Day 1

Networking Lunch Break

As technology increases at the border, how can you ensure the customer experience remains front of mind?
•Redefining strategies to see technology as a service element rather than the driver of your security policies
•Transforming machines at the borders to actually increase the customer experience
•Creating open yet secure borders in a most effective and efficient way
•Justifying specialist projects to get customers on board
•Harmonising the priorities of your country and the EU to make progress

Hear how SAS can help Border Agencies improve customs targets through Analytics

• Watch-list processing uses powerful matching technology, combined with data quality tools, to identify travellers whose names or details appear on different records such as passports, advanced passenger information, passenger name records and visa information. This technology is used in many countries to identify passengers, companies and freight that exist on government and non-government lists of people and things of interest.

• Risk scoring uses analytical techniques to create profiles of legitimate passengers and cargo using techniques such as clustering, segmentation, patterns of activities and associations.

• A powerful risk-scoring combination
Watch-list processing and risk scoring are two complimentary techniques that contribute to the risk scores being generated. The models incorporate multiple risk indicators, including travel patterns (potentially over several years, if legislation allows), connections with other high-risk individuals or organisations, and intelligence derived from any other source.
Other data-driven analytical methods are also employed – such as looking for anomalies in behaviour or data. Analytics from SAS helps to further validate the intuition of human experts, allowing users to keep track of which variables are most effective in predicting high-risk travellers and cargo. This enables them to continually monitor and improve the performance of their traveller and freight screening, keeping pace with changes and attempts to outwit the system. Predictive analytics provides objective, data-driven risk screening to identify high risk and low risk travellers and freight thus improving overall performance of borders and customs operations.

Discuss how to overcome growing threats or crime at your borders through collaboration and innovative technology
•Eliminating threats that impact security and stability
•Improving your strategy to address the growth of criminal activity
•Investing in critical technology that identifies criminal activity
•Working with Interpol, Europol and neighbouring border police to share live information on criminal activity
•Fully exploiting the systems built and the work of border officials to detect threats and reduce crime

Discover how you can work with associations as advisors to fully utilise the systems already in place.
•Why has the role of national agencies developed into an advisory role – identifying the critical turn points
•Promoting the need for a workable plan to protect the security of passengers worldwide
•Eliminating the reactive policy making trend after the 2006 transatlantic airport plot and recognising issues before they arise to mitigate risk
•Reforming policies of information sharing across Europe and internationally to increase security – will Viviane Reding’s EU reforms pass?
•Recognising the countries who are leading in border management and encouraging knowledge sharing of the projects
Tom Dowdall, Deputy Director, National Crime Agency, UK

Develop a strategy to transform migration control in transit and eliminate crime between borders.

•Systems built to define the patterns of migration at each form of border
•Increasing carrier and government collaboration to better monitor migration
•Improving data collection post-arrival to reduce future crime
•Best methods and technologies to crack down on illegal migration in transit
•Recognising the greatest areas of growth and collaborating internationally to reduce them

Hear examples of countries that are piloting schemes of autonomous border control and discuss how you could benefit from a similar strategy.
•Is the European IBM concept an effective response to achieve open, but controlled and secured borders?
•Achieving effective management at the borders through autonomous control
•Reducing obstacles and problems of intra-agency collaboration and governmental coordination to increase efficiency of border management
•Developing a system to work in practice that improves intra-agency governmental collaboration
•Redefining the roles of border guards, customs, enforcement, and immigration officials to match today’s requirements