Agenda

NOTE: This agenda is from the August 2023 GSO 2025 Event held at LinkedIn Headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA. The next event – GSO 2030 – will be held in January of 2026 in the Los Angeles area. The agenda will be updated in June of 2025, and will be nearly identical to the one below – so feel free to review it.

Business Security Leadership
Time	Item	Details
8:00 AM – 8:45 AM	Breakfast Welcome Introduction	Breakfast Service: Superb Catering Welcome: Event Director Pamela Peak Event Introduction: Ray Bernard and Steve Lasky
8:45 AM – 9:45 AM 1 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	How Accomplished Security Leaders Have Developed a Personal Leadership Mindset 1 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Ray Bernard, President and Principal Consultant – Ray Bernard Consulting Services (RBCS); Co-Founder GSO Events
9:45 AM – 10:30 AM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Business Security Leadership .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Derric Wright, Senior Director DEI and former Senior Director – EHS, Security, & DEA Compliance – Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Returning GSO Session Leader
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Morning Break (Refreshment and Snacks)	Service: Superb Catering
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Lies, Damn Lies, and Human Trafficking Statistics: The Truth Behind America’s Failing War Against Modern Slavery .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Special Session Leader: Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco
11:30 PM – 12:15 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Lessons Learned: Securing Technology on the Edge at Massive Scale .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Maria Sumnicht, recent New York City Cyber Command Urban Technology Architect. Maria was the Cyber Security Lead for the Critical Infrastructure ICS for the City’s water systems and for IoT for the City of New York, responsibilities including the ICS/OT Simulation & Testing Laboratory and the IoT Penetration Testing Laboratory. Returning GSO Session Leader
12:15 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch, Discussions and Networking	Service: Superb Catering
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	The True Meaning of Organizational Resilience .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Ray Bernard and Special Guest Session Leader
1:45 PM – 2:30 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Designing Security Systems to Reduce the Potential for Violence .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Bernard J. “Ben” Scaglione, Security Director for more than 25 years in NYC Hospitals, author of Security Management for Healthcare: Proactive Event Prevention and Effective Resolution
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Important Trends Impacting Security Leadership and Technology Planning .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Ray Bernard
3:15 PM – 4:00 PM	Afternoon Break (Refreshments and Snacks)	Service: Superb Catering
4:00 PM – 4:45 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Insider Threat and Advanced Analytics .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Sulev Suvari, Virtual Chief Security Officer (vCSO); recent Global Head of Safety, Security and Resiliency – HP (leading HP’s global Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Safety [EHS], Physical Security, Federal Security and Executive Protection). Returning GSO Session Leader
4:45 PM – 5:30 PM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	AI & Security in 2023: Separating Fact from Fiction .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leaders: Yash Bajpai and James Connor, Ambient AI
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM	Complimentary Appetizers, Brews and Sommelier’s Selections (outside on the patio)	All Attendees and Session Leaders
6:30 PM and on	Independent dinner opportunities with fellow attendees, session leaders, and event sponsors (offsite)	Attendees, Session Leaders and Technology Sponsors

Technology Command
Time	Item	Details
7:15 AM – 8:00 AM	Breakfast Welcome	Breakfast Service: Superb Catering Welcome: Steve Lasky
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM .25 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .25 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Introduction to Hands-On Technology Day .25 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .25 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Ray Bernard
8:10 AM – 9:00 AM .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Evolvable Intelligent Physical Security Systems Infrastructure Learn where exponentially advancing technologies, the avalanche of emerging AI-enabled products and systems, and secure standards-based open APIs for system integrations and device data interfaces are taking electronic physical security system deployments. Understand how this can impact the design and function of your security operations, including providing insightful business operations information to your organization, in support of company digital transformation initiatives and objectives. .75 ASIS CPP CPE Credit .75 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Session Leader: Ray Bernard
9:10 AM – 10:10 AM 1 ASIS CPP CPE Credit 1 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Experts Panel: AI, Automation and Security Operations & Administration How companies are using AI-enabled security products today, including robotics, to improve security operations – including proactive and preemptive capabilities What are your practical AI options for right now and tomorrow? Important aspects of developing a multi-year technology roadmap that accounts for AI, exponentially advancing technologies, and upgrading from existing legacy technologies How to close the decades-old facility access vulnerability: the larger the credential holder population is, the greater the number of credential holders with access privileges they shouldn’t have.	Panelists: Selected Specialists in Physical Security Technology, Robotics, Security Operations & Administration and AI
10:10 AM – 11:30 AM	Refreshments and Snacks Available	Service: Superb Catering
10:20 AM – 11:20 AM 1 ASIS CPP CPE Credit 1 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Experts Panel: Edge Computing and The Modern LAN Most on-premises security system applications are running on technology infrastructure (computers and networks) whose architectures are 30 to 40 years old. They have a high total cost of ownership (TCO) and Total Cost of Service (TCS), and low performance capabilities compared to current-day technology. Learn how today’s edge computing – based on efficient high-performance cloud technologies, modern networking, and intelligent security devices – is significantly improving the cost-effectiveness and security-effectiveness of electronic physical security system deployments. What is involved in making our building systems smart and connected, but not vulnerable?	Panelists: Selected Specialists in Edge Computing Technologies
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM 1 ASIS CPP CPE Credit 1 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Experts Panel: Advancing Situational Awareness There are many categories of security situational awareness, and AI is advancing all of them, especially the real-time situational awareness elements of risk situation monitoring and live incident response. Learn how to achieve scalable real-time situational awareness and response capabilities.	Panelists: Selected Specialists in Incident Response and Situational Awareness
12:30 PM – 1:20 PM	Lunch, Discussions and Networking	Service: Superb Catering
1:30 PM – 5:00 PM 3.5 ASIS CPP CPE Credit 3.5 ASIS PSP CPE Credit	Technology Hands-On Time, Self-Guided Individual Vendor Discussions, Attendee Networking plus Refreshments and Snacks Smartphone Physical Access Credentials: Quickly enroll your own phone and try out your mobile credentials at multi-technology readers. Privacy-Compliant Facial Access Authentication: Perform instant facial enrollment at a door reader – no facial image database needed. Anti-Tailgating: Try defeating deep-learning-enabled 3D anti-tailgating technology. Living Emergency Response Plans: Get hands on with a platform for creating and executing living emergency response plans.	Hands-On Technology Exercises: Attendees and Sponsors Networking: Attendees and Session Leaders
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM	Event Wrap-Up Final Q&A: Get any last session or sponsor questions answered. $500 Visa Gift Card Drawing: You must be present to win. Out-Brief: Post-event follow up, such as what will be included in your GSO Reference Pack Download.	Q&A: Ray Bernard and GSO Event Sponsors Out-Brief: Ray Bernard