Iraq Defence, Security & Communications Summit
16-17 February 2008
Dubai, UAE
Agenda
Friday 15th February
16:00 – 19:00 Pre-registration
Saturday 16th February
07:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:15 – 09:30 Welcome Address
John Glassey – Managing Director, Iraq Development Program
09:30 – 10:45 Ministerial Keynote Speeches
HE Abdul Qadir Obeidi – Defence Minister
HE Shirwan Al-Waili – National Security Affairs Minister
HE Karim Sinjari – KRG Interior Minister
HE Jassim Mohammed Ja’fer – Acting Communications Minister
10:45 – 11:00 Guest Speaker
Ali Dahwi – CEO, Zain Iraq
11:00 – 11:20 Morning Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:30 US Government – Keynote Speeches
Paul Brinkley – Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Business Transformation, US DoD
Hon. P Jackson Bell – Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Logistics & Material Readiness,
US DoD
Captain Robert Gilbeau – Deputy Commander, Joint Contracting Command – Iraq (JCC-I)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Roundtable Meet the Ministries & Government Officials
Sunday 17th February
09:15 – 10:15 Communications Infrastructure
Chair: Ali Dahwi – General Manager, Zain Iraq
Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi – former Minister of Communications and
Member of the Council of Representatives
Dr Dolbar Khalil– KRG Senior Advisor on Communications to the Prime
Minister
Laith Al-Saeed – Technical Advisor for Border Security to the Ministry of
Communications, Iraq Telecommunications & Postal Company (ITPC)
Bob Fonow – Senior Advisor, Iraq Ministry of Communications
10:15 – 11:00 Interior/Private Security
Chair: Timothy B Mills – President, AmCham – Iraq
Brig Gen. Alaa Hussein Ali – Director of Planning, Iraq Ministry of Interior
Doug Brooks – President, International Peace Operations Association (IPOA)
11:00 – 11:20 Morning Coffee Break
11:20 – 12:30 Defence Technology
Chair: Danny Benjamin – Vice President, Al-Fawares Group
Ali Hasan Tarish – Director General for Electronic Systems Directorate,
Iraq Ministry of Defence
Dr Muthana Razoqi Waheeb – Head of Technical Department, Iraq
Ministry of National Security Affairs
Mahmood K Sharief – Director General for Information Technology,
Iraq Ministry of Science & Technology
Abdul Rudha Hameed Mohsen – General Secretary for Communications,
Iraq Ministry of Defence
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Roundtable Meet the Ministries & Government Officials
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