2024 Physical Security Technology Showcase and Awards Ceremony
When: Friday, June 7th, 2024, 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
New Location: Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd, Overland Park, KS 66211
Attendee cost: $45 (chapter member) $50 (non-chapter member)
Program:
- Hear from top security experts about the current state of security and earn 6 CPE credits.
- Explore live demonstrations with 30 security vendors who will showcase their most recent equipment, systems, and services.
- Witness various chapter annual awards such as the Security Professional of the Year, Security Officer of the Year, and Thomas R. Meyers awards.
- Enjoy lunch with other security professionals from some of the region’s largest companies.
- Door prizes and raffles, including free registration to ASIS GSX 2024 in Orlando.
Event Schedule:
8:00 AM: Registration / Vendor Displays / Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM: Opening Remarks
8:45 AM: Breakout session - Details coming soon
10:00 AM: Breakout session - Details coming soon
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Chapter Awards / Lunch / Keynote Speaker
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: Door Prizes and Closing Remarks
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jennifer Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel who served in three Pentagon tours and in multiple command positions in the field. Her last assignment was as Vice Commander at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, where she was responsible for installation security, including the protection of Air Force One.
After retiring in 2007, Dr. Hesterman started work as a private contractor in Washington, DC, studying international and domestic terrorist organizations, transnational threats, soft target hardening, organized crime, and the terrorist and criminal exploitation of the Internet. Dr. Hesterman designs and instructs graduate-level security courses for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and the Department of Defense. She also advises the Homeland Security Training Institute at the College of DuPage in Chicago, the Crisis Response Journal, and three DHS Centers of Excellence.
Dr. Hesterman holds a doctoral degree from Benedictine University, a Master of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University and Air University, and a Bachelor of Science from Penn State University. In 2003, she was a National Defense Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., where she studied the terror-crime nexus. She is a 2006 alumnus of the Harvard Senior Executive Fellows program and was a senior fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University from 2016-2018.
An award-winning author, her book Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from Attack was the ASIS Security Book of the Year for 2015, and the second edition won the same award in 2019. The book was also named Taylor and Francis Social Sciences Book of the Year in 2019. She also authored Soft Target Crisis Management (2016) and The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus (2013). Dr. Hesterman is a dynamic and sought-after public speaker for ASIS, FBI, DHS, ASIS, DoD, state and local law enforcement agencies, and Major League Baseball, among others.
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