CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE
POUR L’ÉTUDE DU RENSEIGNEMENT ET DE LA SÉCURITÉ (revised July 7/03)
CASIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
2003
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY HARBOUR
CENTRE
515 WEST HASTINGS STREET,
VANCOUVER, BC
OCTOBER 16 - 18, 2003
HOMELAND
INSECURITIES:
The Shifting
Borders of Security, Intelligence
And Law
Enforcement
The Conference will
run from 1:00 pm on Thursday, October 16th to 5:30 pm on Saturday,
October 18th, 2003.
Conference Fees:
General $200CDN
University and College Faculty
$140CDN
Retired
(not working) $140CDN
Students (full time) $100CDN (subsidy
may be available)
The fee includes CASIS
membership for 2003-2004, one dinner and one lunch.
Registration:
You may register online with VISA or by downloading the registration form and mailing with a cheque to CASIS Secretariat, PO Box 69006, Place de Ville, Ottawa, Ontario K1R 1A7. A receipt for tax purposes will be provided at the conference when you check in.
Places at CASIS 2003 will be limited. Participants will be accommodated on a first come, first served basis.
Accommodation:
Rooms have been block booked at a discount under CASIS at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia, 801 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, about a 7 minute walk to the conference site. If you wish to reserve a room, please telephone either the central Crowne Plaza booking service at 1-800-2CROWNE, or the hotel itself (604-642-5554). These rooms will be held until September 15 only and are available on a first come first served basis.
CASIS
Annual General Meeting:
The meeting will be held at 12:45 pm on Saturday, October 18th. Sandwiches will be available for those who attend. Membership benefits include a 20% discount on Frank Cass & Co publications which include such journals as: Intelligence and National Security and Terrorism and Political Violence as well as books in the series Studies in Intelligence.
Thursday, October 16
1:30 Conference Opening
Welcome: Tony Campbell –
President of CASIS
Michael
Stevenson – President of Simon Fraser University (TBC)
2:00 Keynote
Guest Speaker (TBC)
2:30 Panel 1 Homeland Security/Insecurity: Canadian and
American Responses to 9/11
3:30 Break
3:45 Panel 2 Terrorism
5:00 Panel 3 Urban Security and Resiliency
6:30 No Host Reception - Crown Plaza Georgia
Hotel
Weller Prize Awards
8:30 Meeting of CASIS Executive - Georgia Hotel
Boardroom
Friday,
October 17
8:30 Panel 4 Roundtable – Asian Security Outlook
9:45 Break
10:00 Concurrent Panels
Panel 5 International
Intelligence Cooperation
Panel 6 North Asia Political
and Economic Trends
11:25 Concurrent Panels
Panel 7 Organized
Crime – Challenges of Shifting Boundaries
Panel 8 South and Southeast Asian Trends and Prospects
12:45 Informal Buffet Lunch - Conference Hall
1:45 Keynote Speaker: The Solicitor General of
Canada – The Hon. Wayne Easter,
P.C., M.P. (TBC)
2:15 Panel 9 Iraq Lessons: Intelligence and Information
Warfare
3:30 Break
3:45 Concurrent Panels
Panel 10 Policing and Security in B.C.: Ports,
Boundaries and Other Priorities
Panel 11 Signals Intelligence History
5:00 Panel 12 Student Panel
6:15 Close
6:30 for 7:15 Reception and Gala Dinner -
Hotel Crown Plaza Georgia
The
John Tait Memorial Lecture: Mr. Ward Elcock (TBC), Director
Canadian
Security Intelligence Service
Saturday, October 18
9:00 Panel 13 New Dimensions in
Critical Infrastructure Protection
10:15 Break
10:30 Concurrent Panels
Panel 14 Leadership in Intelligence Organizations
Panel 15 Innovation in Security,
Intelligence and Law Enforcement –
Case
Studies and Best Practices Chair:
TBC
11:45 Keynote
Speaker – The Post Iraq Security Outlook (TBC)
12:30 Lunch Break
12:45 CASIS
Annual General Meeting
2:30 Panel 16 Teaching and Learning: Security,
Intelligence and Policing Studies
3:45 Break
4:00 Panel 17 International Trends
and Challenges
4:45 Panel 18 Lessons Learned: Conference Wrap-Up
5:30 Conclusion