8:00–8:45

Registration

8:45–9:00

Opening Remarks

• Dr Harold Elletson, Chairman, The New Security Foundation

9:45–10:45

Session 1

Training for New Threats and Challenges

What new threats are emerging from the shadows and how can we overcome them? How can developments in technology help to improve training to meet the new challenges. Presentations in this session will cover topics including:

• The new security environment
• Cyber security and critical infrastructure
• Standards
• New training strategies,  priorities and tools
• Terrorism and the internet
• Piracy

Speakers will include:

• Jay Bavisi, President, EC Council, USA
• Bruce Anderson, Political Columnist, The Independnt, UK
• Professor Fernando Carvalho Rodriguez, Programme Director, Threats and Challenges Section, NATO, Belgium
• Sean Nugent and Steve Barden, Line Communications, UK
• Dale Kneeland, Kneeland Consulting, Serbia

10:45–11:15

Tee / Coffee Break in the SDL exhibition area

11:15–12:45

Session 2

Training: The Key to Preparedness and Effective Emergency Response

How are new technology and new systems helping to bring about improvements in preparedness and training for emergency services? What new developments have there been? What is today’s best practice? How can we cooperate more effectively? How should we set standards and benchmark? What role can technology play? Speakers in this session will discuss a range of topics, including:

• Coordinating emergency training across government
• Developing online emergency training
• Setting standards and sharing best practice
• Preparing the medical sector
• Training for an emergency in the water sector
• Disease Management
• Storylines and Scenario-based training

Speakers will include:

• Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Rolf Stober, German University for Further Education, Germany
• Arthur Rabjohn, Chairman, International Association of Emergency Managers, UK
• Philip Fischer, University of Bonn, Germany
• Angelika Schaefer, INMEDEA GmbH, Germany
• Franck Galland, Director of Security, Suez Environnement, France

12:45–14:15

Lunch

14:15–15:45

Session 3

Developments in Police and Security Training

How are police forces and security agencies coping with the challenge of training for new threats? What lessons have they learned / can they learn from the military? What are the new training priorities for today’s police and how should they be implemented? How can we share information and experience, so that work together more effectively? How can technology help to meet cultural and linguistic challenges? How can gaming and simulation improve police training? How can it be deployed most effectively? Speakers’ themes will include:

• Developments in police training
• Developing a comprehensive, accessible programme of police training
• In-service training
• Training for senior officers
• Gaming and simulation
• Situation Room Scenarios
• Standardising training in a multilingual, federal state
• Key issues in successful distance learning for police
• Serious games and virtual police training

Speakers will include:

• Assistant Chief Constable John Geates, Director, The Scottish Police College, UK
• Peter-Martin Meier, Director, Swiss Police Institute, Switzerland
• Uwe Seidel, Ministry of Interior, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
• Professor Bernadete Cordeiro, Ministry of Justice, Brazil
• Julianna Barroso, Ministry of Justice, Brazil

15:45–16:15

Tea / Coffee Break – in the SDL exhbition area

16:15–17:45

Session 4

New Systems and New Worlds

How will technology and the development of new media change training in the future? What are the new opportunities? What are future training priorities and requirements likely to be? How will we train tomorrow’s defence, security and emergency services? Speakers’ topics will include:

• Using new technology more effectively
• Emerging technology
• Using new media more effectively
• Training with social networking
• Web 3.0
• Second Life
• Designing new courses for the new security environment

Speakers will include:

• Dale Sheehan, Director, Police Training and Development, INTERPOL, France
• Maria-Charlotte Koch, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Germany

17:45–18:15

Concluding remarks and close of conference