TV, Fri. Feb. 25: CF day at Conference of Defence Associations' annual meeting

[MarkOttawa]

Will be broadcast delayed on CPAC, also online, at 1100 ET:

Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security
http://cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=46&lang=e

The Conference of Defence Associations and the CDA Institute hold their annual conference. Day two's theme will be "The Canadian Forces Post-Combat Mission in Afghanistan".
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Agenda:
http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&template_id=1392&hl=e

11am ET / 8am PT
Peter MacKay - Canadian Defence Minister

11:45am ET / 8:45am PT
Gen. Walter Natynczyk - Canadian Chief of Defence Staff

12:30pm ET / 9:30am PT
Gen. Mieczyslaw Bieniek - NATO Deputy Commander

1:15pm ET / 10:15am PT
Gen. Keith Alexander - Commander, U.S. Cyber Command

2pm ET / 11am PT
Armed Forces Update

Lt. Gen (ret'd) Michel Maisonneuve - CDA Institute
Lt. Gen. André Deschamps - Chief of Air Staff
Lt. Gen. Peter Devlin - Chief of Land Staff
Vice-Adm. Dean McFadden - Chief of Maritime Staff

3:30pm ET / 12:30pm PT
Future Challenges for the Canadian Forces and Department of National Defence

Brig.-Gen. (ret'd) Don MacNamara - CDA Institute
Philippe Lagassé - University of Ottawa
Lt. Gen. Andrew Leslie - Chief of Transformation, Canadian Forces
Dan Ross - assistant deputy minister of defence

Fuller bilingual agenda here:
http://cda-cdai.ca/cdai/uploads/cdai/2011agenda.pdf

Mark
Ottawa

 

[MarkOttawa]

From the Conference of Defence Associations/Conference of Defence Associations Institute:
http://cda-cdai.ca/cda/annual-general-meeting/seminar2011

...Selected presentations and video recordings from the 2011 Ottawa Conference on Defence and Security are now available online...

Some interesting examples:

...
    DAY 1 – Canada-US Security Interests: Ten Years After 9/11

    ...Panel 1 – Canada-US Relations – 10 Years Since 9/11 [CPAC video]
    Colin Robertson, CDA Institute and CDFAI
    Governor James Blanchard, former US Ambassador to Canada
    The Honourable Michael Wilson, former Canadian Ambassador to the United States
    Lieutenant-General Frank Grass, Deputy Commander US Northern Command
    ...
    DAY 2 – The Canadian Forces Post-Combat Mission in Afghanistan
    ...
    Keynote speaker – General Keith Alexander, Commander, US Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency – “Collective  Defense in the 21st Century” [CPAC video]


    Panel I: Armed Forces Updates [CPAC video]
    Lieutenant-General (ret’d) Michel Maisonneuve, CDA Institute
    Lieutenant-General Peter Devlin, Chief of the Land Staff
    Lieutenant-General André Deschamps, Chief of the Air Staff
    Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden, Chief of the Maritime Staff
...

Mark
Ottawa