Themes

This years Security & Defence Learning Forum will focus on the following key topics:

1. New threats and challenges
   • Emerging threats and challenges
   • The cyber threat – recent developments
   • The new information age - managing transparency and security
   • The pace of technological change: how can security training keep up?
   • Information security
   • Maritime security: anti-piracy training, protecting ports, ships and freight
   • Transport security: training to protect roads, rail, ports and airports
   • Threats to food and water
   • Border security and customs training
   • Natural disasters
   • Threats to health
   • Threats to education and learning
   • Security training for prisons, hospitals and schools
   • Coordinated ‘anarchy’ and threats to public order
   • The Open Society and the Surveillance Society: learning, liberty and values
2.  Shifts in security learning culture
   • What does the next generation of learners and recruits expect?
   • New learning approaches and pedagogy
   • Motivation for learning
   • New assessment and evaluation approaches
   • Utilising crowd sourcing
   • Virtual mentoring and coaching
   • The future of educational and training publishing
   • Managing change
   • Security and transparency: security in a more open world
3. New security learning environments
   • Social media / Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 / social networking
   • Virtual reality and real world security
   • Game-based learning and serious games
   • Developments in simulation
   • Point-of-need learning
   • The future classroom
   • Augmented reality: its implications and possibilities
   • Mobile learning – learning everywhere
   • Cloud computing
   • Personal learning environments
   • Into the future: what is possible?
4. New developments in training
   • New technologies and their application
   • Developments in police training
   • Developments in military training
   • Learning and training in prisons
   • Budget cuts: how technology is supporting training
   • Future conflict and learning
   • Intelligence-gathering and analysis
   • Training and the private security sector
   • New content creation
   • Intelligent content and semantics
   • Video and security learning
   • Practical tips (webinars, rapid e-learning, digital pens, smartphones, flash etc)
   • The use of social media
   • New methods of evaluation
   • Training for transparency
   • Technology, training and ethics
   • Future training requirements
   • Future training technologies
5. Innovation
   • Innovative solutions to training problems
   • Fostering innovation
   • Keeping up with the pace of change
   • Structures: how to grow security training innovation
   • Reducing ‘flash to bang’ time: from innovative idea to deployment
   • Sources of innovation

 

6. Improving Cooperation
   • Information and content sharing
   • Best practice
   • Standards
   • International, inter-service and cross-sectoral cooperation
   • Improving coordination and response
   • Joint training exercises
   • Humanitarian aid – working with NGOs
   • Disaster management and relief
   • Medical evacuation
   • Language Learning and Culture