Key Highlights
- Check out GSX 2025 sessions addressing active violence mitigation, drone technology, cybersecurity product evaluation, and more.
- Learn about integrating AI into security practices, including video monitoring, access control, and the challenges posed by deepfakes.
- Gain leadership insights from prominent speakers like Ian Bremmer, Sol Rashidi, and General Nakasone to enhance strategic decision-making.
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Before you hit the tradeshow floor at GSX 2025 (check out our product preview starting on page 48), be sure to plan a little time for some self-education while attending in New Orleans. While many of the huge number of educational sessions are focused on security directors and end-user stakeholders, our editors have hand-picked the following learning sessions and events that may appeal to the security consulting and integration executives at the show.
Be sure to visit https://gsx25.mapyourshow.com/8_0/sessions to search the full roster of educational offerings at GSX.
Monday, September 29
Protecting Luxury Residential Communities From Crime Tourism (10 a.m., Room 271): Transnational criminals are engaging in coordinated 'crime tourism' – targeting burglary of residences in high-end areas across the country. Learn about the impact of these crimes on one such community, and how to mitigate the threat.
Interactive Workshop: Active Assailant Response Plans (10 a.m., Room 275-277): Learn how to develop a framework for designing active assailant response plans tailored to organizational needs and best practices for specific verticals.
Cybersecurity Product Evaluation (11 a.m., Resilience Zone on the expo floor): Learn how cybersecurity and procurement staff across the 16 CISA critical public infrastructure sectors objectively evaluate a wide range of cybersecurity products and services against common cybersecurity frameworks.
Passive Weapons Detection for Healthcare (11:15 a.m., Room 291-292): Identify and evaluate various options for retrofitting existing hospital entrances with passive weapon detection equipment, considering factors such as cost, infrastructure requirements, integration with current security systems, and potential impact on operational efficiency and patient experience.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) Meets Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Security (1:30 p.m., Room 274): Attendees will gain an understanding of the basics of EI and AI and their relevance to the security industry, including the benefits and challenges of integrating EI with AI in physical security practices.
Agentic AI’s Role in Corporate Security (2:45 p.m., Room 269): AI agents, capable of making decisions and executing tasks, are changing how organizations approach risk management and security. While currently operating under human oversight, their autonomous capabilities could revolutionize how we detect, adapt to, and mitigate threats.
CPTED and Retail Crime Prevention (2:45 p.m., Room 271): With traditional target hardening strategies failing in retail environments, learn how CPTED strategies, criminal justice strategies, and employee and security guard training can reduce the ease and opportunity of retail crime.
Tuesday, September 30
Mitigation Strategies for Active Violence Events (10 a.m., Room 269): Learn more about effective mitigation techniques prior to an attack, during the attack, and after the attack as well as effective ways to guide all personnel toward a shift in mindset that leaves them empowered, not traumatized.
Navigating the Drone Dilemma (10 a.m., Room 275-277): Featuring a panel of UAS, government, and security experts, this interactive discussion will provide actionable guidance for integrating drones and counter-drone technologies into a security program.
Developing the Next Generation of Security Professionals (11:15 a.m., Room 291-292): This session will identify the key elements that can enhance the appeal of security careers to potential candidates and leaders.
Who's Who in the Consultant Zoo (1:30 p.m., Room 274): This panel session aims to clarify the evolving landscape of security consulting and provide value to both practitioners seeking expertise and professionals looking to enhance their consulting practices.
Does Talk Down Really Work? (1:30 p.m., Room 295-296): A panel of industry experts will delve into the "talk-down" method – where remote guards use real-time communication to de-escalate suspicious activities – and examine its practical impact.
Data Center Security (1:30 p.m., Room 293-294): This session will explore advanced risk assessment techniques to identify vulnerabilities, evaluate emerging threats, and implement physical and cybersecurity security measures in data centers.
Deepfakes and Access Control (2:45 p.m., Room 280-282): The widespread availability of AI-powered and other open-source tools has created a threat to access control systems in the form of deepfakes, as well as injection attacks that can simulate access control system components.
Wednesday, October 1
AI Integration in Video Monitoring (9:45 a.m., Room 275-277): Through live demonstrations and practical insights, discover how AI-enhanced analytics and intelligent automation complement human expertise in video monitoring.
Keynotes in the New Orleans Theater
Ian Bremner presents the “New Abnormal” (Monday, 8:30 a.m.): Ian Bremmer, president and founder of geopolitical risk advisory firm Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a political scientist who helps business leaders, policymakers, and the general public make sense of the world around them.
Sol Rashidi presents “the AI-Powered Security Paradigm” (Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.): Learn how to leverage a future where AI amplifies human strategic capabilities, creating unprecedented value and establishing security leaders as essential business catalysts.
Leadership Lessons with General Paul M. Nakasone (Wednesday, 11:15 a.m.): Weaving real life leadership lessons learned during his own career, General Nakasone will deliver greater meaning to the hair-raising challenges he faced as leader of the National Security Agency (NSA).
About the Author
Paul Rothman
Editor-in-Chief/Security Business
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