A New Discussion on Coastal Surveillance

The case studies and presentations at the 5th annual MDA: Coastal Surveillance 2008 will showcase current and future plans how to identify maritime threats and equip you with strategic objectives to deal with them. This will encompass areas such as:

• Preventing Nation-State and terrorist threats
• Drastically reducing transnational criminal and piracy threats
• Faster response to environmental destruction
• More control on illegal seaborne immigration

You will also hear recent plans and strategies which will can help you to:

• Maximize domain awareness
• Embed security into commercial practices
• Deploy layered security: unifying public and private security measures
• Assure continuity of the marine transportation system

Why this event is critical to attend

The 5th Annual conference on Maritime Domain Awareness: Coastal Surveillance 2008 is the region’s and globally recognised critical forum for addressing the key challenges on maritime security faced by littoral states. We are also excited to bring together high-level speakers and senior experts from across the globe to cover the latest developments, programmes, requirements and technologies associated with coastal and maritime surveillance. This event is recognized by the US DoD and UK MoD as a premier global forum and they continually support the conference with top level speakers.

“Maritime Security is a very important factor at the moment. If there’s any threat from the sea, we’ll be very vulnerable. So these conferences helps us to know each other and also learn from each other’s experience – how every country is doing it, and then grow further.” Inspector General SPS Basra Deputy Director General INDIAN COAST GUARD Coastal Surveillance 2007

Confirmed Speakers for 2008:

• Vice Admiral Jan Reksten, Commander, National Joint HQ Navy, Norway
• Rear Admiral DM S Balachandran, Chief of Staff Officer (N), India
• Colonel Baki Bala, Director of Project Management Directorate, Ministry of Defence, Albania
• Brigadier Carmel Vassallo, Commander, Armed Forces, Malta
• Commander Heaky Onaivi Dimowo, Chief, Maritime Guard Command, Nigeria
• Commander Georg Lárusson, Coast Guard Director, Iceland
• Vice Admiral (Ret) Premvir Das, Current member of the National Security Advisory Board of India, India

New for 2008!

The Coastal Surveillance Advisory Board is a new concept at Defence IQ and will consist of high ranking Navy, Coastguard and Military. The international members of the Advisory Board will be selected depending on their experience and expertise in the MDA and Coastal Surveillance area. Their primary role will be to:

• Give advice on the conference agenda
• Design interview questions for speakers at the conference
• Make recommendations on future conference content

If you wish to become a permanent member of the Coastal Surveillance Advisory Board e-mail anna.franz@iqpc.com for further details and enjoy Free Access To Conference.

To see full speaker list from last year please download our 2007 Post Show Report Also in the Report… Photos from Coastal Surveillance 2007

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time.

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