Linda Janes

Chief Operating Officer, Alvis Inc., United States

Prof. Michele Deitch

Director, Prison and Jail Innovation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, USA

Michele Deitch is a Distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds a joint appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and at the UT School of Law and directs the Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, a national policy resource center focused on the safe and humane treatment of people in custody. Professor Deitch is widely recognized as one of the leading experts in the U.S. on the issue of correctional oversight and has published extensively on this topic. She also advises U.S. policymakers and agencies on prison and jail safety issues and on the development of independent correctional oversight bodies. In 2019, the National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement awarded her the Flame Award for her contributions to the field of prison oversight. Professor Deitch co-authored several reports on women in custody, including The Pandemic Gender Gap Behind Bars, a report about the way COVID is affecting women and how correctional agencies should adjust their approach to better meet women’s needs. As Chair of the Sheriff’s Advisory Committee on the Travis County (Texas) Women’s Jail, she co-authored Roadmap for Reform, a report detailing the vision for a gender-responsive correctional facility. She also served as the original drafter of the ABA’s Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners. Prior to entering academia, she served as a court-appointed monitor of prison conditions in Texas. Professor Deitch holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.Sc. from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Amherst College.

Ivan Calder

Managing Director, Virtu Medical, United States

Ivan Calder has spent two decades at the intersection of healthcare delivery, public policy, and innovation. As Managing Director of Global Health Innovations at Virtu Medical, he has led the strategic rollout of EHR systems in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Ivan is a strong advocate for sustainable, scalable health tech solutions that strengthen public systems and uphold human rights. Ivan is also privileged to lead Health through walls as CEO, and to chair the ICPA Healthcare Network.

Helen Glazebrook

Senior Capability Consultant, Visual Analysis Pty Ltd, Australia

Helen Glazebrook is a leading criminal intelligence expert who has applied her skills across a broad range of intelligence environments over the last twenty-five years including law enforcement, national security, regulatory and corrective services completing her last government role with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission. Helen has delivered the Queensland Corrective Services Intelligence Review providing both a high-level strategic response as well as a deep dive operational review into intelligence practice, process, technologies and legislative amendments to improve proactive sharing of intelligence between correctional and law enforcement agencies.

Since completing a Winston Churchill Fellowship on international best practice in corrections intelligence, Helen has developed a comprehensive intelligence capability framework for Australian Border Force, Immigration Detention Operations and is now continuing her support to ABF as a Strategic Advisor implementing the capability framework she delivered in 2024.

Most recently Helen has undertaken a current state intelligence review for Western Australia Corrective Services to provide their senior executive with a roadmap to develop further support for their intelligence services.

Helen has a Degree in Justice Studies majoring in intelligence and investigations, is trained in human source management, exercise writing and exercise management and has completed the Diploma of Correctional Administration (Intelligence). Helen was previously a tutor and coordinator of intelligence studies at Queensland University of Technology.

Helen was awarded the AIPIO Publication Award for 2023 for her Winston Churchill Fellowship paper, has received an Australia Day Award by the Australian Federal Police, and now Chairs the Corrections Intelligence Network Group for the International Corrections and Prison Association.

Helen recently founded IntelAbility Pty Ltd to enhance intelligence in the justice sector.

Kavan Applegate

Director, GB-Architects, Australia

Kavan is the Chair of the ICPA Planning and Design Network and Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, specialising in specialist in justice and correctional architecture – therapeutic environments that facilitate rehabilitation, empower behavioural change and create a sense of hope to ultimately reduce recidivism rates and create a better, safer community for all.
Knowing that our environment has a profound effect on us, his passion is in harnessing the transformative effects of architecture to help people live better lives. Through the creative and sustainable use of building form and materials and the rehabilitative effects of daylight, Kavan believes architecture can significantly change the quality of life for those inhabiting its space. It is this ‘architecture of hope’ that he seeks to provide each day by delivering well planned, operationally effective and delight-filled masterplanning and building solutions.
Over the last 25 years, Kavan has led the design of many of Australia’s most innovative and iconic justice and correctional projects alongside our team including Hopkins Correctional Centre, Ravenhall Correctional Centre, Western Plains Correctional Centre, Rivergum Residential Treatment Centre, Southern Queensland Correctional Centre (St2), Southern Remand Correctional Centre, and the Thomas Embling Forensic Hospital Expansion as well as works in numerous other secure facilities.
As a Director of Guymer Bailey Architects, Kavan leads the exceptional architecture, landscape architecture and interior design team across our Melbourne and Brisbane Studios and overseeing our large-scale correctional projects.

Frank Porporino Ph.D.

Network Chair, ICPA Research and Development Network, Canada

Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has sustained a 45-year career in corrections as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. Frank has promoted evidence-informed practice throughout his career and his contributions have been recognized with awards from a number of associations including the ACA, ICCA, Volunteers of America and the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA).  He has remained active internationally providing training and technical assistance in effective practice in over 25 countries, most recently in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan, Namibia, Ireland, Singapore and Barbados. Currently Frank is serving as Editor of the ICPA practitioner-oriented journal, Advancing Corrections, Chair of the ICPA R&D Network, member of the ICPA Practice Transfer Taskforce and Board Member for the ICPA-North America Chapter. He is also Past-President of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP).

Dorin Muresan

Chair, Staff Training and Development Network

Simon Bonk

Chief Research Officer, Telio, Canada

Simon Bonk is the former CIO for the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). A role he held for more than six years and retired from that position after almost 30 years in the Canadian Public Service.
On his retirement, he joined Telio as their Chief Research Officer and Director New Business Development, where he creates and implements strategic approaches in new markets, and builds relationships with jurisdictions, researchers, and other stakeholders to advance thought leadership in the correctional space. Simon is currently a Corporate Board Member of the Corrections Technology Association and previously served as Secretary. In addition, he is the Chair of the IT Network for the International Corrections and Prison Association as well as member of the Technology Committee at the American Probation and Parole Association. He serves as an Advisory Board Member to the SAW Project which is dedicated to creating a worldwide data-sharing platform designed to bring positive change to the global supervision industry through international collaboration.
 
He was recently appointed by the Minister of Public Safety to the CORCAN Advisory Board at the Correctional Service of Canada. CORCAN is a key rehabilitation program that focuses on providing employment and employability skills training to offenders, helping them reintegrate successfully into society. Simon is a member of the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute’s Corrections Advisory Committee which provides leadership on innovative standards and technologies in corrections.