Global Intelligence Forum

Background

2010 Conference

Speakers

• Dermot Ahern T.D., former Minister for Justice and Law Reform
• Sean Alyward, Secretary General, Department of Justice and Equality
• James Breckenridge, Dean, Walker School of Business; Chair, Department of Intelligence Studies, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
• Anthony Campbell, Coordinator of the Global Futures Forum Community of Interest on the Practice and Organization of Intelligence; Former Head of Intelligence Assessment Secretariat, Privy Council Office, Canada
• John Deasy, Teachta Dála, Waterford Constituency, Ireland
• Dennis Dirkmaat, Diplomat, American Board of Forensic Anthropology; Director, Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, United States
• Liam Fahey, Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management, Babson College Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States; Executive Director, Leadership Forum Inc.
• Robert J. Heibel, Executive Director, Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies
• Georgia Holmer, Pherson Associates, LLC
• Erik Kleinsmith, Program Director, Intelligence Analysis Training, Lockheed Martin; Former US Army Armour and Intelligence Officer - South Riding, Virginia, United States
• Justyna Krajewska, Project Manager, Amsterdam in Business, Amsterdam, Holland
• Catherine Lotrionte, Associate Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security, Georgetown University; Former Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, White House, Washington, DC, United States
• Mark M. Lowenthal, President and CEO of the Intelligence and Security Academy, LLC., Reston, Virginia, United States
• Stephen Marrin, Lecturer, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom
• Don McDowell, Director, The Intelligence Study Centre, New South Wales, Australia
• Maxie McFarland, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, United States
• William McGill, Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University; Former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, United States
• Commissioner Fachtna Murphy, Commissioner of an Garda Síochána
• Michael Murphy, Enterprise Ireland
• Ray O’Dwyer, County Manager, Waterford County Council
• Chris Pallaris, Head of OSINT, International Relations and Security Network, Zürich, Switzerland
• Joseph Pesce, CEO, Omnis, Inc., McLean, Virginia, United States
• Randy Pherson, President, Pherson Associates, LLC., Reston, Virginia, United States
• Jim Poole, Head of Analytical Capability and Outreach, Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis, UK Cabinet Office, London, United Kingdom
• Jim Power, Chief Economist, Friends First Group; Professor, Finance and Economics on the Local Government MBA, Dublin City University; Professor of Economics on the Executive MBA, Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School - Dublin, Ireland
• Justine Marut Schober, Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University; Director of Academic Research, Hamot Medical Center; Pediatric Urologist, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
• Kristan Wheaton, Associate Professor, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States
• Mark Williams, Chief Technology Officer of Eastport Analytics, Arlington, Virginia, United States

  Topics

• Intelligence Analysis: The Business Context
• Intelligence in Medicine
• Astrophysical Best Practices & Intelligence Analysis
• Information in Economics and Finance
• Terrorism and Internet
• PINS: Intelligence and Offender Management
• Structured Analysis for Security Risk Management
• Best Practices for Technology Support to Analytic Best Practices
• Improving Intelligence Analysis by Looking to the Medical Profession
• Learning Best Practices from other Domains
• Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Cardinal Virtues of Analytical Best Practices
• From Intelligence to Policy — Creating a Perfect Business Climate in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
• The Trouble with Best Practices
• Teaching Intelligence Best Practices
• Sharing the Findings: The Challenge for Strategic Analysts to Justify and Explain Themselves
• How to Identify, Evaluate, and Teach Best Analytic Practices
• Teaching Strategic Intelligence Through Games

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