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30 October 2025
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Rosina Robson shares how the Association’s new pestcareers.org.uk hub, recruitment film, Open Doors Charter and social media campaign are helping to attract a more diverse, skilled and inspired workforce into pest management.
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The PestEx 2019 seminar schedule packs in illustrious speakers from across the sector. Delivered by industry experts, we’ve called in favours from all our friends to make sure you leave PestEx that little bit better informed.
All seminars are completely free and open to everyone.
We’ve managed to pack out the full two-day schedule with business and technical talks, specifically designed to help you be a better pest controller or grow your pest management business.
Technical Theatre
Sponsored by BASF
Business theatre
Sponsored by BPCA BusinessShield
DAY ONE: Wednesday 20 March
10:00
Can we stem the tide? Invasive non-native species
Niall Moore, Non-Native Species Secretariat
Site-specific pest risk assessments
John Lloyd, Technical Consultant and Company Entomologist
11:00
Cockroach foraging behaviour and biology
Steve Broadbent, Ensystex
When it goes wrong
Martin Ball, Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme
11:15
12:00
Rodent Control Challenges and Solutions
Sharon Hughes, BASF
Rodent risks: Closure and prosecution stories
Dr Belinda Stuart-Moonlight, Chartered Environmental Health practitioner and expert witness
12:15
13:00
Bed bugs - new findings on how to detect an unwanted sleeping partner
Dr Jette Knudsen, Nattaro Labs AB
How to hack smart homes and business
Tony Gee, Pen Test Partners
13:15
14:00
10 years of rat and mouse control procedures
Paul Charlson, National Pest Advisory Panel (NPAP), CIEH
Use the law to sell your services
Paul Westgate, Westgate Pest Control
14:15
15:00
Protecting Jersey from Asian hornets
Bob Hogg, Absolute Pest Control and Jersey Beekeepers’ Association
Should I give up, or just keep on chasing payments?
Peter Wallwork, The Credit Services Association
15:15
16:00
British Pest Management Awards Ceremony
18:30to late
BPMA and PestEx Afterparty
Giant Robot, Canary Wharf
Buy tickets at bpca.org.uk/afterparty
DAY TWO: Thursday 21 March
Acquisition, incubation and transfer of bacteria by household insects
Matthew Davies, Killgerm
Federica Boiocchi, Aston University, Birmingham
Our terms and conditions apply...maybe?
David Quinton, Which?
10:15
Building great pest management programmes Richard Moseley, Bayer
Don’t get caught in the GDPR trap!
Louise Coldwell, Killgerm
A world without pesticides
Alex Wade, Pelgar
Site-specific versus general risk assessments
Barry Nicol, Stallard Kane and BPCA BusinessShield
13:30
AIB International:the first 100 years
Jeff Wilson, VP Operations, Europe, Africa, Asia, AIB International
Reputation management - preparing for the unexpected
Jane Shepherd MCIPR, Shepherd PR
14:30
Expectations from pest monitoring in food manufacturing
Ferenc Varga, Food Safety Manager, Nestlé
BPCA open forum
The BPCA team, chaired by Ian Andrew, Chief Exec, BPCA
Winning big: SLAs and tendering
Kevin Higgins, BPCA
Dee Ward-Thompson, BPCA
Richard Harris, Harris Associates
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Correct as of February 2019. Schedule subject to change. Check pestex.org for the latest updates.
Source: PPC94
07 July 2025
BPCA has proudly signed the Armed Forces Covenant, strengthening its commitment to supporting current and former military personnel and their families.
06 June 2025
Six new Member Directors have been chosen to help lead the Association and represent the interests of BPCA members at the highest level.
10 December 2025
Rosina Robson highlights how BPCA’s new pestcareers.org.uk hub and supporting initiatives aim to attract a more diverse and skilled workforce into pest management.
09 December 2025
At PPC Live 2025 in Harrogate, a small group of pest professionals gathered around a table to tackle one of the most deceptively simple tools in the pest controller’s kit: the break-back trap.
Alex Wade joined us at a BPCA Digital Forum to discuss a fresh way of handling rodent control, by adding integrated risk management (IRM) into our thinking.
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