ERAC CONFERENCE BY IPO
ERAC (Emergency Response & Awareness Conference) is a Regional Pilot Project by IPO, that aims to become the main annual regional awareness event, where experts from governmental security & response services, professionals from the civil sector, and greater public, can exchange experience, present their views and learn how to deal with such cases.
To reach that goal IPO Section Slovenia with support from IPO Headquarters Milan, Italy, held ERAC during 19-20 April 2023 in the most prestigious conference room at Grand Plaza Hotel Ljubljana.
More than 300 attendees from the government, security services, civil sector, academia, and diplomatic corps had the opportunity to hear the world and Slovenia's top lectures in different parts of security.
Conference was opened by the President of the National Assembly Republic of Slovenia Slovenia Mrs. Urška Klakočar Zupančić MSc.
Some of the speakers were:
ALEXANDRE RODDE, TERRORISM & MASS SHOOTINGS ANALYST
Mr. Rodde is a researcher and a security consultant specialized in terrorism, violent extremism and mass shooting response.
As a First Lieutenant in the French National Gendarmerie Reserve, he has trained up to eighty different Tactical Units on various issues, in both France and the United States.
He also works as an expert for the Versailles Fire Department and is the author of two
books and over a dozen articles (available in French and English) in France, the United States and Germany.
PROF. PETER FUSSEY, S O C I O L O G Y P R O F E S S OR.
Professor Fussey’s research focuses on surveillance, digital sociology, algorithmic justice, human rights, intelligence oversight, technology and policing, and urban studies. He has published widely across these areas. He is a director of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP) – a collaboration between surveillance researchers at the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, Stirling and Essex - and
research director for the five-year ESRC-funded Human Rights, Big Data and Technology project.
As part of this project, Professor Fussey leads research teams empirically analyzing digital security strategies in the US, UK, Brazil, India and Germany.
PROF. MARK MAGUIRE, A N T H R O P O L O G Y P R O F E S S O R.
Professor Maguire is a social anthropologist with expertise in security, especially counter-terrorism, biometric security, abnormal behavior, and new predictive security systems. His current research focuses on public behavior during the first moments of terror attacks on major critical infrastructure sites such as international airports.
This work is funded as part of the multinational Global Foresight Project
His research on security is shown in several edited books:
LORCAN BYRNE, S P E C I A L F O R C E S
Mr. Byrne is a former professional soldier and police officer with over 17 years of combined experience in units such as the elite Parachute Regiment and the Irish Special Forces Tier 1 Unit the ARW and Irish National Police Force an Garda Siochana as well as a lifetime spent becoming a highly respected, accomplished and seasoned subject matter expert in the private security spectrum having gained first-hand experience and knowledge dealing with and managing responses on behalf of fortune 100 companies globally and their operations and responses during events such as the break out of the civil war in South Sudan and the evacuation of hundreds of civilians from the Westgate Mall Terrorist Attack in Nairobi 2013, to running training for the Iraqi Special Forces and
defending the Coalition Provisional Authority building from the onslaught of the Mahdi Army in An Najaf Iraq in 2004.
After the conference, key speakers gave interviews to the most important Slovenian TV houses. Also, they were guests on one of the most important podcasts:
IPO News Room