Main Speaker(s):Two business experts, M. Sayer. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video begins with various different advanced ceramics businessmen taking turns discussing how Canadian businesses can catch up to the Japanese ceramics industry. Afterwards Sayer delivers some concluding remarks, thanking the speakers and the audience.

Part 1. Main Speaker(s): D.O. Thompson. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Begins with a man introducing Thompson, who then lectures the audience about the Non-Destructive Testing Program at Ames Lab for the remainder of the video.

Part 2. Continuation and conclusion of Thompson's lecture, where he takes questions from the audience

Main Speaker(s): Jean Bussier. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Video consists of Bussier lecturing the audience on his work on the non-destructive evaluation of materials at IMRI. He takes questions from audience members for the final portion of the video.

Main Speaker(s): Tom Holden, David Jiles. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. First portion of video is Holden discussing new applications of neutron difraction, including residual stress determination. During the final portion of his presentation he takes questions from the audience. After his lecture Jiles does a speech on the use of magnets in non-destructive determination of materials.

Main Speaker(s): Dave Atherton, Stuart McBride. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. First portion of the video consists of Atherton lecturing the audience about using electromagnetics in non-destructive inspection. Afterwards McBride deliver a talk about acoustic emission in aluminum fractures in airplanes. Later in his lecture he talks about defect detection.

Main Speaker(s): Wolfgang Sachse, David Hutchins. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. First portion of video is a lecture by Sachse on acoustic emission for quantitative analysis. He takes questions from the audience for the final part of his lecture. Afterward Hutchins gives a talk on defect detection using different waveforms of acoustic emission.

Main Speaker(s): Paul Tonner, Paulo Cielo. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. First portion of video is a lecture by Tonner about gamma ray tomagraphy. Once his talk is over he answers questions from the audience. Second portion consists of Cielo talking about thermal techniques for non-destructive evaluation. The end of his lecture is cut off in the video, and resumes in tape 8.

Main Speaker(s): Paulo Cielo
Location: Donald Gordon Centre
Continuation and conclusion of Cielo's talk on thermal techniques from tape 7.