Program

Wednesday 16 August 2023

Time ACSTSession
10.00 AIPIO AGM
11.00 Registration Open
Arrival Tea & Coffee
12.30 AIPIO Welcome: Dr Phil Kowalick, AIPIO President
Conference Opening: The Honourable Clare O'Neil MP, Minister for Home Affairs & Minister for Cyber Security
13.20 Keynote Speaker - Data & Integrity
Chris Brookes, Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
Intelligence Oversight - Enabling an effective and trusted intelligence community 
14.00 Plenary Speaker
14.40 Afternoon Tea
15.00 Wicked Problem Panel
Facilitator: Major General (Ret) Ben Kite OBE, Kearney
Panellists: Meg Tapia, Novexus
  Space Tradecraft
16.05 Associate Professor Alice Gorman, Flinders University & American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Senior Sergeant First Class Digby Howis, State Intelligence Branch, South Australia Police
How to: Think like an Intelligence Analyst, Critical thinking and bias, focused on problem solving, critical thinking, bias, SATs
  Data & Integrity Innovation
16.40 Meg Tapia, Novexus
Integrity: Mapping the Route to Truth in a Web of Misinformation		 Practitioner Speaker
17.10 Subthemes wrap up Subthemes wrap up
17.15 Welcome Reception & AIPIO Awards

 

 

 * program subject to change
 

Thursday 17 August 2023

Time ACSTSession
08.00 Registration Open
Arrival Tea & Coffee
08.00 Ripjar Satellite Breakfast Meeting Ripjar
08.45 MC Reflection
09.00 Keynote Speaker - Space
09.40 Plenary Speaker
10.20 Morning Tea
  Data & Integrity Innovation Space Tradecraft
10.40

Randy Pherson,
Pherson Associates
Wicked Intelligence Challenges: Assessing Levels of Confidence and Communicating Probability 

Practitioner Speaker

Rebecca Kuster,
The Bureau of Meteorology
Environmental and space weather intelligence for decision support

How to:
Write like an Intelligence Analyst
11.15 Dr Dan Wildy
New Zealand Police
The Trust Opportunity		 Patrick Ingram
Protegas
The Professionalisation of Private Sector Intelligence		 Practitioner Speaker

A day in the life of an intelligence analyst: Space, Integrity & Innovation
11.50 Venessa Ninovic, NSW Police
Electronic Gaming Machine Inquiry: The Intersection between Intelligence, Enforcement, and Regulation

Mark Anderson, Microsoft Australia & New Zealand
Hyper-scale intelligence – collecting and analysing 65 trillion signals daily and the implications for the intelligence community

 

 Practitioner Speaker

The keys to success: Building and Leading Effective Intelligence Teams 
12.20 Lunch
13.20 Practitioner Speaker
 Practitioner Speaker
 Practitioner Speaker

How to: Bolster your Intelligence Career
13.55 Dr Trent Lewis, Fivecast
Augmented Intelligence: Ensuring Data Integrity in an AI-Driven World

Grant Lucas, 
Former U.S. Government Chief of Europe, Middle East, and Africa Operations
The Art and Science of Public and Private Sector Collaboration 

 Practitioner Speaker

Leah Pinto,
CyberCX
The 101 of People Skills in Intelligence
14.30 Practitioner Speaker Kim Valois,
SA Water
Intuitive Powers for Future Intelligence Analysis		 Practitioner Speaker

How to: Effectively Communicate the language of Intelligence  
15.05 Brett Turner, NSW Liquor and Gaming
Artificial Intelligence Analysis: What the Rise of AI Means for Human Intelligence Analysts		 Practitioner Speaker Practitioner Speaker

Effective information collection: Are you accessing everything you could be?
15.35 Afternoon Tea
15.55 Stephen Zidek
Artificial Intelligence Analysis: What the Rise of AI Means for Human Intelligence Analysts		 Mariana Zafeirakopoulos
Designing the Future of Strategic Intelligence: exploring a new paradigm and implications for teaching and capability building		  Anne-Lynn Dudenhoefer, Hensoldt Analytics
Intelligence++ : Fusion of Earth Observation and Open-Source Intelligence for Improved National Security and Disaster Response Efforts

Randy Pherson,
Pherson Associates
Anticipating the Unanticipated with12 Foresight Techniques: Which is the right one for you? 
16.30

Professor Matthew Warren,
Hybrid Threats – The new generation of threats

 

 Thalia Ngan,
NSW Government
Cyber Intelligence: Building Our Intelligence Capability with The Future in Mind		 Practitioner Speaker

 
17.00 Subtheme wrap up Subtheme wrap up Subtheme wrap up Subtheme wrap up
19.00 Pre-dinner Drinks
19.30 - 23.45 Conference Dinner

 

 

 * program subject to change

 

Friday 18 August 2023

Time ACSTSession
08.00 Registration Open
Arrival Tea & Coffee
08.45 MC Reflection
09.00 Keynote Speaker - Innovation
09.40 Plenary Speaker
Assistant Commissioner Scott Duval, South Australia Police
10.20 Morning Tea
10.40 The Great AIPIO Annual Debate
11.35 Plenary Speaker
Dr Malcolm Davis, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
Intelligence Gathering in the 21st Century contested Space Domain
  Innovation Tradecraft
12.25 Practitioner Speaker
 Practitioner Speaker
13.00 Subtheme wrap up Subtheme wrap up
13.10 Conference Close & Announcement of 2024 theme and location
13.30 Farewell Lunch

 

 * program subject to change

 

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