GSX Daily 2025
Laissez les bon temps rouler! The Security Management team will be delivering the GSX Daily from New Orleans, Louisiana, for the next week. We’re bringing you a taste of the education and insight, emerging security trends, and networking activities at GSX 2025.
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Before the show kicks off, we’ll be sharing materials to help you get ready for an exciting week in the Crescent City. During GSX, you can expect a daily email with the information you need to help make the most of your time at the show. We’ll also post all of our content to this page so it’s easy to find before, during, and after GSX.
Leadership knows no borders. Spend your last morning at GSX 2025 with General Paul M. Nakasone (ret.), Wednesday’s keynote speaker. Nakasone dedicated more than 35 years to the U.S. Army, where he learned from a wide range of effective leaders. Before you watch him take the stage, check out what he said to the GSX Daily before the show. Read “Setting the Tone for Success: Nakasone Shares Skillsets of Effective Security Leaders.”
We need to change how we think about AI use. GSX 2025 keynote speaker Sol Rashidi spotlighted how leaders can ready their workforce to use AI instead of being replaced by it. Read “Paradigm Shift: Sol Rashidi on What It Takes to Thrive in Today’s Workplace with AI.”
Partnerships help the good times roll. Tune in to our third bonus podcast from Security Management and learn about how community outreach and partnership allow law enforcement to support major events like Mardi Gras, which attracts nearly a million festival-goers every year and is a massive economic engine for New Orleans, Louisiana. Subscribe and listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Spotify.
Do you have a pulse on your resilience? Head over to Wednesday’s game changer session for a discussion on resilience wirh Joseph Frank, assistant chief of public safety for Caesar’s Superdome and Smoothie King Center; Emily Caldwell, acting executive director for OSAC; and Wayne Hendricks, head of global security and senior managing director for the Macquarie Group. Read “The Role Security Leaders Play in Building Organizational Resilience.”
Learning by doing. Security veterans Charles Ahmad, CPP, Russell Kolins, CPP, and Jeff Putnam, CPP, led the first-ever GSX Crime Prevention Workshop, one of the 2025 GSX pre-conference education sessions focused on enhancing crime prevention and CPTED skills. Read “Interactive Workshop Focuses on Crime Prevention and CPTED Fundamentals.”
Where facilities design meets security. Four security and design experts spearheaded the GSX 2025 pre-conference education session on facility security design, pointing to developing trends and challenges facing security operations centers. Read “3 Emerging Trends for SOCs.”
Techno-functional Tuesday. While artificial intelligence platforms and tools can offer security teams cutting edge advantages, GSX 2025 keynote speaker Sol Rashidi stresses the need for security to step into leadership roles and guide organizations on parameters of its use. Security Management, on behalf of the GSX Daily, spoke with Rashidi ahead of her comments at the Tuesday general session, sponsored by Allied Universal. Read “Rashidi on Remembering the Need for Human Critical Thinking in the AI Age.”
Head on a swivel. Risk might be everywhere, but the right prevention programs and support for a culture of safety can mitigate and perhaps prevent those risks from impacting an organization or facility that is open to the public. Head over to the Tuesday Game Changer to learn from Theresa Campbell, AlGene Caraulia, and Don Aviv, CPP, PCI, PSP, about assessing, training for, and reacting to threats across a range of public spaces. Read “Against Attackers, Security Needs More Than an Ounce of Prevention.”
“It’s just a lot right now,” says Ian Bremmer, keynote speaker, at GSX 2025’s Monday general session, which was sponsored by Axon. Bremmer used the time to cast a wide net over the larger geopolitical shifts playing out between China and the United States, Russia and Ukraine, and in the Middle East—along with the impacts these shifts might have on others. Read “Bremmer: A Power Vacuum in Global Leadership Leaves Room for Giant Geopolitical Shifts.”
A closer look at AI in security. Security Management spoke with Quang Trinh, chair of the ASIS International Emerging Technology Community, for the GSX Daily to learn more about how artificial intelligence developments are affecting the security industry. Read “Q&A: How AI is Impacting the Security Industry.”
Enjoy a night at the museum with ASIS Celebrates! At the end of the day, hop on a shuttle and head over to the National WWII Museum for refreshments, networking, music, and inspiration. With special performances and immersive experiences, ASIS Celebrates!, sponsored by Johnson Controls. Read “Come Face-to-Face with History at ASIS Celebrates!”
Secure Horizons spotlights advantages of appreciative inquiry. At the 2025 CSO Center Secure Horizons event, security executives learned how appreciative inquiry can help influence and woo others by homing in on what people value and aiming for those outcomes, rather than focusing primarily on problems. Read “To Realize Opportunities, Approach Issues with Appreciative Inquiry.”
Raise a glass! ASIS International honored the award winners of ASIS and the U.S. Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) at GSX 2025. Read “Here’s to Security Excellence.”
Leading through uncertain times. Today, we must navigate a G-Zero world, where no single country or coalition determines an international agenda, resulting in greater geopoltical risks and market volatility. To kick off GSX 2025, geopolitical analyst and GSX 2025 keynote speaker Ian Bremmer brings his perspective on global leadership gaps to the stage. Read “Ian Bremmer: Navigating Leadership in a G-Zero World.”
Putting aside political differences. From snide remarks that lead to in-office arguments to physical threats connected to a CEO's social media post, political polarization has raised workplace tensions. Melissa Muir and Raymond Fleck of Pinkerton's Comprehensive Risk Management Group join this special bonus GSX Daily edition of the SM Highlights podcast to discuss their upcoming GSX session about mitigating risk amid workplace incivility and where security professionals can step in to shift the focus back on an organization's mission. Subscribe and listen to the episode on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, and Spotify.
Elevating executive security. In a GSX Game Changer session on Monday, 29 September, Chuck Tobin and Chuck Randolph will discuss how attendees can make executive protection more intelligence-driven, proactive, and sustainable. Read “When High-Profile Means Danger, Security Must Change Tactics.”
School is in session. This year, GSX 2025 has added the School Security Zone, focused on the whole range of security issues and solutions that impact education. Visit this new stage on the Expo Floor and learn more about the educational lineup. Read “From Prevention to Effective Response to Recovery: All Aspects Covered in School Security Education.”
What's new on the Show Floor? The Show Floor for GSX 2025 is open! If you want to learn a little more about some of the new services, solutions, and tech, Security Management has just the thing. Read our special “GSX 2025 Product Showcase.”
Business and beignets: networking in the Big Easy. GSX is about more than education—it’s also about the connections you make face-to-face. Whether you want to grab coffee and breakfast before heading into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center or dinner at the end of the day, take advantage of the gastronomic geniuses and mixology magicians that call New Orleans home. Read “Where to Network and Eat in New Orleans During GSX.”
Get personalized career advice. Your GSX registration includes free career coaching, available at Career HQ on the show floor. If you want another set of eyes to go over your résumé or need guidance about your career path, book a time with the dedicated career coaches available at GSX 2025. Read “Take Charge of Your Career at Career HQ.”
