This is the FINAL schedule for the conference per 24 October 2023. Physical copies will be available at the conference.
Schedule as PDF: click here.
Times shown are CEST / UTC+2.
Location (go to the 7th floor by escalator/stairs or elevator – see Venue for more details):
Oosterdokskade 143
1011 DK Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Day 1: Wednesday 25 October 2023
| Time slot | |||||
| 8:00 | – | 9:00 | Registration (badges) | ||
| 9:00 | – | 9:15 | Opening remarks NISA Chairman and day chair(s) | ||
| 9:15 | – | 9:45 | KEYNOTE: Jan Swillens – On the frontline in the greyzone and in war: From secrecy to action | ||
| Room: Theater | Room: Forum | Room: Keizerzaal | |||
| 9:55 | – | 10:30 | Assembling economic security amid great power competition, Huawei and the rollout of 5G in the Netherlands David Snetselaar | Innovation and Adaptation of the Dutch Intelligence and Security Services, 1997-2017: A Comparative Perspective Danny Pronk | |
| 10:35 | – | 11:10 | Innovate or perish: towards a research agenda for intelligence organizations Bas Rietjens Steven Coulthart Rob Sinterniklaas | Intelligence Adaptation: Insights from complexity science and the need for analytic cognitive diversity Bram Spoor | |
| 11:10 | – | 11:30 | break | break | break |
| 11:30 | – | 12:05 | Spyware Market Governance: Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Lena Riecke | Risky or Rewarding? Navigating diversity in contemporary Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Adam Svendsen | The HUMINT approach from a nonverbal communication perspective An Gaiser |
| 12:10 | – | 12:45 | OSINT tools, commercial data and national security law Jan Jaap Oerlemans Sander Langenhuijzen | Anticipating irregular migration: challenges of estimative intelligence in a multi-agency environment Bart Wielders | Why even AI cannot make high certainty forecasts of geopolitical intelligence problems Christiaan Menkveld |
| 12:45 | – | 14:15 | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 14:15 | – | 14:45 | KEYNOTE: Mark Galeotti — Lessons in War: what have we learned from and about Russian intelligence since February 2022 | ||
| 14:45 | – | 15:00 | break | break | break |
| 15:00 | – | 16:30 | Round table: Intelligence disclosures Tom Maguire (chair) Kira Vrist Rønn | Round table: Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in defense and security Roy Lindelauf (chair) Robbert Fokkink Herwin Meerveld Marie Safar Postma | Workshop: Managing Surprise with Alternative Competing Hypothesis Klaas Voss Huib Lathouwers Wim de Koning |
| 16:35 | – | 16:55 | Closing remarks (plenary) | ||
| 16:55 | – | 18:00 | Reception | ||
Day 2: Thursday 26 October 2023
| Time slot | |||||
| 8:00 | – | 9:00 | Registration (if not done yet) | ||
| 9:00 | – | 9:15 | Opening remarks by day chair(s) | ||
| 9:15 | – | 9:45 | KEYNOTE: Patricia Damen – Towards a data-driven intelligence service | ||
| Room: Theater | Room: Forum | Room: Keizerzaal | |||
| 9:55 | – | 10:30 | New Insights into the Sino-Pak Factor in India’s Intelligence Cooperation with the Anglo-American Intelligence Dheeraj Paramesha | Unsupervised Machine Learning on Colonial Kenyan Intelligence Reports: History, Methods, and Challenges Ryan Shaffer Benjamin Shearn | A systematic review of effectiveness in intelligence: perspectives from organizational theory. Gideon Manger |
| 10:35 | – | 11:10 | Threatened by terrorism: threat perceptions of Dutch counter-terrorism practitioners Chris Vloedbeld | Foreign intelligence versus domestic security – exploring intelligence culture via the combined civil intelligence and security service AIVD Florien Hollander | |
| 11:10 | – | 11:30 | break | break | break |
| 11:30 | – | 12:05 | Information Technology Regimes: Anticipating 21st Century Paradigms for Intelligence Aron van der Beek | The Secret Life of Writers: Dutch Intelligence Agencies and the Literary World During the Cold War Frank Keizer Laurens Ham | Enhancing Inter-Agency Intelligence Collaboration through Cultural Intelligence and Cognitive Diversity Ahmed ElTahir Mohamed Nour Abubakr |
| 12:10 | – | 12:45 | DISARM Framework: TTP-based approach to fight disinformation Omri Preiss | Current advancements in approaches to intelligence tradecraft in the Intelligence Community and Cyber Threat Intelligence programs in the private sector Freddy Murstad | The Need for Data-Driven Investigations. Law Enforcement, TBA |
| 12:45 | – | 14:00 | lunch | lunch | lunch |
| 14:00 | – | 14:30 | KEYNOTE: Ryan Shaffer – Africa and Asia in Intelligence Studies: State of the Field and the Need for Further Research | ||
| 14:35 | – | 14:45 | break | break | break |
| 14:45 | – | 15:25 | OSINT – Field stories & future considerations Nico Dekens | Strategic foresight as decision-making support. The case of Singapore Lars Haugom Stig Stenslie | Workshop: Managing Surprise with Alternative Competing Hypothesis Huib Lathouwers Wim de Koning |
| 15:30 | – | 16:15 | (Continued.) Nico Dekens | Innovating in Secrecy: Disclosing Secrets in Public-Private Cooperation. Paul Oling | (Continued.) Huib Lathouwers Wim de Koning |
| 16:20 | – | 16:35 | Closing remarks (plenary) | ||