Delivering Maritime Security in Global Partnership: Improving Collective Capabilities

The second annual CJOS COE Maritime Security Conference will be held from 31 March – 2 April, 2009 at the Hilton Sorrento Palace hotel, Sorrento, Italy.

Dress for attendees is civilian professional (ie. Jacket and tie or suit for men, with equivalent for ladies).

Online Registration is closed.  Registration is available via fax, and onsite.  Please email info@lodestar-group.com with questions.

The theme of the conference is “Delivering Maritime Security in Global Partnership: Improving Collective Capabilities”. The aim of this conference is to build on our successful May 2008 conference by highlighting further developments in regional maritime security partnerships around the world. The conference will also focus on the information sharing standardization initiatives which are currently underway and update attendees on policy developments in specific areas of topical interest such as the Integrated Coast Guard initiative recently signed off by the Maritime Organization for West and Central Africa under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization and the emerging policies for countering piracy off Somalia. At the end of the Conference, attendees should have a better understanding of the regional maritime security initiatives already underway and those that represent “Best Practice”. They should also understand fully how they may engage further in Global Maritime Security.

Additional objectives of this Conference are:

1. To review the dynamic challenges we now face in ensuring global maritime security;
2. To promote emerging strategies to meet these challenges in a globally-coordinated partnership;
3. To highlight existing technologies and future technical concepts which will underpin successful delivery of maritime security;
4. To encourage support for, and sharing of best practises within, the globally co-ordinated partnership which should underpin the attainment of global maritime security;
5. To facilitate an inclusive “whole of government”-style discussion.

These objectives will be achieved using a combination of presentations by expert speakers, panel debates on key topics and a concluding plenary session at which all attendees will have an opportunity to contribute.

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
Onsite Registration and Badge Pick Up starts on Monday, March 30, 2009 in the lobby of the Hilton Sorrento Palace Hotel at 1500 Hours and continues through the opening Ice Breaker Reception. Registration again opens at 0700 hours each day of the conference in front of the General Session Room, Ulisse on A Level of the Hotel.

Attendee Registration Desk telephone number at the Sorrento Hilton is 1 703 455 5451 during registration and conference hours. Or you may reach registration via email at all times at registration@lodestar-group.com