Association Update

Fiducite, a Boston-based research firm, will hold a one-day event focusing on the latest technology developments and their potential impact on the financial services industry.

The conference, entitled Financial Services-Visiting The Future, will take place at the Boston Harbor Hotel on October 24. The agenda will feature key actionable information for business and technology leaders across all areas of capital markets, banking, and insurance. Sessions at the event include: Impending Structural Changes in Banking and Capital Markets, What Financial Firms Need to Compete in Today's Economy, The Financial Instruments We Need To Restore Investor Confidence, and Future Technology Trends-Following the Current Path.

For more information visit Fiducite at www.fiducite.com/Oct_24_Conference.

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Experts in hospital preparedness, chemical warfare, health communications, prosecuting terrorists, and corporate security have just been added to the BioDefense Mobilization Conference & Exhibition, which will be held on October 22-24, in Philadelphia.

The new speakers include Dan Arden, head of the US Army Chemical School at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo; Dr. Phillip Dattilo, chief information officer of Medtower, which offers the nation's newest biodefense information platform; Terry Schmidt, an emergency specialist, who advises hospitals on how to prepare for terrorism threats; Andy McCarthy, federal prosecutor of the World Trade Center bombers during the 1990s; and Wade Ishimoto, director for Homeland Security, ACS, Inc. Ishimoto was a charter member of the first national counterterrorist force, its intelligence officer, and security team leader on the ill-fated 1980 rescue mission to Teheran.

The three-day event will feature many of the nation's leading authorities on counter terrorism. Pre-conference workshops October 21 will focus on biotechnology and bioterrorism basics.

For more information, visit www.bio-defense.org.