Thursday, December 3, 2026

Brussels Environment Auditorium

 

 

08:30
Welcoming Participants

09:15
Welcome speech
Saïd El Fadili, Director of Integrated Soil Management - Brussels Environment, Belgium

09:30
Review and outlook for European Soil legislation
Bavo Peeters, Policy Officer - European Commission, Belgium

09:55
Review and outlook for the Soil legislation in the Flemish Region
Johan Ceenaeme, Policy coordinator - Soil department at Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM), Belgium

10:20
Review and outlook for the Soil legislation in the Walloon Region
Michel Amand, Director - Directorate for Soil Protection and Remediation - Walloon Public Service (WPS), Belgium

10:45
Coffee break

11:05
Review and outlook for the SOL legislation in the Brussels-Capital Region
Saïd El Fadili, Director of Integrated Soil Management - Brussels Environment, Belgium


11:30
Round table
Review and outlook for land legislation in Europe and the Belgian Regions
Programme currently in progress


12:30
Lunch


Session A
Soil monitoring, diagnosis and health

13:45
Soil monitoring in Brussels: Results and key insights
François Henry, Soil Expert - Brussels Environment, Belgium

14:10
IQSW-pro: a tool for assessing soil quality and health
Clélia Van de Casteele, Soil Research Officer - ARIES Consultants, Belgium

14:35
KriGIS, a Walloon tool to simplify the management of contaminated sites
Olivier Bouhon, Director - Artesia Environnement, Belgium

15:00
Knowing when to stop: A sustainability-driven exit strategy
Charline Kaplan, Senior Consultant - ERM, Belgium

15:25
Coffee break

15:45
A small PFAS molecule, system-wide challenge: Rethinking TFA 
Dirk Nuyens, Senior Subject Matter Expert PFAS & Senior Partner - ERM, Belgium

16:10
Beyond sterilisation: functional recovery of soils after in situ thermal treatment, from laboratory to field
Ysaline Depasse, Team Leader Technology Development - Haemers Technologies, Belgium

16:35
GIS for soil pollution management at Infrabel
Nicolas Renaud Isaac, Soil Pollution Advisor - Infrabel, Belgium

17:00
End of the first day

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Friday 4 December 2026

08:30
Welcoming participants


Session B
Emerging pollutants: identifying, measuring and managing them

09:15
From bench study to field application: PFAS stabilization in contaminated soils at an industrial site
Jack Shore, Regional Manager Europe - Regenesis, United Kingdom

09:40
PFASafe® v2: a new dimension for PFAS-monitoring of soil
Pieter Joos, Expert Analytical Research & Development and Quality, Belgium

10:05
Feedback on PFAS sampling cross contamination
Kaelig Bouisseren, Project Manager for Contaminated Sites and Soils Management & Sylvie Traverse, Project Manager - Ginger Burgeap, France

10:30
Beyond Multi-PFAS methods: A group-based analytical strategy for the determination of ultrashort-chain PFAS and Fluorotelomer Alcohols
Jana Kováčová, PFAS Lead for Continental Europe - ALS, Czech Republic

10:55
Coffee break


11:15
Round-table discussion
PFAS – What challenges do they pose for soil and groundwater management?

• Catherine Bouland, Professor at the School of Public Health - ULB, Belgium
• Jan Haemers, CEO - Haemers Technologies, Belgium
• Louis Vandebroeck, Director of the Soil Department at Aries & Président of Fedexsol, Belgium
• Mohamed Bouamama, Head of the PFAS Working Group & Soil Expert - Brussels Environment, Belgium
• Dirk Nuyens, Senior Subject Matter Expert PFAS & Senior Partner - ERM, Belgium


12:30
Lunch


Session C
Prevention and restoration of degraded soils and new approaches to soil management

13:45
Validation by a Residual Risk Analysis of Management Threshold Values for PFAS-Contaminated Soils in an Airport Context
Lucie Robin Vigneron, Managing Director - HPC International, France

14:10
Adsorption of PFAS onto clays
Najeeb Ullah Khan, PhD student - Monash University, Australia

14:35
Sustainable bioremediation technology to ensure soil conservation
Erwan Goulian, Account Manager - Evonik, France

15:00
No Net Land Take in Brussels: presentation of the findings of the exploratory study
Wouter François, Head of Department, Integrated Land Management - Brussels Environment, Belgium

15:25
Coffee break

15:45
On-site PFAS remediation by in-situ soil flushing and foam fractionation at a former papermill industrial zone
Elien Van Houwenhove, Senior Project Engineer - Jan De Nul, Belgium

16:15
General conclusions of the symposium, acknowledgements and official closing
Saïd El Fadili, Head of the Soils Sub-division - Brussels Environment, Belgium

16:30
End of the conference