminate short and ultra-short chain PFAS from
industrial wastewater & groundwater
Eleonore Morlas, Chief Commercial Officer - Oxyle (Switzerland)
12h30
Lunch
14h00
Surfactant enhanced PFAS aquifer remediation and decontamination of AFFF
fire suppression systems
George Ivey, President - PFAS-SOL By Ivey
International Inc. (Canada)
14h30
From concentration to flux: integrated analytical, monitoring and
remediation strategies for sustainable PFAS management in soil and groundwater
Marjan Joris, Account Manager - iFlux (Belgium)
15h00
Anticipation strategies for drinking water authorities facing PFAS risks
Cédric Masson, Head of Water
Treatment Services - Naldeo (France)
15h30
Coffee & Tea break
Treatment
Technologies for Water, Soils, Sediments and Air (Part. 2)
16h00
Removal and complete
destruction of PFAS on activated carbon: results from measurement campaigns and
industrial validation
Lowie Bolle, Chef de projet R&D - Desotec (Belgium)
16h30
Evaluation of the efficiency of a two-stage reverse osmosis (RO) system
for trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) retention applied to industrial wastewater
treatment. Semi-industrial scale case study
Eric Harfmann, Site Director - Veolia Hazardous Waste Europe (France)
17h00
PFAS: Significant progress in industrial waste waters and sludge
management in response to the global environmental challenge
Delphine Steinmann, Research and
Development Engineer - Suez (France)
17h30
PFAS enhanced retention using colloidal activated carbon: Proven, low-cost
remediation of groundwater and soil
Scott Wilson, CEO & President - Regenesis (USA)
18h00
End of the third day
Friday June 19, 2026
08h30
Welcoming participants
Treatment Technologies for Water, Soils, Sediments and Air
(Part. 2)
Research & Development (R&D)
Presidents:
• Sylvie Traverse, Department of Air, Process Technologies and ICPE - Ginger Burgeap, France
• Dr. Christophe Rousselle, French Agency for Environmental and Health Safety
(ANSES) - Francophone Society for Health and the Environment (SFSE) &
Association for Environmental Research (ARET), France
• Dr. Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC
(Inogen), CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert, France
09h00
PFAS and TFA by an innovative process using cold plasma
Julien Morvan, President - Holopharm (France)
09h30
Capturing What Others Miss – Innovative Ion Exchange resins for Short-
and Ultra-Short-Chain PFAS Removal in Water
Björn Dinges, Business Development & Application Technology Manager –
Lanxess (Germany)
10h00
Case studies of very large Leachability Differences
concerning per- & poly-fluorinated PFAS in soils and their Solubilization
in Groundwaters
Dr.
Frank Karg, SFSE & ARET, Scientific Director of Ginger Group - HPC (Inogen),
CEO of Atlantis Développement & Court Expert (France)
10h30
Coffee & Tea break
11h00
Scalable UV destruction of PFAS in foam-fractionated
Minnesota groundwater
Zachary Rogers, Account Executive - Claros Technologies (USA)
11h30
European Benchmark of remediation technologies for
soil and groundwater polluted by PFAS
Boris
Devic-Bassaget, Technical Director - SARPI Remediation (France)
12h00
Leading the way in responsible fluoropolymer
management: FPG’s commitment to emission reduction and sustainable practices
Caroline Andersson, Director Fluoropolymers - Plastics Europe (Belgium)
12h30
Lunch
14h00
Capture and concentrate PFAS with recyclable magnetic nanoparticles
Géraldine Gouhier, CARNOT i2C Sales Director & Professor - CARMeN Institute (France)
14h30
PFAS destruction via nonthermal plasma in
(waste)water. Focus on ultrashort PFAS and difficult matrices
Wouter De
Weirdt, Chief Executive Officer - Tectero (Belgium)
15h00
Field experience and evaluation of in situ remediation techniques: (1)
immobilzation and (2) soil flushing coupled with foam fractionation
Loïc Ruiz, Project Engineer - Jan de Nul (Belgium)
15h30
Coffee & Tea break
16h00
Decontamination and destruction of firefighting
foams and rinse water containing PFAS through SuperCritical Water Oxidation
(SCWO)
Anne Duget, Sales and Marketing Manager – ArianeGroup (France)
16h30
Microalgal-based
carbon encapsulated iron nanoparticles as novel adsorbents for PFAS removal:
From dye proxies to target compounds
Valeria Mezzanotte, Associate Professor - University
of Milan-Bicocca (Italy)
17h00
Pilot-Scale Demonstration of PFAS Immobilization in
Soil and Groundwater (PIGGS Project)
Wim Vansina, Principal Advisor - Antea Group (Belgium)
17h30
Treatment of PFAS in industrial effluents by reverse
osmosis coupled with electro-oxidation
Guillaume Deruy, R&D Engineer - Séché Environnement (France)
18h00
End of the fourth day
End of conference