QICA WORKSHOP: SYNERGY BETWEEN ACCREDITATION, STANDARDIZATION AND METROLOGY
Participants: General Invitation – June 25, 2025
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AGENDA:
| Time (UTC) 14:00 – 17:00 | TOPIC | Speaker/ Moderator | Comments |
| 14:00 – 14:03 (3 minutes) | Event presentation | Veronica Ruano | |
| 14:03 a 14:15 (12 minutes) | Welcome | Andrea Melo – IAAC Chair Mauricio Céspedes COPANT President Javier Arias – SIM Chair | |
| 14:15 – 14:30 (15 minutes) | Introduction – Presentation | Eduardo Ceballos, IAAC Technical Committee Chair
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| 14:30 – 15:00 (30 minutes) | Panel 1 “Traceability to the SI: strengthening communication between metrology institutes, accreditation and standardization bodies”
To promote a common vision on metrological traceability to the International System (SI), strengthening communication between metrological institutes, accreditation, and standardization bodies. The panel seeks to highlight the importance of traceability for technical quality, as well as mechanisms to improve its understanding, application, and visibility in national and regional systems. | Claudia Santo SIM Executive Secretary | Yrene Caballero/ Chair of the Laboratories Subcommittee or Mauricio Rodriguez – Vice-Chair Sub-Committee Laboratories
Erica Caruth -TTBS-SIM representative COPANT representative |
| 15:00 – 15:20 (20 minutes) | Presentation – “From the INM to the user: how to identify traceable capacities in the CIPM database”
How to interpret the capabilities of the CIPM MRA to ensure the traceability required by ILAC?” | Lucas Di Lillo SIM Technical Committee Chair | |
| 15:20 – 16:00 (40 minutes) | Panel 2 National Quality Policies: Challenge or Driver of Change?
Challenges and opportunities for effective collaboration between accreditation bodies, metrology, and standardization institutes in the Americas
Explore how to strengthen the articulation between Accreditation Bodies (ABs), National Metrology Institutes (INMs) and Standardization Bodies, as part of a shared strategy to consolidate more integrated, effective national quality systems oriented towards sustainable development and regional competitiveness.
| Kory Eguino / executive secretary COPANT and QICA
1. How to articulate visions and priorities between OA, INM, and ONN? 2. What governance and integration models have been effective? 3. What to do when a country does not have national metrological capabilities? · How can the INM, OA, and ON collaborate to address these gaps regionally? | Andrea Melo – IAAC Chair
Mauricio Céspedes – COPANT President
Javier Arias – SIM Chair |
| 16:00 – 16:20 (20 minutes) | “The role of the ISO/CASCO TIG (Technical Interface Group) in technical coherence.”
Explain what the TIG is, how it influences ISO technical committees, and why its work is relevant to strengthening alignment between technical standards, measurement methods, and accreditation requirements. In addition, highlight how SIM, IAAC, and COPANT can collaborate strategically to influence and coherently apply these developments in the countries of the region. | What is ISO/CASCO TIG?
Why is TIG relevant for IAAC, SIM, and COPANT?
Opportunities for the region Establish a tripartite IAAC–SIM–COPANT mechanism to identify and channel observations to the TIG.
| Warren Merkel Convenor of CASCO TIG
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| 16:20 – 16:45 (25 minutes) | “Experience of IAAC and SIM members’ participation in ISO/CASCO national mirror committees to strengthen traceability and confidence in measurements” | To be defined | Ilse Delgado -ECA Co- Convenor WG 31 ISO- CASCO
SIM representative |
| 16:45- 17:00 (15 minutes) | Closing: Andrea Melo – IAAC Chair / Mauricio Céspedes COPANT President / Javier Arias – SIM Chair | ||