This year, the conference portion of INTERPOL World, INTERPOL World Congress, will see a new conference structure. Featuring over 40 speakers across the public and private sectors, the Congress will address pressing concerns via three dedicated tracks – Cybercrime on 4 July, Safe Cities on 5 July and Identity Management on 6 July. All three days will begin with a macro dialogue to highlight the spectrum of future security challenges. This will be followed by a segment covering strategic perspectives from practitioners, researchers and academia,. Each day will end with case studies featuring real-life applications and results that have been achieved in different parts of the world.
Participants at the Congress will hear from leading security solutions providers such as Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft, NEC, Securiport and SICPA, as well as thought leaders from police departments and security research institutions such as:
· Arthur Holland Michel, Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Drone, Bard College in New York, the US
· Cheri McGuire, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Standard Chartered
· Dr Donato Colucci, Senior Regional Immigration and Border Management Specialist, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
· Jim Pitkow, Chair, Technical Task Force, Thorn, which fights against the sexual exploitation of children
· Michael Hershman, Group CEO, International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS)
· Nils Andersen-Röed, Operational Specialist/Project Leader Darkweb Team, Dutch National Police
· Rob Leslie, CEO, Sedicii Innovations
The Cybercrime track will focus on managing future cyber threats to society from the “hidden” Internet. The cost of cybercrime to the global economy is estimated at US$445 billion a year. This track will zoom into the future of security and how technology can be harnessed to prevent, detect, and investigate risks presented by an ever-changing Internet. It will bring out the underlying social and technological causes of cybercrime that law enforcement needs to understand, to mitigate it effectively.
Supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the first day of the congress will focus on the new challenges of cybercrime, such as the rise of Darknet, and how a collaborative effort can address its adverse impact. This discussion is in line with WEF’s Cybercrime Project, launched in 2015 to bolster cooperation and collaboration between the public sector, private sector and law enforcement authorities for a unified and balanced approach to cybercrime.
Jean-Luc Vez, Head of Public Security Policy and Security Affairs, Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, who will moderate at the INTERPOL - World Economic Forum Cybercrime Dialogue on the first day of the Congress said, “While there are many instruments dedicated to fighting cybercrime today – including platforms for sharing information, private industry standards and best practices – these efforts tend to be industry specific or regional at best. Leveraging on INTERPOL’s unique position as the global hub for cybercrime related data and intelligence, the INTERPOL-WEF led dialogue will help broaden the awareness of available tools among organizations to aid in dealing with complex cyber threats.”
The Safe Cities track is about preparing strategies, approach and tactics for securing urban centres and global cities of the future. The rise of urban centres and “smart city” initiatives enabled by big data, a network of sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) bring a new set of challenges to future policing. While digital technologies have helped compress the reaction time of police all over the world, the increased connectivity can similarly be leveraged by criminals to carry out increasingly sophisticated crimes.
There is now a growing consensus that technology transformation must be part of the overall solution. To keep our cities and citizens safe, law enforcement must be armed with the right technology, tools and processes to solve – or even prevent – the toughest crimes at faster rates. A panelist and speaker at the INTERPOL World 2017 Congress, Commander Jorge R Rodriguez, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said, “Many law enforcement agencies such as LAPD, Seattle and Florida Police Departments are using cutting-edge cloud-based crime prediction software to predict drug crime, gang crime, anti-social behaviour and gun violence.”
Such crime prediction software apply proven criminal theories to captured data to predict the top 10 to 20 spots where crime is most likely to occur over the next few hours. They may leverage on factors such as historical and recent crime data, real-time activity, weather forecasts, locations and other information. Once ‘hot spots’ are identified, police officers can adapt their patrol schedule and frequency at these locations, making their presence felt in the area and thereby prevent crime from taking place.
“As digital technologies continue to be a gamechanger for the future of policing, it is now imperative for law enforcement to better coordinate, command and control critical resources to make quick sense of an explosion of information in crisis situations,” Commander Rodriquez added.
The final track on Identity Management is to highlight law enforcement, migration and border management in an age of globalisation. While technology advancements have enabled immigration and law enforcement agencies to cope with an increasingly challenging operating reality, it has also enabled those seeking to circumvent border controls using false identities, counterfeit travel documents and more to pursue illegal immigration, transnational organised crimes and/or terrorism.
As governments tighten immigration and border controls, there is currently no single universal standard pertaining to the identification, verification and validation of the identity of people, goods and vehicles. The varying standards across the globe have resulted in gaps, which can be exploited by criminals and terrorists alike.
As a key highlight of the identity management discussion, Dr John Coyne, Head of Border Security Program, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, will be sharing his insights on a new technology to be utilised by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). By 2020, the immigration will no longer require passenger passports, instead, they will be processed by biometric recognition of the face, iris and or fingerprints, making them the first in the world to adopt such technology.
The INTERPOL World 2017 Congress will be held from 4 to 6 July 2017 while the accompanying trade exhibition will take place from 5 to 7 July 2017 at Suntec Singapore. Expect to see solutions across cybersecurity, public safety, biometrics, identity management, forensics and investigations at the event. Over 10,000 security professionals and buyers from both public and private sectors are expected to attend.
INTERPOL World is owned by INTERPOL, supported by Singapore’s Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the Singapore Exhibition & Convention Bureau (SECB), and the WEF. It is managed by MP International. INTERPOL’s role is to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. The organisation's General Secretariat is based in Lyon, France, and supported by the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore, seven regional bureaus and Special Representative offices at the European Union, the United Nations and the African Union. Each member country runs an INTERPOL National Central Bureau, staffed by national law enforcement officials.
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INTERPOL World
Congress: 4 to 6 July 2017
Exhibition: 5 to 7 July 2017
Venue: Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre
Venue: Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre
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