SITC - Security Innovation & Technology Consortium

Venue: British Library, London

Background

The 5th International Crime Science Conference once again brings together senior security and crime reduction practitioners, policy-makers, technologists, and leading academics, all developing the latest techniques, technologies and strategies for increasing security and reducing crime. Supported by the Home Office.

This year the theme of the conference is 'Security at the Technology Frontier' and will focus on how technology is driving the future of crime reduction and security provision. It will examine the latest technologies being used to tackle some of our most pressing problems, ranging from terrorist attacks and drugs crime through to gang violence and cybercrime, and also how human factors and ethical considerations affect the development and implementation of such technologies.

Agenda

Key sessions include:

• Protecting Critical Infrastructures
• Cybersecurity: the most critical security challenge
• Robotics, autonomous systems and UAVs
• Tackling the drug trade through technology
• Hi-tech forensics
• Using technology to improve policing
• Technology securing the Olympic Games
• Sensors for security and counter-terrorism
• Security technology and the human dimension

Booking

• Early bird rate: £199
• Concessionary rate (probationary police officers, full time non-UCL students): £149
• UCL students: £99

For further details and on-line registration go to: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jdi/events/crime-science-conf/icsc-current