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18 JUNE / TAKEDOWN final conference: “New Approaches for Fighting Radicalization, Terrorism and Organized Crime”

The H2020(link is external)-Project TAKEDOWN will hold its final conference on 18th June 2019 in Valencia, Spain, ahead of the project’s closing in August.

The programme will include a presentation of the project’s results as well as high-level discussions on some of TAKEDOWN’s main topics, such as the Organized Crime and Terrorism NexusRadicalization in PrisonsMulti-Stakeholder Cooperation and Local P/CVE as well as Organized Cybercrime.

  • Registrations deadline closed
  • You can now consult and download the programme updated on the right of this web page

The attendants will have the opportunity to test the open platform FIRST LINE PRACTITIONERS (link is external)as well as the closed platform FIGHT CRIME TERRORISM, with the first one providing services and support for first-line-practitioners and the latter hosting a digital market place for law enforcement agencies and security companies.

Who should participate?

  • First-line practitioners
  • Policy makers
  • Researchers
  • Law enforcement agencies

Venue

Valencia Local Police
37, Cid Avenue. 46018 Valencia, Spain

AGENDA

8:30 – 9:00           Registration and Networking 

9:00 – 9:15           Welcome and Opening remark

09:15 – 09:45       Introducing the TAKEDOWN Project and the Platforms

  • Florian Huber and Bernhard Jäger – SYNYO GmbH (Austria)

9:45 – 10:00        Keynote Speech

  • Nada Milisavljevic – European Commission, DG Home (Belgium)

10:00 – 11:00       Panel: Organized Crime, Terrorism and the Nexus

  • Rajan Basra – Int. Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (United Kingdom)
  • Vincenzo Ruggiero – Middlesex University (United Kingdom)
  • Martina Babíková – GLOBSEC Policy Institute (Slovakia)
  • Reinhard Kreissl – Vienna Centre for Societal Security (Austria)
  • Nada Milisavljevic – European Commission, DG Home (Belgium)

Host: Inmaculada Marrero – Euro-Arab Foundation for Higher Studies (Spain)

11:00 – 11:30       Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30       Parallel Workshops

                             Parallel Workshop 1: European Cybercrime Expert Centres and Intelligence Sharing Networks

  • Evaldas Bruze – Lithuanian Cybercrime Centre of Excellence for Training, Research, Development and Education (Lithuania)
  • Kelly Ioannou – CSI Institute (Greece)
  • Rafael Company – Valencia Port Foundation (Spain)

Host : Ulrich Seldeslachts – LSEC Leaders in Security (Belgium) and Marina Bregkou – Cloud Security Alliance (Greece)

11:30 – 12:30       Parallel Workshop 2: Insights from Internal Security Fund Sister Projects

11:30 – 12:30       Parallel Workshop 3: Insights from Horizon 2020 Sister Projects

 12:30 – 13:00       Key Note Speech

  • José Luis Serrano Merino – Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime (Spain)

13:00 – 14:00       Panel: Multi-stakeholder P/CVE from a Law Enforcement Perspective

  • José L. Diego – Valencia Local Police (Spain)
  • Jacek Dworzecki – Police Academy in Szczytno (Poland)
  • Nicholas Krohley – FrontLine Advisory (United Kingdom)
  • Fraser Sampson – Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (United Kingdom)
  • Mª Jesús Belloc  – Intelligence Center for Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime (Spain)

Host: Sergio Bianchi – AGENFOR International (Italy)

14:00 – 15:00       Lunch

15:00 – 15:30       Key Note Speech

  • David Webber – Virginia Commonwealth University (USA)

15:30 – 16:30       Panel: Multi-stakeholder P/CVE from a First-Line-Practitioners Perspective

  • Daniel Hooton – Institute for Strategic Dialogue (United Kingdom)
  • Álvaro Vicente – Elcano Royal Institute (Spain)
  • Harald Weilnböck – Cultures Interactive (Germany)
  • Martí Navarro – European Forum for Urban Security (France)
  • David Webber – Virginia Commonwealth University (USA)

Host: Florian Huber – SYNYO GmbH (Austria)

16:30 – 17:30      Panel: Analysing and Fighting Organized (Cyber) Crime

  • Klaus von Lampe – Berlin School of Economics and Law (Germany)
  • Sandra Cardoso – INSIKT Intelligence (Spain)
  • Andrea Tundis – Technical University Darmstadt (Germany)
  • Roberto Musotto – University of Leeds (United Kingdom)
  • Pedro Verdelho – European Judicial Cybercrime Network (Portugal)

Host: Matteo E. Bonfanti – ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

17:30 – 18:00      Wrap-up and Closing of the Conference

  • José Vicente Herrera – Valencia Local Police (Spain)
  • Florian Huber and Bernhard Jäger – SYNYO GmbH (Austria)

18:00     Networking Reception