1:00

Briefing and discussion on feedback from the Discussion Paper and Consultative Forums

2:00

Discussion on the options addressing the areas of:

• Code of ethics and practice
• Minimum standards and competencies
• National registration, accreditation or licensing system for Security Professionals
• Status and recognition of Security Professionals
• Standards and their implications for Security Professionals
• Structural solutions to ensuring Security Professionals have a strong public voice and can self-organise
• Security Professionals’ Taskforce membership and constitution
• Communiqué

5:30

Networking drinks

9:30

Congress Agenda
Don Williams, Congress Moderator

9:45

Overview of the options to advance the security profession: Summarising the discussion paper and consultative forums
Athol Yates, Australian Homeland Security Research Centre

10:15

What the evolving security profession can learn from other associations of professionals
Mr John Peacock, General Manager, Associations Forum Pty Ltd

11:00

Morning tea

11:30

The approach of security associations (continued)

• Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers
• Engineers Australia
• Information Systems Audit and Control Association
• Business Continuity Institute
• SECIA
• New Zealand Security Association
• Australian Institute of Professional Investigators

Chair: Steve Barlow, SKM

12:40

Lunch

1:40

3:10

Afternoon tea

3:40

Workshop leaders report
Chair: Mike Kinniburgh

4:10

Forum: What is expected of Security Professionals?
Moderator: Ian Wing, Charles Sturt University

• What do the State government’s expect of Security Professionals?
• What does the community expect of Security Professionals?
• What does the corporate sector expect of Security Professionals?

David I. Harris, Executive Director, Security and Emergency Management Division, Victorian Department of Infrastructure

Sal Perna, Managing Director, Calibre International

Avner Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Point Trading Group

5:10

Day close

6:30

Congress Dinner

9:00

Arrival tea and coffee

9:15

10:45

Morning tea

11:15

Workshop leaders report
Chair: Mike Kinniburgh

11:45

The approach of security associations

• Institute of Security Executives
• International Association of Assembly Managers
• International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators - Australian Chapter
• Risk Management Institution of Australasia
• Victorian Security Institute

Security Associations will make presentations on their organisation's approach to training, accreditation, membership requirements, competency or skill standards, codes of ethics, training, and representing their members' views to government, industry and the community
Chair: Steve Barlow, SKM

12:40

Lunch

1:40

Organisation options to advancing the interests of Security Professionals by ensuring Security Professionals have a strong public voice and can self-organise

• SWOT analysis of structural options
• Implementation options
• Group to facilitate its implementation (Security Professionals’ Taskforce)

Moderator: Jason Brown, Thales Australia

3:00

Afternoon tea

3:30

Discussion and voting
Discussion and voting will occur on the following issues:

• The key elements for a code of ethics/practice for Security Professionals, and enforcement mechanisms
• The minimum standards and competencies for Security Professionals
• A national registration, accreditation or licensing system for Security Professionals
• A strategy to raise the status and recognition of Security Professionals
• Structural solutions to ensuring Security Professionals have a strong public voice and can self-organise
• Security Professionals’ Taskforce membership and constitution

4:50

Summary and way forward

5:00

End of Congress