Objective: Confidence in PPE – Science, and Fidelity of PPE Supporting Healthy Workforce and Workplaces Goals: Identify opportunities to align efforts of public safety, public health, and law enforcement to ensure safe and legitimate PPE supply chains  Understand opportunities for collaboration across industry, labor, government, and academic stakeholders to rapidly address identified needs and capability gaps. Identification of opportunities to coordinate knowledge products to establish confidence in PPE. Identify and share research needs with attendees, including policymakers, associations, research entities, standards organizations, and other non-profits who are working to fund knowledge gaps in response to COVID-19

With a proven ability to produce collaborative, interdisciplinary forums, IBEC was asked to develop and publish a 5th STAGE of the clean 2020 summit for the Department of Homeland Security. This event would focus on issues with PPE. It would also demonstrate that IBEC had garnered the respect of government agencies at the highest level. 

Objective: Supporting Science & Innovation for Clean Spaces and Healthy Congregation for the Workforce and Work Space Goals: Identify current standards and guidance being implemented in the workplace Understand current best practices to implement identified standards and help further mitigate risks in the workforce Identify current science-based best practices that would allow the workforce to further reduce risk to the public.

A request to produce the 4th STAGE was made to address labor and the essential workforce issues, including first responders working with little to no guidance.   

Objective: Revealing the lessons learned in managing risk and tools & strategies for confident operations Goals: Understanding current approaches to risk management and mitigation strategies Provide foundational knowledge on risk reduction Share insights from social and behavioral sciences for effective measures of transmission reduction Define efforts to establish cleaning requirements based on acceptable risk level The first three stages of the CLEAN2020Summit were so successful IBEC was asked to produce a 4th for labor and the essential workforce, including first responders. 

Objective: To discuss the current science and Technology Solutions, Gaps, and Research Needs Goals: Assess the state of the science for COVID transmission reduction in the built environment Share existing standards and guidance activities across the landscape Discuss best practices, data-driven solutions, and innovative technologies to help people feel confident and safe in the places where they choose to congregate Identify opportunities to transition research into practice to recover from biological contamination and safely return to routine activities

Objective: To expose issues and challenges to reopening with confidence. Goals: Assess the pain points and challenges faced by a range of industry sectors as they work to reduce transmission and public health risk from COVID Identify current best practices, policies, and procedures for reducing risk and minimizing exposure Start to rapidly identify opportunities for collaboration across industry, government, and academic stakeholders to address identified needs and capability gaps.

The idea was to bring industry leaders such as IBM, 3M, and General Motors, corporate leaders such as Hilton, Marriott, and Coca-Cola, and experimental scientists and engineers from universities and national laboratories to discuss the topics of infectious agents and contamination of the built environment. They would distinguish the current practices and already identified gaps in clean-up operations and human/ social system best practices to mitigate infectious agent exposure. This summit would unfold over multiple days to foster in-depth discussion and grow understanding of the science, economic and social impact of the complex interactions of viral transmission in the built environment. To manage the costs associated with this event, IBEC submitted paperwork to Florida to incorporate a non-profit 501C-3, IBEC, Inc.

IBEC shall seek to accelerate the contributions of science and technology for biological detection, decontamination, and the social and behavioral sciences to promote safe congregation and occupancy in built environments. It shall ensure that safe, reliable biological measurement and decontamination standards, guidance, and education materials are available to promote healthy spaces and healthy gatherings throughout the world. It shall promote innovation and development of state-of-the-art and accessible methods for biological monitoring and decontamination.

Jayne and Ken started and maintained regular meetings with the steering committee as the world began to see what the founding team had predicted. The shutdowns were going to last significantly longer than a few months. With guidance from the steering committee, the idea of a global summit was born. The purpose of this summit would be to bring together leaders from business, policy, standards development, science, and engineering to understand current knowledge better and identify opportunities to work together to control viral transmission in the built environment. This stimulated another iteration of the organization, and the name changed again.    The International Association of Bioscience Environmental Criteria (IBEC). IBEC saw the opportunity to be the bridge between proven scientific processes & real-world applications for healthy congregation.