CSAA 2013 Annual Meeting:
Making Global Connections
Ariel view of Old Quebec.
Security industry professionals interested in learning more
about “Monitoring the Connected Global Market” should
mark their calendars now for the 2013 CSAA Annual
Meeting, to be held Oct. 11-16 at Le Chateau Frontenac in
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
The educational programming for
this prestigious event will tackle the
large questions facing the monitoring
industry.
Which technologies will stand the
test of time and what game-changing
ideas will rise to prominence? What
are the core competencies that
future leaders will need? How do best
practices evolve? With sessions such
as those on valuing alarm companies
after the 2012 Vivint sale and the
increasingly global nature of physical
security, the 2013 Annual Meeting asks
attendees to consider what the alarm
industry will be like in the near and
not-so-near future.
A picturesque view of the Quebec City
Port. Note the top of the beautiful
Chateau Frontenac in the distance.
VanKoughnett, who will become
the Consul General of the United
States Consulate in Quebec, Canada.
VanKoughnett, who will welcome
meeting attendees on Monday,
Oct. 14, at the General Session of the
CSAA Annual Meeting, begins his role
as the principal officer in Quebec City,
Canada in early October 2013.
VanKoughnett joined the U.S. State
Department as a member of the
Foreign Service in 1991. He has had
overseas assignments in Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico; Paris, France; Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic;
Brussels, Belgium; Seoul, Republic
of Korea; and Manila, Philippines.
His most recent
foreign assignment
was as Chief of the
Nonimmigrant Visa
Unit in Manila, the
eighth-largest visa
unit in the world.
In addition to top-notch education
sessions on topics relating to
technology and global interactions,
the Annual Meeting will feature
numerous networking opportunities
with top executives from the United
States, Canada, as well as the heads
of the Authorities Having Jurisdiction
and Nationally Recognized Testing
Laboratories.
On May 3, 2009,
the Consulate
General in Quebec
City celebrated the
175th anniversary
of the American
diplomatic presence
in Quebec. The present consulate was
constructed in 1949 on the corner
of Sainte-Genevieve and TerrasseDufferin, about one block from Le
Chateau Frontenac. Canada is the
largest trading partner of the United
States. The two nations share more
than $1 billion a day in cross-border
trade. Quebec itself is the ninth-largest
trading partner of the United States.
Attendees also will be treated
to a “Welcome Address” by Hale
Check the CSAA website often at: www.
csaaintl.org/2013AnnualMeeting.htm as
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Add your Flag to
the CSAA Inaugural
International Forum
On Oct. 12, 2013, immediately
preceding the CSAA Annual
Meeting, CSAA International will
hold the first-ever International
Forum Quebec City, Quebec,
Canada (see Page 4). Designed
to bring together the leaders of
international security industry
organizations to discuss issues
of common concerns, the forum
will be held at the beautiful
Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac.
For more information, contact
Becky Lane, CSAA vice
president of membership and
programs, at: membership@
csaaintl.org or at 703-2424670, ext. 18.
more information becomes available.
In the meantime, be sure to “Save the
Date” (Oct. 11-16) for this top-notch
educational forum and networking
opportunity geared specifically
toward central station monitoring
professionals.
The exquisite ballroom in Le Chateau Frontenac,
site of the 2013 CSAA Annual Meeting.
Spring 2013