Why should I attend?

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

Top Reasons to attend:

• Integrating and establishing a coordinated approach for Maritime Surveillance
• Enhancing inter-governmental and inter-agency intelligence and information sharing
• Assessing and maximising Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA)
• Evaluating the latest technologies available to enhance surveillance programmes
• Peace-time core activities such as: Search& Rescue, disaster at sea response and management
• Combating illegal seaborne drug trafficking, immigration and fishing

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 theconference with top level speakers.

Confirmed Speakers for 2008:

Admiral (Ret.) Tan Sri Anwar Nor Former Chief of Navy Malaysia Admiral Timothy J. Keating USN Commander U.S. Pacific Command Captain Lars Sauners Chief of Naval Operations Joint HQ Norwegian Navy Vice Admiral Michel de Fresse de Monval Deputy-Chief of Staff for International Affairs French Navy Special Agent Bradley Howell Deputy Assistant Director for Maritime Domain Awareness Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Admiral (Ret.) Walter Doran President Raytheon Asia (Formerly Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet) Rear Admiral DM S Balachandran Chief of Staff Officer (N) India Commander Georg Lárusson Coast Guard Director General Iceland

Colonel Baki Bala Director of Project Management Directorate Ministry of Defence Albania Captain Gerald M. Swanson Commander, Coast Guard Activities Far East US Coast Guard Captain (NN) SMD Usman Commander, Maritime Guard Command Nigeria Maritime Administration & Safety Agency Major Andrew Mallia Staff Officer 2 Maritime & Air Operations Armed Forces, Malta Vice Admiral (Ret.) Premvir Das Current Member National Security Advisory Board of India Dr. Xu Ke Specialist Maritime Security Matters ,Centre for Maritime Studies National University of Singapore Dr. Evangelos Kotsakis European Commission, Joint Research Centre Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen Speaker to be Advised Sri Lanka Navy

Captain Gabriel Kinney USCG (Ret.) Business Development Maritime Systems and Sensors Lockheed Martin Corporation Roger Cook Director of Waterside Security Systems L-3 Manfred Scheiring Global Sales Director Scotty Group Jack Rienzo Raytheon Mijndert Wiesenekker Design & Proposal Manager High Speed and Naval Craft Damen Simon Hughes General Manager Kelvin Hughes Dr. Bernard Tomasini Maritime Safety & Security Business Manager, Safety & Information Systems Division DCNS Thomas Robison Business Development Director for Civil Security & Response (CSRP) Programmes Raytheon

2007 speakers included:

• Rear Admiral Tyrone Pile, Commander of Maritime Forces and Joint Task Force Pacific, CANADIAN FORCES
• LCDR Arnaldo Lim, Manager, ReCAAP INFORMATION SHARING CENTRE
• Dr Charles Kimzey, Science and Technology Advisor, US PACIFIC COMMAND
• Commodore Dan Thorell, Director Generals Staff, SWEDISH COAST GUARD
• Inspector General SPS Basra, Deputy Director General, INDIAN COAST GUARD
• Admiral (Retd) Walter F. Doran, President, RAYTHEON ASIA
• Commander Yves Cuny, Plan and Policy Office, FRENCH NAVY STAFF

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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