You are invited to the Palantir Government Conference Canada which will take place on 9 November 2009 at the Hampton Conference Center in Ottawa. The Conference is co-hosted by The SecDev Group and Palantir Technologies and will will showcase operational deployments of the Palantir platform across a spectrum of missions, including: military, intelligence, cybersecurity, criminal investigations, financial regulation, and fraud detection.

The SecDev Group (www.secdev.ca) is an Ottawa-based operational consultancy focused on regions at risk from violence and insecurity, including the cyber domain. Palantir Technologies (www.palantirtech.com), based in Palo Alto, California, offers a powerful platform for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing complex heterogeneous data sources including structured, unstructured, social, relational, temporal, and geospatial. The SecDev Group was one of the primary authors of the Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network (www.tracking-ghost.net) report released in March 2009, which made extensive use of Palantir to analyze data obtained through technical and human-based sources. An article featuring the work of Palantir Technologies was recently published in the The Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125200842406984303.html).

Palantir Government Conference - Canada

Date: Monday, November 9, 2009
Time: 8:00am-5:30pm
Location: Hampton Conference Centre, 200 Coventry Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1K 4S3

The conference will be divided into two half-day elements.

Morning sessions will provide keynote presentations highlighting high-level capabilities across a spectrum of missions, with speakers addressing the future of intelligence visualization, analysis and fusion. Confirmed presentations and speakers include:

- "Palantir's Mission: Transforming Intelligence" - Alex Karp, CEO Palantir Technologies

- "Protecting Canada's security while upholding our values" - Professor Ronald J. Deibert, Citizen Lab, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

- "GhostNet: Lessons from applying all-source data visualization to real-time cybersecurity investigations" - Rafal Rohozinski & Nart Villeneuve, SecDev.cyber

- "Developing situational awareness on the battlefield: A combined Ops and Intel platform" - Doug Philippone, Palantir Technologies

- "Data fusion and exploration in criminal investigations" - Will Barley, Palantir Technologies

- "Applying data visualization to fraud detection and financial regulation" - Alex Fishman, Palantir Technologies


During the afternoon we will be running a series of hands-on workshops on applying Palantir in the following areas:

- Military intelligence
- Data fusion and visualization for security, intelligence and criminal investigations
- Cybersecurity and cyberspace operations
- Financial and regulatory compliance and monitoring
- Hands-on training with Palantir will also be provided

Participants can join us for the entire day or for either of the two half-day sessions (each half-day session will run 3 to 4 hours). Lunch is provided for all participants.

An updated agenda will be available online at http://cyber.secdev.ca

Registration is free, but mandatory, and the deadline is November 2. To register, please visit http://secdev.eventbrite.com or send an email to Arnav Manchanda at a.manchanda [at] secdev.ca with your professional and contact details.