1st Middle East Conference

Program

Please find below the complete program, or download the registration brochure with session titles and speakers.

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

14:00 - 18:00 CSO Roundtable Sessions
20:00 - 22:30 President's Reception: Leisure Deck - Intercontinental Dubai Festival City
 

Monday, 7 December 2009

08:30 - 10:00 Opening Session: Keynote Speaker - H.E. Lt. General Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, Head of the Dubai Police Force
 
Keynote Speaker - H.E. Ahmed Butti Ahmed, Director General, Dubai Customs and CEO of the Ports, Maritime and Free Zone Authority
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20 Session 1: Dr. Marc Siegel, Security Management Systems Consultant, ASIS International, Belgium - ASIS Global Standards Initiatives - Using Standards to Improve Performance
Session 2: Lieutenant Colonel Abdulrahim Mohammed Sahfee, Dubai Police Force, UAE and Expert Younis Yousuf Al Mualim, Dubai Police Force, UAE - Organized Crime
Session 3: Simon Hoyle, VP - Security & Business Risk, Majid Al Futtaim Group LLC, UAE - Resilience - Business Continuity in the Middle East
11:25 - 12:15 Session 4: Walied Shater, Director of Security MENA, ConocoPhillips, Qatar - Facing An Unpredictable Threat: Manage Terrorism Beyond Generic Threat Assessment
Session 5: Jeffrey Slotnick, PSP, President, Setracon Inc., USA - Explosive Threats and Target Hardening, a Study in Explosives Environment Physical Security
Session 6: Bruce Braes, CPP, Truscott Crisis Leaders , Australia - Achieving Business Protection by Building Organisational Resilience
12:15 - 13:30 Business Lunch
13:30 - 14:20 Session 7: Henry Wilkinson, Senior Analyst, Janusian, UK - Middle Eastern Terrorism: Tactics, Targets, Trajectories, Trends
Session 8: Peter Clarke, Senior Adviser, Olive Group, UK - Counter Terrorism & Security - Learning from History
Session 9: Dr. Marc Siegel, Security Management Systems Consultant, ASIS International, Belgium - Organizational Resilience
14:25 - 15:15 Session 10: John Didden, Jordan : A Professional Approach and Implementation of Security and Safety
Session 11: Charles Blackmore, Chief Executive, Page Group Limited, UK - Is There A Security Threat to Foreign Direct Investors in Pakistan?
Session 12: David Patterson, CPP, PSP, Senior Consultant, Steele International, USA - Implementing Security Systems in a Desert Environment
15:15 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:35 Session 13: Dr. Christoph Rojahn, Group Head of Security Risk Management, Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland - Gathering and Managing Protective Intelligence
Session 14: Ragu Raman, CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group, India & John Hatcher, CPP, President, HMA Consulting, USA - Hotel Security
Session 15: to be confirmed
16:40-17:30 Session 16: Frank Andrew Davis, CPP, Independent, UK - Examining An Alternative to Surveillance Detection Programmes In These Financially Challenging Times
Session 17: Janet Ackerman, Expert, Corporate Research and Investigations LLC, UAE - Vetting Employees in the Middle East
Session 18: Bruce Blythe, CEO, Crisis Management International, USA - Understanding the Violent Mind

Tuesday, 8 December 2009

09:00 - 10:00 Opening Remarks - Keynote Speaker: Mr Mohammed G. Al-Zahrani, Executive Director, Safety and Industrial Security, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20 Session 19: Russell Busby CPP, PCI , Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia - Investigating Serial Theft in Oil Fields
Session 20: Jana Pfeifer, Chief Security Officer, T-Mobile Slovensjo, Slovak Republic - Gas Crisis 2009 in Europe - Be Prepared for Unexpected Situations
Session 21: Michael Foynes, Director of Global Security, Microsoft, UK - Microsoft Global Security - Enterprise Security Program - Achieving Operational Convergence
11:25 - 12:15 Session 22: Dr. Robin McFee, Medical Director -Threat Science/ Toxicologist and Professional Education Coordinator of Long Island Regional Poison Center, USA - Biodisruptive Challenges, Avian Flu, Emerging Pathogens and Global Threats in A Borderless World: Implications for the Security Professional
Session 23: W. Laird Hamberlin, Vice President, Global Accounts, ADT Worldwide - The Evolving Role of Electronic Security in the Middle East
Session 24: Matthijs van der Wel, Managing Principle Forensics EMEA, Verizon Business, Netherlands - IT Forensics - Can Something Good Come From Something Bad?
12.15 - 13:30 Business Lunch
13:30 - 14:20 Session 25: Zeal Somani, Security Engineer,Paramount Computer Systems FZ LLC, UAE - Industrial Governance for Critical Infrastructure Security, Compliance and Optimisation
Session 26: Simon Roberts, Vice President Security, DHL, UAE - Securing Shipment Supply Chain In a High Threat Environment
Session 27: Ronald Knaap, CPP, Manager Business Development, Trigion, Netherlands - BeWare a Scientific Method for Risk Assessment and Situational Awareness
14:25 - 15:15 Session 28: Pawanjit Singh Ahluwalia, Chairman and Managing Director, Premier Shield Pvt Ltd, India - Innovating Loss Prevention Techniques
Session 29: Paul Burke, Managing Director, Middle East Security Ltd, UK - The Terrorist Threat to Maritime Security in the Arabian Gulf
Session 30: Raoul Chiesa, Cybercrime Issues Technical Contact, UNICRI, Italy - Profiling Hackers: Wrong Myths, True Facts (what people never told you about hackers...and you really need to know!)
15:15 - 15:45 Break
15:45 - 16:35 Session 31: Sali Osman, Sr. Information Security Consultant, Sungard, USA - The Use of Digital Forensics in the On-Site Inspection Of Nuclear Chemical and Biological Facilities
Session 32: Dr. Marc Siegel, Security Management Systems Consultant, ASIS International, Belgium - ASIS Global Standards Initiatives - Using Standards to Improve Performance
Session 33: Ralph Stobwasser, Practice Leader Corporate Investigations, Control Risks, UAE - How to Prevent Fraud from Becoming a Corporate Crisis
16:40 - 17:30 Closing Session - Keynote Speakers: Dr. Raymond H. Hamden, Clinical & Forensic Psychologist, Human Relations Institute, UAE - The Psychology of Terrorists: 4 Types

 

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