On 17-18 June 2015 Frontex will hold the 2015 Global Conference on the Future of Border Checks in Warsaw, Poland.
The conference will provide a platform to discuss the practical steps needed to develop and implement a risk-based approach to border checks, while enabling better resource allocation and increased cost-effectiveness. The focus will be on operational challenges and solutions, with an emphasis on the technologies and services that could change the current border checks paradigm and their potential impact on day-to-day operations at the border.
The event will explore issues such as:
- How to verify the traveller’s identity in a reliable manner early in the travel process;
- How to identify, through advance risk analysis, persons of interest who should be subject to further examination by border guards upon their arrival to the physical border;
- How to bring together point solutions to enable end-to-end facilitation; and
- How to incorporate societal concerns into a revisited border control paradigm.
The conference will also examine cutting-edge research developments in the area of personal identification, which in the future could be used to advance technological innovations in the border control domain.
The target audience consists of national authorities from the EU Member States and other countries, EU policy-makers, international organisations, airport authorities, carriers, as well as industry representatives and researchers involved in developing innovative border checks solutions.
A programme outline will be published shortly. However, should you wish to have more information about the event, please contact Frontex at: FOBC-Conference@frontex.europa.eu
Representatives from the industry and research institutions are kindly asked to register their interest in participating by 8 May 2015. Due to the limited places available, interested institutions will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis, according to the relevance of their work to the area of border checks. Frontex reserves the right to deny participation to those whose research and work focus is not aligned with the topic of the Conference. Those who registered their interest will be notified no later than on 13 May 2015 whether they were accepted to take part. No fees will be charged for participation.