Speaker Biograghy: Celine is Head of Facilitation for the International Air Transport Association in Montreal. In this role she is responsible for leading and coordinating IATA strategy and activities on facilitation. She is the Secretary of the IATA Facilitation Working Group, a key forum where airline, airport and government representatives work together to shape joint positions. Previously Celine worked under the IATA Security and Facilitation Department. She supported the development and delivery of IATA policies, positions and strategies, including those for risk-based security measures and security information sharing. She is also working on the development of lifecycle transformation concepts related to passenger identity management, including ONE ID, the development of biometric-based solutions and border control management.


Day 3 - 22 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

12:25 - 12:55 - How to secure and facilitate borders – a regulator's perspective
Synopsis: The presentation will share the different initiatives and co-operative projects that are being carried out by regulators in cooperation with relevant stakeholders. Customs and aviation together with relevant stakeholders are working to identify and mitigate ‘bomb in the box’ from being loaded onto aircraft, and at the same time to ensure identification of high-risk passengers to prevent them boarding flights. In addition, regulators are working closely together to avoid duplication and close the gaps, not only to secure the borders but also to provide facilitation.

Audience will learn:

• What Customs is doing to secure borders
• Cooperation between WCO, ICAO and IATA to overcome aviation threat
• What the authorities are doing with API/PNR
• What authorities are doing with Pre-Loading Advance Cargo Information (PLACI)
• How Customs and aviation are providing joint training for aviation and Customs authorities

Day 3 - 22 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

11:55 - 12:25 - Optimising passenger data transmission to enhance aviation security
Synopsis: Aviation security has long focused on preventing the introduction of prohibited items in the security restricted areas as opposed to trying to identify potential perpetrators, which has long been an impossible exercise. The modernisation of passenger data transmission is a key factor to enhance the early identification of high-risk passengers.

Audience will learn:

• What is passenger data and how to use API efficiently
• How the introduction of biometric recognition can enhance aviation security and border protection
• Promoting public-private partnerships is key to avoid gaps and duplication