THEME:
WORKING WICKED INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES
The Conference will take place in the territories that have witnessed the rise of the first structured Intelligence service in the world, and have always been the bridge between west and east, forefront observer of their evolution through time;
Be with us to live what freedom and Republic are. Be with us to be a sign, a design for what freedom and Republic will be in the future.
We will meet in Treviso, near Venice, crossroad city that unites cultures, east-west, north-south for a vision of the global universe.
CONCEPT NOTE
The Working Wicked Intelligence Challenges overarching theme will focus on the practice of Intelligence operations, collection, analysis, training, and education and impact over the coming decade, considering the rapid pace of change we are experiencing in the world and the needs of the future Intelligence workforce.
A butterfly wing beat can still provoke a hurricane on the other side of the world? If we take into consideration the concept of the butterfly effect in the current scenario, it is clear how – in the current era – Intelligence officers and analysts have to be able analyse and work in scenarios with multiple movements and strategies that can rapidly change both on a small and a large scale.
What is fundamental is the need to develop the ability to have a global vision in Intelligence, to understand and anticipate the previously cited butterfly wing beat as a concept with implications outside the context of mathematics and weather science, and to describe any situation where a small change is supposed to be the cause of larger consequences.
In the near-future Intelligence scenarios, the Intelligence Community needs analysts who can promptly analyse without overlooking in-depth and extensive collaboration as well as senior and operational officers with global knowledge and capability. Hyper-specialization has value but also limits your ability to comprehend the butterfly.
In a global context of a constantly changing Intelligence, geopolitical, political and geo-economics environment, one of the absolute priorities of Intelligence is the education and training of performing and chameleonic practitioners. National borders are becoming increasingly blurred so that the human ability to deal with unplanned and changing situations with extreme speed represents the quality that makes an Intelligence practitioner unique, developing the ability of thinking about and often foreseeing alternatives in the shortest time by being able to think of them and foresee them. The key is developing the habit of always considering alternatives.
The human being is – and always will be – essential to manage complex situations. For this reason, the Conference host École Universitaire Internationale – plays an important role on the global chessboard in developing and conducting research on specific Intelligence domains and to how neuropsychology and neuroscience can be applied to Intelligence. This research paves the way for conceiving and offering new operational and training methods for Intelligence practitioners and offering solution for problems Intelligence practitioners and decision-makers deal with now and in the future.