The conference took place in Dungarvan, Ireland, the sister city of Erie, Pennsylvania,[1][2] home of Mercyhurst College, the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies, and the Center for Intelligence Research Analysis and Training (CIRAT).
Mercyhurst University faculty created the conference to explore best practices in intelligence analysis.
[3] Future conferences will continue to focus on analytic best practices but will expand to explore intelligence as an enterprise essential to organizational leadership and learning.
[3] The speakers at the 2010 conference included members of the Mercyhurst College faculty, Irish and British government officials, and executives from private intelligence firms.
[11][12] Each spring, Mercyhurst University students and faculty spend a term in Dungarvan as part of MU’s Study Abroad scheme.