This year’s Securing New Ground conference aims to shape industry trends and offer opportunities to engage with the leaders who are driving the future of security. The 2024 programme will explore the most current and cutting-edge issues, like how digital transformation will reinvent corporate security operations and the future of mobile credentials; share investment insights for the security industry; showcase in-depth one-to-one interviews with top executives in the industry; and foster new connections through interactive sessions and dynamic roundtable discussions.

“SIA is thrilled to present a stellar lineup of security industry executives at the 2024 Securing New Ground conference – a highly anticipated program featuring the top security luminaries, innovators and pioneers and examining the most critical business and security topics in our industry,” said SIA Board of Directors Chair Scott Dunn. “This year’s conference will offer attendees a variety of candid, insightful conversations on the most current trends, shifts and challenges in global security and how the industry’s leading players are navigating these changes and plenty of opportunities to network, share information and form meaningful connections with other security visionaries.”

Highlights of the 2024 SNG programme include the following

• A keynote address from Phil Mackintosh, chief economist and senior vice president at Nasdaq, about how market conditions and financial indicators will impact the U.S. and global economies

• Compelling executive conversations with Rob Aarnes, president of ADI Global Distribution; Sergio Castillejos, vice president and general manager of Honeywell Commercial Security; Ann Fandozzi, CEO of Convergint; Steve Jones, CEO of Allied Universal; Filip Kaliszan, CEO and co-founder of Verkada; Masato Nakao, CEO of i-PRO; George Oliver, chairman and CEO of Johnson Controls; and Pierre Racz, CEO of Genetec.

Executives speaking in the event programme represent major industry sectors like access control, video surveillance, systems integration, distribution, finance, security staffing, identity, critical event management, data sharing and more.

Also, returning is the ever-insightful Security Megatrends session that forecasts leading trends expected to change the industry over the next one to five years, along with the Investment Insights panel that breaks down the numbers behind industry investments, mergers and acquisitions activity, lending and private equity.