Safer Cities Roadshow

• Preparedness, protection, prevention and incident response: progressing capabilities in preventing threat occurrence, or responding and recovering effectively if they have occurred  
• Navigating natural disasters, emergency response, and crisis management: responding more effectively in real time  
• Terrorism and State Actors: boosting investigative support and forensic science capabilities  

Nick Read, Commander, Counter Terrorism and Special Investigations, Australian Federal Police   

• Leveraging insights for enhanced speed of response, proactivity, efficiency, anticipated resourcing and operational demands
• Proactive prevention: innovative approaches to decreasing threats
• Understanding emerging threats to create a robust and effective public safety strategy

Michelle Cowling, Deputy Commissioner, Fire and Rescue Victoria

Joshua Fischer, Deputy Commissioner Community Safety, Fire and Rescue Victoria

• Building an agile and collaborative workforce to respond to increasing complex and interconnected challenges in the future  
• Fostering an adaptive and innovative culture to meet evolving security challenges  
• Securing the right workforce and skills to enhance intelligence capabilities and operational speed – what is required into 2025 and beyond?  
• Operational excellence: Leveraging process improvement, technology and insights to drive efficiency, speed, and accuracy

• How can we progress collaboration both internally within our Agency, and externally between State agencies? Exploring frameworks and strategies for seamless information sharing   
• Public-private partnerships in intelligence: exploring collaborations between government and private sector entities to enhance state/national security, including the ethical and privacy implications  
• Improving collective knowledge of emerging threats and risks; connecting to coordinate planning and prioritisation and leveraging each other’s capabilities    

Nicole Ashworth, COO, Tripe Zero Victoria 
Joshua Fischer, Deputy Commissioner, Community Safety, Fire Rescue Victoria 
Hayley Van Loon, Deputy CEO, Crime Stoppers International  

• Preparedness, protection, prevention and incident response: progressing capabilities in preventing threat occurrence, or responding and recovering effectively if they have occurred  
• Navigating natural disasters, emergency response, and crisis management: responding more effectively in real time

• Responding to increasing complex and interconnected challenges in the future  
• Fostering an adaptive and innovative operation to meet evolving security challenges  
• Securing the right workforce and skills to enhance intelligence capabilities and operational speed – what is required into 2025 and beyond?  
• Operational excellence: Leveraging process improvement, technology and insights to drive efficiency, speed, and accuracy

• Big Data and AI in intelligence analysis: Unpacking the integration of big data analytics and artificial intelligence to transform intelligence gathering, processing, and predictive capabilities  
• Exploring the role of emerging technologies in developing proactive and pre-emptive intelligence capabilities.   
• Leveraging data and intelligence to proactively identify threats vulnerabilities

• How can we progress collaboration both internally within our Agency, and externally between State agencies? Exploring frameworks and strategies for seamless information sharing   
• Public-private partnerships in intelligence: exploring collaborations between government and private sector entities to enhance state/national security, including the ethical and privacy implications  
• Improving collective knowledge of emerging threats and risks; connecting to coordinate planning and prioritisation and leveraging each other’s capabilities    

Craig Waters, Deputy Commissioner, Operations, Department of Fire and Emergency Services
Nicole Byrne, Director, Corporate Information, Department of Communities

• Preparedness, protection, prevention and incident response: progressing capabilities in preventing threat occurrence, or responding and recovering effectively if they have occurred  
• Navigating natural disasters, emergency response, and crisis management: responding more effectively in real time  
• Terrorism and State Actors: boosting investigative support and forensic science capabilities  

• Leveraging insights for enhanced speed of response, proactivity, efficiency, anticipated resourcing and operational demands  
• Applying insights across the Agency and ensuring they are readily available in real time  
• Equipping staff with insights: upskilling on how to best leverage intelligence data in daily operations 

• Building an agile and collaborative workforce to respond to increasing complex and interconnected challenges in the future  
• Fostering an adaptive and innovative culture to meet evolving safety challenges  
• Securing the right workforce and skills to enhance intelligence capabilities and operational speed – what is required into 2025 and beyond?  
• Operational excellence: Leveraging process improvement, technology and insights to drive efficiency, speed, and accuracy

• Big Data and AI in intelligence analysis: Unpacking the integration of big data analytics and artificial intelligence to transform intelligence gathering, processing, and predictive capabilities  
• Exploring the role of emerging technologies in developing proactive and pre-emptive intelligence capabilities.   
• Leveraging data and intelligence to proactively identify threats vulnerabilities 

• How can we progress collaboration both internally within our Agency, and externally between State agencies? Exploring frameworks and strategies for seamless information sharing and breaking down siloes  
• Public-private partnerships in intelligence: exploring collaborations between government and private sector entities to enhance state/national security, including the ethical and privacy implications  
• Improving collective knowledge of emerging threats and risks; connecting to coordinate planning and prioritisation and leveraging each other’s capabilities   

Julia Waddington-Powell, CEO, SAFECOM 
Kirsten-Leigh Barr, Director, Security, Emergency and Recovery Management, Department of Premier and Cabinet SA  

• 2024-2025’s emerging requirements for policing/safe places – strengthening strategic response and proactive prevention through improving intelligence capabilities  
• Preparedness, protection, prevention and incident response – progressing capabilities in preventing threat occurrence, or responding and recovering effectively if they have occurred  
• Natural disasters, emergency response, crisis management – responding more effectively in real time  
• Terrorism and state actors – boosting investigative support and forensic science capabilities

• Systems Approach to Emergency Response,   
• Reimagining Fire Service Delivery,   
• Firefighting in Built Environments.

• Addressing the growing importance of cyber intelligence in protecting national infrastructure, countering cyber threats, and ensuring cybersecurity  
• Espionage and foreign interference – enhancing protection of sensitive information and early detection of ’insider threats’    
• Navigating cyber security within the context of critical infrastructure  
• People as a fundamental pillar to national security – educating the workforce and public to uphold strong security practices    
• Establishing effective response plans to detect and act if a breach occurs

• Leveraging insights for enhanced speed of response, proactivity, efficiency, anticipated resourcing and operational demands  
• Applying insights across the Agency and ensuring they are readily available in real time  
• Equipping staff with insights: upskilling on how to best leverage intelligence data in daily operations  
• Leveraging data and intelligence to proactively identify threats vulnerabilities  

Matthew McCarthy, Chief Inspector State Intelligence Command, NSW Police

Peter McKechnie, Deputy Commissioner, Field Operations, NSW Rural Fire Service 

Jeremy Stubbs, Chief Superintendent, Technical Capability, Fire and Rescue NSW (pending approval)

• Big Data and AI in Intelligence Analysis: Unpacking the integration of big data analytics and artificial intelligence to transform intelligence gathering, processing, and predictive capabilities  
• Exploring the role of emerging technologies in developing proactive and pre-emptive intelligence capabilities  
• Innovative processes in intelligence operations: Examining process improvements, from intelligence collection to analysis and dissemination, that can enhance the efficiency and effectiveness   
• Advancing the ability to collect, analyse, integrate, assess and disseminate intelligence with the accuracy, scale and speed required to support timely national security and intelligence decision making 

• How can we progress collaboration both internally within our Agency, and externally between State agencies? Exploring frameworks and strategies for seamless information sharing   
• Public-private partnerships in intelligence: exploring collaborations between government and private sector entities to enhance state/national security, including the ethical and privacy implications  
• Improving collective knowledge of emerging threats and risks; connecting to coordinate planning and prioritisation and leveraging each other’s capabilities    

Darren Bennett, Executive Director, Operations, NSW Crime Commission 
Shane Britten, CEO, Crime Stoppers International 
John Wadsworth, Chief Inspector, NSW Police