CBIA's 8th international conference on competitive intelligence (CI) is scheduled to take place in Centurion South Africa during October 2011.

The purpose of the conference is to provide high quality education and a networking opportunity for CI practitioners and those interested in CI in Southern Africa.

We are looking for Southern African practitioners and international speakers who are interested to present at the conference. We would like you to share your experience and knowledge. It is going to be a top CI event. Presentations may be designed for any level of experience, from fundamental to intermediate to advanced topics.

Preferences will be given to presentations that focus on current and emerging issues, best practices, challenges facing CI practitioners and presentations with a practical element. If you would like to take part in the three day event as a speaker please let us have your proposed topic and outline by 28 July 2011 for consideration.

Please send your mail to the training coordinator at training@cbia.co.za

After 12 years at the Centurion Lake Hotel in Centurion, CBIA has settled on the four star Protea Hotel Waterfront in Centurion as its new training hub from March 2011. The Protea Hotel Waterfront has recently been renovated, refurbished and their training centre upgraded. The training venues are modern with natural light and conducive to our training offering with fast Internet access. More information about the Protea Hotel Waterfront Centurion is available at http://www.proteahotels.com/protea-hotel-waterfront-centurion.html

Our business unit dealing with technical counterintelligence is also hosting its training events at the Protea Hotel Waterfront. To read more about the TSCM training workshops please visit the link at http://www.tscm-za.com/training.html

CBIA started in 2007 to offer information protection awareness training to government departments and employees. These workshops are specifically tailored to provide government employees with a broad understanding of developments in the modern world. Many in sensitive positions have misconceptions about the value of the information that they handle and many do not have a proper understanding of their roles and responsibilities in this regard.

These exclusive workshops are presented in the main centres and in-house at departments. More than 2700 government employees on all levels have attended these workshops and briefings since 2007.

A brochure and registration for the Information Protection Awareness Workshop is here

A brochure and registration form for the Executive Awareness Briefing for senior government executives is here.

If you require additional information or a programme for the events, please e-mail the CBIA training co-ordinator at training@cbia.co.za