Conference Day Two: Tuesday, 25 September 2018
8:00 am - 8:50 am Registration, refreshments and networking
8:50 am - 8:55 am IQPC welcome remarks
8:55 am - 9:00 am Chairman’s welcome remarks
JOINT CYBER DEFENCE & ELECTRONIC WARFARE
9:00 am - 9:30 am EW PIONEER SPOTLIGHT: Benchmarking electronic warfare (EW) strategies to achieve mission effectiveness
- Localising radar and EW technologies
- Efficiently improving digital warfare strategies to meet local and international threats
- Improving mission effectiveness through better prepared EW capabilities
Colonel Dr. Eng. Mohammed Aseeri (Ret.)
Assistant ProfessorNational Centre for Radar and Electronics Warfare, KACST, Saudi Arabia
9:30 am - 10:00 am INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: How best to equip forces to establish joint cyber-defence operations
- Unifying the direction of cyberspace operations
- Strengthening MOD, MOI and critical infrastructure cyberspace capabilities
- Integrating multi-agency cyber expertise to overcome threats
Brig. Gen. Randolph Staudenaraus
Chief, Office of Military CooperationUS State Department Kuwait
10:00 am - 10:30 am Advanced EW: Establishing networked-informational environments for tactical equipment
- Assessing the present and increasing vulnerabilities of electronic warfare
- Advising how best to minimise vulnerabilities towards such tactics
- Improving EW capabilities for tactical combat vehicles, aircrafts and offshore vessels
10:30 am - 11:00 am Networking coffee break
ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE USING C4
11:00 am - 11:30 am How to extract intel from vast amount of data within many different languages:
- Data Triage
- How can Text Embedding help with semantic search across different languages
- How to deal with finding and matching names in different languages
- How to mine social media and dark web
- Use Text analytics to detect fake news
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Using C4I Systems and IoT for critical infrastructure protection
- Upgrading business continuity and crisis management initiatives within critical industries
- Protecting offshore and onshore assets through improved streamlined surveillance
- Safeguarding IoT to overcome potential vulnerabilities
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Integrating, improving and capitalising from cross sector ISR capabilities
- Integrating intelligence and multi-domain effectiveness to protect national boarders
- Improving cooperation among command and control centres
- Overcoming objections that successfully support joint operations
Panellists:
Brigadier Ali Abdullah Al Qahtani
Assistant Director GeneralAdministrative Affairs, Saudi Arabia
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Integrating a GCC missile defence command for developing early warning systems
- Focusing on efficient joint missile defence commands
- Synchronising cyber security and electronic warfare to support interoperability
- Upgrading early warning systems at a country and regional level
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Securing borders through enhanced ISR systems against symmetrical and asymmetrical threats
- Building smart barriers to standardised processes for surveillance and reconnaissance
- Enhancing coastal and land border security through effective training
- Utilising air, land and coastal assets to best defend against inbound threats
Brigadier Ali Abdullah Al Qahtani
Assistant Director GeneralAdministrative Affairs, Saudi Arabia
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm Chairman’s closing remarks and announcement of dates for 2019
1:40 pm - 1:40 pm Lunch break and end of conference day two
The published programme is correct at time of printing. However, given the seniority of our speakers and the nature of their roles, speakers may subsequently substitute or remove themselves from the programme. This is always regrettable, and we will always try to replace the speaker with a speaker with equivalent insight.