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The premier global security conference brings together leading experts in the security industry at a time when security threats are rising globally
New Orleans, LA (30 September, 2025)—ASIS International, the world's largest association for security management professionals, opened their annual conference yesterday: Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2025 in New Orleans. The event will continue through 01 October and feature more than 200 education sessions and approximately 500 exhibitors from nearly 100 nations. This year GSX featured two days of pre-conference events on Saturday and Sunday, including a full-day workshop titled Plan to Succeed: Integrating Protective Intelligence to Secure Physical, Cyber and Human Assets, ASIS Volunteers’ Day, the ASIS Awards of Excellence and the Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs).
2025 ASIS International President, Joe M. Olivarez, Jr., MBA, opened the conference by discussing the unprecedented global pressures on security professionals and the importance of ASIS International in demonstrating value as security architects who articulate the complex realities of security with one unified voice across the globe.
“Today’s security leaders don’t just respond to threats. We anticipate them. We shape policy around them, and we drive organizational resilience through them,” Olivarez, Jr. said.
Olivarez, Jr. was joined onstage by ASIS International CEO Bill Tenney who spoke about the value of the security community in their agility and connectivity to help both public and private organizations navigate challenging geopolitical headwinds and the unprecedented pace of societal transformation globally.
“For 70 years, ASIS International has been the connective tissue for our profession. We are not just a trade association; we are a global ecosystem that empowers more than 34,000 security professionals across 240 chapters to address and stay ahead of these challenges. But let me be clear, we are not the same organization that we were even one year ago. We are transforming how we deliver value because the profession needs it. Becoming more agile globally is what we have in mind,” Tenney said. “Agility isn’t accidental, it’s engineered. Our subject expert matters don’t just create standards; they anticipate what standards we need tomorrow.”
Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, led Monday’s programming with an insightful Keynote session with a discussion on how the world has entered what he calls the “New Abnormal” period of heightened tensions and market volatility. His presentation, titled “The New Abnormal: Who are the Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World?” discussed the current and unprecedented environment in which conventional wisdom no longer holds.
“For the last twenty years, if we were having a conversation about the big picture concerns geopolitically that we had, they would have been about China rising the United States declining. And usually when you have that dynamic between two major powers, it ends up in some kind of war,” said Bremmer. “It is not what is happening, not at all. China is rising and the Global South in general is becoming economically more powerful, more populous, more dynamic, more interesting technology companies coming out of those places. But the United States is not declining, not at all.”
“American allies have gotten much weaker. That’s the big, unexpected dynamic. If you look at Europe, the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea – as a whole you are talking about less efficiency, less productivity, less investment in technologies and mostly demographic shrinking compared to the United States,” added Bremmer.
Monday featured close to 90 education sessions covering topics from across the security profession, including sessions on geopolitical tension, critical infrastructure, active assailants, crime tourism and workplace risk management. The Game Changer from Chuck Tobin and Chuck Randolph discussed protecting high profile executives from public threats in the wake of several high-profile tragedies in the news. Incidents of targeted violence—including political assassinations, attempted assassinations, and the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson—have dominated global headlines.
Research from ASIS International shows that budget constraints and staff compliance are the biggest barriers to effective executive protection, underscoring the value of the recent ASIS International executive protection standard. An educational session with Caleb Gilbert and Kevin Palacios, CPP, PSP, PCI, entitled “Practical Applications of ISO and ASIS Standards to Enhance Executive Protection Strategies” emphasized how the newly released standard provides actionable guidelines for risk assessment, planning, and implementation of executive protection services.
Program highlights for Tuesday’s GSX lineup include:
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General Session: Speaker is Best-Selling Top 100 AI Author and former Amazon & Fortune 100 C-Suite Exec, holder of 10 patents Sol Rashidi
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Press Availability: Interview opportunities with ASIS International Subject Matter Experts on School Security, Executive Protection, Workplace Security, Physical Security and more.
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Game Changer: Risk is Everywhere: Fostering Safety in the Workplace, Schools, and Public Spaces
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Workplace Violence: It Doesn’t Take a Village, but it Does Take the Entire Organization
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ASIS School Security Standard Overview
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Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulations in 2025—Navigating the New Landscape Under the New Administration
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Unmasking AI-Powered Fraud Tools on the Dark Web: Threats and Countermeasures
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ASIS Celebrates! at WWII Museum
For more information on GSX, we invite you to visit the GSX Daily.
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About Global Security Exchange (GSX)
Global Security Exchange (GSX) is the world’s most comprehensive event for security professionals for more than 65 years. Meeting the needs of the global security community, ASIS designed an in-person and digital experience like none other in the security profession. ASIS International remains dedicated to expanding and enriching knowledge sharing, best practices, and peer-to-peer connections so security professionals across disciplines—and at all stages of their career—can get access to the information and resources they need to succeed. For information about GSX, please visit www.GSX.org.
About ASIS International
Founded in 1955, ASIS International is the world's largest membership organization for security management professionals. With hundreds of chapters across the globe, ASIS is recognized as the premier source for learning, networking, standards, and research. Through its board certifications, award-winning Security Management magazine, and Global Security Exchange—the most influential event in the profession—ASIS ensures its members and the security community have access to the intelligence and resources necessary to protect their people, property, and information assets. Learn more about the work we do at www.asisonline.org.
