Enhancing Inter-Agency Cooperation Throughout the Hemisphere to Counter Transnational and Transregional Threats
This is your opportunity to participate at the co-located
CABSEC 17 & SAMSEC 17 conferences. Held with the formal support of The National Air and Naval Service of Panama (SENAN) in cooperation with the organiser this meeting will combine the fifth annual
CABSEC conference and the third annual South American Security Summit (SAMSEC).
This established forum moves around the region each year and we are delighted to be hosted by Panama in 2017. The conference traditionally brings together ministers, chiefs of defence, service chiefs, law-enforcement officials, and diplomatic personnel to discuss security capacity building and structures of cooperation within the region and sub-regions.
The key theme for 2017 is inter-agency cooperation with particular application to transnational and transregional threats. Counter-Terrorism; Counter-Narcotics; Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief; and protecting national Exclusive Economic Zones.
The forum is seem as a great place for the various military and government agencies in the region to work and interact with most of their critical partners. Equally, the conference brings senior level industry participation who work with partners throughout the hemisphere.
If you are in the business of addressing the challenges in the region from a networked focused perspective rather than dealing with individual problem sets this conference is for you. You will meet valuable new contacts in agencies throughout the region, and we will help you enhance and build the network you need to counter the networked threats we face.
Key topics discussed at CABSEC & SAMSEC 2017 include:
- Combating transnational organised criminal networks
- Strengthening inter-institutional coordination for the exchange of information
- Ensuring the security of the maritime domain and EEZ is safeguarded for economic purposes
- Facilitating regional and hemispheric security cooperation
- Sharing lessons relating to the interdiction of narcotics flowing through the region
- National and collective approaches to security challenges
- Enhancing regional training, capacity building and security cooperation
- Sharing lessons in procurement and modernization
"A good information sharing platform. The organisation should include politicians and government officials who make policy, including the legal circle"
Captain (CG) John Flores, Colonel Administration and Quartering, Guyana Defence Force
Speakers
Conference Co-Chairs
- Rodrigo F. Cigarruista, Security and Surveillance Manager, Panama Canal Authority
- Commissioner José de Jesús Rodríguez, Head of the First Region, National Aeronaval Service of Panamá
Host Nation Speakers
- H.E. Alexis Betancourt, Minister of Public Security, República de Panamá
- Director General Belsio González, Comandante, National Aeronaval Service of Panama
- Comisionado Juan Manuel Pino, Director of Intelligence, National Aeronaval Service of Panama
International Speaker Faculty
- Major General Masood Ahmad Azizi, Deputy Minister of Interior, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Vice Admiral Félix Alburquerque Comprés, Vice Minister of Defense for Naval and Coastal Affairs, Dominican Republic
- Vice Admiral Pablo Romero Rojas, Director General, DIMAR
- General Carlos Bueno Vargas, Commander, Colombian Air Force
- Major General Felix Edgardo Nuñez Escobar, Chief of Defence, El Salvador Armed Forces
- Rear Admiral Christopher Tomney, Director, Joint Interagency Task Force South
- Rear Admiral Alberto ALCALA Luna, Commander of the Surface Fleet, Peruvian Navy
- Rear Admiral Mauricio Mauricio Alvear Oramas, Director of the Maritime Domain, Ecuadorian Navy
- Rear Admiral Collin P. Green, USN, Commander, Special Operations Command South
- Brigadier General Gustavo Paz Escalante, Director (C-3), Honduran Armed Forces
- Brigadier General Rocky Meade, Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaican Defence Force
- Brigadier George Lewis, Chief of Staff, Guyana Defence Force
- Brigadier General David Jones, Commander, Belize Defence Force
- Commodore William Warrender, UK Maritime Component Commander, Deputy Commander, Combined Maritime Forces
- Commissioner Martín Arias, Director General, Coast Guard of Costa Rica
- Frank Francis, Director, Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics (MAOC-N)
- Colonel Sir Trevor Thomas, Commander, Antigua and Barbuda Defence Force
- Lieutenant Commander Frederick Brown, Liaison to The National Emergency Management Agency, Royal Bahamas Defence Force
- Geoff Chalder, MBE, Team Leader, EU SEACOP
- Dr. Amado Philip de Andrés, Representative, Regional Office for Central America and the Caribbean, UNODC
- Johan Obdola, Founder and President, International Organization for Security and Intelligence
- Bob Van den Berghe, Regional Coordinator, Container Control Programme, UNODC
- Sergio Naranjo, Regional Coordinator, Airport Communication Project, UNODC
- Duncan Potter, Head of the Joint Intelligence Office, CCLEC, UK Home Office
- Jack Guy, Faculty Member, Joint Special Operations University
- Alexander Stephenson, Executive Conference Producer, Defence IQ
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Site Visit day: 21 March 2017
- Tour of Canal and Senan Facilities
Main Conference Day One: 22 March 2017
- Including: Morning Coffee & Networking, Networking Lunch, Afternoon Coffee Break
Main Conference Day Two: 23 March 2017
- Including: Morning Coffee & Networking, Networking Lunch, Afternoon Tea & Networking
The agenda is available as PDF under downloads at the right side of the page.
Venue
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Venue
The Westin Playa BonitaPanama City, Panama
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