December 2005 Globalization: The Survival Imperative  -Finding ways to see over the horizon held at the National Press Club of Canada, Ottawa, Canada A conference that dealt with detecting the issues -- Participants have heard expert presentations from top leaders in the areas of policy, national security and science and technology foresight.  These experts provided a conceptual framing of international and domestic issues that have important implications for Canada, for its leaders and for its policy advisors. Participants did participate in Protean Critical Thinking Games - an interactive simulation game aimed at helping participants develop greater awareness of “how collective and individual biases may influence operational thinking.” >more February 2006                    dates 21-24 Making Virtual ... a Training Reality: The Advanced Simulation Technologies Symposium held at the Combat Training Centre, CFB Gagetown, NB This Advanced Simulation Technologies Symposium is presented by LearnNB in partnership with The Canadian Army Individual Training Authority, The Office of the National Science Advisor and the Proteus Canada Institute. Concurrent to the speaker presentations on Day 2 and 3 of the Symposium, there will be a one-day exercise using Proteus, a critical-thinking game for training and collaborative efforts that explore the ability of individuals and groups to adapt to conflicting goals and to complex and ambiguous surprises. This particular demonstration will utilize a scenario of multi-agency interaction in a complex security environment (similar to that which may be seen at the Vancouver Olympics, for example).  >more April 2006                           date 12 Effects-based Analysis of (Adversary) Systems and Decision Frameworks Organized by: Canadian Forces Experimentation Centre Conference is a bi-annual meeting of senior researchers from Australia, UK, New Zealand and Canada interested in the “effects-based operations”. Presentations will be delivered by representatives of the Proteus Canada Institute on Science and Technology Foresight as well as on the Protean Critical Thinking Simulation.  >more August 2006                        dates 22-24 Analyzing Future complex National Security Challenges within the Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational Environment held at the Center for Strategic Leadership, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania The US Army War College, in collaboration with the Office of the Director National Intelligence (DNI) will conduct an academic workshop to explore the complexity of the future global security environment, its discrete threats and opportunities and examine new and emerging Proteus related strategies and processes to meet the 21st century U.S. national security needs.  >more