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"Open-Source Intel Suppliers Join in Terror Fight" in "Defense News"
by Brooks TIGNER

Working group "Technological Gaps and Training & Best Practices" - Vienna - 3-4 September 2009

"An Interactive Journey into the Future of OSINT"
Venue:
Vienna, Austria
Event date(s):
Thursday, 3 September, 2009 - Friday, 4 September, 2009

Draft agenda Day 1

Technological Gaps Working Group
Chaired by Mark Pfeiffer, Sail Labs
EUROSINT Forum Chairman of the Technological Gaps Working Group


0830     Registration and Welcome Coffee

0900      Welcome Speech
             Austrian MoD
 
0915      Presentation of the EUROSINT Forum and Agenda
             Gari Owen, President of the EUROSINT Forum

0930      Lessons learned from previous Technological Gaps Working Groups,              ,
             Mark Pfeiffer

10.00     Keynote speech : "Filling the Bathtub: Putting the Open into OSINT"
             David Prior, Prior Intelligence Ltd

1030    Coffee break

1100      Immediate Future of OSINT: Presentation of VIRTUOSO (FP7 Security              Research Project),
             Axel Dyèvre, CEIS

1130    KIRAS MDL
             Colonel Klaus Mak, Head of the Documentation Center, NDA
             Gerhard Backfried, Head of Research, SAIL LABS

1200    Intellectual Capital Management a best practice implementation
             Colonel Klaus Mak, Head of the Documentation Center, NDA
             Dr. Woitsch, BOC, Vienna
             DI Göllner, Documentation Center, NDA

1245    Lunch on site at LAVAK
   
1415    Technological Gaps: Future needs
             Workshop

1515    Coffee break

1530    Technological Gaps : Future Solutions
             Workshop

1630    Wrap up and Close of day 1
             Mark Pfeiffer

1900     The EUROSINT Forum invites you to Cocktail and Dinner
             Location to be confirmed by the end of August

Draft agenda Day 2 (half day)

Best Practices and Training Working Group
Chaired by Chris Pallaris, ISN
EUROSINT Forum Chairman of the Training and Best Practices Working Group


0830     Welcome Coffee

0900    Brainstorming on the creation of an
             "EU OSINT Center of Competence" / "EU Open Source Center" ?
             Common reflexion and exercices in breakout groups - Session 1

1030    Coffee break

1100    Brainstorming on the creation of an
             "EU OSINT Center of Competence" / "EU Open Source Center" / "EU OSINT Center of Excellence" ?
             Common reflexion and exercices in breakout groups - Session 2

12.15    Wrap up and Close of day 2,
             Chris Pallaris