October 2018 – Agenda

Session 1: The future of EU Land Border Checks – Challenges

09:40 – 10:05Smart Borders and eu-LISA – addressing the challenges of tomorrow, today
Ciarán Carolan
, Head of the External Affairs and Capacity Building Sector, eu LISA
10:05 – 10:30Leveraging global experience: Land Border facilitation challenges and the role of IBMATA
Tony Smith
, Chairman, IBMATA
10:30 – 10:45Technologies to facilitate land border crossing: lessons learned from the past and concepts for the future
Daniel Bachenheimer
, Principal Director, Accenture
10:45 – 11:00Biometrics at the Border: From Air to the Sea and Land Challenge
Frédéric Berger, Senior Manager, Deloitte
Andrew White, Deloitte
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break

Session 2: Carriers perspective on exchange of API and PNR data

11:30 – 11:50The Canadian Experience: Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) and Entry-Exit
Marc-Andre Daigle
, Immigration, Citizenship and Refugees Canada
11:50 – 12:05Land Borders Experience and New Technologies – Upstream identification and processing of Commercial and Privately Owned Vehicles
Ray Batt, Director Border Security Program (Europe) Unisys
Ian Neill, Operations Director, Mobile Edge
12:05 – 12:20The Trip Related Expedited Clearance (TREC) project: combining the connected car and mobile technologies
Steven Grant
, Director, WorldReach Software
12:20 – 12:35EES solutions for accelerating Passenger Facilitation at land/sea borders
Peter Smallridge
, Commercial Lead EU & International Institutions, Gemalto
12:35 – 13:00Q&A
13:00 – 14:00Buffet lunch

Session 3: Solutions – practical tools for efficient land border management

14:00 – 14:15European borders prepare for EES – A sustainable border control strategy keeps processes efficient, agency resources at bay and travellers at ease
Michael Schwaiger
, Senior Product Manager, Secunet
14:15 – 14:30How IN Groupe helps state members to facilitate Land Border Crossing and ease passenger experience
Pascal Janer
, Sales Director, IN Groupe
14:30 – 14:45Can mobile and kiosk technologies help all travellers, border authorities and operators deliver EES and ETIAS compliance?
Andy Smith
, Head of Business Development, SITA
14:45 – 15:00Mobile Biometric Devices Deliver on the Border
Vito Fabbrizio
, SVP Product Management, Crossmatch
15:00 – 15:15Mobile Identity to Protect Land Borders
David Gerulski
, Global VP Sales/Marketing, Integrated Biometrics
15:15 – 15:30Compact Mobile Fingerprint Readers for use at EU land borders
Yvonne Vödisch
, Director Sales & Marketing, Jenetric
15:30 – 15.45Smart Borders Mobile System (SBMS)
Ross Little
, Researcher, ATOS
15:45 – 16:00Industry and Member-states readiness for implementing Smart Borders Package
Kier-co Gerritsen
, Program manager, Vision-Box
16.00 – 16:30Q&A and closing remarks