Papers, presentaciones a congresos, seminarios, jornadas: Inteligencia, análisis de inteligencia, comunicación estratégica, desinformación, amenazas híbridas.

Papers, presentations in conferences, seminars, events: intelligence, intelligence analysis, strategic communication, hybrid threats

12 Noviembre, 2020. Webinar «Fakes news, desinformación y amenazas híbridas: una aproximación desde la Unión Europea«, Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile

3 Noviembre, 2020. Primer Seminario Virtual Iberoamericano de Inteligencia Estratégica»Reflexiones actuales sobre los conflictos asimétricos», Escuela Superior de Guerra «General Rafael Reyes Prieto», Colombia

• Presentación: Inteligencia y Comunicación Estratégica frente a Amenazas Híbridas [Intelligence and strategic communication to counter hybrid threats]

29 October, 2020. SPARTA – EU-HYBNET Cross-network collaboration event.

• Presentation of EU-HYBNET core theme «Information and Strategic Communication»

October 2020. Interagency Workshop on Analytic Tradecraft, The Gambia

• Instructor

23 Septiembre, 2020. Equipo Europa: Webinar: Las fakes news y la Unión Europea

Presentación: Desinformación y Amenazas Híbridas

3 September, 2020. Security in the Black Sea Region (SBSR)2020 edition: Young Leaders for Democracy and Security.

Academic Roundtable

5 August, 2020. Security in the Black Sea Region (SBSR)2020 edition: Young Leaders for Democracy and Security.

Webinar Hybrid Warfare – From Theory to Practice

• Invited presentation: Disinformation as part of Hybrid Threats

29-30 Junio. 1-21 Julio 2020. First World Health Organization Global Infodemiology Conference

• Invited participation as Infodemiology conference (closed) expert

1 Junio. 13 Julio 2020. MOOC Strategic Communication to Counter Security Threats in the Disinformation Era [Comunicación Estratégica para Contrarrestar las Amenazas a la Seguridad en la Era de la Desinformación]

• • MOOC coordinator (with Manuel Gértrudix]
  • Cyber/Information as a security domain. Individuals and institutions as the targets of hostile state and non-state actor activities: addressing the security challenge.
  • Information and influence operations in the cyberspace [Operaciones de información e influencia en el ciberespacio]

• Strategic Communication phenomena: Strategic communication as a process; Models of communication; Propaganda, misinformation, disinformation.
• Strategic planning of communication, Publics/stakeholders analysis, RACE/ROPE Process, Communication tactics
• Countering disinformation with professional and ethical journalism: hands-on hard news reporting and analysis journalism. Role-play as journalist and produce a news story and an interpretative piece using open sources.
• Everything fake: Detecting AI-generated forgeries (GAN)

14 Mayo 2020. 2020 Transatlantic Security Jam. Securing the Post-COVID Future: the global online brainstorm. Organized by IBM and Friends of Europe.

Forum on “Cooperation and autonomy: the global role of the EU post-COVID-19”.

• Written contribution: Cooperation in post-COVID communication dominance against hostile influence [Cooperación post-COVID en superioridad comunicativa frente a la influencia hostil]

12 Mayo 2020. EU-HYBNET – Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats. [Empoderando una Red Paneuropea para Contrarrestar las Amenazas Híbridas] Kick-off Meeting.

• Presentation of the core theme Information and Strategic Communication [Información y Comunicación Estratégica]

11 Mayo 2020. EU-HYBNET – Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats. Participant,  Gaps and Needs Workshop

4 Mayo 2020. EU-HYBNET – Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats. First Gaps and Needs Event.

• Presentation of the core theme Information and Strategic Communication

20 February 2020. CONNECT University session on “A diverse toolbox: the instruments of disinformation”. EU Commission – Robert Schuman room. Brussels.

• Presentation on Digital communication-enabled active measures/reflexive control and the democratization of the production/dissemination of disinformation and AI-forgeries (deep fakes) [Medidas Activas/Control Reflexivo posibilitados por la Comunicación Digital y la Democratización de la Producción/Difusión de Desinformación y Falsificaciones-IA (Deepfakes)

13 Febrero 2020. Conferenciante LVII Curso de Defensa Nacional – La Desinformación y su impacto en la seguridad nacional. CESEDEN, Madrid. Panel: Enfoque periodístico de la desinformación, influencia de la posverdad y fake news

• Conferencia «Desinformación e influencia»

19 Diciembre 2019. Jornada «Entender y Contrarrestar las Amenazas Híbridas: un enfoque integral», organizada conjuntamente con el Centro de Inteligencia de las Fuerzas Armadas (CIFAS). Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid.

• Organizador
• Presentación «Información e influencia».

11 Diciembre 2019. Seminario Grupo de Ética Aplicada: El secreto. Instituto de Filosofía, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC.

• Presentación: Open-source intelligence e información clasificada en la era digital

4-5 Noviembre 2019. Hybrid CoE Expert Pool Meeting on Information.

• Written contribution and participant, Expert Pool Meeting
• Presentation, Seminar Information in the era of Hybrid Threats

Contributor of

Hybrid CoE Trend Report 4: Trends in the Contemporary Information Environment [Hybrid CoE Informe de Tendencias 4: Tendencias en el Entorno de Información Actual]

17-19 September. Panel de Expertos Countering Hybrid Threats in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions, NATO Maritime Interdiction Training Centre (NMIOTC), Chania, Grecia.

10-12 Julio 2019. XIV Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA). Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca.

• Panel Chair / Coordinador Grupo de Trabajo (8.2) Estudios de Inteligencia. 

3-7 Julio 2019. Corfu Summer School in Mediterranean Security. Ionian University / GeoLab Corfu, Greece

• Workshop Presentation: Understanding and addressing security challenges stemming from hybrid threats [Entender y abordar los desafíos para la seguridad derivados de las amenazas híbridas]
• Workshop Presentation: Simulations, exercises, and games in Intelligence Studies for education and beyond [Simulaciones, ejercicios y juegos en los Estudios de Inteligencia para la formación y más allá]

17-18 Junio. Congreso Internacional Desafíos a la Seguridad Global. CESEDEN, Madrid. Organizado por INISEG y Universidad de Pegaso.

• Mesa Redonda de Inteligencia. Ponencia por invitación: Aprendizaje experiencial en estudios de inteligencia:
  simulaciones, ejercicios y juegos

23 Abril 2019. Dirección Jornada Elecciones 28A Comunicación Estratégica Digital, Insights y Tendencias. Organizada conjuntamente entre la URJC y Digimind

18 Abril 2019. Friends of Europe’s Debating Security Plus (DS+) – Next Level Disinformation: Deepfakes

• Video-presentation and online engagement with participants

27-30 Marzo 2019. ISA – International Studies Association’s 60th Annual Convention. Toronto, Canada.

25-26 de Octubre 2018. StratComES – Congreso de Comunicación Estratégica en Seguridad y Defensa: Operaciones de Información en la Era Digital

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación

• Director of StratComES Conference
• Presentation: Intelligence and Covert Action Operations: the role of communication [Inteligencia y operaciones encubiertas: el papel de la comunicación]

StratComES Díptico by on Scribd

27 de Septiembre 2018. Jornada – Innovación basada en la Inteligencia Competitiva. Azaro Fundazioa. Lugar: Polo de Innovación de Lea-Artibai (Markina-Xemein)

Presentación: La inteligencia competitiva en las empresas europeas

19-20 Junio 2018. Annual National Security Colloquium: Intelligence in the Non-English Speaking World National Security Studies Institute. The University of Texas at El Paso

Presentation: Intelligence in the Non-English Speaking World: Spain

Simulation Exercise: Dr. Rubén Arcos from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, conducted a simulation exercise on June 18 with INSS students examining the raw intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

25 de Abril 2018. Intelligence in Business Mastery Summit. Online Event.

Presentation: Brand Intelligence as core to your strategy and risk management

11-13 de Abril 2018. NATO/STO SAS Panel Research Task Group SAS-114 on Assessment and Communication of Uncertainty to Support Decision-Making. 7th Meeting. Madrid, Spain.

• Host
• Paper: Assessment and communication of uncertainty in EU INTCEN: a post-mortem

4-7 de Abril 2018. International Studies Association 59th Annual Convention. San Francisco, California.

• Panel Chair. Experiential learning in intelligence studies. [Aprendizaje experiencial en los Estudios de Inteligencia].
• Paper. A Ready-to-Run Simulation: Dealing with Uncertainty in Intelligence Collection and Analysis (co-authored with William Lahneman).
• Paper. Building the Intelligence Studies Community: The Role of International Conferences and Events (co-authored with Mark Phythian and Stephen Marrin).

15 de Marzo 2018. Lecciones del Informe Butler de Inteligencia con Lord Butler. Jornada  Speaker invitado: Lord Butler of Brockwell. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Sede Madrid-Argüelles.

8 de Febrero 2018. Simulacro de entrevistas de la fase 2 del Instrumento PYME de H2020. Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial- CDTI. Madrid.

Miembro del panel de evaluación

18 de Enero 2018. Professional Open Source Competitive Intelligence. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Madrid-Vicálvaro. Speaker invitado: Arno H.P. Reuser, founder and owner, Reuser’s Information Services

Asociación de Profesionales de Inteligencia Competitiva

12 de Dicembre 2017. V Seminário Internacional: Ameaças Assimétricas e Planeamento Estratégico [Amenazas Asimétricas y Planeamiento Estratégico]. Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Paper presentation: Intelligence Communication in the Digital Age: Transformations in Security and Defense

13 de Noviembre 2017. 22nd Annual SCIP European Summit. Cascais, Portugal

SCIP Seminar instructor: Intelligence for Corporate Strategic Communications, PR, and Brand Image.

Description and key-take-aways:

Communication is an important element affecting the performance of companies. Organizations need to strategically manage the relationship with customers/clients and other relevant stakeholders affecting the market and non-market environment. Corporate advertising, PR campaigns, brand image, and other corporate strategic communication spheres of influence need intelligence and foreknowledge for effective planing, execution and evaluation. In this course, participants will learn

• How to analyze the communication dimension and the stakeholder environment and publics affecting your organization.
• Understand the corporate and brand image formation process and issues affecting it.
• Know frameworks and techniques to conduct competitive intelligence-led corporate strategic communications and PR.
• Design, implement and evaluate strategic plans for PR and brand image using a diverse set of techniques.

Women in Intelligence, Strategy, and Analytics (WISA). Roundtable, panel, and reception.

Panel  Speaker

3 de Julio 2017. BCN PR Meeting # 7: Critical Intersections: Communication, public relations, and beyond in a time of convergence. Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Paper presentation: Active learning in public relations: Role-playing simulations and games for education, training, and research

26 de Junio 2017. Brexit after the election: a symposium. The University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK.

Invited presentation. Panel: The security dimension.

8 de Junio 2017. Mesa Redonda: ¿Atienden las universidades a la sociedad digital? ISACA Madrid High Level Conference on Assurance 2017

22-24 de Mayo 2017. SAS Panel Research Task Group SAS-114 Spring 2017 Meeting on Assessment and Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Support Decision-Making. CMRE, La Spezia, Italia.

4 de mayo 2017. Jornada sobre ciberseguridad e inteligencia artificial. Cámara de Madrid.

Presentación. La función de inteligencia para la toma de decisiones en el ámbito de la empresa, formación de competencias y profesionalización

20 de abril 2017. Jornada sobre Inteligencia Competitiva y Lobbying. 

Asociación de Profesionales de Inteligencia Competitiva

23-24 de Marzo. Annual National Security Colloquium: the role of social and behavioral sciences in intelligence. National Security Studies Institute, University of Texas at El Paso.

Paper. How the field of communication can contribute to the study of intelligence [Cómo puede el campo de la comunicación contribuir al estudio de la inteligencia].

22-25 de febrero 2017. 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, Maryland.

• Panel Chair. Intelligence simulations: theory and practice [Simulaciones en Inteligencia: teoría y práctica].
• Paper. Open source intelligence portfolio:  challenging and developing intelligence production and communication skills through simulations.
• Roundtable: the new intelligence transparency and implications for intelligence education [la nueva transparencia en inteligencia y sus implicaciones para la educación en inteligencia].

21-23 Septiembre 2016. Closing Conference of the project “Setting-up an Air Marshal Training Center – ARMLET”. “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Romania.

Presentación. Using simulations for education and training of professionals and stakeholders in security and intelligence issues [El empleo de simulaciones para la educación y el entrenamiento de profesionales y stakeholders en cuestiones de seguridad e inteligencia].

12 Mayo 2020. EU-HYBNET – Empowering a Pan-European Network to Counter Hybrid Threats. Kick-off Meeting.

• Presentation of the core theme Information and Strategic Communication

25-26 de Octubre 2018. StratComES – Congreso de Comunicación Estratégica en Seguridad y Defensa: Operaciones de Información en la Era Digital

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Facultad de Ciencias de la Comunicación

• Director of StratComES Conference
• Presentation: Intelligence and Covert Action Operations: the role of communication [Inteligencia y operaciones encubiertas: el papel de la comunicación]

StratComES Díptico by on Scribd

27 de Septiembre 2018. Jornada – Innovación basada en la Inteligencia Competitiva. Azaro Fundazioa. Lugar: Polo de Innovación de Lea-Artibai (Markina-Xemein)

Presentación: La inteligencia competitiva en las empresas europeas

19-20 Junio 2018. Annual National Security Colloquium: Intelligence in the Non-English Speaking World National Security Studies Institute. The University of Texas at El Paso

Presentation: Intelligence in the Non-English Speaking World: Spain

Simulation Exercise: Dr. Rubén Arcos from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain, conducted a simulation exercise on June 18 with INSS students examining the raw intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

25 de Abril 2018. Intelligence in Business Mastery Summit. Online Event.

Presentation: Brand Intelligence as core to your strategy and risk management

11-13 de Abril 2018. NATO/STO SAS Panel Research Task Group SAS-114 on Assessment and Communication of Uncertainty to Support Decision-Making. 7th Meeting. Madrid, Spain.

• Host
• Paper: Assessment and communication of uncertainty in EU INTCEN: a post-mortem

4-7 de Abril 2018. International Studies Association 59th Annual Convention. San Francisco, California.

• Panel Chair. Experiential learning in intelligence studies. [Aprendizaje experiencial en los Estudios de Inteligencia].
• Paper. A Ready-to-Run Simulation: Dealing with Uncertainty in Intelligence Collection and Analysis (co-authored with William Lahneman).
• Paper. Building the Intelligence Studies Community: The Role of International Conferences and Events (co-authored with Mark Phythian and Stephen Marrin).

15 de Marzo 2018. Lecciones del Informe Butler de Inteligencia con Lord Butler. Jornada  Speaker invitado: Lord Butler of Brockwell. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Sede Madrid-Argüelles.

8 de Febrero 2018. Simulacro de entrevistas de la fase 2 del Instrumento PYME de H2020. Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial- CDTI. Madrid.

Miembro del panel de evaluación

18 de Enero 2018. Professional Open Source Competitive Intelligence. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Madrid-Vicálvaro. Speaker invitado: Arno H.P. Reuser, founder and owner, Reuser’s Information Services

Asociación de Profesionales de Inteligencia Competitiva

12 de Dicembre 2017. V Seminário Internacional: Ameaças Assimétricas e Planeamento Estratégico [Amenazas Asimétricas y Planeamiento Estratégico]. Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Paper presentation: Intelligence Communication in the Digital Age: Transformations in Security and Defense

13 de Noviembre 2017. 22nd Annual SCIP European Summit. Cascais, Portugal

SCIP Seminar instructor: Intelligence for Corporate Strategic Communications, PR, and Brand Image.

Description and key-take-aways:

Communication is an important element affecting the performance of companies. Organizations need to strategically manage the relationship with customers/clients and other relevant stakeholders affecting the market and non-market environment. Corporate advertising, PR campaigns, brand image, and other corporate strategic communication spheres of influence need intelligence and foreknowledge for effective planing, execution and evaluation. In this course, participants will learn

• How to analyze the communication dimension and the stakeholder environment and publics affecting your organization.
• Understand the corporate and brand image formation process and issues affecting it.
• Know frameworks and techniques to conduct competitive intelligence-led corporate strategic communications and PR.
• Design, implement and evaluate strategic plans for PR and brand image using a diverse set of techniques.

Women in Intelligence, Strategy, and Analytics (WISA). Roundtable, panel, and reception.

Panel  Speaker

3 de Julio 2017. BCN PR Meeting # 7: Critical Intersections: Communication, public relations, and beyond in a time of convergence. Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Paper presentation: Active learning in public relations: Role-playing simulations and games for education, training, and research

26 de Junio 2017. Brexit after the election: a symposium. The University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK.

Invited presentation. Panel: The security dimension.

8 de Junio 2017. Mesa Redonda: ¿Atienden las universidades a la sociedad digital? ISACA Madrid High Level Conference on Assurance 2017

22-24 de Mayo 2017. SAS Panel Research Task Group SAS-114 Spring 2017 Meeting on Assessment and Communication of Risk and Uncertainty to Support Decision-Making. CMRE, La Spezia, Italia.

4 de mayo 2017. Jornada sobre ciberseguridad e inteligencia artificial. Cámara de Madrid.

Presentación. La función de inteligencia para la toma de decisiones en el ámbito de la empresa, formación de competencias y profesionalización

20 de abril 2017. Jornada sobre Inteligencia Competitiva y Lobbying. 

Asociación de Profesionales de Inteligencia Competitiva

23-24 de Marzo. Annual National Security Colloquium: the role of social and behavioral sciences in intelligence. National Security Studies Institute, University of Texas at El Paso.

Paper. How the field of communication can contribute to the study of intelligence [Cómo puede el campo de la comunicación contribuir al estudio de la inteligencia].

22-25 de febrero 2017. 58th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association. Baltimore, Maryland.

• Panel Chair. Intelligence simulations: theory and practice [Simulaciones en Inteligencia: teoría y práctica].
• Paper. Open source intelligence portfolio:  challenging and developing intelligence production and communication skills through simulations.
• Roundtable: the new intelligence transparency and implications for intelligence education [la nueva transparencia en inteligencia y sus implicaciones para la educación en inteligencia].

21-23 Septiembre 2016. Closing Conference of the project “Setting-up an Air Marshal Training Center – ARMLET”. “Mihai Viteazul” National Intelligence Academy, Romania.

Presentación. Using simulations for education and training of professionals and stakeholders in security and intelligence issues [El empleo de simulaciones para la educación y el entrenamiento de profesionales y stakeholders en cuestiones de seguridad e inteligencia].