i2 CEO Bob Griffin receives Queen's Award from HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Hugh Duberly Esq CBE
Dressed in his traditional royal garb, HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Hugh Duberly Esq CBE bestowed the Queen’s Award to i2 for the second year in a row. The Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire County Council, Mark Lloyd, read from the official royal scroll at a ceremony attended by hundreds of i2 employees at the company’s Cambridge, UK headquarters on 15 July.
The event marked a positive milestone in the company’s two decade history providing solutions for law enforcement, national security, defence and the private sector.
The Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire County Council, Mark Lloyd, reads from the the official royal scroll
“Winning this award for the second year running is a fitting tribute to the continuing achievements of the company and our employees,” said i2 CEO Robert Griffin. “The successes of our products in helping our customers collaborate and share information, investigate, predict, prevent and defeat the world’s most sophisticated criminal and terrorist threats has been an instrumental factor in this achievement.”
A day prior, Mr. Griffin and i2 employee Tracey Ellis attended a private ceremony at Buckingham Palace for all the Queen’s Award winners.
When crime and terrorism occur they rarely respect jurisdictional boundaries. To combat these criminals, law enforcement organizations have to be prepared to share information from the bottom-up and top-down. The rise of fusion centers and information sharing initiatives across the nation have paved the way over the years to bridge intelligence gaps and put the right information in the right hands, at their point of need.
At the same time, there are still many challenges to face before information sharing becomes de riguer across local, state, national and international boundaries. To better understand and communicate these issues, i2 hosted an information sharing panel at its Americas User Conference earlier this month.
Panelists included Kathleen O’Toole, the Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána Inspectorate in Ireland, who was previously the Boston, Mass., Police Commissioner. During her time in Boston, she was critical to the founding of the Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC), one of the nation’s first fusion centers. Deputy Chief Troy Smith of the Grand Junction Police Department in Colorado also offered up his expertise gleaned from his department’s organization in getting Colorado to be one of the states that has successfully established information sharing state-wide. Tim Riley, a current i2 SVP and former CIO for the Los Angeles Police Department, played a large role in establishing information sharing agreements between the LAPD, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and Orange County. Chriss Knisley, the i2 Assistant Vice President for the COPLINK product line was also in attendance to discuss the technological standpoint of information sharing. i2’s Director of Corporate Communications Mitch Derman moderated the session.
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On the heels of this week’s announcement that i2 and PPM 2000 have entered into a strategic channel partnership agreement, the two companies co-hosted a webinar showcasing the advanced capabilities of their combined offerings: PPM’s enterprise level investigation management solution Perspective and the suite of analysis products from i2, including Analyst’s Notebook and iBridge. 
Led by Brian McIlravey, co-CEO of PPM 2000, and i2’s Mark Massop, Director and Solutions Specialist, the webinar demonstrated how the products significantly reduce the time and effort required of analysts to turn routine data into actionable intelligence – the key to any successful investigation.
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Sharing information across jurisdictions is essential for law enforcement to keep pace with criminals and terrorists who are not limited by geographic boundaries. More so than anyone else, local cops see this played out on their streets every day. For example, there may be a burglary that takes place in one town and the perpetrators sell the stolen goods to a pawn shop in another.
i2 Booth at IACP 2010
While some policy and process hurdles remain to make information sharing a larger reality nationwide, the technology exists today to make it happen. READ MORE
This is a guest post from Dr. Colin Thorne from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia about the use of i2’s Analyst’s Notebook in a classroom environment, which is helping students prepare for work after graduation. Thank you Dr. Thorne.
Since 2007 the School of Justice, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology has developed a healthy relationship with Visual Analysis Pty Ltd, the Australasian supplier of i2 products. During 2007 Units of study were developed within both the undergraduate and post graduate Justice programs in an endeavour to provide students with an exposure and understanding of Analyst’s Notebook. Since the introduction of Analyst’s Notebook software into the Justice program as an accredited academic unit of study the student interest has grown considerably. READ MORE
Friday 16 July 2010 will go down as one of the most memorable days in i2’s history, which stretches back over two decades of high achievement in the battle against crime and terrorism.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire visited our headquarters in Fulbourn, Cambridge to present the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation Category 2010. During his tour of the offices, he had the opportunity to meet many of our staff and find out more about how the company has grown to become the world leader in developing intelligence and investigations solutions.
CEO, Robert Griffin, who received the award on behalf of i2, emphasised the continuing importance of innovation in the face of increasingly sophisticated criminal and terrorist threats. He also acknowledged that: “This is a well-deserved tribute to the tremendous efforts of our staff and it also reflects the continuing loyalty of major clients over many years who have also played a highly-valued role in the development of our market-leading solutions.”
And that seems to be the key to i2’s success: in developing products that truly meet today’s and tomorrow’s needs, there’s no substitute for employees and customers working in perfect harmony.
This Friday (16 July) will be a milestone in the history of i2, as CEO Robert Griffin receives the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation Category 2010 on behalf of the company. The Award will be presented by Hugh Duberly Esq CBE, Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire who will also have the opportunity to meet i2 staff as part of a guided tour of our headquarters in Fulbourn, Cambridge.
This is a fantastic achievement and provides important external recognition of the success of our focus on innovation, which has been a central pillar of the company’s development strategy since the company was formed back in 1988.
Friday will be a great day for everyone connected with i2.
Today, i2 announced at the UASI Conference in New Orleans a new partnership with Digital Sandbox that promises a compelling and unique value proposition for organizations tasked with protecting critical infrastructure. The partnership is linked with the launch of Digital Sandbox’s new version of its Risk Analysis Center (RAC). Together, the solution empowers analysts with the tools to assess, manage, monitor and analyze threats to critical infrastructure. READ MORE
i2 announced today at its EMEA User Conference in Brussels a partnership with leading risk intelligence specialist, World-Check. As a result, i2 customers can benefit from the ability to access highly structured information and create actionable intelligence faster.
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