2011 Keynote Speakers Included:

  • United Kingdom(Great Britain) Wing Commander Gibbs
    OC DSTO
    Royal Air Force
  • Netherlands Major Bart Holewijn
    Commander Royal Netherlands SERE School
    Royal Netherlands Air Force
  • United States of America (USA) Lieutenant Colonel Wido Gerdsen(RNLAF)
    JAPCC NATO
  • European Union Lieutenant Colonel Uwe Schleimer
    JPR Group Director
    European Air Group

Defence IQ is delighted to announce that the world’s leading joint personnel recovery event will be returning in 2012 following its tremendous success in 2011.

With complex security challenges driving a wide range of multinational operations, maintaining an effective PR/CSAR capability has never been more imperative. With more and more nations developing this capability, Joint Personnel Recovery will focus on CSAR operational feedback, equipment requirements and innovation, training and technical development.

Joint Personnel Recovery will provide a pertinent opportunity for JPR focused military and industry officials to gain the information they need to confront today’s complex operating environs and how to foster closer collaboration in a bid to solve growing capability gaps.

Joint Personnel Recovery 2012 will focus on:

  • Ensuring interoperability between CSAR platforms in theatre and whether they today’s stringent operational requirements
  • Operational feedback from coalition operations in Afghanistan with a focus on how dedicated CSAR personnel and systems have fared in harsh and dangerous environments
  • CSAR policy and doctrine: Is doctrine driving the development of technology or has technology influencing doctrine and policy development?
  • SERE commanders’ perspectives on national training programmes, the drive towards the standardisation of training and whether technology can play a larger role in conducting advanced training
  • How emerging nations such as Brazil, South Africa and Malaysia are developing their personnel recovery capabilities and their current CSAR requirements
  • A new focus on the increasing prevalence on NGO’s and civilian contractors on the battlefield and their potential interaction with CSAR units in times of crisis
  • Personnel recovery in host nations and the challenges of understanding and building relationships with local civilian and military authorities
  • Non NATO partner nations: How nations with large areas of operations such as Australia and New Zealand plan and conduct personnel recovery missions
  • The privatisation debate surrounding national personnel recovery schemes


Download the Agenda for Joint Personnel Recovery 2011 to see what you can expect in May

What others are saying

Excellent opportunity to have a comprehensive view of PR developments
Lieutenant Herve Dechoux, PR/CSAR Officer, French Air Force
Very valuable, very good networking platform
Christian Rackl, German Air Force
Valuable and useful…good discussions and ideas both in and around the conference
John Proctor, Candian DND
Good refresh of known DPR matters. One by one excellent presentations
Giovanni Franchini, IT Air Force


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