Introduction
Please find below the OSINT conferences run and organised by Robert David Steele (1952-2021).
Robert Steele may be considered to be the founding father of global open source intelligence, although he himself denies the honour.
Robert published an extraordinary number of papers, notes, articles, and books featuring innovative ideas on open source intelligence and strategic intelligence. Next to that, he also ran 16 conferences. Including one in California and two in Europe.
The below is ”as is”. The proceedings typically hold much more material than was covereed by the conference, and due to the age and formatting (PTT to PDF), many presentations are unfortunately difficuly to read. I do not have the digital copies of the 2004 conference, anyone?
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Table of Contents
The conferences
First international symposium
National security & national competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 1-3 December 1992 at the McLean Hilton hotel at Tyson’s Corner VA, USA.
Two volumes.
Second international symposium
National security & national competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 2-4 November 1993 at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington D.C., USA.
Two volumes. About 62 papers, presentations and notes.
Third international symposium
National security & national competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 8-10 November 1994 at the Radisson Plaza hotel, Alexandria Va., USA.
Two volumes. About 38 papers, presentations and notes.
Fourth international symposium
On global security & global competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 17-9 November 1995 at the Omni Shoreham hotel, Washington D.C., USA.
Two volumes. About 71 papers, presentations and notes.
Fifth international symposium
On global security & global competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 15-18 September 1996 at the Sheraton Premiere hotel, Tysons Corner Va., USA
Volume I : the open source intelligence professional handbook.
Volume II : proceedings.
6th international conference & exhibit
Global security & global competitiveness : open source solutions
Conference on 2-5 September 1997, Washington D.C., USA
Four volumes:
- Open source intelligence professional handbook
- Open source intelligence reader
- Open source intelligence strategy
- Conference proceedings
7th international conference & exhibit
Open source solutions : global intelligence forum
Conference on 17-21 May 1998, Washington D.C., USA. About 31 papers, presentations and notes.
OSS '99
Global information forum : information superiority through the collection, sharing and analysis of relevant information : a new approach to operationally-driven all-source information management
Conference on 24-26 May 1999, Washington D.C., USA. About 20 papers, presentations and notes.
OSS 21
Joint planning, operations other than war and open source intelligence
Conference on 15-17 May 2000, Washington D.C., USA. About 50 papers, presentations and notes. Two volumes.
- Volume I : primer. Additional materials to the Handbook and Reader
- Volume II : proceedings
OSS 01
Foreign affairs, defense, and trade threat analysis : new directions in open source intelligence
Conference on 8-10 May 2001, Holiday Inn, Westpark Rosslyn, Washington D.C., USA.
About 23 papers, presentations and notes.
OSS 02
The new craft of intelligence : brainpower, webpower, & ground truth
Conference on 8-10 May 2002, Holiday Inn, Westpark Rosslyn, Washington D.C., USA.
About 25 papers, presentations and notes. Two volumes:
- Volume I : Internet 101, open source officer (OSO) basic training
- Volume II : proceedings
OSS '03
Beyond OSINT : creating the global multi-cultural intelligence web
Conference on 15-19 September 2003, Holiday Inn, Westpark Rosslyn, Washington D.C., USA.
About 23 papers, presentations and notes and 7 additional papers in two volumes:
- Volume I : proceedings
- Volume II : supplement to the proceedings
The PacIntel conference
PacIntel '99
Creating a virtual intelligence community in the pacific region : open sources, non-governmental organizations and the military
Pacific intelligence conference on 7-10 February 1999, Monterey CA., USA.
Two volumes:
- Volume I : pre-conference : open source intelligence basic training
- Volume II : Proceedings
The EuroIntel conferences
EuroIntel '98
1st annual conference & exhibit : European Intelligence & European Electronic security : open source solutions
Conference on 23-26 March 1998, Brussels, Belgium.
About 43 papers, presentations and notes.
EuroIntel '99
European Intelligence Forum : creating a virtual intelligence community in the European regions : open sources, crime, terrorism, and the future
Conference on 9-11 March 1999, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Volume 1 about 43 papers, presentations and notes. Volume II about 15 papers.
- Volume I : proceedings
- Volume II : pre-conference : open source intelligence basic training
