President’s Welcome

• Wesley Wark , CASIS President, Munk Centre, University of Toronto
• Gérard Hervouet , CASIS Vice-President, Laval University
• Tony Campbell , CASIS Executive Director, Adjunct at Carleton University, Royal Roads University and University of Victoria

Panel 1

Terrorism: Understanding the Threat

• Chair: Patricia Hassard , Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Emergency Management and National Security, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada
• Peter Bergen , Schwartz Fellow, New America Foundation
• Karin von Hippel , Former Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London; Co-Director for Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Washington
• Stephane Leman-Langlois , Universit� de Montr�al

Panel 2

Once More Into the Breach: Lessons and Challenges of Intelligence Reform

• Chair: James Judd , Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
• Alex Danchev , Professor and Director of Research, School of Politics , Nottingham University
• Linda Goldthorp , Defence Intelligence, National Defence Canada
• Eleanor Hill , former Staff Director, Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11
• J. Kenneth McDonald , Former Chief Historian, CIA

Guest of Honour: The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Hon. Anne McLellan (TBC)

Weller Prize Winners Presentation for Best Graduate
and Undergraduate Research Papers
Chair: Arne Kislenko , Chairman of the Weller Prize Committee

CASIS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
Seymour Hersh,
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and Author

Panel 3

North American Border Security: Making It Happen

• Chair: Claudette Deschênes , V-President, Canadian Border Services Agency
• Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly , School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
• Stuart Farson , Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University
• Athanasios Hristoulas , Department of International Studies,Instituto Tecnologico Autonoma de Mexico
• David Shirk , Director Transborder Institute, University of San Diego
• Discussant: Stéphane Roussel , Université de Québec á Montréal

Panel 4

(concurrent) National Security in Multicultural Societies: Modern Answers to Age-Old Challenges

• Chair: Peter Stoett , Chair, Department of Political Science, Concordia University
• James Bissett , former Ambassador and head of the Canadian Immigration Service
• Edna Keeble , Political Science, St. Mary's University, Halifax
• Sheema Khan , Chairman, CAIR-CAN (The Council on American-Islamic Relations Canada) (TBC)
• Kevin O'Brien , RAND UK

Panel 5

(concurrent) In Pursuit of the Analytical Holy Grail: Part 1 Innovation in Analysis, Warning and Prediction

• Chair: Robert Fahlman , Deputy Director General, Criminal Intelligence Service Canada
• John MacLaughlan , Director, Integrated Threat Assessment Centre
• Stephen Strang , Senior Advisor Research & Development, Criminal Intelligence Directorate, RCMP
• John P. Sullivan , Los Angeles Early Warning Group, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department

Keynote Speaker: Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation and one of the world's leading authorities on terrorism.

Lunch   Co-hosted by CN

Panel 6

(concurrent) Rethinking Chatter: Global Communications and the Hunt for Good Intelligence

• Co-Chairs: John Adams , Chief, Communications Security Establishment and David Kahn, author
• Matthew Aid , author
• Patrick Radden Keefe , Yale University Law School
• Scott Shane , New York Times

Panel 7

(concurrent) Transportation Security: Have the 9/11 Lessons Been Learned?

• Chair: Jean-Paul Brodeur , Sciences Politiques, Université de Montréal
• Jacques Duchesneau , President, Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
• John Dalzell, Vice President Risk Management, CN
• Margaret Purdy , Special Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Transport, Transport Canada

Panel 8

The ‘War on Terror’: The View from Europe

• Chair: Stephen Rigby , Assistant Secretary to Cabinet, Security and Intelligence
• Mark Phythian , Director, History and Governance Institute, University of Wolverhampton
• Magnus Ranstorp , Director, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, St. Andrew’s University
• Cees Wiebes , Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam

Panel 9

The Best and the Brightest: The CASIS Weller Prize Winners’ Panel
(Weller Prize papers will be presented by their student authors and discussed by a panel of academics and practitioners, and the audience.)

• Chair: G�rard Hervouet , Laval University
• Graduate Winner: Andrea Pasztor , University of Ottawa
• Undergraduate Winner: Tim Sayle , University of Toronto
• Commentators: Arne Kislenko , Ryerson University and Munk Centre, University of Toronto; Gavin Cameron , University of Calgary; Andrew Preston , University of Victoria, Yale University

Student Reception "no host bar"

An opportunity for all student participants to meet together for an hour of “meet and greet”.

Free Evening

Panel 10

In Pursuit of the Analytical Holy Grail: Part 2 Professional Tradecraft

• Chair: Joanne Weeks , Executive Director, Office of the Communications Security Establishment Commissioner
• Tom Fingar , Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Chairman of the National Intelligence Council
• Warren Fishbein , Global Futures Partnership, Washington
• Roger George , Global Futures Partnership, National Defence University Washington

Panel 11

Proliferation: The Threat and the Response?

• Chair: David Charters, University of New Brunswick
• Angela Bogdan , Director, Global Partnership Program, Foreign Affairs Canada
• Gavin Cameron , University of Calgary
• Trevor Findlay , Director, Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance, Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University

Panel 12

The Informed Citizen: Between the Scylla of Secrecy and the Charybdis of Manipulation

• Chair: Paule Gauthier , Former Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee
• Greg Fyffe , Exec. Dir., International Assessment Staff, Privy Council Office
• Eleanor Hill , former Staff Director, Joint Congressional Committee on 9/11
• Patrick Martin , The Globe and Mail
• Reg Whitaker , Emeritus Professor York University, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, University of Victoria

Panel 13

Conference Conclusions and Wrap-up

• Chair: Wesley Wark , President of CASIS