Safeguarding Australia 2021, the 17th National Security Annual Summit is going virtual on March 3rd -5th due to the uncertainties associated with the Covid19 outbreaks over Christmas and the subsequent travel restrictions and state border closures. We wanted to ensure that Summit attendees and speakers would not be adversely compromised.

The virtual event will be over three days of live presentations from 3rd - 5th March allowing you to participate in the comfort and security of your office or home environment. Furthermore, we will be offering streaming-on-demand after the event for you to revisit or for missed presentations.

Safeguarding Australia 2021 summit featuring key government and renowned international speakers are focusing on four key threats — espionage, foreign interference, right-wing domestic terrorism and pandemics — are all at unprecedented and increasingly dangerous levels, while one, Islamist terrorism remains in continuing focus. These four areas of threat will be addressed with key senior security experts from the Australian and international community.

The Pandemic Forum – New Insights for National Security will be built around key security and emergency planning elements and seek to address the role of National Resilience Initiative in mitigating the consequences of future events with prevention, mitigation and lessons learnt.

Although we are unable to offer any face to face physical meeting for the time-being, we will ensure that the summit will be highly interactive to ensure you remain connected and we will also be offering networking sessions as an added option. We hope to see as many of you as possible.