Inspire Your Forensic Imagination. AFSN&APMLA 2025. The 17th AFSN Annual Meeting and the 13th APMLA Conference. September 15 (Mon)-19 (Fri), 2025, INSPIRE Entertainment Resort

AFSN WG & APMLA

Date Day 1
Sep 15 (Mon)
Day 2
Sep 16 (Tue)
Day 3
Sep 17 (Wed)
Day 4
Sep 18 (Thu)
08:30 - 08:55 QASC + IDWG
Pre-Workshop Part 1
(1) Corrective Action vs Disciplinary Action
(2) Internal Audit Processes That Work For You

Ms. Ranee Ho
Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences
United States of America
Overview of the Production of Pure Substance Organic Calibration Standards Certified for Identity and Purity
Dr. Stephen Davies
National Measurement Institute of Australia
Austrailia
IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
Preparing the Prosecutor for Trial & How To Testify Well

Mr. Yang Ziliang
Health Sciences Authority
Singapore
08:55 - 09:20 Illicit Drug Analysis: Structural Elucidation of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
Dr. Melissa Bird
National Measurement Institute of Australia
Austrailia
09:20 - 09:40 Coffee Break
09:40 - 10:00 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
From Fentanyls to Nitazenes: The Evolution of Designer Opioids

Dr. Simon Elliot
The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
United Kingdom
10:00 - 10:10 Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:20 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
Emerging Synthetic Drug Challenges in East and Southeast Asia

Mr. Inshik Sim
UNODC
Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Thailand
10:20 - 10:30 Break Evaluation of The RADIAN ASAP Mass Spectrometry For Preliminary Drug Screening In Forensic Laboratories
Ms. Fahimahtul A Murni
Department of Scientific Services
Brunei Darussalam
10:30 - 10:40 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
UNODC International Collaborative Exercises (ICE) on Seized Drug Materials and Biological Specimens

Ms. Yen Ling Wong
UNODC
Laboratory and Scientific Services
Austria
10:40 - 10:50 QASC + IDWG Pre-Workshop Part 2
Enhancing Integrity of Forensic Laboratory

Dr. Angeline Yap, Dr. Vanitha Kunalan,
Ms. Wong Yen Ling, Dr. Sanggil Choe,
Dr. Liu Shiquan
Study on Quantitation of Ketamine Using LC-MS
Ms. Jie Min Sng, Ms. Chee Mei Foa
Health Sciences Authority
Singapore
10:50 - 11:00 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
Sponsor Presentations

SCIEX
11:00 - 11:20 Inferring Unknown NPS Using Mass Spectrometry Fragmentation Patterns of Known NPS
Mr. Fangmin Xu
Public Security Bureau of Jiangyin
China
11:20 - 11:40 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
Sponsor Presentations

Waters
Non-targeted Identification of New Psychoactive Substances in Ra-man Spectra Based on Global-Local Multi-scale Convolutional Neu-ral Network
Prof. Rui Huang
Criminal Investigation School
Southwest University of Political Science and Law
China
11:40 - 12:00 IDWG + TXWG Joint Session
Sponsor Presentations

Agilent
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization High Resolution Mass Spectrometer Coupled with Gas Chromatography on Drug Impurity Profiling
Dr. Heeseung Kim
National Digital Forensic Center of Supreme Prosecutors' Office
Republic of Korea
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Lunch
13:00 - 13:20 IDWG Country Presentations
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,
Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Republic of Korea,
Thailand, Viet Nam
Rapid Screening, Identification, and Quantification of Etomidate Analogues
Dr. Cuimei Liu
Drug Intelligence and Forensic Center of Ministry of Public Security
China
13:20 - 13:40 The Decision Tree Analysis Of Toxic And Prohibited Substances In Eliquid
Detected Using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)

Assoc. Prof. Noor Hazfalinda
Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia
13:40 - 14:00 On-Site Strip-Type drug Detection Kit Enhanced by AI-Based Image Analysis
Ms. Sora An
Department of Forensic Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University
Republic of Korea
14:00 - 14:20 QASC + IDWG Pre-Workshop Part 3
Making Use of Proficiency Testing as a Tool for Quality Assurance in Forensic Science

Ms. Rujing Jia
Chinese National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment
China
Scaling Forensic Response to High-Volume Drug Seizures: A Malaysian Laboratory Perspective
Dr. Vanitha Kunalan
Department of Chemistry
Malaysia
14:20 - 14:40 Forensic Data Analysis of Regional Forensic Unit 7 on Anti-illegal Drugs Operations with Biggest Haul in Total Seized Dangerous Drugs in Central Visayas: Exploring Geographic and Economic Correlations
Mr. Irlen Mark Ian Alvaro
Philippine National Police
Philippines
14:40 - 15:00 Bringing the Lab to the Lab: How a Mobile Laboratory Assists in Clandestine Drug Lab Investigations
Mr. Yong Shiang Wong
Department of Chemistry
Malaysia
15:00 - 15:20 QASC + IDWG Pre-Workshop Part 4
Science Meets Law: Enhancing Your Forensic Work Through Legal Collaboration Ver 2.0

Mr. Yang Ziliang
Health Sciences Authority
Singapore
AFSN Board Retreat with WG Chair and Vice
AFSN Board Retreat with WG
Committee Chair and Vice Chair
Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:20
16:20 - 16:40 TBD
TBD
Australian Federal Police
Austrailia
16:40 - 17:00 TBD
TBD
Australian Federal Police
Austrailia
17:00 - 17:40 How My Seized Drug Section Meets Customers’ Requests
Ms. Ranee Ho
Onondaga County Center for Forensic Sciences,
United States of America
17:40 - 19:00 IDWG Business Meeting

* Program is subject to change.