IFSEC Conference Programme 2011
The programme for 2011 has yet to be confirmed, but here is the 2010 programme for your reference.
Day One - Monday 10th May
Countering Terror and Protecting the Nation
Day Two - Tuesday 11th May >>>
Corporate Security in the Recovering Economy
Day Three - Wednesday 12th May >>>
Next Generation Technologies
Day One - Monday 10th May
Countering Terror and Protecting the Nation
Module A1
Preventing, defending and responding to the threat of terror in the 21st Century
09:00 Opening address from the Chair
Michael Welply, Principal, Fagus Associates (UK)
09:05 Countering the Changing Face of International Terrorism – affording and implementing the right measures to combat terrorism
• Law and policy in the UK: countering terrorism whilst complying with current and future legislation
• Understanding and managing the risk of terrorism
• Strategies for identifying, preventing and providing assurance on the risk of terror attacks
Prof. Adam Ogilvie-Smith, Industry Secondee, Office for Security & Counter-Terrorism, Home Office
09:35 Addressing the impact of adverse economic conditions on the security industry and the UK counter terror effort as a whole
• The impact of the economic conditions on the security industry
• Government spending and policy and how this will impact on private sector security
• Will constrained budgets pose risks for the security agenda?
Bob Rose, Director Security, A|D|S Group
10:05 Challenging increasing diversity of the terrorist threat
• Tackling the threat of diversity – working with clarity and consistency across international borders
• Emerging threats on an international scale
• Strategy for maintaining security in crowded places
• National strategy for protecting against future diversity of threats in the UK
Chris Phillips GCGI, MSyI., DCI Head of The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO)
10:35 Question and Answer session
11:00 Closing remarks
Refreshments and Networking
Module A2
Securing and protecting the nation’s infrastructure
11:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
Mick Lee, Chairman, Police and Public Service Section, BSIA
11:35 Ensuring the National Health Service is protected and prepared for crisis
• Planning for crisis – collaborating with the other emergency services around potential disaster scenarios
• Ensuring the safety of staff and patients
• Preventing crime and criminality on NHS sites
Peter Finch, Trust Security Adviser, Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Simon Whitehorn, Security Management Specialist, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust
12:05 Reducing vulnerability of the UK’s critical national infrastructure: Ensuring the continued delivery of essential services
• Understanding which critical national infrastructure assets are essential to the continued delivery of the essential services and what needs to be done to protect services
• Maintaining public confidence in critical national infrastructure without imposing requirements that impact on how people live
• What does the future of critical national infrastructure security look like?
John William Bernard, Head of Physical Security, Cable & Wireless Worldwide
12:35 Collaborating with businesses, the police and community to increase national security
• Police reform proposals and potential ramifications for the industry
• Providing clarity on the police reform white paper – how will it affect security professionals?
• Increasing collaboration and communication with police and other law enforcement agencies
John Shaw, Managing Director Police Support Services, G4S
13:05 Question and answer session
13:30 Closing remarks
Break for lunch
Module A3
Preparing for Olympics 2012
14:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
David Evans, Project Director – 2012, BSIA
14:35 Security planning arrangements for a global sporting event
• One strategy, many partners: an integrated approach to security planning for London 2012
• The Olympic Safety and Security Programme: structure, accountabilities and links to CONTEST
• Collaborative working: Government, public sector and private industry
• Lessons from Vancouver 2010
• UK Ops: helping London and the UK to function and flourish at Games time
• Next 12 months: challenges, milestones and must-dos
Ben Fletcher, Head of Policy and Communications, Olympic Security Directorate, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office
15:05 2012 – Meeting the security challenge
• What is the risk and what approach to security needs to be taken at such a high profile event?
• Working with national and international agencies to prepare for 2012
• Maintaining consistency of security levels
• Planning for the Reasonable Worst Case Scenario
Chief Superintendent Brian Kelly, Deputy Head of the Design Authority Team, Olympic Security Directorate
15:35 Understanding Crowd Dynamics and Control
• Understanding the requirements of an event and anticipating potential risk
• Complying with industry legislation and directives
• Working closely with the police, ambulance service and other public authorities to ensure public safety and security
• 2012: Identifying the challenges and taking the right approach to overcome them
Mark Harding, Managing Director, Showsec, & Chair of UKCMA
16:05 Question and answer session
16:30 Closing remarks
Day Two - Tuesday 11th May
Corporate Security in the Recovering Economy
Module B1
Employee security and screening
09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
Mike Bluestone, Chairman, Security Institute
09:05 Reviewing regulations standards and best practice
• Law and policy in the UK: an overview of current and emerging employment legislation and the implications for corporate security
• Putting best practice to work in your organization
• Balancing an employee's rights with an organisation's right to protect itself
Nick Harness, PREFiT Founding Member
09:35 Ascertaining how far employee screening can go
• How to implement an employee screening strategy that complies with standards and legislation
• Defining an ongoing screening strategy
• The outlook for the future of civil liberties: CRBs, privacy laws and freedom of information compliance
David Chernick, Senior Manager, KPMG, and Chair of PREFIT
10:05 Providing a safe working environment for staff
• Improving staff protection in and out of the office
• Understanding lone worker protection
• Teaching your employees about appropriate system use and password construction/protection
• Introducing employees to social engineering techniques and helping them to be vigilent
• Improving communication within the organisation and providing adequate training
• Staff use of social networking sites – risks and dangers of exposure
John P Allum MSyI, Director Global Security, American Express
10:35 Question and answer session
11:00 Closing remarks
Refreshments and networking
Module B2
Security guarding – an update of current licensing issues
11:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
11:35 Licensing requirements and legislation: where are we now?
• Outlining compulsory licensing and regulation of the private security industry in the UK
• Who needs a licence and why?
• Investigating the Working Time Directive
• Setting standards of competence for the industry
• Measuring private security companies against a set of independently assessed criteria and what these are
• Creating a level playing field between in-house and contract security professionals
Stuart Lowden, Managing Director, Wilson James
12:05 Training opportunities and guidance
• An Introduction to ASIS International and its certification programmes
• Professional development for security professionals: providing an overview of the qualifications available and what they offer
• Defining qualifications for practicing security professionals
• Are you qualified to specify security?
• How training and certification can enhance career prospects
• Turning the security industry into the security profession
Mike Hurst, Vice Chairman – Strategy, ASIS International Chapter 208
12:35 Providing integrated security guarding services
• Interaction with the emergency services and ensuring this an essential part of the security strategy
• Integrating manpower and technology to provide a successful contract fulfilment
• Providing specialist manned guarding solutions for public sector clients: what’s involved?
• Future roles for private sector security companies
Richard Oxborrow, Solutions Architect – Security, G4S Secure Solutions (UK)
13:05 Question and answer session
13:30 Closing remarks
Break for lunch
Module B3
Managing with less: Corporate security in today’s climate
14:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
14:35 Maintaining high levels of preparedness in the current economic conditions
• Security convergence – what are the pros and cons?
• Bridging the gaps between physical and logical security
• Security solutions as business solutions and reducing investment costs – where are the opportunities?
• Managing internal resources effectively – promoting security throughout the organisation
• Who should ideally be responsible for effective purchasing/management decisions relating to security?
Don Randall MBE, Head of Security, Bank of England
15:05 Prioritising and contingency planning
• Managing risk and ensuring you are focusing on the right priorities
• Planning for essential business continuity and crisis management on a budget
• Taking a holistic approach to corporate security
• Cultural reform and changing attitudes within the security industry towards environmental priorities
Wilson Chowdhry, Managing Director, A.A. Security
15:35 Addressing corporate and social responsibility needs proactively in your organisation
• Assessing the environmental impact of security operations
• Supporting environmental efforts, cutting waste and using resources more effectively
• Developing a CSR policy – objectives and targets
Abbey Petkar, Managing Director, Magenta Security Services
16:05 Question and answer session
16:30 Closing remarks
Day Three - Wednesday 12th May
Next Generation Technologies
Module C1
CCTV: Delivering cost-effective security solutions
09:00 Opening remarks from the Chair
Brian Sims, SMT Online's Editor, IFSEC
09:05 Choosing the optimum technology choice for your company
• Deriving added value from your cctv system: what can it do for you?
• Thinking about the future: The role of a CCTV strategy
• What makes CCTV effective, what makes it fail - how this can help you opt for the right system
• Understanding how offenders get around security measures
Professor Martin Gill, Director, Perpetuity Research & Consultancy International (PRCI) Ltd
09:35 Ensuring compliance with legislation and guidance
• The Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2008 : implications and explanations
• Latest CCTV standards, registration and privacy issues
• The National CCTV Strategy Report: Where next?
Paul Mackie, Compliance Director, Camerawatch Ltd
10:05 Interoperability: business benefits and challenges
• Outlining the advantages of integration and interoperability of video surveillance security systems
• Achieving inter-system communication and interoperability through the right interfaces
• Understanding how easy it is to implement interoperable systems and what the pitfalls can be
• IP-based systems – a future proof investment?
• Moving towards global interoperability
Jonas Andersson, Axis Communications & Chairman of Steering Committee, ONVIF
10:35 Question and answer session
11:00 Closing remarks
Refreshments and networking
Module C2
Access control and intrusion detection
11:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
Matia Grossi, Industry Analyst for Physical Security Group, Frost & Sullivan
11:35 Investigating new technologies and trends in access control
• An update of the various operating systems, network software/hardware, and applications currently available – an overview of the access control market
• Advanced access control solutions – why it pays to invest in the latest technologies and how you can get the most from them
• Investigating the convergence of physical and logical access control
• An overview of specialist access control solutions
Mike Sussman, Engineering & Operations Director, TDSi
12:05 Access control as the first line of defence: Planning your identity and access management strategy
• Assessing your access control requirements
• Striking a balance between accessibility and security in your building
• Setting different levels of access control for staff, sub-contractors, visitors and vehicle fleets
• Access control for highly sensitive sites
• Additional business uses for access control – added value and increasing the return on investment
Tom Cowling, Large Projects Manager, Paxton Access
12:35 Case study - Designing and developing the right system for your organisation
Norman de Andrade, Key Accounts Manager, Honeywell Security
13:05 Question and answer session
13:30 Closing remarks
Module C3
Next generation biometrics
14:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
Matia Grossi, Industry Analyst for Physical Security Group, Frost & Sullivan
14:35 Biometric solutions – the future of identity management?
• Are biometrics likely to be adopted by the mass market ?
• Enhancing physical and IT security through biometrics – what can be achieved?
• An overview of the different technologies and their most appropriate uses
• Biometrics for events – the ultimate security solution?
Max Snijder, CEO, EU Biometrics Forum
15:05 Integrating Biometrics into Smart Buildings Management
• Applications, advantages and added value that biometrics can facilitate
• Understanding the challenges of incorporating biometrics into a security system
• Biometric modes – which are appropriate and what performance can you expect?
• Data protection and privacy considerations for biometrics in access control
Martin George, CEO, Smart Sensors Ltd
15:35 Biometric systems – deriving value and finding the right business model for your organisation
• Building a business case for biometrics
• Ensuring you get a return on your investment
• Developing an implementation plan
• Overcoming challenges and avoiding pitfalls
Stuart Hefferman, CEO, Omniperception
16:05 Question and answer session
16:30 Closing remarks
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