| Every 4 Years a NDT World Conference takes place; this year the event was held 10-24-29 in Rome General notes from the organizers can be found on the CD-ROM by Mr. Guiseppe Nardoni [x] and Robert E. Green, Jr. [x] . Here are the impressions of Rolf Diederichs, editor and publisher of NDT.net. |  Palazzo Del Concressi. Not easy to get through |
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Around 2000 people attended the conference, 979 Participants, 618
Exhibitors (including staff) and 412 Visitors of the exhibition. Leading
experts from all over the world presented the state of the Art of NDT at
the start of the 3rd Millennium, covering all areas from methods to
applications, accreditation and certification.
A very large technical program was presented, including 750 papers in
poster and oral sessions. Unfortunately many authors did not show up; our
estimate is about 20%. The organizer cannot control whether the authors to
come to Rome, but the schedule of the oral presentation must be very
flexible. Otherwise attendees leave the room and the next author finds it
empty!
Anyway, the missing presentations are on the CD-ROM, part of the wealth
of information we received through this WCNDT.
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Organized an excellent WCNDT: G. Nardoni, G.M. Gatti, S. Chia, E. Fontana |
| During the 15th WCNDT opening ceremony Giuseppe Nardoni acknowledged Rolf Diederichs (NDT.net) as sponsor and producer of the CD-ROM. In his talk to the audience Rolf expressed thanks to Giuseppe Nardoni for giving NDT.net the chance to produce a WCNDT on CD-ROM and on the Internet for the first time. "We are proud to bring this WCNDT to an audience of many more people than are present here; more than 20.000 NDT people will read the CD-ROM on the Internet. This will benefit the entire NDT community", said Rolf Diederichs [x]. During the conference we received frequent congratulations for the excellent quality of the CD-ROM. Even after the conference we received emails like "Thanks to the CD-ROM our department is in an excellent position to evaluate all WCNDT papers". | 
Congratulations for the excellent CD-ROM 
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| Although not all sessions had big audiences, at least we saw lots of people in the very popular Aerospace, Reliability, Modeling & Simulation and UT Phased Arrays sessions. Even Mr. Wüstenberg, chairman of 20 sessions (everybody appreciated his efforts), moved to another room because to many people attended the UT Phased Array session. | 
lots of people in popular sessions |
| Many people felt that a conference of 6 days was too long. The exhibitors especially saw no reason to stand from Monday morning to Saturday noon. Anyway, it was a big exhibition of instruments, products, services and training. | 
6 days was too long |
| Besides the conference, meetings of the ICNDT and EFNDT have taken place. Both organizations have held elections of new presidents (easier than in Florida). Giuseppe Nardoni continues as president of the ICNDT. The EFNDT president is now Roger Roche, the president of Cofrend, the French NDT society. | 
ICNDT, promotor of the WCNDT |
| The WCNDT brings the NDT community together like a tree of information with its roots in all national NDT societies all over the world and the continental federations PCNDT (Pan-America) APCNDT (Asia) and EFNDT (Europe). | 
16th WCNDT organized by CSNDT |
Looking forward to the 16th WCNDT in Montreal!
Rolf Diederichs
 16th WCNDT Montreal, Canada |
 8th ECNDT Barcelona, Spain |
 10th APCNDT Brisbane, Australia |
More about the 16th WCNDT:
List of Exhibitors
Plus further information ...
216 Photos
Welcome, Opening, Sponsors, Exhibiton, Sessions, Gala Dinner, Closing.
Posters Against Landmines
NDT People for Mines free World ...
Papal Audience
Letter of the NDT Community to the Holy Father