Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series – April and May 2020
Please click here to register and get more information about the April 23rd speaker series event with Siddharth Chandra (Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks). Please click here to register and get more information about the April 30th speaker series event with Padhu Seshaiyer (Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities). Please click here to register and get…
Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Siddharth Chandra: Using Economic Principles to Identify and Understand Drug Trafficking Networks
George Mason University, Fairfax Campus Exploratory Hall 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA, United StatesSign up to attend through Eventbrite. The CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about drug trafficking, and learn how economic data can provide insights into the flow and operations of illicit drug markets and…
Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Padhu Seshaiyer: Computational Mathematics for Solving Global Challenges Involving Criminal Activities
Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. The CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about the dynamics of criminal activities, and how computational mathematics can help understand and solve challenges related to this complex, real-world…
Virtual CINA Distinguished Speaker Series- Jodi Quas: Enhancing Disclosures in Victims of Sex Trafficking: Science Guiding Solutions
Sign up to attend through Eventbrite. The CINA Distinguished Speaker Series invites leading experts from fields related to the disruption of criminal activities across the physical and cyber spaces. Join us for a discussion about disclosure reluctance in sex trafficking victims, including research about methods that can increase interview findings and support law enforcement efforts…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “Finding Trafficking Networks in Online Commercial Sex Ads” with Crysta Price, HTI Labs, Creighton University
Virtual (WebEx)Join us for a discussion about human trafficking, including a case walkthrough that describes how data analytics, AI, and collaboration with law enforcement agencies led to the dismantling of a large international sex trafficking organization. REGISTER NOW Speaker Biography: Crysta Price, the founder of HTI Labs, a company using data science to unmask trafficking networks,…
Beyond 9/11 – “Homeland Security and Transnational Crime” Panel Discussion
Virtual (Zoom Meeting)What does it mean to "secure the homeland" in the twenty-first century? During this event, leading experts will provide strategic lessons and crucial recommendations for the future of homeland security. Join us for a panel discussion about the place of counter-terrorism in the homeland security enterprise, the management of transnational crime, confronting cyber and other threats to our infrastructure, and the…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “Transaction Laundering and the Facilitation of Cybercrime Through the Online Payment Ecosystem” – LegitScript – Lilly Richardson & Jenny Mosbacher
Virtual (WebEx)As e-commerce continues to expand, credit card transactions have increasingly become a conduit for money laundering. This presentation will highlight how criminal organizations circumvent the payments and banking ecosystem’s risk and compliance controls by setting up fake online businesses and storefronts to covertly process payments for illegal activity. This practice, known as transaction laundering, can…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Martin Bouchard “Social Outlaws: What Network Data Tells Us About Gangs”
Virtual (WebEx)Over the past 20 years, social network analysis (SNA) has transformed our conceptualization of crime and delinquency. Criminological theories that place the social factor front and center can now be tested with better data and measures, providing a more sophisticated demonstration of the mechanisms involved. Yet, the impact of SNA has arguably been felt the…
COVID-19 Vaccine Workshops
VirtualCINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy, Security and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas” with Celina Realuyo
Join Celina Realuyo, Professor of Practice, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University for an indepth discussion on the impact of COVID-19 on the economy, security and transnational organized crime in the Americas. REGISTER NOW Speaker Biography: Celina Realuyo is Professor of Practice at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Celina Realuyo “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Economy, Security and Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas”
VirtualLatin America and the Caribbean have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic that will have a detrimental impact on the health, economy, budgets and security of the region. Prior to the pandemic, Latin America and the Caribbean were already facing slow growth, indebtedness, inequality, inadequate healthcare, corruption, transnational organized crime, migration crises and social…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Diana Dolliver “Cryptocurrencies and Criminal Investigations: From Transaction to Seizure”
VirtualThis presentation will cover the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies, transactions, and blockchain technologies, and how this form of currency can be used to facilitate criminal activity. Dr. Dolliver will explain how cryptocurrencies can be obtained and stored, how transactions can be traced, and how these assets can be potentially seized by law enforcement officials through legal…
Cyber Extremism and Violence in a Hyperconnected World
Virtual (WebEx)Cyberspace content and interactions have emerged as a breeding ground for the spread, or even birth of extremism and violence. From the large-scale spreading of authority-undermining or divisive misinformation, to the recruitment of terrorists or gang members, to the planning of extremist activities, we are increasingly observing the growth of a cyberphysical nexus of extremism.…
CINA Virtual Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeffrey Hardy “Illicit Trade in the Forms of Trademark Counterfeiting and Copyright Piracy”
VirtualFrom smuggling, counterfeiting and tax evasion, to the trafficking of humans and wildlife, illicit trade holds back progress, increases costs and pushes the goals further away. While data on this clandestine activity has previously been scarce, there is mounting evidence of the economic, social and environmental losses it can cause. REGISTER NOW Speaker…