Andy Williams and Kursad Sak Conference in Warsaw (Poland) next october 24-25th

On 24th and 25th October 2013 the 5th SASMA conference in Warsaw will take place. Andy Williams and Kursad Sak, partners of Temi Group/KS Consulting, will provide the audience with an “east” and “west” knowledge and experience of best practices for the theme “Restricting Anti-illicit trade by Environment Suppression”. The presentation will provide examples of how ‘Environment Suppression’ can be applied to both reduce AIT activity and also get the attention of the C-suite to invest more resource and results by controlling an environment rather than being mesmerized by the biggest fish in that environment.

Andy Williams, recently joined KS Consulting as Lead Consultant with focus on AIT and Brand Protection strategy based in Istanbul and a Senior Partner in Temi Group since 2011; previous experience within corporate sector as Head of Security for Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), – a UAE government entity engaged in master development of $40 billion project and years in the hospitality industry, principally with Marriott International as Regional Director Safety and Security for EMEA.

On the vocational front, served as a Regional Vice President for ASIS International; is a member of The Security Institute, The Royal Society for Promotion of Health, a CPP Certified Protection Professional, Advisory committee member of CSARN and a former member of the European Institute of Corporate Security Management.

Kursad Sak, Degree in Economics and Administrative Sciences Bogazici University and a PSP certified (Physical Security Professional) through ASIS International. 11 years’ experience in event industry management and commercial need and 9 years’ experience in Security consultancy, research and business development in Turkey.

Founded KS Consulting in Istanbul in 2010 and built a growing portfolio of multi-national companies specializing in Brand Protection/Anti – Illicit Trade within Turkey and Europe working with the likes of Toyota across Europe – Hewlett Packard, Nike and Pfizer in Turkey and surrounding region.

As an increasing economic centre SASMA allows you the opportunity to network with many Central and Eastern European security professionals. This year’s conference “Security the key to Business” will address in depth illegal business practices such as money laundering, tobacco smuggling, counterfeiting products and Hi Tech smuggling. There will be case studies on how you can prevent brand damage and prevent the murder of consumers.

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Among the confirmed speakers are:

• Soren Pederson of Europol (the European Police Office) offering updates on EU Cyber Security policy and illicit trading;
• Dr Christoph Rojahn, Director at Deloitte & Touche GmbH, who will present the subject „Integrity Due Diligence and the security aspects of M&A process”;
• Martin Fijalkowski – attorney at the law firm Baker& McKenzie, who will bring us to issues related to new legal regulations concerning the sale of counterfeit goods;
• Alan Brown, CSO Tesco, who will present the subject on retail security and evaluating security;
• David Shore, Pfizer, Director of Global Security (EMEA) with presentation on topic: “Counterfeit Medicines – Threat to Patient Health and Safety”;
• Declan O’Donovan – Global Security Director EMEA/Global Travel and Intelligence at Cummins with topic “Travel Security & Cummins”;
• Pawel Krawczyk, Application Security Manager at AON with presentation on topic: “Application security management in large enterprises”;
• Olesya Abramenko, Security Officer, Volvo/ Russia with topic “Anti-counterfeiting challenges in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)”;
• Crawford Robinson, Group Security, BAT (British-American Tobacco) – “Threat Driven, Risk Focused Security: Is Europe the Achilles Heel?”;
• Radek Havlis, Vice President International Security at Deutsche Telekom, Germany – “Security as a business enabler”;
• Marek Janke, Vice President at IMPEL SECURITY POLAND, Tomasz Kozłowski, Retail Security Manager at IMPEL SECURITY POLAND;
• Adrian Kendry, NATO.

Business Security Conference is the growing event in the security calendar in Central and Eastern Europe, with minimum 20% growth in attendees’ year on year. With SASMA subsidized admission for all CEE students currently studying a Master’s Degree in security subjects, you will also be meeting the security leaders of tomorrow.

From attendees feedback from past conferences we were able to create a conference programme which should attract professionals from across Europe. Outstanding Polish presenters and English speakers, full translation provided, will bring us to the matters of:

• Anti illicit trading and protection of assets;
• Challenges for the retail sector;
• Cyber Security;
• Social unrest;
• Brand protection;
• Valuing a security programme and the use of technology in security.

For information about REGISTRATION and FEES please visit: http://www.sas-ma.org