INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP - 13/05/2019 Celebrating its 10th anniversary 10th - Plath GmbH

 
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          INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP
          Celebrating its 10th anniversary
          Stockholmsmässan · Sweden · www.eweurope.com
INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP - 13/05/2019 Celebrating its 10th anniversary 10th - Plath GmbH
Welcome
    In 2011, when PLATH came up with the         Today I am happy and proud to welco-
    idea of adding an additional day to          me you to the 10th edition of the Intelli-
    the EW Europe conference specifically        gence Workshop. The event has esta-
    addressing COMINT related topics, we         blished itself as a must-attend event
    were convinced there was a need for          for the intelligence community. Over
    a new platform within the intelligence       the years, the market trends and tech-
    community. A platform that brings to-        nological trends may have changed
    gether users as well as providers of         but the motivation of the Intelligence
    COMINT technology and provides the           Workshop remains the same: it´s all
    opportunity for open discussions. As         about the community, the exchange,
    PLATH could not have initiated this          the networking, the people. I am looking
    event without strong partners, we were       forward to this year’s and future dis-
    very lucky to persuade the AOC and the       cussions: Let´s keep up the dialogue!
    EW Europe organiser to support us to
    rapidly bring the idea to life. Right from   I sincerely wish that you enjoy the
    the start the event attracted conside-       10 th Intelligence Workshop – as I will!
    rable attention from intelligence orga-
    nisations not only in Europe but from        NICO SCHARFE
    around the world. And since then the         CEO PLATH GmbH
    attention has risen steadily.

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The 2019 agenda                                                                                                                                                              13/05/2019

OPENING SESSION                                     SESSION I                                           SESSION II                                           SESSION III
WELCOME                                             CYBER DEFENCE –                                     ARTIFICIAL (SIGNAL) INTELLIGENCE –                   MULTI-DOMAIN INTELLIGENCE –
                                                    CLOSING THE BACKDOORS                               CAN A MACHINE LEARN TO THINK?                        CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
09:00 - 09:30                                       11:00 - 11:20                                       13:00 - 13:20                                        15:00 - 15:20
Registration & welcome coffee                       The evolution of electronic warfare in the age of   Voice biometrics: A powerful intel tool              Connecting new dots – “classic“ intelligence
09:30 - 09:40                                       digital threats                                     Paul Morris, Business Development Manager –          reconnaissance and cyber domain
Chairman´s welcome                                  Nicolas Mayencourt, Chief Executive Officer and     Phonexia s.r.o.                                      Jörg Eschweiler, Head of Cybersecurity & Intelli-
Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley               Founder & Professor Dr Marc K. Peter, Chief         13:20 - 13:40                                        gence, Civil & National Security Germany –
CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI – AOC consultant              Commercial Officer – Dreamlab Technologies AG       AI-optimised workflow for ACINT operations           Atos Information Technology GmbH
09:40 - 09:55                                       11:20 - 11:40                                       Robert O’Brien, Chief Technical Officer –            15:20 - 15:40
PLATH welcome                                       Cyber security threat and operational overview      SONARTECH ATLAS Pty Ltd                              Automation as a power multiplier for military
Nico Scharfe, CEO – PLATH GmbH                      Gregory A. Porpora, Distinguished Engineer,         13:40 - 14:00                                        intelligence
                                                    Cyber Security and AI – IBM GBS WW Public           Automatic relationship extraction from text          Guy Alon, Marketing Director, Intelligence, EW &
09:55 - 10:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS                       Sector                                                                                                   Communication Division – IAI \ ELTA
Brigadier General Armin Fleischmann                                                                     Dr. Tilman Lesch, Senior Data Scientist – Deloitte
Director Plans and Policy Directorate – Cyber       11:40 - 12:00                                       Analytics Institute                                  15:40 - 15:55 FISH BOWL session 3
and Information Domain Service Headquarters,        Secure IT architectures – Enabling scalable         14:00 - 14:20                                        Answering your questions
Ministry of Defence Germany                         approaches for cyber defence                        How text data can be analysed by psychological       Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley
                                                    Marcel Taubert, Head of Division Defence –          AI to determine personality traits                   CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI – AOC consultant
10:15 - 10:35 KEYNOTE ADDRESS                       secunet Security Networks AG
Knowledge vs vulnerabilities - Intelligence                                                             Simon Tschürtz, CEO and Co-Founder – 100 Worte       15:55 - 16:00 CLOSING REMARKS
requirements in the modern battlespace                                                                  Sprachanalyse GmbH                                   Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley
Lieutenant Colonel Holger Schmör                    12:00 - 12:45 LUNCH                                 14:20 - 14:45 COFFEE                                 CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI – AOC consultant
Deputy Director, Senior German National Officer –
                                                    12:45 - 13:00 FISH BOWL session 1                   14:45 - 15:00 FISH BOWL session 2
Joint Electronic Warfare Core Staff, NATO
                                                    Answering your questions                            Answering your questions                             16:00 - 18:00 EXHIBITION OPENING
                                                    Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley               Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley                Welcome drinks reception sponsored by PLATH
10:35 - 11:00 COFFEE                                CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI – AOC consultant              CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI – AOC consultant

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A success story

The Intelligence Workshop was laun-        approaches to how these challen-
ched in 2011 to provide users, deci-       ges can be dealt with. And in fact,
sion-makers, buyers and the industry       the selection of sessions made by
that are active in the field of communi-   PLATH takes note of the issues affec-
cation intelligence with a platform for    ting the intelligence community since       Berlin,    Singapore,    Rome,      Cologne,     Edinburgh,
exchanging views.                          2011 – including the need for innovati-    Germany     Singapore      Italy     Germany          UK
                                           ve sensor-independent technology or
Since the starting point of the event      the currently challenging scenarios in
series, the attendee numbers have          border protection.
risen. This shows that there is a huge
demand within the intelligence com-        Throughout its history the event has
munity for an open dialogue. The Intel-    visited a wealth of cities. Each year,
ligence Workshop has gained respect        a host location is carefully selected
as it addresses current requirements       to explore emerging requirements in
and the latest trends on the one hand      communication intelligence and elec-      Stockholm,   Rotterdam,    London,    Lausanne,    Stockholm,
and, on the other hand, it invites the     tronic warfare and maximise military       Sweden      Netherlands     UK      Switzerland    Sweden
industry to introduce innovative           and government engagement.

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Our sessions past and present                                                       2014 Sessions (Edinburgh)                  2017 Sessions (London)
                                                                                    1. COMINT on ground and airborne           1. Intelligence evolution driven by
                                                                                       platforms /                                software /
                                                                                    2. COMINT: a technological perspective     2. ELINT meets COMINT /
                                                                                       on HF sensors /                         3. Extend your baseline by combining
2011 Sessions (Berlin)                   2012 Sessions (Rome)                       3. COMINT & IP: data and contents /           tactical systems /
1. The future of COMINT and COMMS-       1. Collecting the data: complete spec-     4. COMMS-ESM for naval platforms /
   ESM /                                    trum overview by integrated sensors /
2. The data flood: modern COMINT         2. Managing the intelligence: NCI by
   sensors & collection systems /           intelligence pre-processing and         2015 Sessions (Stockholm)                  2018 Sessions (Lausanne)
3. Information extraction for the data      sensor fusion /                         1. Maritime intelligence for different     1. SIGINT in a box: compact and flex-
   deluge: analysis and evaluation /     3. Generating the knowledge: validated        naval platforms /                          ible /
                                            knowledge by exploration of meta        2. Innovation: design and realisation of   2. Cyber security: the new arms
                                            information /                              EW and intelligence solutions /            race? /
2011 Sessions (Singapore)                                                           3. Intelligence 2.0: imminent challenges
1. Moving closer together: integrated                                                  and solutions in communication /
   SIGINT approach /                     2013 Sessions (Cologne)                                                               2019 Sessions (Stockholm)
2. Conceptual design for a COMMS /       1. Future sensor technology /                                                         1. Cyber defence: closing the backdoors /
   RADAR ESM system /                    2. State-of-the-art intelligence collec-   2016 Sessions (Rotterdam)                  2. Artificial (signal) intelligence: can a
3. Compact COMINT solutions for mobile      tion management /                       1. Protecting borders /                       machine learn to think? /
   platforms /                           3. Special intelligence operations /       2. Combining sensitive data /              3. Multi-domain intelligence: catch me
4. Future perspectives in evaluation /   4. The future of intelligence /            3. Bringing down COMMS /                      if you can /

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Visitor profile

As the only event specializing in COMINT,
the Intelligence Workshop attracts
a diverse array of participants from
all over the world.
The visitor pool spans military, govern-
ment, public sector, academia and in-
dustry domains.

ALGERIA              CZECH REPUBLIC         HUNGARY     JORDAN            NORWAY              SINGAPORE      TURKEY
AUSTRALIA            DENMARK                INDIA       LATVIA            PAKISTAN            SLOVENIA       UAE
AUSTRIA              ESTONIA                INDONESIA   LITHUANIA         POLAND              SOUTH AFRICA   UK
BELGIUM              FINLAND                IRELAND     MALAYSIA          QATAR               SPAIN          UKRAINE
BRAZIL               FRANCE                 ISRAEL      NETHERLANDS       REPUBLIC OF KOREA   SWEDEN         USA
CANADA               GERMANY                ITALY       NETHERLAND ANT.   ROMANIA             SWITZERLAND    VIETNAM
CHINA                GREECE                 JAPAN       NEW ZEALAND       SAUDI ARABIA        THAILAND

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Gallery

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The themes in the history of the Intelligence Workshop clearly mark out the digital
COMINT in a changing world                                                            transformation that has not only captured our society, but also our intelligence
                                                                                      community.

Around ten years ago, the requirements
focused on capturing as many electro-
magnetic signals as possible. It was
the trend at the time to use sensors
that were as sensitive as possible, so
nothing would fail within the chosen
spectrum range, or to integrate several
sensors to ensure the whole spectrum
was covered.                               rement for speed, where anyone who         identify endangerers hiding behind va-     the event, the user is searching for, is
                                           was quickly able to make valid informa-    rious aliases in cyberspace, as quickly    more and more important: who does
Yet, with the increased use of diffe-      tion available for decision making was     and reliably as possible.                  what, when, where and why? The is-
rent communication media, the focus        a step closer to the objective of infor-                                              sue of automation plays an important
shifted from sensors to software. The      mation superiority.                        This challenge of increasing quantities    role here, as resources are limited more
requirement emerged for sensor-in-                                                    of data pursues us to this day. Sys-       than ever and must be deployed in a
dependent systems, that were able to       The digitalisation trend was further ac-   tems are required that can process         purposeful way. That is why we already
process results from various sensors       celerated through the increased use of     enormous quantities of data, fuse in-      need to occupy ourselves today with
(COMINT, ELINT and OSINT) independ-        social media. The cyber issue became       formation from different data sources      how we can support users with the la-
ently of any particular platform, and to   ever more significant. Shocking events     and conflate them into a single intelli-   test technologies such as AI, so we can
conflate these into an overall situation   such as terror attacks have shown how      gence report. The focus is on the still    also fulfil ever more challenging tasks
picture. There was also a greater requi-   fundamental it is for our security to      important signal-of-interest. But also     in the future. For greater security.
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The best of technologies

                2013                                      2014                                      2017                                      2019

Product family for full HF coverage       Sensor independent data fusion            Closing the intelligence cycle            Processing up to all the signals on air
With the 5100 product line, PLATH in-     ICAS allows you to automatically fuse     PLATH introduced the first “from sen-     ICAS enables you to capture, analyse
troduced a revolutionary sensor tech-     data from various sensors. Contents       sors to knowledge to sensors” solution.   and distribute large data volumes – up
nology. It enables your COMINT sys-       are effectively connected with the di-    This cycle enables you to manually or     to all the signals from different sources
tems to simultaneously process the        rection or the location of the emission   automatically hand over results from      can be processed in parallel with ICAS.
entire HF range, provide a precise tar-   and even with signal parameter re-        the reconnaissance system to an eva-      With this capability you find the one
geting and seamless interception of       sults. In this way you are able to com-   luation system and, more recently, also   relevant signal or the event you are fo-
even the weakest signals.                 plete your situation picture and save     in the other direction, allowing you to   cusing on, thus ensuring information
                                          time-consuming routine work for users     constantly optimise your frequency        superiority.
                                          at the same time.                         management and your tasking.
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Thanks

                                                                                                                                        Air Marshal (RAF Retd) Philip Sturley,
                                                                                                                                              CB MBE BSc FRAeS CCMI,
                                                                                                                                                  AOC consultant

PLATH would like to thank you for being our partners throughout the history of the       Intelligence Workshop from the very beginning and, last but not least, over 100
Intelligence Workshop. AOC – the initiator of the EW Europe conference, having           Intelligence Workshop speakers – contributing significantly to the success of the
the Intelligence Workshop as an opener, Shephard – the former event organiser            event with their high-quality presentations.
PLATH partnered with in 2011, to provide the first international event specializing in   Thanks a lot to each one of you for being so cooperative and engaged and ma-
COMINT, Clarion – the current event organiser working closely together with              king the Intelligence Workshop such a successful event! PLATH looks forward to
PLATH to offer our guests an enjoyable event, Philip Sturley – the chairman of the       continuing our partnership in the future!

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