#SicSemperTyrannis Death to Tyrants #RunningIntoTheFog Livestream
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Panel on Competitive Intelligence Ethics
Join us this coming Tuesday, March 15, 2022 to celebrate International Death to Tyrants Day as the Johnson Brothers are welcoming four of their closest friends from the Competitive Intelligence world to Running Into The Fog for an hour-long confab on Ethics.
This will serve as a sneak peek into what our esteemed guests will be sharing in a few short weeks, in depth and in person, when SCIP emerges from the shadow world of virtual events again in Minneapolis for their first proper IntelliCon since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world.
In no particular order, meet our friends…
Alysse Nockels: We remember first meeting Alysse at an intelligence conference where she was leading her flock of cybersecurity ducklings from the ISV where she built her first CI function from scratch. She has since become a close friend, frequent collaborator and go-to source of wisdom for building out tech intel teams. Selected as a Fellow of the Council of CI Fellows in 2018, Alysse is also a fellow Wisconsinite and Green Bay Packers fanatic, always to be trusted for throwing the very best of tailgate parties… which is really saying something here in Wisco.
Zena Applebaum: Zena is one of the reasons Aurora got involved in the Special Libraries Association back in the day, but she has also teamed up with us on dozens of operations in some of the most interesting places and markets we’ve seen yet! From her home base in Toronto, Zena’s either teaching her colleagues a thing or two about how to be a more incisive intel analyst or cheering on her trusty Blue Jays with her boys. Zena was selected as a CI Fellow in 2015 (in the same class as Derek, in fact) and we can’t wait to see her in MSP next month.
Phil Britton: Phil might work for another CI firm, but he’s our brother-from-another-mother who will never turn down the chance to challenge conventional thinking over flagons of ale… or race to victory around the short track in one of his dozen (or more) hot rods he and his bride are into trading, rebuilding and racing. Phil was selected to the CI Fellows in 2020 and from his home in Chicago directs a team of analysts around the world collecting insights that drive action for clients of all kinds.
Cam Mackey: We’ve known Cam since he took over as Executive Director at SCIP in 2019 and has led our trade association – the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals society – with a steady hand through the pandemic and into the future. Arik’s fondest memory of Cam is co-producing a two day innovation and wargaming workshop together in London the summer of 2019, something we hope will be revisited in the months and years to come!
The phrase “sic semper tyrannis” dates back to the time of the ancient Romans. And while historians do not know exactly when the phrase was first invented, the first historical account of the phrase was during the assassination of Julius Caesar in March of 44 BC.
Some historians claim that Marcus Junius Brutus, a close confidant of Caesar’s and one of the senators present at his assassination, announced the phrase to a crowd after Caesar had been slain. It is a matter of great dispute, however, whether or not Brutus actually said this, or if it was just a fabricated addition to the story for dramatic effect. Plutarch, an ancient Greek historian, claimed that Brutus would not have had a chance to say anything, or if he had that no one would have heard him, because all of the senators fled the scene as soon as Caesar was killed.
Regardless of the historical accuracies of the story, the motives behind Caesar’s assassination clearly demonstrate the meaning of “sic semper tyrannis”. In the years before his death, political actors in Rome believed that Caesar was becoming too powerful, and feared that he was trying to replace the Roman Republic with an Imperial system with himself as king. Concerned that Caesar represented a threat to the democratic system of Roman government, a group of senators congregated and conspired to kill Caesar on the Ides of March.
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