Security Events
14-17 May 2013
Cloud Asia 2013
Venue: Singapore Marriott Hotel
Event Topic: Jointly organized by IDA Singapore and Informa Telecoms & Media (ITM), CloudAsia 2013 brings together international and regional enterprises and telco to address the realities and deployment of cloud technology.
15-16 May 2013
Collaboration & Capability for Disaster Resilience Conference
Venue: CQ Functions, Melbourne
Event Topic: Adopting an all hazards, all agencies approach to build community resilience & manage risk.
17 May 2013
Security strategies for mass transit and public transport modes
Venue: Studio Room, Crown Perth, 2:45pm – 5:00pm
Event Topic: Steve Furmedge, Director Security Services, Public Transport Authority will present on Security strategies for mass transit and public transport modes and Dr. Gavriel Schneider CPP, Dynamic Alternatives Group will present on the design and development of a best practice training model for the Private Security Industry.
20 May 2013
Strategic Flashlight - Australia’s Maritime Strategy and Doctrine
Venue: Executive Briefing Centre, Level 2, bld 100, Curtin University, WA: 17.00 to 18.30hrs
Event Topic: Capt Justin Jones RAN, Director of the Sea Power Centre – Australia, will be presenting a briefing on Australia’s Maritime Strategy and Doctrine. The recently released Defence White Paper contains the most significant enunciation of a maritime strategic approach in any of the post 1976 white papers. Although all recent defence white papers have recognised that Australia’s enduring geo-strategic circumstances demands a maritime strategy, DWP13 goes further than its predecessors in a consistent articulation of such an approach and how sea, land and air forces contribute to a maritime strategy.
20-24 May 2013
AusCERT 2013
Venue: RACV Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast, Australia
Event Topic: AusCERT2013’s theme is, “This time, it’s personal” which covers a range of IT security issues such as personal information breach issues and the growing interest in politically motivated attacks. In the latter case, the political issues are personal views of the hackers who are taking action into their own hands to influence public outcomes – hence the “this time, it’s personal” has slightly threatening overtones. We hope you enjoy this theme and can use it to your advantage.
28-31 May 2013
2nd International Conference on ISO31000 Standard
Venue: Toronto, Canada
Event Topic: Understand how ISO 31000 is changing the global risk management community, learn how to embed the standard into your risk management program and explore the latest developments in risk management and management systems for standards. G31000 is proud to present the program of the second International conference on the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard, offering the highest quality education and networking experience available for risk professionals.
29-31 May 2013
Earth: Fire and Rain – Disaster Management Conference
Venue: Mercure Hotel Brisbane
Event Topic: The conference will examine what we have learnt in the past few years and provide a comprehensive forum that shines a spotlight on resilience and offers professionals (and future professionals) an opportunity to advance and improve approaches, thoughts and opinions. We would like to examine expertise, competencies and aptitudes relating to the preparedness for future disasters, emergencies and hazards and the ability to recover from them quickly and efficiently.
30-31 May 2013
Biometrics Institute Asia Pacific Conference
Venue: Dockside, Sydney
Event Topic: Formerly known as The Biometrics Institute Australia Conference & Exhibition, our bigger and better Asia-Pacific Conference 2013 will be held at new location Dockside, Sydney. This 2 day conference will provide an insight into the latest developments and best-practice examples of biometric technologies.
4 - 6 June 2013
International Defence & Homeland Security Expo, Tel Aviv, Israel
Venue: Israel
Event Topic: Comprehensive platform for presenting the Israeli companies in fields of Homeland Security and Defence, opening doors to a plethora of business opportunities and highlighting the latest, cutting edge, technological security and defence systems and applications developed by Israeli SME’s.
5-6 June 2013
RSA Conference
Venue: Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Event Topic: Join your fellow information security professionals at the inaugural RSA Conference Asia Pacific, where we’ll be discussing security issues from both a global and Asia Pacific perspective.
12-13 June 2013
Oil and Gas Security 2013 Summit
Venue: Double Tree Hotel – Tower of London – 7 Pepys Street, London
Event Topic: This Summit is specifically designed to examine techniques to prevent and mitigate security threats to both offshore and onshore oil and gas infrastructure, assets and personnel, which may arise from civil unrest, terrorist activities, theft, sabotage and piracy.
12-13 June 2013
The Global High on Cloud Summit
Venue: The Lalit, Mumbai
Event Topic: Anyone who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few years. Cloud Computing has emerged as a big surprise when people were struggling to get rid of the troubles involved with traditional web hosting and computing solutions for their business ventures.
18 – 19 June 2013
Biometric Security Forum Asia: The Future of Border Control
Venue: Mandarin Orchard Hotel, Singapore
Event Topic: This event will take place over one day and will include high level international speakers from airports, border agencies, government, academia and the commercial sectors who will present and discuss key themes in border security and biometrics. Followed by an integrated half-day training workshop where participants will have the opportunity to learn about the latest technology trends and requirements for the Asian Biometric community.
25 June 2013
NSW Chapter Half Day Conference and Luncheon – “Ed You Cation: Me and my Career”
Venue: Doltone House, Darling Island Wharf, Accenture Building (Ground Floor), 48 Pirrama Rd Pyrmont
Event Topic: Me and my career. We examine what is available to security professionals at all levels. The aim is to reinvigorate our industry and provide scope to the young and up and coming as well as taking a look at what the senior security professional can do to develop further. Let’s also look at diversification. Explore expanding your skills into other areas that coexist with security. Emergency Management, Crisis Management, Business Continuity, Workplace Safety, Investigations and many more.
1-4 July 2013
ISR Asia 2013
Venue: Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Event Topic: This inaugural Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) event will take place on 1-4 July 2013, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is being organised in full partnership with the Malaysian Government.
24-26 July 2013
Intelligence 2013 – “Futureproofing Intelligence” – AIPIO
Venue: Canberra, Australia
Event Topic: On 24-26 July 2013, the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) will host its annual conference, this year in Canberra. The theme of “Futureproofing Intelligence” will pursue two objectives: to foster a community of interest on strategic foresight and warning in Australia, and to improve participants’
understanding of the critical enablers of intelligence and the role these play in building resilience.
6-7 August 2013
5th Annual Cyber Security for Government 
Venue: L’Aqua, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbour, Sydney
Event Topic: With a successful series of Cyber Security for Government events, Government IQ is proud to announce its return to Sydney in August 2013. With cyber security being highlighted as one of the key national security strategy priorities for the next five years, the public sector is recognising the increasing prominence of cyber threats and the risks that they pose to data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
7-8 August 2013
SecureAsia@Manila : Building a Secure Cyber World
Venue: Makati Shangri-La, Manila, Philippines
Event Topic: Enterprises today face rapidly changing threats as never before. From combating viruses aimed at extorting money from individuals like the FBI virus to more sophisticated viruses like Stuxnet targeting infrastructure to perceived espionage related efforts in Flame and Red October, the task of the cyber security professional to protect an organizations information assets is more critical then ever. Special Registration Rate: Simply enter the discount code “MEDIA” when registering through the above link.
12-14 August 2013
25th Security in Government Conference
Venue: National Convention Centre, Canberra
Event Topic: The SIG Conference began in 1987 as a meeting of agency security advisers focusing on protective security issues. Since its inception, attendance at the conference has enabled delegates to engage with public and private sector security experts from a diverse range of fields. The extensive trade exhibition attached to the conference features over 100 security-related service providers who work closely with both the government and private sector to provide cutting-edge solutions to protective security issues.
22 – 24 August 2013
2nd Annual Cloud Computing Summit
Venue: TBA, New Delhi, India
The second annual cloud computing summit is bringing back key CIO‘s at a single platform towards overcoming the general inertia plaguing the sector. Cloud is slowly gaining acceptance amidst the global meltdown. This brings forth two strands of thought : accepting the cloud and rising pressure on the ROI from cloud. Security and legal issues remain the constant issues adding to the “jump or not” question. These troubling times raise difficult questions and even complex answers.
27-29 August 2013
ZebraCON – Aligning GRC with Business Priorities
Venue: Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
Event Topic: Zebracon is a forum for sharing of information about key issues that most effectively impact security risk management and compliance trends. Each topic is specially designed for the GRC professional, focusing on strategy and implementation guidelines. The workshops revolves around case study analysis and advanced GRC training conducted by GRC industry experts to learn what results large organizations have experienced from effecting GRC policies in a traditional classroom setting which covers GRC methodologies from strategy to implementation.
27 August 2013
One Day of Positivity Campaign
Venue: National
Event Topic: One Day of Positivity is a not for profit social campaign by the Australian Education and Leadership Centre. It has two broad aims. The first is to increase awareness of the benefits of positivity. The second is to increase the amount of positive communication and action in business, political, media and day-to-day living. The overarching goal is that the One Day of Positivity will serve as a catalyst for a shift towards greater levels of positivity at all levels of society. APSM is a proud supporter of the campaign and an Ambassador to the event.
10-12 September 2013
Big Data World Asia
Venue: Suntec Tower 4, Singapore
Event Topic: Big Data World Asia 2013 is Asia’s leading strategic analytics & data conference where business leaders, data scientists, heads of analytics & senior marketers from the region learn the strategies, intelligence and technology that they need to leverage Big Data effectively.
12 September 2013
The Global Security Challenge
Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham, UK)
Event Topic: The Global Security Challenge (GSC) is an annual global competition seeking to identify most promising security technology start-ups and SMEs from around the world. InnoCentive EMEA is running the Global Security Challenge for the 7th consecutive year and this year competition focus on Cyber Security.
24-27 September 2013
The ASIS International 59th Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS2013)
Venue: McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., USA
Event Topic: Recognized as the security industry’s most comprehensive education and networking event, ASIS 2013 is anticipated to draw more than 20,000 security professionals from around the world for education, networking, and an expansive exhibit floor of security products and services. (ISC)2, the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide, will colocate its third annual Security Congress with ASIS 2013. Registration and housing for ASIS 2013 is now open. Visit www.asis2013.org for complete event details, including registration, housing, and sponsorships.
13-14 November 2013
Cloud Expo Asia
Venue: Suntec Exhibition Centre, Singapore
Event Topic: Cloud Expo Asia, located in Singapore on the 13th & 14th November 2013, is set to be the leading event in Asia for senior IT decision makers in client side organisations and the cloud industry. Building on the award winning Cloud Expo Europe it brings to Asia an event that gives you the best opportunity to engage with the cloud industry.
3 – 5 December 2013
7th ASIS International Asia Pacific Security Forum and Exhibition
Venue: Macau, Conrad Macao Cotai Central
Event Topic: This unique conference will address a full spectrum of topics in security management such as: supply chain security, loss prevention, hotel security, intellectual property, maritime piracy, terrorism, executive protection, internal theft and fraud, competitive intelligence, brand protection, physical security, cyber security, investigations, due diligence and global business issues. Gain valuable new insights and perspectives on security challenges faced regionally in the Asia Pacific, as well as those that extend globally.
3 – 5 December 2013
Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
Venue: Malaysia
Event Topic: Is a two day event and will include high level international speakers from military, government, academia and the commercial sectors who will present and discuss key themes including: Critical National Infrastructure Protection, Digital Forensics, Military Cyber Commands, Cloud Computing, Business Continuity, Hacking and Vulnerability Management. The two day conference will be followed by day of focused interactive training-workshops.
3 – 4 December 2013
2nd World Borderpol Congress
Venue: Methodist Central Hall Westminster
Event Topic: The World BORDERPOL Congress is the only multi-jurisdictional transnational platform where the border protection, management and security industry policy- makers and practitioners convene annually to discuss the international challenges faced in protecting not only one’s own country’s borders, but those of neighbours and friends.
