Speaker Biograghy: Andreas is the Head of the ICT Strategy Division within the Federal Police Directorate-General at Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior, a position he has held since June 2012. His responsibilities include the automation of border control, the ICT strategy for the Federal Police and corresponding ICT security issues. Andreas took up his current post having headed the Federal Ministry division responsible for passports and identity documents from 2005 to 2012. He and his team successfully introduced the first- and second-generation e-passports in Germany (2005 and 2007) and the e-ID card in 2010. From 2002 to 2005 he was in charge of the federal e-Government initiative BundOnline 2005. He is a Physics graduate with a Master’s degree from Aachen University of Technology.


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

09:55 - 10:20 - Smart Borders: proof of concept
Synopsis: Increasing numbers of travellers, budgetary restraints and changing risk scenarios in the area of illegal migration call for adaptation of the existing concepts of Integrated Border Management in the coming years. The systems and data banks in use and in the planning phase both on national and EU levels offer the chance to lead to increased efficiency in modern border control management, if their potential is used intelligently. There will be a negative impact on performance and cost efficiency, even on security, unless a powerful IT system architecture is considered, which at the same time fulfils data protection requirements.

Audience will learn:

• There is a need for a clever, comprehensive IT infrastructure, which provides for security and efficiency at the border

Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

15:45 - 16:10 - Panel Discussion: Challenges and opportunities of large scale and international development in airport based border control. What does the future hold?
Synopsis: Automated border clearance is now installed at over 120 airports in more than 40 countries. However, large discrepancies exist between the category of eligible travellers and the various biometrics verified at the e-gates. The fact is that pre-registered frequent traveller programmes coexist with simple, free, e-passport-driven ones. - Which is best? Which one is likely to enjoy the best international acceptance? - Which one should I choose for my airport? With which selection criteria? - Which provides better security? - Better handling of third-country nationals bearing e-visas? - Better grip over risk management? The panel will review which scheme is likely to evidence the best growth and, ultimately, has the better potential for broader interoperability.

Audience will learn:

• Shouldn’t control of destination border begin at the country of origin?
• How to take a ride with the TRIP: how can border clearance best use ICAO's new ID management program?
• Sharing airport resources: time for Glasnost and Perestroika between the various ABC programmes?
• Drivers and impediments to large-scale automation in border control
• Big Data at the service of risk assessment during border control: friend or foe?

Day 3 - 27 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

13:00 - 13:30 - Panel Discussion: What are the real choke points blocking true harmonisation of security?
Synopsis: Political? EU v. ICAO v. US v. ROW – are there more exceptions than rules?

Audience will learn:

• Standards – are they being set so low as to still be vulnerable, or too high to be met where the threat may be greatest?
• Too many different regulations and requirements – is the system inherently incapable of coherent international agreement?
• Technology, technologie, technika, tekunoroji – will they ever speak the same language?