CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE
STUDIES
ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE
POUR L��TUDE DU RENSEIGNEMENT ET DE LA S�CURIT� (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