The agenda and timings are still taking shape. Please check back for updates.

If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please email register@cjsevents.co.uk with your presentation proposal.

 

Some of our confirmed speakers and presentations are:

Project Nebula - DC Tony Marshall, Yorkshire and Humber ROCU and Christopher Spencer, Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC)

Project Nebula aims to research and innovate methods to improve the successful use and application of GenAI imagery and video in (III/covert) policing; all within a legal, ethical and accountability framework that can maintain public trust and confidence.

 

How to Run a Pig Butchering Scam - Nitish Chandan, Principal Subject Matter Expert- Maltego Technologies GmbH

Ever wondered what it takes to run a pig butchering scam? In this talk, we walk you through an ongoing investigation that started with a modest complaint: someone trying to recover lost crypto, and led us down a rabbit hole of indicators and techniques, kingpins and dealers and a lot of heartbreakers. Come for the scam breakdown, and leave with actionable insights into how these frauds operate and how to catch the butchers.

 

A Practical Introduction to AI-generated Fake Personas and Social Engineering - Mark Johnson, OSINT and Cyber Lead, TRMG

Mark walks the audience through some popular “artificial intelligence” tools criminals use to generate fake online personas, to enable a range of crime typologies. This is a live recording of a practical demonstration performed on currently active online sites, including Perplexity, Midjourney and X-ray.

 

Op Digital - Cross Boarder Youth Violence - Jade Priestley, Constable Digital Media Intelligence Officer, Merseyside Police

Operation Digital was an intelligence led investigation ran by the DMIU in order to identify a group of adolescent males involved in violent offences across Merseyside which involved the use of offensive weapons, ultimately resulting in an Attempted Murder. The presentation covers how the males involvement were identified by their own social media content.  

 

How I F*cked up and What I Learnt - Lisette Abercrombie, Internet Specialist, Dutch Police

The worst feeling in the world? When you’ve made a mistake, a misconception or an error you can’t correct, and it delays or ruins the whole investigation. We’re ashamed and never celebrate those f*ck ups.  Well, I think we should start celebrating f*ck ups, those are the best ways to learn. Therefore I’m sharing my most horrible and painful f*ck ups and the lessons I learned form it.