Day 1 - Wednesday 9th November 2011
 

9:00 Registration and Morning Refreshments

9:40 Chairman’s Welcome and Introduction

10:00 Border Security Policies and Common Values in Europe

Respecting Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights
Solidarity Approaches for Effective Crisis Management
Creating Proportionate Counter Terrorist Policies
Recommendations for Future Policy Actions
Proportionate C-T Policies

Norica Nicolai MEP, Vice-Chair, European Parliament Security and Defence Committee (confirmed)
Simon Busuttil MEP, Member, European Parliament Committee for Justice and Home Affairs (invited)

10:50 Morning Coffee

11:10 Practicalities and Responses

Where next for Schengen after the Arab Spring?
Developments from the European Council of June 2011
A European Border Guard?
Schengen and New Technology
European Residency Permits

Hugo Brady, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform (confirmed)

12:00 The Future Role of Frontex

Ilkka Pertti Juhani Laitinen, Frontex Executive Director (confirmed)

13:00 Lunch
14:00 Legal Frameworks and Implementation
EU Legislation
European Court of Justice (ECJ)
Agreements on Crime and Policing from 2014

15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:15 Delivering Joined-up Security Across Agencies and Countries
The Roles of Interpol and Europol
Police, Customs, Immigration, Coast Guards
Information Management and Intelligence Sharing
PRN Records – Air Flights And Data Sharing – Data Protection And Fundamental Rights
Eurosur

Alain Barbier, Deputy Special Representative of Interpol to the European Union (confirmed)
Troels Oerting, Assistant Director – Europol, Operations Department (confirmed)

16:15 Final Questions and Comments
16:45 Drinks Reception Close
Day 2 - Thursday 10th November 2011
 

9:40 Chairman’s Welcome and Introduction
9:45 Recent Developments and Initiatives to manage European Border Security


Sir Graham Watson MEP, Member, European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee (confirmed)
Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs (confirmed)

11:00 Morning Coffee

11:15 The Human Dimension of Border Security and Control

Migration – Causes and Results
Asylum and Returning Refugees and Migrants
Human Trafficking
Prostitution and Organised Crime

Gordon Valentine, Metropolitan Police (invited)
Dr Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, University of Kent in Brussels (confirmed)

12:15 Cyber Security in the European Union

Policy Coordination and Strategy
The Digital Agenda for Europe
The Computer Emergency Response Team for EU Institutions Initiative
Internet-Mediated Economics and Payment Systems

A. Angelova-Krasteva, Head of Unit, Internet and Network & Information Security, Directorate General INFSO (invited)
Dr. Steve Purser, Head of the Technical Department, European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) (confirmed)

13:15 Lunch

14:00 The Developing Role of Technology
Satellite, Scanning, Explosive, Detectors, Biometrics

Ms Gillian Orminston, Global Market Manager for Border Solutions, Morpho Detection (confirmed)
15:00 Afternoon Tea

15:20 Case Studies from the USA
Latest Updates on the Best Practices on U.S. Border Patrol
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Delivering Border Security Objectives Through Identity Management Technological Advances
Associated U.S. Boarder Patrol updates in relations to Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and Haiti
Immigration impact on states in the United States

Dr Don Terry Veal, Director of The Center for Governmental Services, Auburn University (confirmed)

16:45 Final Questions and Discussion
17:00 Drinks Reception