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Canada's Top Cyber Crime Chief Superintendent to be the Keynote Speaker at the 2018 HTCIA Conference

WASHINGTON, July 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) is proud to announce our 2018 Annual Conference & Expo Keynote Speaker: Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam brings an International perspective on the state of cybercrime and cybersecurity in Canada. Chief Superintendent Adam is the current DG of Technical Investigation Services in Technical Operations in Ottawa where he oversees all the technical investigative support areas in the RCMP including wiretaps, surveillance, network intrusion, digital forensics, covert entry, cybercrime and the CBRNE program. Jeff Adam is also the Chair of the E Crime Committee of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police which includes Cybercrime, Digital Forensics and Wiretap expert subcommittees.

"Cybercrime knows no borders and no country is immune to cyber-attacks," states Anthony Reyes International President of HTCIA. "As an International organization we are extremely pleased to have Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam provide insight into the state of Cybercrime in Canada, attendees are interested in seeing how it mirrors cybercrime here in the United States," Anthony adds.    

About Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam, DG Technical Investigation Services, Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Jeff Adam completed fourteen years of operational policing in New Brunswick, Canada. His duties included General Investigation, Highway Patrol, Commercial Crime and Technological Crime Investigations. Soon after being transferred to Ottawa in 2002, he was asked to form the RCMP's Performance Management Unit (PMU) to bring the in Balanced Scorecard and link it to the RCMP's business planning cycle. The PMU was instrumental in achieving the Hall of Fame award from the Balanced Scorecard Collaborative and was featured in the Harvard Business Review. He has a bachelor's degree in social sciences in Criminology (1985), a Master's in Business Administration (2002) and is a 2013 graduate of the Executive Development Program from the Canadian Police College.

About the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)

The 2018 Annual Conference & Expo will be held from Sunday, August 19, 2018, to Wednesday, August 22, 2018, in Washington, D.C. at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on 2500 Calvert Street NW. Chief Superintendent Jeff Adam will give his keynote presentation on Monday, August 20th, during the opening General Session.

The High Technology Crime Investigation Association is the world's oldest organization of its kind. Its Conference & Training Expo is one of the most respected high technology investigation conferences in the world. Many of the world's top industries leaders have either been a member of HTCIA or presented at this conference. Our presenters and attendees are current practitioners who engage in high technology crime investigations daily.

For information about HTCIA contact:
Gabrielle Webster
978-364-5111
contact@htcia.org

For more information on the conference visit: http://www.htciaconference.org 

SOURCE High Technology Crime Investigation Association