Who Will You Meet At Suits and Spooks LA?

The most exciting part of a Suits and Spooks anti-conference isn't listening to our accomplished and fascinating speakers. It's meeting the other attendees. At last February's DC event, attendees included the founder of GreenPeace and an individual who was almost killed by a Russian assassin involved in the Alexander Litvenenko poisoning. In Los Angeles, attendees will include a career Mossad agent, a C-level executive from a major studio, a hacker that used to work for the IDF, and the creator of numerous "spy" TV shows and movies. Since attendance is usually less than 100 people, you get to spend a lot of time interacting not only with some truly fascinating people but with the speakers as well including retired Navy SEAL Rob DuBois, George Clooney and John Prendergast's Satellite Sentinel Project spokesman Jonathan Hutson, former FBI SSA Jason Smolanoff, China expert Matt Brazil, two former CIA intelligence officers Lisa Chambers and Nada Bakos, Doug Wilson of Mandiant and Jim Hake, the founder and CEO of Spirit of America. You'll also enjoy a lunch prepared by the Bel Air Bay Club chef in a beautiful space overlooking the Pacific ocean; definitely NOT conference cuisine.

Don't miss out or wind up paying more because you didn't get your registration in on time.. The early bird discount for our Los Angeles event is ending on June 1st so get your registration in early and be a part of a truly unique security event.

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SEALs, Spies, Security, and Celebrity: The Suits and Spooks Anti-Conference comes to Los Angeles

George Clooney’s Satellite Sentinel Project documenting the atrocities in Sudan has broken new ground in the use of “soft power” to drive change. Jonathan Hutson from the Enough Project will explain how Clooney and John Prendergast are doing it. Rob DuBois, a retired Navy SEAL, will discuss how and why he advises governments to use “smart power” before hard power. Matt Brazil, a former U.S. embassy commercial officer in Beijing, will show executives how to survive in China without losing all of their secrets. Jim Hake will discuss how NGOs and the U.S. military can work together in the worst problem spots on earth (Afghanistan, Central Asia, Africa).

All of these speakers and more will converge on June 29th in Los Angeles for a private day of frank discussions and problem solving at Taia Global’s third Suits and Spooks Anti-conference, co-sponsored by the Pacific Council on International Policy. The purpose of Suits and Spooks is to bring together individuals from the U.S. intelligence community with innovative thinkers from a wide variety of disciplines to address hard challenges in the national security space.

Attendance is open to the general public but is limited to no more than 120 people. Information and registration is available at SuitsandSpooks.com. Early bird registration ends on May 29, 2012 or once we sell out.

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George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project to be Featured at Suits n' Spooks DC

Time magazine recently ran a story about how George Clooney and John Predergast of the Enough Project decided to raise money to set up a private satellite spy network to focus on the atrocities being committed in Sudan. The program has been so successful that the International Criminal Court is bringing charges against a Sudanese government official. This is an example of the kind of disruptive thinking that Suits and Spooks 2012 in Washington DC is looking for. Fortunately, Jonathan Huston, the Communications director of Enough has agreed to speak about how the project works. He's given similar talks to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation.

Suits and Spooks 2012 isn't a passive conference. Both attendees and speakers will be interacting the entire day to produce innovative and disruptive ideas that relate to creating a new security framework to address the new and rapidly expanding threat landscape created as the physical and virtual worlds continue to become interwoven with each other. The ideas of both speakers and attendees will be captured in real-time in a Palantir workspace with live analysis being done and projected onto a screen behind the speakers. A final report will be released summarizing the day's findings.

You can be a part of this revolutionary experience by registering today. We offer a special rate for students and academics as well as government employees, and an early bird discount will run for everyone until January 6, 2012.

Related:
Information on the Satellite Sentinel Project
Information on Suits and Spooks 2012 - Washington DC

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