The AIPIO theme will be ‘The Evolving Intelligence Landscape’, with four sub-themes – business, criminal, regulatory, and security – each representing established and emerging domains of practice across the intelligence landscape. New domains of intelligence practice – which enhance the national intelligence enterprise – should be driven by the adoption of intelligence-led approaches to deal with novel challenges in complex operating environments. These new domains of intelligence practice are following different capability development pathways differentiated by mandates, methods, terminology, technological enablement, oversight and level of professionalisation. Visit VA Worldwide in the expo hall to learn more about the VA Insight Portal™.

The Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers (AIPIO) Inc is committed to growing the intelligence body of knowledge through fostering scholarship, professionalization of practice, support to major intelligence research projects, as well as professional and social collaboration amongst practitioners at our events.  Each year, AIPIO promotes a theme to focus this investment in thought leadership across the full range of our activities.  In 2020, the theme will be ‘Intelligence Professionals in the 21st Century’, with three sub-themes including: People; Technology and Practice.