Conference presentations will be conducted in English with French and Arabic simultaneous translation services.
Les présentations de la conférence se dérouleront en anglais avec des services de traduction simultanée en français et en arabe.
ستعقد عروض المؤتمر باللغة الإنجليزية مع خدمات الترجمة الفورية الفرنسية والعربية

Wednesday 20th March 2019

9.00am-10.30am
Plenary Session – Border Management – from Risk Management to Irregular Migration, Foreign Fighter and CT Strategies
US intelligence estimates in excess of 40,000 total foreign fighters have gone to the conflict. These men and women present a massive threat to the international security and a huge challenge to the global border management community. Identifying these individuals at border crossing points still presents the best opportunity apprehend these individuals. Developing strategies and technologies to do must be a priority.

– Risk Management through risk based decision making processes – Renée L. Yengibaryan, Deputy Director – IPD, Operations Support, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
– Dr Nasser Segayer, Libyan National Team for Border Security and Management
– The Dutch Approach on Irregular Migration – Neda Katalina MS, Strategic Advisor People Smuggling & Human Trafficking & Nella Kadic MSc, Acting Coordinator International Relations and Crime Investigation Expert, Royal Netherlands Marechaussee
– Senior Representative, United National Counter Terror Centre (UNCCT)*
– Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS) – Director General, Border Security Force, India*

11.15am-12.30pm
Breakout Session – Implementing Biometrics and Advanced Passenger Information
Biometrics is playing a key role in traveller identification, but how can it be used in a holistic approach, with API and PNR, to enhance traveller facilitation and improve border management.
– Simon Deignan, Counter Terrorism Officer, Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
– Dr Enrique Belda, Deputy Director General of Information Systems and Communications for Security Secretary of State for Security, Ministry of Interior, Spain
– Dr Narjes Abdennebi, Chief Facilitation Section (C/FAL), Aviation Security and Facilitation (ASF), Air Transport Bureau (ATB), ICAO
– Research Officer, Frontex*

2:00pm – 3:30pm
Migration and Human Trafficking Challenges on Global Border Management
Borders are the ‘frontlines’ for anti-trafficking interventions, but still very few victims are picked up at the border. What strategies, policies, training and technology should be implemented to stamp out this oldest of human scourges.
Securing and protecting EU external borders
– Alvaro Rodriguez-Gaya, Senior Specialist, European Migrant Smuggling Center (EMSC), EUROPOL
– Border Security in Ghana and its impact on World Migration issues – Justice Cornelius Amevor, Aflao Sector Commander, Ghana Immigration Service
– Desert Border Management Challenges – Baptiste Amieux, Immigration & Border Management Programme Manager , IOM Niger
– The Smuggling of Migrants in Africa: Questions of (Missing?) Protection – Cristiano d’Orsi, Research Fellow/Lecturer, South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL)/University of Johannesburg
– Challenges through the Balkans – Senior Representative, Ministry if Internal Affairs, Macedonia
– Major General Md. Shafeenul Islam ndc, psc, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh
– Head of Department of Border Gates and Deputy Head of Department for Anti-Smuggling and Human Trafficking, National Police, Turkey*

4:15pm – 5:30pm
Breakout Session – Data, Cyberborders and the challenges of developing them
Cyber crime has no borders, whether data sharing/flow of information between countries, airlines or agencies, or criminal gangs and the darkweb. What place and function do border agencies have and what strategies do they need to develop to protect cyber borders.
– The cyber border and the EU – Bartel Meersman, Head of Unit, Transport & Border Security, European Commission Joint Research Centre
Head of the IT Department, Staff Commander RNLM, Royal Netherlands Marechaussee*
– Chief Information Security Officer & Executive Director Cybersecurity Directorate, U.S. Customs and Border Protection*
– 5 Digital Intelligence Challenges all Border Agencies are Facing Today – Leeor Ben-Peretz, EVP Products & Strategy, Cellebrite

5.30pm – Networking Reception – sponsored by SITA

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