Seminars

THRUNT Corp. organizes annual educational seminars for members. 

Because the seminars are conducted under Chatham House Rules, speakers are not identified by their full names. Some briefs are TLP:RED and/or OTR.

Upcoming events

The next annual educational conference will be held in early spring 2026. 

Prospective attendees are welcome to submit a Request For Invitation to be considered for inclusion.

Past events

April 5-6, 2025

• Overcoming unconscious incompetence in repeated, related incidents (MG)

• Survey of challenges and resources along a 16km path in the US NCR (TB)

• History of postmortem investigation and its applicability to modern justice systems (AC)

• Discrepancies in quality among several 20th century visual communicators (TV)

• Nonlethal weapon precursors production and processing in small quantity agriculture (GS)

• Comparison of avian factors in modern and historical Chinese politics (CK)

• Recommendations for tactical urban preparedness (GA)

• Infantry preparation tactics to advance over uneven contested non-urban terrain (LP)

• Continuity of psychological distress applied to aging populations (SM)

• Use of Columbidae in wartime and peacetime (SS)

• Survey of food preparation TTPs with historical and modern aspects (TM)

• Relevant factors in close-access elicitation (NA)

• Techniques for classifying inauthentic information (HL)

• Interactive exploration of live-fire scenarios (KS)

• Combatting AI-enabled disinformation campaigns using psychological reinforcement schedules (SG)

• Social dynamics in under resourced societies (AG)

• Successfully navigating the challenges of administrative control of aerial weapons (LL)

• Somnolence and audible interruption (AL)

• Optimizing techniques for nutrition production (LK)

• Aerosol vs Avian disinformation - startling findings (JC)

• Nutritive production at small scale in constrained-time contested environments (CP)

• Fluid dynamic optimizations for high-speed, crewed ground transport (AH)

• Paradoxes in energy connections (MM)

• Managing insurgency with food insecurity management (JM)

• Vertical analysis of parapsychotic literature (ZK)

• Tracking, disrupting and deplatforming a cyber threat actor (PM)

• Survey of financial structures useful for national destabilization (TG)

• Exhaustive analysis of a novel cyber threat actor group (JS)

• Retrospective of financial and information influence operations (MG)

April 20-21, 2024

• Case study and countermeasures to close-access identity theft and financial fraud (TB)

• Effectively securing transnational, distributed information infrastructures with OCONUS compliance requirements (GA)

• Technical security for changing, adversarial populations (MG)

• Retrospective of service-worker quality in multi-stakeholder collaborative operations (ZK)

• Processes and tools to research, acquire, develop and construct resilient physical infrastructure in low-resource environments (AC)

• Acquisition and subversion of diverted materiel through peer-to-peer supply chain manipulation (SC)

• Discriminating and articulating regional differences in geographically distinct agricultural taxonomies (JW)

• Taxonomy of East Asian agricultural production, processes and outcomes (KS)

• Public/private persona management in social media, pitfalls and triumphs (AP)

• Forging a path toward improving underreported public health metrics (NA)

April 1-2, 2023

• Taxonomy of adversaries and operational capabilities in a notional contested n-dimensional battlespace (AL)

• Mass media evolution and devolution in the modern information-operations context (SG)

• Harm reduction down-select tactics to avoid neurotoxins in field operations (ZK)

• Counterintuitive effects of treason on domestic individual financial outcomes (PM)

April 23-24, 2022

• History of applied research in gravity-related phenomena, Russian and otherwise (SS)

• Multi-element assembly taxonomies applied to perennial security concepts (TB)

• Historic Direct Response Marketing and its application to modern industrial economic frameworks (TV)

• Taxonomy of conflict intensity among opposing factions of a population (MB)

• Threat intelligence shortcomings in downscaled information security operations (MG)

• Planning for covert disposal operations with ideologically-motivated populations (ZK)

• Case study of an early-career influencer and his ultimate outcome (PM)

• Intersecting aerial drone observation techniques with high-impact fraud investigation tactics (SG)

May 22, 2021

• Misinformation and disinformation networks, above board and underground (TV)

• FedRAMP seen through the lens of heterogeneous assemblies (TB)

• History of fear, uncertainty and doubt in medieval information operations (EW)

• Conducting low-cost surveillance operations to reveal document fraud (MR)

• Open source collection of adversary infrastructure exposure using commercial tools (ZK)