5th Annual Maritime Symposium 2014 – Worldwide Chokepoints and Maritime Risks

The theme for this year’s Symposium is Worldwide Chokepoints and Maritime Risks.

“Chokepoint” refers to any enclosed space, corridor, or area where large numbers of personnel and/or resources are forced to pass through, with no reasonable alternate routes. Within the maritime environment, geographical features such as a strait or canal are considered chokepoints. In the current maritime operating environment, chokepoints are important elements to consider for strategic and risk-based decisions. The global system and our National prosperity increasingly depend upon the crucial supply of resources and the conduits of international trade. Chokepoints offer both state and non-state actors an increased likelihood of disrupting the free flow of trade using asymmetrical means regardless of the relative size and strength of opposing forces.

The Symposium will also examine Maritime Global Supply Chain Risks, Maritime Economics and Insurance Impacts, Maritime Cyber Policy, Risk Perception and Communications, Maritime Cyber Security, and Future Tech with Potential Maritime Impact.

Keynote speakers include VADM Charles Michel, Deputy Commandant of Operations, USCG, RADM Thomas Cropper, President, California Maritime Academy; Innovation Talks include Cosmo Perrone, Principal, Cosmo Perrone & Associates and former Director of Security for the Port of Long Beach, Alex Carrillo, Lead Strategic Intelligence Analyst, Orange County Intelligence Assessment Center; We will also have special Keynote addresses and book signings by Norman Polmar, internationally known analyst, consultant, and award-winning author specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence areas, and author of Project Azorian, Ship of Gold, Rickover, and others; and John-Clark Levin, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and author of Private Anti-Piracy Navies.

For more information, email imaya@usc.edu

Website: http://create.usc.edu/2014/10/fifth_annual_mrs.html

Registration Link: http://www.usc.edu/esvp (code: maritime)

There is no registration fee, and the $83 cost covers all meals charged at the government per diem rate.