The 8th ASIS International European Security Conference will take place on 26-29 April 2009 in Montreux, Switzerland. The theme of the conference will be: ‘Taking Security Management to the Next Level’, and will feature more than 33 high level educational sessions for (and delivered by) international security experts.
The conference will cover the entire spectrum of security topics, ranging from supply chain security, loss prevention and piracy through to counter-terrorism, executive protection and intellectual property rights. For details on how to submit your abstracts see the box panel for related web links (right).
ASIS’ deadline for submissions is 15 October. Presentations for the conference proper will be selected by the Montreux Programme Committee this coming December.
New this time around is the possibility for vendor companies to present Case Studies, product demonstrations and Best Practices in a fourth sponsored track. More information about this and further opportunities for companies to raise their visibility is available by logging on to the ASIS web site (details to the right of this page in our web links box).
Summer seminar branded a success
The recent ASIS International UK Chapter 208 Summer Seminar (held at the headquarters of Barings Bank in London and sponsored by Advance Security) is said to have “exceeded expectations” according to a report by Mike Hurst, director of HJA Fire and Security and co-editor of the Chapter’s Newsletter.
“The four speakers, all of whom have an involvement with the transportation sector, each showed both an excellent knowledge of their subject and an innate ability to share their knowledge,” commented Hurst.
Martin Barrow’s subject – ‘The Curse of the Silo Mentality’ – referred at least in part to his role as a director of Malaysia Airlines. “This tied-in very well with ASIS’ overarching view on the whole convergence issue,” explained Hurst. Adrian Dwyer, meanwhile, spoke on the challenges involved with managing terrorism-related risk in the mass transit rail environment, while Graham Daly covered the crime prevention issues. Nigel Radcliffe “both informed and entertained” while outlining the London Underground/Transport for London drug testing programme.
The next UK Chapter 208 seminar takes place on 24 September at the home of LinkLaters in the City of London, and is to be sponsored by Professional Witness. Speakers will be focusing on investigation (both physical and IT-related) and it’s hoped there’ll be a representative from the SIA in attendance to discuss the issue of in-house licensing. This seminar is being organised by George Jenkin (georgejenkin@ancfm.com)