Global Security Challenge

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The GSC was founded by MBA students of London Business School in spring 2006

The Global Security Challenge runs international business plan competitions to find and select the most promising security technology startups in the world. The GSC holds regional selection events and a Security Summit in London to bring together innovators with government, industry and investors. The GSC belongs to InnoCentive, which acquired the original owner OmniCompete in 2012. OmniCompete also launched the Energy Storage Challenge in 2010.

History

The GSC was founded by MBA students of London Business School in spring 2006; the first competition took place in summer 2006. By 2007, the Technical Support Working Group, an interagency group of the US Government, sponsored the annual grant award of $500,000 Dollar for the winning security startup. The GSC runs regional finals in Singapore at the National University of Singapore, in Washington DC at The University of Maryland and Brussels at the Brussels School of International Studies ahead of the GSC London Security Summit in autumn, hosted by London Business School.

Past Competitions' Winners & Finalists

GSC finalists and winners from the last three annual competitions have subsequently raised over $117 million in new venture funding and grants. The top-selected startups also have secured large contracts with government clients, such as the US Department of Energy, the US Navy and the US Department of Defense, and with industry behemoths, such as Siemens and Bayer AG from Germany. One regional finalist in 2007, TenCube, recently got acquired by McAfee and the cyber 2009 winner Ksplice was acquired in July 2011 by Oracle.

Most Promising Security Start-Up of the Year

Most Promising Security Idea of the Year

Crowded Places Challenge Winners

  • Best Crowded Places Security Idea 2008: Crowd-Vision (Switzerland)
  • Best Crowded Places Security Idea 2009: iOmniscient (Australia)

Other Competition Categories

Judges

The members of the GSC Judging Committees are leaders from venture capital funds, government, universities and industry.

Government Judges

Venture Capital Judges

  • Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  • Advent Venture Partners
  • 3V SourceOne Capital
  • Cap Vista
  • NovakBiddle Venture Partners
  • Paladin Capital Group
  • PegasusBridge Fund Management Limited
  • Redshift Ventures
  • SAIC Venture Capital Corp.
  • Siemens Venture Capital

University Judges

Industry Judges

  • Accenture
  • BAE Systems
  • Booz Allen Hamilton
  • Barclays Bank
  • Bosch
  • BWI-IT (IBM, Siemens & German Armed Forces)
  • IBM
  • MITRE
  • SemCorp Industries
  • Smiths Detection

Final Judging Committee 2009

  • Dr. John Morgan, Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CTTSO (TSWG), US Dept. of Defense
  • Todd Brethauer, CTTSO Science Advisor, TSWG, US Dept. of Defense
  • Niloo Howe, Managing Director, Paladin Capital Group
  • Dave Mullin, BAE Systems
  • Dr. Richard Leaver, CEO, Blue Star Capital
  • Stephen Bonner, Head of Information Risk Management, Barclays
  • Dr. Alastair MacWillson, Global Managing Partner, Global Security Practice, Accenture
  • Mike Chalfen, General Partner, Advent Venture Partners
  • Chris Winter, Partner, New Venture Partners

Final Judging Committee 2010

  • Dr. John Morgan, Deputy Director of Science and Technology, CTTSO (TSWG), US Dept. of Defense
  • Darius Cheung, Co Founder & CEO, tenCube
  • Stephen Bonner, Head of Information Risk Management, Barclays
  • Dr. Alastair MacWilson, Global Managing Director - Security, Accenture
  • Dr. John Callahan, Associate Director for Information Superiority and Communications (IS&C), Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG)
  • Peder Jungck, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, CloudShield Technologies, Inc. - an SAIC Company
  • Carles Ferrer, General Partner, Nauta Capital
  • Todd Brethauer, CTTSO Science Advisor, TSWG, US Dept. of Defense
  • Dave Mullin, Manager, Investment in Innovation, BAE Systems
  • Eldar Tuvey, General Manager, Cisco Systems, CEO of ScanSafe
  • Mike Chalfen, General Partner, Advent Venture Partners
  • Chris Hodges, Director, The Carlyle Group
  • Bill Phelps, Executive Director, Accenture
  • Adam Ogilvie-Smith, Office for Security & Counter-Terrorism, UK Home Office
  • Colin Evans, Managing Director, Digital Barriers

Events

The GSC hosts several regional Semi-Finals and one Grand Final (Summit) at leading research universities around the world:

Keynote Speakers 2010:

  • The Rt Hon Baroness Neville-Jones, UK Security Minister
  • Dr. Lisa Porter, IARPA Director, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • Darius Cheung, McAfee, Co Founder & CEO, tenCube
  • Adrian Chamberlain, CEO of MessageLabs

Past Speakers:

  • Chris Darby, CEO of In-Q-Tel
  • Rt Hon Lord Drayson, UK Minister of State for Strategic Defence Acquisition Reform
  • Sir Richard Dearlove, former Chief of British Secret Intelligence Service
  • Dr. Ruth David, CEO of ANSER and former Deputy Director for Science and Technology at CIA
  • Wong Kan Seng, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Minister of Home Affairs
  • Dr. Eric Haseltine, Associate Director of U.S. National Intelligence for Science & Technology, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • Hansjoerg Geiger, former President of Bundesnachrichtendienst (German Federal Intelligence Service, BND)

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