Tuesday, 14th September 2021

07:30 hrs Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08:45 hrs Welcome to the 24th European Police Congress

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

09:00 hrs Opening Session

  • Hans-Georg Engelke, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community
  • Karl Nehammer, Federal Minister of the Interior, Republic of Austria
  • Andreas Geisel, Senator for the Interior and Sport Berlin
  • Luis Carrilho, Director Police Division / United Nations Police Advisor

10:30 hrs Incident Management and Crisis Response - Harnessing Potential

Andreas Kleinknecht, Senior Director of the Public Sector division, Member of the executive board of Microsoft Deutschland
11:00 hrs Coffee Break
11:45 Hrs Panel Session 1

1A Border security in Europe

Chair: Matthias Seeger, former President, Federal Police Central Office

Speakers:

  • Dr. Raphael Bossong, Research Division: EU/Europe, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
  • Günther Mull, CEO, Dermalog
  • Dr. Christian Schminder, innovation management & security research, Capgemini Deutschland
  • Egert Belitšev, Deputy Director General for Border Management, Estonian Police and Border Guard Board

1B Cybercrime – phenomena and challenges

Chair: Peter-Michael Kessow, CEO, G4C German Competence Centre against Cybercrime

Speakers:

  • Miguel de Bruycker, Director, Belgian Centre for Cyber Security (CCB)
  • Carsten Meywirth*, Head of the Cybercrime Division, Bundeskriminalamt
  • Ramon Mörl, CEO, itWatch GmbH
  • Alexander Wolf, Senior Berater, Disy Informationssysteme GmbH
  • Matthias Memmesheimer, Managing director, sapite

1C Safe equipment for the police (+15 min)

Chair: Andreas Backhoff, Commander-in-Chief of the Public Order Support Forces, German Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Buildin and Community

Speakers:

  • Edwin Busch, Chief Executive Officer, Busch PROtective Germany
  • Ulrich Haverkamp, Chief Executive Officer, Haverkamp
  • Marcel Heß, Produkt Spezialist Sales, Canon
  • Max Hofmann, Secretary General, Association of Swiss Police Officers
  • Ute Vogt, MP, Spokeswoman on internal affairs, SPD-parliamentary group, German Bundestag
  • Alexander Heil, International VP Sales, Stoof

1D Dying on Europe‘s streets – how much longer?
(Panel in cooperation with Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft (DPolG))

Chair: Kirsten Lühmann, MP, SPD-parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag

Speakers:

  • Stefan Grieger, German Road Safety Council
  • Christoph Klauser, Business Development Traffic Solutions, Kistler Instrumente
  • Wolfgang Lang, VITRONIC GmbH
  • Marco Schäler, Police headquarter Koblenz
  • Ellen Townsend, Transport Safety Council
  • Gerhard Schaub, Development Manager, Ekin Swiss

1E From the infrastructure to the end device: secure mobile communication (+ 15 min)

Chair: Dr. Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel Central Office

Speakers:

  • Christopher Bick, CEO stashcat
  • Mathias Schaef, Head of Directorate for Combatting Crime, Federal Police Headquarters
  • Christoph Seidl, Enterprise Architect, Eurofunk
  • Rinco van der Beek, Key Account Manager, 3M
  • Georg Ringmayr, Chief Information Officer of the Bavarian Police Force
  • Dennis Olischläger, Senior product manager, secunet Security Networks AG
  • Florian Wächter, Zentrale Polizeidirektion Lower Saxony

1F From the collection of digital traces to the evaluation of data

Chair: Lukas Schäfer, Manager/ COO, Cyber Akademie

  • Prof Dr Steffen Bug, Hessian University for Police and Administration (HfPV)
  • Anna-Maija Graus, Strategic Sales Manager, MSAB
  • Nils Pilgrim, General Police Directorate of Osnabrück
  • Jens Reumschuessel, Sales Director DACH, Exterro
  • Sebastian Schriever, Head of IT Forensics, DVZ
  • Alexander Schuetterle, VP Sales Strategic Accounts EMEA, Cellebrite
  • Peter Warnke, CEO, Magnet Forensics

1G AI: technology for security authorities

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director Federal Police (rtd.)

Speakers:

  • Steffen Iwan, Maltego Technologies
  • Thomas Feld, Vice President Data Economics Business Line Public Sector, Materna Information & Communications SE
  • Oscar Wijsman, Business Expert Intelligence & Digitalisation, Big Data, Analytics, Data Science & AI, Netherlands Police
  • Franz Kögl, IntraFind Software AG
13:15 hrs Lunch

14:40 hrs Policing during and after the crisis

Impulse: Prof Dr Wilhelm Schmidbauer, Chief Constable, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration

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

  • Luis Carrilho, Director Police Division / United Nations Police Advisor
  • Dr Daniela Lesmeister, Head of Unit Policei, Ministry for Home Affairs North Rhine-Westphalia
  • May-Britt V. R. Ronnebro, Secretary General, International Police Association
  • Calum Steele, 1st Vice President, European Confederation of Police (EuroCOP), Secretary General, Scottish Police Federation

Parallel to the main program (14:45 - 15:35 hrs)

Automated unmanned aerial systems

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director Federal Police (rtd.)

Speakers:

  • Matthias Gronstedt, Managing Director, HHLA Sky

15:40 hrs Successful scaling of innovation approaches in the security sector

Matthias Biniok, Leader Technology Garage DACH, IBM
16:00 hrs Coffee Break
16:15 hrs Panel Session 2

2A Cyber-security – current challenges

Chair: Lukas Schäfer, Manager/ COO, Cyber Akademie

Speakers:

  • Michael Barth, Head of Department Corporate Affairs, Compliance Officer, genua GmbH
  • Wolfgang Fritsche, IABG
  • Dr. Philipp Amann, Head of Strategy European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), EUROPOL
  • Derek Pillar, Lead Security Monitoring and Response Analyst, Mastercard
  • Ingo Prestel, Public Sector Sales, SailPoint

2B Organised crime: economy and finance

Chair: Wolfgang Volland, former police officer

Speakers:

  • Holger Brümmer, division manager fraud management strategy, Targobank
  • Jörg Lehnert, Group leader money laundering, Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises Berlin
  • Georg Rau, Account Advisor, SAS DACH
  • Marco Schepers, Gauselmann
  • Dominik Kampmann, EMEA Leader for Law Enforcement, Defense and Intelligence Services, Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing GmbH
  • Dr Martin Mohorko, Stellvertretender Leiter Juristischer Dienst Finanzpolizei im Amt für Betrugsbekämpfung, Bundesministerium für Finanzen

2C Artificial Intelligence – Current Applications

Chair: Dieter Schürmann, Police General Director of Investigation/Commissioner of Police (ret)

Speakers:

  • Irakli Beridze, Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at UNICRI, United Nations
  • Dr. Robert Engels, Vice President, CTO, Center of Excellence on AI Lead, Capgemini Norway
  • Dr. Florian Wagner, dataport
  • Sabrina Wagner, Sales Manager, Videmo Intelligente Videoanalyse GmbH
  • Robert Schwerdtner, Team Lead Innovationmanagement, rola Security Solutions GmbH

2D Technology and specialist committees: the basis for digital sovereignty (Panel in cooperation with Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS))

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director Federal Police (rtd.)

Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Rainer Bernnat, Partner, PwC Strategy&
  • Martina Link, Vice-President, Bundeskriminalamt
  • Lars Zimmermann, Managing Director von Public Germany

2E Smart tools for urban safety: the co-creation of public policy by private and public players

Chair: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Jacobs, Full professor & Dean of Erasmus University College, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Speakers:

  • Dr. Britta Elena Hecking, research associate, CAMINO
  • Massimo Fattori, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
  • Moritz Konradi, research associate, CAMINO
  • Helena Köster, Senior Product Manager – Urban Security Market, Smiths Detection, European Organization for Security
  • Aike Janssen, Advisor of the department of public safety, Municipality of Rotterdam
  • Rien van der Steenoven, City marine in the industrial area of ‘Spaanse Polder’, Municipality of Rotterdam
  • Julia Rettig, Programme Manager, European Forum for Urban Security
  • Verena Zell, Business Development Manager, Airbus Secure Land Communications, European Organization for Security

2G Equipment for the police

Chair: Thomas Hampel, Präsident, Polizeipräsidium München

Speakers:

  • Burkard Dregger, MP, CDU-FP-parliamentary group, Berlin’s Parliament ü
  • Adrian Jochum, Key Account Manager, Transparent Amour, KRD Sicherheitstechnik
  • Tim Ludwig, Representative DACH, Indico Systems AS

2H Transcription of videoed hearings

Panel in cooperation with Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK))

Chair: Michael Marufke, EKHK a.D., Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter

Speaker:

  • Gerhard Gunst, ATOS
17:45 hrs Coffee Break

18:10 hrs New protection standard achieved: The new Zenturio with standalone VPAM-6 protection

Georg Scharpenack, CEO, Ulbrichts Protection, Ulbrichts

18:30 hrs Milestones for the future of homeland security

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

Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Roland Koch, Prime Minister of Hesse (ret.)
  • Konstantin Kuhle, MP, Policy spokesperson, FDP
  • Dr. Irene Mihalic, MP, Policy spokesperson, Alliance 90/The Greens

19:15 hrs Networking

Wednesday, 15th September 2021

07:30 hrs Opening of the Exhibition / Registration

08:45 hrs

General Francisco Esteban Perez, Director, Civilian planning and conduct capability (CPCC), European External Action Service

09:15 hrs

Arne Schönbohm, President, Federal Office for Information Security

Parallel to the main program (09:30 – 11:30 hrs) – The Corona Pandemic as a Challenge for Police, Science, administration and media

Chair: Hermann-Josef, Borjans, EKHK (rtd.) , Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter

  • Andreas Sandvoß, Police Cologne
  • Dr Carsten Schymik, State Chancellery North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Ina Strating, Expert for crisis communication
  • Prof Dr Frank Überall, Chairman of German Federation of Journalists
  • Andrea Walraven-Thissen, Critical Incident Lead, Trainer and Consultant, Suicide Bereavement

Parallel to the main program (09:45 – 11:00 hrs) – Effective Collection of Actionable Intelligence via Powerful OSINT Tools

Chair: Ariel Talbi, Managing Director, APAC & EMEA, Cobwebs Technologies

  • Jan Delissen, Operational Specialist OSINT, Dutch National Police

Parallel to the main program (10:00 – 11:30 hrs) – Expert forum: Security research on migration issues

Chair: Dr Serge Röhrig, Project Management Agency for Security Research, VDI Technologiezentrum GmbH

  • Welcome and introduction
    The Federal Government’s Security Research Programme – Objectives, Contents and Opportunities for Participation
    Dr Katharina Kloke, Department 524 – Civil Security Research, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
  • Presentation of research results from the project “Smartphone-based Analysis of Migration Trends for the Identification of Smuggling Routes (SmartIdentification)”
    Dr André Calero-Valdez, researcher at the Chair of Communication Science, RWTH Aachen University
  • Presentation of research results from the project “Security Cooperation and Migration (SiKoMi)”
    Dr Patricia M. Schütte, researcher at the Chair of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Bergische Universität Wuppertal
  • Presentation of research results from the project “Migration and Security in the City (migsst)”
    Prof Dr Rita Haverkamp, Endowed Professor of Crime Prevention and Risk Management, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

09:45 hrs Facing crisis with a promising future

Mario Hempel, Director Sales Development Public Sector, Bechtle

10:05 hrs Eurojust - European judicial cooperation: a model for the future

Klaus Meyer-Cabri, Vizepräsident of European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation (EUROJUST)

10:35 hrs Police small arms platforms for today’s main risk scenarios with main focus on the new special caliber 300BLK (7.62mm x 35)

Marc Roth, Head of product strategy, head of  special tasks, Heckler & Koch GmbH
10:55 hrs Coffee Break

11:30 hrs Award Ceremony of the „Zukunftspreis Polizeiarbeit 2021

11:45 hrs Discussion of the Ministers and Senators of the Interior

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

Speakers:

  • Andreas Geisel, Senator for the Interior and Sport Berlin
  • Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, for Sport and Integration
  • Herbert Reul, Minister for Home Affairs, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Michael Stübgen, Minister of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs of the State of Brandenburg
  • Prof. Dr. Roland Wöller, State Minister of the Interior, Free State of Saxony

12:45 hrs Resume of the Main Program

13:00 hrs Lunch
14:30 hrs Panel Session

3A Future police officer

Chair: Oliver Hoffmann, Vice president, IPA Germany

Speakers:

  • Stefan Böhm, Director Public Administration, Bundesdruckerei GmbH
  • Thomas Roosen, Director, State Office for Central Police Services North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Lukas Schiffer, Head of Sales Law Enforcement – TactiScan, Spectral Engines GmbH
  • Andreas Mucke, CEO, MR.KNOW
  • Marc Schlingheider, Director business unit federal and local goverment, IBM

3B Protection in public places

Chair: Dennis Gladiator, MP, Spokesman on internal affairs, CDU parliamentary group Hamburg

Speakers:

  • Roland Raith, Director Business Development EMEA – Forensic, Hexagon Geosystems Services
  • Prof Dr Meike Ramon, Applied Face Cognition Lab, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Rainer Wendt, Chairman, Deutsche Polizeigewerkschaft (DPolG)

3D Violance against police

Chair: Dr. Barbara Slowik, Police Chief Berlin

Speakers:

  • Jörg Kubiessa, Police Chief Dresden
  • Christian Scherf, Executive Director, Axon
  • Gerrit van de Kamp, President, European Police Union
  • Sven Steffes-Holländer, Chief Physician, Heiligenfeld Clinic Berlin

3E Assistive AI for the police

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director Federal Police (rtd.)

Speakers:

  • Till Elborg, Mitglied der Geschäftsführung, sinc
  • Dr. Martin Wachter, Bavarian State Ministry of Justice
  • Rainer Größer, IBM
  • Markus Hartmann, Attorney General, Head of ZAC NRW, Cologne public prosecutor‘s office

3F UN Peacekeeping and EU Crisis Management: Strategic Partnership and Cooperation in the Field

Chair: Dagmar Busch, Head of Directorate-General B Federal Police Issues, Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community

  • Luis Carrilho, Director Police Division / United Nations Police Advisor
  • General Francisco Esteban Perez, Director, Civilian planning and conduct capability (CPCC), European External Action Service
  • Natalina Cea, Head of Mission, European Union Border Assistance Mission Libya (EUBAM)
  • Meinolf Schlotmann, Police Commissioner, United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)
16:00 hrs End of Congress

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

*speaker requested