The AIPIO (www.aipio.asn.au) is the peak representative body for intelligence practitioners in Australia. Our goal is to establish and promote intelligence as a widely recognised profession in Australia, and our membership is drawn from a wide range of fields including government, national security, the armed forces, law enforcement, business, academia, the media, information technology and information service providers.
INTELLIGENCE 2023 WILL BE HELD FROM WEDNESDAY 16 - FRIDAY 18 AUGUST AT THE HILTON ADELAIDE
WHY ATTEND THIS CONFERENCE
Intelligence 2023 provides a unique opportunity for intelligence managers, leaders and practitioners to generate new ideas, discover successful strategies and learn the processes that are driving the future. It delivers the insight, opportunity and connections we need to build a bigger, more robust and versatile intelligence focus in our organisation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This conference is relevant to intelligence leaders, managers, practitioners as well as industry. Whether you are from law enforcement, business, regulatory, security, finance, academia, government or any other domain of intelligence practice – this conference is for you.
Intelligence in the Future(s)
The Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) is committed to growing the intelligence body of knowledge through scholarship, professionalisation of practice, support to major intelligence research projects, as well as professional and social collaboration amongst practitioners.
Intelligence environments in the future(s) will be vastly different to the intelligence environments of today, and therefore will require vastly different intelligence specific skills. In anticipating and responding to constantly evolving security risks, intelligence professionals will likely be tracking new combinations of non-state and state-sponsored actors who threaten to disrupt civil society. Shifting strategic alliances amongst these hostile actors, military conflicts, the presence of terrorist factions and street gangs, and deteriorating local economies will add to the complexity of intelligence work. Hostile actors will have access to new resources, including computing technologies and cyberspace operations, as well as chemical and biological agents that will amplify their power to inflict harm and disrupt daily life and commerce. This will in turn create challenges to the integrity of the information we collect and assess. We must prepare the intelligence enterprise for the volatility and rapid pace of change in the future(s) by shaping and enabling agile intelligence professionals, assimilating new technologies and building practices that can anticipate and respond at will.
Each year, the AIPIO promotes a theme to focus our investment in thought leadership across the full range of our activities.
In 2023, the AIPIO theme is ‘Intelligence in the Future(s)’, with three sub-themes – Innovation, Space and Data & Integrity – each representing areas and aspects of intelligence that are rapidly changing and relevant to the intelligence profession of the future.
Throughout 2023 in the national events program, in regional events, our Communities of Practice and through research and thought leadership, including through Intelligence 2023, the AIPIO will explore differentiations between the current intelligence landscape and the intelligence landscape in the future(s). We will ask what is going to be required from intelligence professionals in the future, and how we can best prepare them for the future.
Within the rubric of ‘Intelligence in the Future(s)’ we will take a deep dive into:
