The Global SOF Symposium - Belgium will be the 4th Global Special Operations Forces (SOF) Foundation event in Europe. The previous year's event in Madrid, Spain, brought in 400+ attendees from 30 Nations. Symposium Highlights A packed agenda that includes high-ranking speakers and extensive networking opportunities Exhibit and sponsorship opportunities for industry partners Attendees include: active duty and retired military and police, govern...

Many regions in the world will be in persistent conflict for generations and the adaptive IED challenge will remain a potential threat across the full range of Alliance operations. We must contain the spread of IEDs as a global weapon of choice by making them too costly to produce and too risky to employ by Attacking the Network that emplace IEDs, and by training our forces on effective CIED operations. As the war in Afghanistan winds down U.S...

The Case for Intervention, Stronger Targets, and the Backloading Proposal Building on the success of previous years, Platts 4th Annual European Emissions Markets conference will provide market participants with a comprehensive overview of the European emissions market, its policy and current challenges faced. The industry's leading analysts, policy makers, compliance companies, traders, and observers will debate and discuss the case for market...

The years since 9/11 have been a sobering, exciting and highly demanding period for nations and societies around the world. Governments, industry and the public have been called upon to combat multiple threats, both traditional and non-traditional, in diverse theaters; to learn new ways of doing business; to rethink and adapt to new ways of thinking about sharing vs. security; and to conduct relationships with entirely new partners. This has h...

Cyber Security 2011: Protecting Critical National Infrastructure From The Cyber Threat Cyber Security is now recognised as a high risk priority by governments across the globe. This is supported by the fact that the UK Government’s Strategic Defence Spending Review which diverted key funds away from traditional areas of spending to the protection of the UK’s critical national infrastructure from the cyber threat. The importance of...

Led by the NATO C3 Capability Management Syndicate and supported by NC3A, NACMA NATO HQ C3 Staff and AFCEA, the NATO Configuration Management Symposium aspires to raise awareness of Configuration Management (CM) within NATO. The Symposium will give you an inside view to application of CM in NATO, Industry and in the Nations. It will inform you with innovative views brought up by the Academia world. Please see the Symposium Programme for a more...