Terrorism 3.0: Adaptation, Innovation and Technology

This workshop will focus on the recent and upcoming developments in the field of terrorism and counter-terrorism; examining the need by both terrorist and counter-terrorist actors to change and evolve. The workshop will review technological advances, the importance of the cyberspace in terrorism and the fight against it, as well as changes in other aspects, in an attempt to analyze and predict what terrorism, and counter-terrorism, will look like in the next 5-10 years.

Chair: Dr. Gil-ad Ariely, Chief Knowledge Officer & Senior Researcher, ICT, IDC Herzliya, Israel

Mr. Zohar Gefen, Director of the Security Division at Ben-Gurion Int’l Airport, Israel

Mr. Ariel Levanon, Vice President for Cyber & Intelligence, MER Group, Israel

Col. (Res.) Shlomo Mofaz, Associate, ICT, IDC Herzliya & Former Head, Counter Terrorism Analysis Department, Military Intelligence Directorate, IDF, Israel

Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Research Director, Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies (CATS), National Defence College, Sweden

Mr. Magnus Normak, Senior Analyst at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden

Mr. Omri Timianker, Founder & President, Cobwebs Technologies, Israel