Upcoming Events
April 13-14, 2021 – 2-Day Virtual Biologic Workshop – Hosted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection along with Texas A&M’s Cross-Border Threat Screening and Supply Chain Defense DHS Center of Excellence

May 17-21, 2021 – U.S. DHS COE Summit 2021 – U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Previous Events
March 3, 2021 – The Census Bureau’s Community Resilience Estimates: A Metric of Community Risk for COVID-19 Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division, United States Census Bureau – Dr. Bethany DeSalvo

December 16, 2020 – CBTS Distinguished Speaker Series – Dr. Graciela González Farías

December 8, 2020 – CLEAN2020 SUMMIT
Please see the flyer below and download the event agenda.

December 3, 2020 – CBTS Supply Chain Seminar | No. 2
“Ports, Borders, & Supply Chains: Today and Tomorrow – Perspective From the Authors of ‘Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century“
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October 29, 2020 – October, 30, 2020 – Maritime Risk Symposium’s Evergreen Program – The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute invites students to participate in the Maritime Risk Symposium’s Evergreen Program.
The Evergreen Program is the Coast Guard’s Strategic Foresight Initiative, tasked with looking over-the-horizon to inform current planning and better prepare the Coast Guard for an uncertain and unpredictable future. Through the use of scenario-based exercises and workshops involving a diverse group of stakeholders, common strategic needs or key success factors can be identified across multiple plausible scenarios to better inform long-term strategic planning efforts.
Evergreen@MRS2020 is a joint venture that combines strategy and foresight with the greater maritime community of seasoned industry professionals, academic centers and national labs, maritime students, and government/NGO regulatory bodies. This year’s event, hosted virtually via the University’s Microsoft Teams platform, will invite participants to enter one of four future scenarios and identify tomorrow’s maritime infrastructure vulnerabilities and their implications to prosperity and security. MRS2020 will create teams that balance a diversity of experience, combining students and professionals in an interactive workshop designed to drive multi-disciplinary perspectives and strategic thinking.
Scheduled for Thursday, October 29 from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central Time and concluding on Friday, October 30 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m Central Time. This is a workshop – not a seminar. Team members actively participate and should commit to both sessions, as they build on each other.
The Evergreen Program registration is limited to 25 participants. Please register using the link below if you are able to commit to the read ahead documents and the times listed above.
If you haven’t done so already, please remember to register for the symposium at the MRS 2020 webpage.
For questions please contact Andrea Whitesell at whitesel@illinois.edu.
October 21, 2020 – CBTS Distinguished Speaker Series – Dale Durchholz

October 7, 2020 – CBTS Distinguished Speaker Series – Jack Bobo – CEO of Futurity, will share his insights and ideas about food and markets in the post-COVID era. Jack is an internationally recognized food futurist and speaker who has given more than 400 presentations in 50 countries. Scientific American named Jack one of the 100 most influential people in biotechnology. Join Microsoft Teams Meeting Learn more about Teams | Meeting options
September 29, 2020 – International Summit on Borders – The International Summit on Borders features presentations from visionary security leaders from across the globe who address pressing issues and delve into critical topics that affect trade, travel, and transnational security. https://www.internationalsummitonborders.com/