Work­shop: The hidden power of OSINT

Using OSINT to explore social media and in-depth CI-research

Organisations leave digital footprints everywhere - if you know where to look and how to connect the dots. Building on the foundations of OSINT research, this advanced half-day workshop explores how open sources, especially social media, can be used to develop a richer, more nuanced picture of competitive intelligence targets. Participants will learn how to move beyond surface-level searching to connect scattered clues across platforms, sources, and time.

The workshop examines how OSINT can be used to profile organisations, individuals, networks, and behaviours, and how AI tools can be incorporated to accelerate analysis without losing critical judgement. Through practical examples, you'll discover how to piece together fragments of publicly available information - from corporate filings to conference presentations to employee LinkedIn and other social media activity. This results in a more cohesive intelligence picture that helps reveal strategic intentions, capabilities, and vulnerabilities. 

Key Takeaways

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Using OSINT to build a picture of a CI target
• Incorporating AI into your OSINT efforts
• OSINT and social media - what you can uncover when you know where to look

Faculty

Arthur Weiss is the managing director of AWARE, specialising in competitive intelligence training, analysis and research. Arthur has worked in CI for over 30 years. Clients include biotech, pharma, defense, IT, industrial and services companies. He has written articles and lectured on a variety of marketing, competitive intelligence and information industry related topics and offered the world’s first workshop on using the Internet for Competitive Intelligence, at the 1997 Online Information Conference. Current interests include AI and it's implications for online research, the role of social networking in business, scenarios for the future and using online approaches to finding key competitive intelligence information (OSINT).
Arthur is a Chartered Marketer with the UK's Chartered Institute of Marketing and a member of AIIP (where he served as membership development director between 2012-2014) and the Association of MBAs. Arthur has been a faculty member of ICI for many years, leading the OSINT, SOCMINT, Counter-Intelligence and Financial Analysis workshops.