07:30 hrs Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08:45 hrs Welcome to the 26th European Police Congress

Uwe Proll, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Behörden Spiegel

09:00 hrs Opening session

  • Iris Spranger, Senator for the Interior, Digitization and Sports Berlin
  • Dr. Katarina Barley, Vice-President of the European Parliament
  • Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of the Interior and Community

10:15 hrs Spatial coverage and man-to-man coverage: - Ideas for digital management of the “2024 European Football Championship” situation

Dr. Jörn Becker, Head of Public Sector und Defence Eviden Germany/ Christoph Zonsius, Head of Sales, State and Local Government, Esri Germany

10:35 hrs To what extent can the responsibility for digital resilience of a society be narrowed down or shared, and what role does AI play in this?

Mario Hempel, Head of Internal and External Security Division, Bechtle
10:55 hrs Coffee Break

12:00 hrs Panel Session I

  • Panel 1.1: Research for better policing
  • Panel 1.2: OSINT – Social Network Monitoring (for Professionals only)
  • Panel 1.3: AI used by security authorities
  • Panel 1.4: Digital sovereignty on the web
  • Panel 1.5: Face recognition – best practice in the police
  • Panel 1.6: Determination of fitness to drive – Are the planned EU regulations sufficient?
  • Panel 1.7: Secure mobile communication
  • Panel 1.8: Cyber security in Europe
  • Panel 1.9: Special forces (for Professionals only)
  • Panel 1.10: Illegal financial flows
  • Panel 1.11: P20
  • Panel 1.13: Trust, personnel, digitalization – What does the police need now?
  • Panel 1.14: Cannabis Release – Curse or blessing?

13:30 hrs Lunch

15:00 hrs Debate “New EU border management: a common task for the police“

Chair: Uwe Proll, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Behörden Spiegel

  • Dr. Lars Gerdes, Deputy Executive Director for Returns and Operations, Frontex
  • Victor-Ştefan Ivaşcu, Inspector General, Romanian Border Police
  • Eve Kalmus, Senior Border Official, Estonian Police and Border Guard Board
  • Isabel Schmitt-Falckenberg, Head of Federal Police Department, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs
  • General Michael Takacs, Head of group II/BPD, Ministry of the Interior, Republic of Austria

15:00 hrs Parallel Expert-Event: Vision and verification: what must the complete authentication of ID documents achieve? From scanner to security feature, from analog to digital - a look into the future

15:45 hrs New era of security: the federal platform for cross-border cooperation in Europe

Christopher Bick, CEO stashcat GmbH
16:05 hrs Coffee Break

16:30 hrs Panel Session II

  • Panel 2.1: Cloud: current projects and solutions
  • Panel 2.2: The digital Police
  • Panel 2.3: Evaluation of data – innovative and legally secure
  • Panel 2.4: Police gear – tough and protective
  • Panel 2.5: Clan Crime as a form of organized crime
  • Panel 2.6: Mobility change and increasing connectivity in road traffic – a challenge for the police (for Professionals only)
  • Panel 2.7: Cyber attacks on entities in the special public interest (UBI) by state actors
  • Panel 2.8: Reconstruction and organizational optimization of police forces abroad
  • Panel 2.9: 5G Networks – booster for digitization of authorities and organizations with security tasks
  • Panel 2.10: Education and training standardization, learning methods, use of technology
  • Panel 2.11: Cyber forensics
  • Panel 2.12: Criminal police at the limit? Challenges for the criminal police work of tomorrow
  • Panel 2.13: Police – a profession with future?!
  • Panel 2.14: No purchasing without award procedures – basics, flexible instruments and acceleration of procurement (Event for police and bidders)

18:10 hrs Debate “The state within the state - structured crime and violence“

Chair: Britta Zur, Former Police President Gelsenkirchen and councillor of the state capital Düsseldorf

  • Doreen Denstädt, Thuringian Minister for Migration, Justice and Consumer Protection, State Commissioner for Antiziganism
  • Alexander Dierselhuis, Police Chief Duisburg
  • Erika Hallenbo, Head of the Northern Police District Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Johannes Winkel, Chairman, Young Union of Germany

19:15 hrs Discussion “Motivation and encouragement“

Chair: Dr. Ingo Wolf, former Minister of the interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Thomas Dabel, Chief of police Neubrandenburg, Police Sports Officer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Vice chairman of DPSK
  • Lisa Unruh, Police Commissioner, Top athlete of the Federal Police
  • Holger Schwabe, Police Commissioner, Federal administrator for football of DPSK
  • Christiane Pilz, Police Commissioner, Duathlon/ Triathlon participant of the Olympic Games 2008

20:00 hrs Networking
07:30 hrs Opening of the Exhibition / Registration
08:40 Uhr Welcome to the 2nd Conference Day

08:45 Uhr Keynote

Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Executive Director of Europol

08:45 Uhr Parallel Side-Event: Riot police today and tomorrow

09:00 Uhr Discussion „Cyber – a communal task!“

Chair: Dr. Eva-Charlotte Proll, Editor and CDO, Behörden Spiegel

  • Dr. Christoph Erdmann, CEO, Secusmart
  • Heiko Löhr, Cybercrime Group Leader, Bundeskriminalamt
  • Volker Presse, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Federal Foreign Office
  • Ralf Rosanowski, President, Cyber Security Agency Baden-Württemberg (CSBW)
  • Dr. Gerhard Schabhüser, Vice President, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)
  • Andreas Stenger, President Landeskriminalamt Baden-Württemberg

09:00 Uhr Parallel Side-Event: User Forum Mobile broadband communication for security authorities (only in German)

10:10 hrs Secure, interoperable communication for the police based on Matrix

Dr. Patrick Alberts, Chief Product Officer & Managing Director, Element Software GmbH & Oskar Neda, Topic leader police messenger, Central Police Directorate Lower Saxony & Hato Nordeck,  Managing Director, Nordeck IT + Consulting GmbH
10:35 hrs Coffee Break

11:05 hrs Innovative and sovereign - Digitization of security authorities

Christoph Markson, Head of Security and Defense Europe, Palantir Technologies

11:25 hrs Award Ceremony of the „Zukunftspreis Polizeiarbeit 2023”

12:00 hrs Discussion of the Ministers and Senators of the Interior

Chair: Uwe Proll, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, Behörden Spiegel

  • Christian Pegel, Minister of the Interior, Construction and Digitalization of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Iris Spranger, Senator for the Interior, Digitization and Sports Berlin
  • Michael Stübgen, Minister of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs of the State of Brandenburg

13:00 hrs Lunch

14:30 hrs Panel Session III

  • Panel 3.1: Digital Forensics
  • Panel 3.2: Financial crime
  • Panel 3.3: Modern crime fighting (Predictive Policing)
  • Panel 3.4: Combat clan crime (for Professionals only)
  • Panel 3.5: Critical communication
  • Panel 3.6: Policing in the Metaverse – Police deployment training with virtual / augmented reality
  • Panel 3.7: Responsible use of AI by Law enforcement
  • Panel 3.8: Police Sport – maintaining operational capability
  • Panel 3.9: Joint operations – police, regulatory office, customs
  • Panel 3.10: Face recognation – Super-Recognizer

16:00 hrs End of Congress

Panel Session I: Wednesday, 3rd May 2023, 12:00 - 13:30 hrs

1.1 Research for better policing

Chair: Dr. Serge Röhrig, VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH

  • Dr. Katharina Kloke, Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  • Dr. Matthias Müller, State Criminal Police Office, Rhineland- Palatinate
  • Udo Schlegel, University of Konstanz
  • Dr. Sven Ehlert, PHOTONION GmbH

1.2 OSINT - Social Network Monitoring (for Professionals only)

Chair: Louis Jarvers, Program Police 20/20, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs

  • Dr. Alana Gramm, State Criminal Police Office Berlin
  • Steffen Iwan, Head of Direct Sales, Maltego Technolgies GmbH
  • Robert Schwerdtner, Head of Solution Design, rola Security Solutions GmbH
  • Laura Klünder, Intel Officer, Police Lower-Saxony
  • Daniel Pearce, Senior Director Policing and Security, Dataminr
  • Samuel Lolagar, Cyber Akademie

1.3 AI used by the security authorities

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director Bundespolizei (ret.)

  • Wilfried Karl, President, Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS)
  • Dominik Lawatsch, Senior AI Business Development Manager, secunet Security Networks AG
  • Stefan Pohl, State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Platinate
  • Dr. Robert Engels, Vice President, CTO, Global Head AI Futures, Capgemini
  • Matthias J. Szymansky, Senior Solution Manager, Data Economics, Materna Information & Communications SE

1.4 Digital sovereignty on the web

Chair: Ingmar Weitemeier, Former Director State Office of Criminal Investigation, G4C German Competence Centre against Cyber Crime e.V.

  • Prof. Dr. Jörn Müller-Quade, Head of the research group “Cryptography and Security“, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
  • Thomas Roosen, Director, State Office for Central Police Service North Rhine-Westphalia (LAfP NRW)
  • Michael Barth, Head Corporate Affairs Department, genua GmbH
  • Dr. Michael Littger, General Manager, Deutschland sicher im Netz e.V.

1.5 Face recognition - best practice in the police

Chair: Bernhard Egger, Chief detective director (ret.), State Criminal Office Bavaria

  • Carlos Oderiz, CRO Veridas S.L.
  • Sabine Wagner, Sales Manager, Videmo Intelligente Videoanalyse GmbH

1.6 Determination of fitness to drive - Are the planned EU regulations sufficient?

Chair: Kirsten Lühmann, Vice President German Road Safety Association

  • Wolfgang Eifinger, Senior Police Officer, Head of the Traffic Directorate, Police Kreis Euskirchen
  • Marco Schäler, Managing Director of the Traffic Commission of the German Police Union

1.7 Secure mobile communication

Chair: Dr. Günther Welsch, Head of Divison „Cryptosystems and IT Management (KM)“, Federal Office for Information Security

  • Georg Ringmayr, Chief Information Officer of the Bavarian Police Force
  • Uwe Robra, Head of the Technical Data Protection Unit of the State Data Protection Commissioner of Lower Saxony
  • Tobias Stepan, CEO, Teamwire GmbH
  • Dipl.-Ing. (TU) Frank Wötzel, CEO & CTO, Sputnik24

1.8 Cyber security in Europe

Chair: Andreas Könen, Ministerial Director, Head of Department Cyber- and Informationsecurity, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community, Germany

  • Dr. Annegret Bendiek, Head of the Project European Repository of Cyber Incidents (EuRepoC)
  • Clemens Möslinger, Head of Department I/8: Cybersecurity, GOVCERT, NIS BÜRO and ZAS, Federal Chancellery Austria
  • Marco Gocht, Managing Director ISEC7 GmbH
  • Lucas Sy, Director, PwC Strategy

1.9 Special forces (for Professionals only)

Chair: Rüdiger Wollgramm, Senior Police Director (ret)

  • Dr. Bernd Bürger, Head of Operations and Traffic, Training Institute of the Bavarian Police („Possible uses of USK/BFE as support or alternative to special units“)
  • Heinz Krapohl, Weapons Technology Laboratory, State Office for Central Police Services North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Bernhard Treibenreif, Director of Task Force Cobra/ Directorate for Special Forces, Austria
  • Mauritius Fahrbach, Head Special Forces, Lower-Saxony Police
  • Klaus Albert, Area Manager CBRN Protection, deconta GmbH

1.10 Illegal financial flows

Chair: Colonel Marco Tripodi, Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Berlin, Guardia di Finanza

Introduction: Colonel Marco Tripodi

  • Colonel Teodoro Gallone, Head of Operations and Liaison Office, Central Organised Crime Service of the Guardia di Finanza
  • Major Daniele Di Quattro, Special Currency Unit, Guardia di Finanza
  • Juliane Sander, Department of Money Laundering Prevention, Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises
  • Jonas Jungmann, Executive Illicit Trade Prevention (ITP), PHILIP MORRIS GmbH
  • Pamela A. Clegg, Vice President, Crypto Investigations and Risk, Mastercard

1.11 P20

Chair: Dr. Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

  • Holger Gadorosi, Program Manager P20, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
  • Gerald Eder, Professional Program Manager P20, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
  • Stephan Schmidbauer, Officer in the Legal and Data Protection Division of P20 at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community
  • Bodo Koch, Chief Digital Officer, Police Hesse
  • Dr. Patrick Alberts, Chief Product Officer & Managing Director, Element

1.13 Trust, personnel, digitalization - What does the police need now?

Chair: Patrick Heinzelmann, Senior Manager, PwC

  • Dr. Wolfgang Zink, Partner, PwC
  • Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, Former Federal Minister of Justice and Deputy Chairwoman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
  • Rainer Wendt, Federal Chairman, German Police Union
  • Prof. Dr. Anja Schiemann, Head of Department „Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminal Policy“, German Police University
  • Ralf Martin Meyer, Policepresident, Hamburg Police

1.14 Cannabis Release - curse or blessing?

Chair: Hermann-Joseph Borjans, Behörden Spiegel Stiftung

  • Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman of the Association of German Criminal Police Officers
  • Brigadier Daniel Lichtenegger, Head of the Office for Combating Drug-Related Crime at the Federal Criminal Police Office, Austria
  • Georg Wurth, German Hemp Association
  • Dr. Florian Holzapfel, Cantourage GmbH
  • Melanie Dolfen, District Pharmacy Berlin

Panel Session II: Wednesday, 3rd May 2023, 16:30 - 18:00 hrs

2.1 Cloud: current projects and solutions

Chair: Vera Sikes, Head of Technical Competence, Federal Office for Information Security

Introduction: Dr. Kai Martius, CTO, secunet Security Networks AG

  • Marco Gräf, Head of Department IV, Federal Information Technology Center
  • Hans-Jörg Schäper, Ministerial Dirigent, Permanent Representative, Department VI Information Technology, Federal Ministry of Finance
  • Dr. Christian Janssen, Head Public Sector, Capgemini Cloud Infrastructure Services
  • Daniel Zipperer, Managing Consultant, SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH

2.2 The digital police

Chair: Ralf Michelfelder, Former President of the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg

  • Oliver Stock, Consultant for Cybercrime and Financial Crime, Ministry of the Interior and Sport Lower Saxony, (Member of the IT-Commission of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei)
  • Ramon Mörl, CEO itWatch GmbH
  • Till Elborg, CEO, Sinc GmbH
  • Christin Letz, Consultant Digitalization Public & Governance, Inspire Technologies GmbH
  • Rainer Wendt, Federal Chairman, German Police Union (DPolG)

2.3 Evaluation of data - innovative and legally secure

Chair: Holger Berens, Course director Compliance and Corporate Security, Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln gGmbH

  • Dr. Vyacheslav Bartnikov, The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BfDI), Department 32 – Federal Criminal Police Office, Federal Attorney General, Federal Office of Justice
  • Dirk Kunze, Head of the sub-project Law of the state working group Evaluation and Analysis of the Police NRW, State Criminal Police Office North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Markus Sabias, Head of the department ICT Use and Cybercrime, Hessian State Criminal Police Office
  • Pablo Navarro, Business Developer, ISID.SL
  • Jens Reumschuessel, Sales Director Dach region, Cobwebs GmbH
  • Dr. Benjamin Karer, Executive Consultant, CGI
  • Stefan Skrok, Presales Consultant, Schönhofer Sales and Engineering GmbH

2.4 Police gear - tough and protective

ChairRalf Kusterer, Deputy Federal Chairman, German Police Union (DPolG)

Introdiction: Dr. Jan-Peter Goldmann, German Sport University Cologne

  • Oliver Hoffmann, President, IPA Germany
  • Gerhard Schaub, Management Member, Verband Schweizerischer Polizei-Beamter
  • Anette Fey, Sales Director, analyticon instruments GmbH
  • Stefan Biermann, Head Special Protection Vehicles, BMW
  • Sven Steffes-Holländer, Specialist for Psychosomatic Medicine & Psychotherapy, Heiligenfeld Clinic Berlin

2.5 Clan crime as a form of organized crime

Chair: Peter Hehne, Head of Department Evaluation and Investigation, State Criminal Police Office Thuringia

  • Marco Schepers, Company representative for product security, adp MERKUR GmbH
  • Thorsten Vogelheim, State Criminal Office North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Lukas Schiffer, Head of Sales Law Enfocement, TactiScan
  • Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

2.6 Mobility change and increasing connectivity in road traffic - a challenge for the police (for Professionals only)

Chair: Rüdiger Wollgramm, Senior Police Director (ret)

  • Thomas Franta, Automotive IT Coordination Office, State Office for Central Police Services North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Christoph Fothen, Hochschule der Polizei Rheinland-Pfalz
  • Klaus Pfitzner, Team Leader Automotive IT, PI SE North Bavaria – Technical Task Force
  • Wilhelm Kuntscher, Sales International, STOOF International GmbH

2.7 Cyber attacks on entities in the special public interest (UBI) by state actors

Chair: Katharina Sook Hee Koch, National Cyber Response Center, Federal Office for Information Security

  • Brigadegeneral Armin Fleischmann, Head of Department CIT I, Federal Ministry of Defence
  • Michael Gams, Head of Unit Cyber Threat Analysis, Bundesnachrichtendienst
  • Dr. Regine Grienberger, Cyber Ambassador, Federal Foreign Office
  • Johannes Hermann, Security Officer, Rolls Royce
  • Heiko Löhr, Cybercrime Group leader, Bundeskriminalamt
  • Dr. Gerhard Schabhüser, Vice President, Federal Office for Information Security

2.8 Reconstruction and organizational optimization of police forces abroad

Chair: Uwe Mainz, Crime director (ret)

  • Andreas Backhoff, Inspector of the state riot police, Federal Minister of the Interior and Community
  • Kestutis Lancinskas, National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, Lithuania
  • Brigadier General Hernan Alonso Meneses Gelves, Police of Columbia
  • Ricardo Yanez Reveco, Police Director General, Police of Chile

2.9 5G - booster for digitization of authorities and organizations with security tasks

Chair: Paul Schubert, Behörden Spiegel

Introduction: Pia von Houwald, Director Digital Processes & Services, Telefónica Germany

  • Nikolaos Kalivianakis, Director Business Solutions, Telefónica Germany
  • Jorge Muñoz, Co-Founder and Vice President, Unmanned Life
  • Martin Schurig, Head of Financial & Enabling Services, Telefónica Germany

2.10 Education and training (standardization, learning methods, use of technology)

Chair: Martin Bornträger, President, University of Police and Administration North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Christine Frücht, Director, State Office for Education and Training and Personnel Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lange, President, German Police University (DHPol)
  • Dr. Stephan Gottwald, Head of control and situation centers, IABG
  • Alexandru Caciuloiu, Deputy Head of Training and Research Unit / Head of Sector E-learning and CEPOL Cybercrime Academy, CEPOL, Budapest

2.11 Cyber forensics

Chair: Maik Hofmann, Chief Operating Officer, Cyber Akademie

  • Dr. Andreas Attenberger, Research Director Digital Forensics, Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector ZITiS, Germany
  • Janine Schneider, Chair of IT Security Infrastructures, Friedrich-Alexander-University-Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Christian Haupt, Technical Manager for Security Solutions in the Competence Center Digital Forensics, SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
  • Richard Keeble, Microfocus
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Steinebach, Head of department Media Security and IT Forensics, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT

2.12 Criminal police at the limit? Challenges for the criminal police work of tomorrow (Panel in cooperation with the Association of German Criminal Police Officers)

Chair: Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman of the Association of German Criminal Police Officers

  • Dr. Walter Seubert, President of the Hessian School of Public Management and Safety
  • Wilfried Karl, President of the Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITIS)
  • Bodo Koch, Vice President of the Hessian Presidium for Technology and Chief Digital Officer of the Hessian Police Department
  • Christoph Markson, Head of Security and Defense Europe, Palantir Technologies

2.13 Police - a profession with future?!

Chair: Alexander Poitz, Deputy Federal Chairman of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei & Sibylle Krause, Member of the Executive Federal Board of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei

  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Jarolimek, German Police University
  • Prof. Dr. Birgit Wiese, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
  • Stephen Köppe, Berlin School of Economics and Law
  • Meike to Baben, Chairwoman of the GdP‘s Federal Committee of Experts on the Protection Police

2.14 No purchasing without award procedures - basics, flexible instruments and acceleration of procurement (Event for police and bidders)

Chair: Dr. Stefan Mager, Partner, Specialist lawyer for public procurement law, Luther

Introduction 1: Dr. Stefan Mager, 

Introduction 2: Tobias Osseforth, Partner, Specialist lawyer for public procurement law, Luther

  • Peter Leweke, IT-Chief, Police North Rhine-Westphalia

Panel Session III: Thursday, 4th May 2023, 14:30 - 16:00 hrs

3.1 Digital forensics

Chair: Prof. Dr. Christian Hummert, Research Director, Cyber Agency

  • Prof. Dr. Elmar Padilla, Head of Department Cyber Analysis & Defense Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE
  • Christian Zwick, Head of Commissariat 16 (IT forensics/technical investigation support) of the Central Criminal Inspectorate Ludwigshafen
  • Sebastian Pieper, Sales Director, Cellebrite

3.2 Financial crime

Chair: Prof. Dr. Kilian Wegner, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

  • Frank Buckenhofer, Vice Chairman Gewerkschaft der Polizei
  • Benedict Castro, Special Agent, IRS – Criminal Investigation United States of America
  • Justin Deutsch, Senior Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) United States of America
  • Joseph Durand, Deputy HSI Attaché, U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt
  • Philip Ariss, Director, UK Public Sector Relations, TRM Labs
  • Michael Scherrer, Regional Manager, Chainalysis

3.3 Modern crime fighting (Predictive Policing)

Chair: Florian Westrich, Technical programme manager „Police 2020 Rhineland-Palatinate“, deputy head of department 6 „Phenomenon-spanning analysis, State Criminal Police Office Rhineland-Palatinate

  • Iván Luis Martínez Villanueva, Project Manager at the European Projects Division, Valencia Local Police
  • Ingmar Weitemeier, Former Director State Office of Criminal Investigation, G4C German Competence Centre against Cyber Crime e.V
  • Dr. iur. Thomas Gabriel Rüdiger, Head of the Institute for Cybercriminology, Brandenburg Police College
  • Dr. Thomas Schweer, Research Director for Empirical Police Research and Tactical Crime Analysis, LogObject Group
  • Albert Schöppl, Senior Executive Consultant, LogObject Group
  • Andreas Rohr, Managing Director of the German Cyber Security Organization

3.4 Combat clan crime (for Professionals only)

Chair: Uwe Mainz, Crime director (ret)

  • Erika Hallenbo, Head of the Northern Police District Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Nina Menzel, Chief Crime Officer, Landeskriminalamt Lower- Saxony
  • Frank Lukaschewski, First Detective Superintendent, Landeskriminalamt Lower-Saxony
  • Andreas Stüve, Police Chief Essen
  • Alexander Dierselhuis, Police Chief Duisburg

3.5 Critical communication

Chair: Dr. Enrique Belda Esplugues, Deputy Director General of Information Systems and Communication for Security, Secretary of State for Security, Ministry of the Interior of Spain

  • Héctor Estévez Pomar, CEO, Centum Research and Technology S.L
  • Paula Martin Coba, Grupo TRC
  • José L. Diego, Head of the Innovation & Project Management Division, Valencia Local Police, Expert-Evaluator for the European Commission
  • Pablo Navarro, Business Developer, ISID.SL
  • Deepak Daswani, Technical Sales, Mollitiam Industries, S.L.
  • Lieutenant Andrea Alba Ramajo, Guardia Civil, Fiscal and Border Headquarters, Border Area, Airport Security Section
  • Carlos Oderiz, CRO Veridas S.L.

3.6 Policing in the metaverse - Police deployment training with virtual/ augmented reality

Chair: Dr. Philipp Amann, Head of Strategy, European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Europol

  • Jonas Zinnäcker, Innovation Hub 110, Hesse Police
  • Simon Smaczny, Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, Systems Engineering and Image Analysis, Karlsruhe
  • Ronny Tobler, Co-CEO, Refense AG
  • Ismael Alvarez, Metaverse Expert, Europol Innovation Lab

3.7 Responsible use of AI by law enforcement

Chair: Irakli Beridze, Head Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics UNICRI, United Nations

  • Katharina Sook Hee Koch, National Cyber Response Center, Federal Office for Information Security Cyril Piotrowicz, Secretary-General of National Observatory of Scientific and Technological Innovation for Security Gendarmerie Nationale. France
  • John Croker, Faculty of Law, Oxford University
  • Michael O´Connell, UNICRI Centre for AI and Robotics
  • Georg Rau, Account Advisor Internal Security, SAS Institute GmbH
  • Christian Bratz, Assistant Director Strategic Innovation, INTERPOL

3.8 Police sport - maintaining operational capability (Panel in cooperation with the German Police Sports Board)

Chair: Andreas Röhner, Police Director, Sports Commissioner of the State of Thuringia and Secretary General

  • Dr. Maren Freyher, Senior Police Director, Sports Commissioner of the State of Schleswig-Holstein and Chairwoman of the German Police Sports Board
  • Dr. Jan-Peter Goldmann, German Sport University Cologne
  • Jochen Kopelke, Federal Chairman of the Gewerkschaft der Polizei

3.9 Joint operations – police, regulatory office, customs

Chair: Jörg Lehnert, Department Money laundering prevention, Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises

  • Prof. Dr. Dorothee Dienstbühl, Criminologist, University of Applied Sciences for Police and Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Marco Müller, Head Security Coordination, Code Enforcement Essen
  • Colonel Teodoro Gallone, Head of Operations and Liaison Office, Central Organised Crime Service of the Guardia di Finanza
  • Colonel Armando Galletto, Head of the Money Laundering and Countering Terrorism Financing Unit, Guardia di Finanza
  • Bernhard Stratmann, Police Chief, North Rhine-Westfalia Police Department
  • Sven Oblau, Police Chief, North Rhine-Westfalia Police Department

3.10 Face recognation - Super-Recognizer

Chair: Prof. Dr. Meike Ramon, Head of Applied Face Cognition Lab, University of Lausanne

  • Wolfgang Inderst, First Chief Detective, Munich Police Department
  • Dr. Maren Mayer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen
  • Andreas Haböck, Criminal Investigator, Crime Situation/ Operations Control/ PKS/ Super Recognizer, Munich Police Headquarters
  • Lorenz Wyss, Head of Tracing Department, Winterthur Police, Switzerland
  • Sascha Träuble, Chief Detective & Super-Recognizer, Stuttgart Police Headquarters
  • Michael Michajlow, Police Chief & Super-Recognizer, Berlin Police Department
  • Simon Rjosk, Senior Consultant, BearingPoint

Wednesday, 3rd May 2023, 15:00 - 16:15 hrs

Vision and verification: what must the complete authentication of ID documents achieve? From scanner to security feature, from analog to digital - a look into the future

Chair: Paul Schubert, Behörden Spiegel

  • Alexander Zahn, General Manager DESKO GmbH
  • Tim Wilbrink, Senior Software Developer, Mühlbauer ID Services GmbH

Thursday, 4th May 2023, 08:45 - 12:00 hrs

Riot police today and tomorrow

08:45 hrs Keynote speech, Andreas Backhoff, Inspector of the Riot Police of the Federal States, Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs

09:00 hrs Riot police – equipment and performance, Clemens Murr, Member of the Executive Federal Board, Gewerkschaft der Polizei

09:15 hrs Assembly activities in the State of Saxony in the years 2020 to 2022, Thomas Kretzschmar, Police Director, Head of Unit 2, Operations, Situation Service at the Presidium of the Riot  Police Saxony

09:30 hrs Deployment of the Federal Riot Police – priorities and perspectives, Frank Vornholt, Chief police director, Federal Riot Police Directorate

09:45 hrs Clearance of Lützerath in the Rhineland lignite mining area – special challenges from the perspective of police management, Wilhelm Sauer, Chief Police Director, Police Department Aachen

10:00 hrs The operation „Evacuation Lützerath“ from the point of view of an operation section, Christoph Dünwald, Police Director, Police Department Wuppertal

10:15 hrs Coffee Break

10:30 hrs SB-App upstream casework

  • Sascha Lang, Police Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Stephanie Bastuck, Police Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Carmen Schweickardt, Police Rhineland-Palatinate

10:45 hrs Training concept of the Bavarian riot police, Jürgen Lochner, Chief Police Director, Presidium of the Riot Police Bavaria

11:00 hrs Presentation of the mobile command post Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wulf Nehls, Police Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

11:15 hrs Web application „Special Operational Planning Lower Saxony – BEN“, Lukas Heitjan, Central Police Department Lower-Saxony

11:00 hrs Summary of the theme day, Andreas Backhoff, Inspector of the Riot Police of the Federal States, Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs

Thursday, 4th May 2023, 09:00 - 16:00 hrs

User Forum Mobile broadband communication for security authorities (only in German)

09:30 hrs Welcome to the User Forum, Dr. Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

09:35 hrs Next-generation digital radio: new possibilities for greater safety, Thomas Scholle, Department Manager Strategy/Controlling, Federal agency for digital radio for authorities and organizations with security tasks (BDBOS)

10:05 hrs New era of security: the federal platform for cross-border cooperation, Jan Bonde Hennies, stashcat GmbH

10:35 hrs Secure mobile BOS communication with 4G & 5G, today and tomorrow, Robin Friedrich, Manager Converged Network Development Vodafone GmbH

11:05 hrs Kaffeepause

11:30 hrs The establishment of mobil workflows as part of the P20 Program, Gerald Eder, Program Manager P20, Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs

12:00 hrs Safety-critical multimedia mission communication via 4G/5G-MCX-mobile networks, Volker Hartwein, Director Business Development Public Safety Germany, Frequentis AG & Dr. Ralf Irmer, Chief Innovation Architect, Vodafone

12:30 hrs Satcom – Requirements of the BOS and their implementation using the example of Lower Saxony, Markus Schneider, Department 43, Lower Saxony Central
Police Headquarters

13:00 hrs Broadband connectivity for public safety and security organisations enabled by nomadic LTE-cells available today, Jens Elsner, Business Development Manager, Vites GmbH

13:30 hrs Mittagspause

14:30 hrs Hybrid allows safe and efficient migration to broadband, Alexander Aschir, Product Solutions Manager, Airbus Secure Land Communications GmbH

14:50 hrs “Mobile Police” – Bavarian police fully networked on patrol, Georg Ringmayr, Chief Information Officer of the Bavarian Police Force

15:10 hrs Future of Communications for Safer Communities, Tobias Ehret, Key Account Manager BOS Germany & Luxemburg, Motorola Solutions Deutschland GmbH

15:30 hrs Situation support by unmanned aerial systems, Thomas Lübcke, Head of Research and Development, German Maritime Search and Rescue Service, Bremen

16:00 hrs Summary and end of the User Forum

Congress Chair: Dieter Wehe, Inspector General of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Police (rtd.)

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