07:30 Opening of the exhibition / registration

08:30 Welcome to the 27. European Police Congress

Uwe Proll, Behörden Spiegel with Dr Barbara Slowik, Chief of Police, Berlin Police Department

08:45 Opening

Michael Stübgen, Minister of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs, Brandenburg, Chairman of the Standing Conference of the Ministers and Senators of the Interior of the States (IMK)

09:05

Hans-Georg Engelke, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs

09:25

Special guests, Ukraine

09:50 Together worth more

Lothar Krapf, Head of the Internal Security Division at Bechtle Systemhaus Bonn/Berlin

10:10 The challenge of migration from the perspective of the 2023/2024 Council presidencies

Chair: Lena Düpont MdEP, EVP, Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

  • Jochen Anthierens, Envoy, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Csaba Mazák, Envoy of the Embassy of Hungary
  • José Luis Rodríguez, Envoy of the Embassy of Spain

10:55 Elevating Safety and Efficiency: Integrating Drone Technology in Law Enforcement

Bart Ramaekers, Superintendent Police CARMA & UAS State Operator, Belgian Police
Sergey Georgiev, Legal and Program Manager, DJI
Arnar Thor Egilsson, Chief Inspector at National Commissioner, ­Technical Support and Drone Project Manager, Icelandic Police

11:15 Coffee break & networking

12:00 Panels I

  • Panel 1.1: Women in management positions
  • Panel 1.2: AI in the processing of mass data by the criminal investigation department
  • Panel 1.3: Sustainability of public-private partnership in public security
  • Panel 1.4: Child sexual abuse (CSA crimes): future challenges
  • Panel 1.5: Establishing and securing rule of law structures in Ukraine
  • Panel 1.6: Success factors and pitfalls in IT projects: From legally compliant procurement to effective project implementation
  • Panel 1.7: Leadership challenges in times of generational change
  • Panel 1.9: Security vs. freedom – What the use of video technology can achieve in the fight against crime and where the legal limits lie
  • Panel 1.10: OSINT in the police: structure and strategic development
  • Panel 1.11: Digitalization in traditional organizations
  • Panel 1.12: AI and technology – misuse and opportunities

13:30 Lunch break & networking

15:00 Cloud Platforms in Cybersecurity: Vulnerabilities and Arsenal

Carsten Meywirth, Head of Cybercrime Department, Federal Criminal Police Office
Werner Hoellrigl, Cloud Business Execution Leader, Oracle

15:20 Discussion round of the state interior ministers

Chair: Uwe Proll, Publisher and Founder, Behörden Spiegel

  • Michael Stübgen, Minister of the Interior and for Municipal Affairs, Brandenburg, Chairman of the Standing Conference of the Ministers and Senators of the Interior of the States (IMK)
  • Christian Pegel, MP, Minister of the Interior, Building and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Michael Ebling, Minister of the Interior and for Sport Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Georg Maier, Minister of the Interior and Local Government, Thuringia

16:15 Coffee break & networking

16:30 Panels II

  • Panel 2.1: Ready for use: 5G innovations for critical senarios
  • Panel 2.3: Knife attacks – acts, perpetrators and concepts
  • Panel 2.4: Internal security through cooperation
  • Panel 2.5: Digital transformation processes in the police
  • Panel 2.6: Cyberwarfare through AI-driven cybercrime attacks – what will the EU AI Act bring us?
  • Panel 2.7: Secure mobile Communication
  • Panel 2.8: Discover the transformative power of mindfulness in the police organization
  • Panel 2.9: Cloud Platforms in Cybercrime: Multi-Agency Perspectives
  • Panel 2.10: Possible applications of AI for security authorities
  • Panel 2.11: AI and mass data
  • Panel 2.12: Cyber attacks on important companies

18:00 Debate: „European Football Championship - Guaranteeing safe matches“

Chair: Jürgen Mathies, State Secretary ret, Head of the nationwide police preparation team for the 2006 World Cup

Presentation: Philipp Lahm, Tournament Director, UEFA EURO 2024

  • Dirk Hulverscheidt, Senior Police Director, Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, Head of the police project group for the development of the police concept for UEFA EURO 2024
  • Timo Seibert, Head of Safety & Security and Medical of EURO 2024
  • Stefan Schedler, General project manager for the UEFA EURO 2024 for the City of Leipzig
  • Marcin Ciesielski, Second Lieutenant, Expert of the Criminal Department, Criminal Bureau Poland

19:00 Evening reception
07:30 Opening of the exhibition / registration
08:30 Welcome to the 2. Conference day

08:40 Presentation and Q&A

Stefano Tomat, Managing Director, Civilian Operations Commander

09:00 Presentation and Q&A

Hans Leijtens, Exekutiv Direktor, Frontex

09:20 Presentation and Q&A

Bartjan Wegter, EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

09:40 Discussion: Integrated cooperation between European safety authorities

Chair: Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Executive Director of Europol, Governance Directorate

  • Oliver Huth, State Office of Criminal Investigation of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Dr. Sebastian Trautmann, Senior Public Prosecutor, European Public Prosecutor‘s Office, Cologne Office
  • Andreas Holzer, General Direktor, Federal Criminal Police Office Austria
  • Francisco Álvarez, Comisario Principal, Head of the Strategic Planning and Coordination Department of the Operational Directorate of the Policia Nacional, Spain
  • Dr Oliver Bossert, Police Director, Federal Police

10:50 The Future of Policing: Combatting Crime and Enhancing Security with State-of-the-art Technology: Use case on Criminal Investigations and Intelligence presented by Akkodis and Microsoft

Jeremy Dennis, Global Product Owner, Akkodis Australia
11:05 Coffee break & networking

11:40 Messaging & Collaboration: Digital strategy for the European Championship 2024

Christopher Bick, CEO, Stashcat

11:55 Presentation of the Police Work of the Future Award 2024

Chair. Jürgen Hohnen, State Secretary ret. with Hans Leijtens, Exekutiv Direktor, Frontex

Brief presentation of the award-winning works

12:35 Debate: „Migration, Integration, Border Security“

Chair: Dr. Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Behörden Spiegel

Keynote: Michael Spindelegger, Director General of the International Center for Migration Policy Development, Former Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor, Austria

  • Hans Leijtens, Executive Director, Frontex
  • Isabell Schmitt-Falckenberg, Head of the Federal Police Department at the BMI
  • Gregor Lange, Chief of Police, Dortmund Police Headquarters
  • Lena Düpont MdEP, EVP, Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
  • General Marius Vizitiu, Director of Surveillance and Control of Border Crossings of the General Presidency of the Romanian Border Police

13:35 Lunch break & networking

15:00 Panels III

  • Panel 3.2: Cannabis: New edition of the Evolution Cannabis Act
  • Panel 3.3: Clans: Structures, internal views and threat scenarios
  • Panel 3.5: Democratic police force
  • Panel 3.6: Communication and transformation in police work
  • Panel 3.7: Europe on the road to Vision Zero: Best practices for optimizing traffic monitorin
  • Panel 3.8: OSINT – Social Network Monitoring
  • Panel 3.9: Cyber-Forensics
  • Panel 3.10: Crime without victims – Illicit financial flows
  • Panel 3.11: Cloud – Current projects and solutions

16:30 End of the congress

1.1 Women in management positions

Chair: Dr. Eva-Charlotte Proll, Editor-in-chief and publisher, Behördenspiegel

  • Alexandra Dorndorf, Chief of Police, Münster Police Headquarters
  • Dr. Daniela Lesmeister, State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Helen Albrecht, Head of the Central Administration Department, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Prof. Dr. Andrea Fischbach, German Police University (DHPol)
  • Axel Brockmann, State Police Commissioner Hanover
  • Erika Krause-Schöne, Federal Women‘s Chairwoman, Police union (GdP)
  • Sabine Schumann, Deputy Federal Chairwoman, German Police Union
  • Daniella Misail-Nichitin, State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior, Moldova

1.2 AI in the processing of mass data by the criminal investigation department

Chair: Dr. Markus Hellenthal, Director of the Federal Police ret., Member of the BDK Scientific Advisory Board

  • Bodo Koch, Vice President of the Hessian Police Headquarters for Technology, Chief Digital Officer of the Hessian Police
  • Prof Dr Dirk Labudde, Professor of General and Digital Forensics at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, member of the BDK Scientific Advisory Board
  • Matthias J. Szymansky, Senior Solution Manager AI & Data Economics, Materna
  • Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, State Chairman Hesse, Association of German Criminal Investigators

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1.3 Sustainability of public-private partnership in public security

Chair: Prof. Dr. Gabriele Jacobs, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

  • Massimo Fattori, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Dr. Daniel Trottier, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Stanislavs Seiko, Riga Municipal Police
  • Monica Diniz, Lisbon Municipal Police/Lisbon Municipality
  • Richard Stones, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, United Kingdom
  • Boguslawa Motylska, Crime Prevention through Environmental Design, United Kingdom

1.4 Child sexual abuse (CSA crimes): future challenges

Chair: Jesus Lira Calvo, Secretary General CESP

Impulse: Ricardo Valadas, President CESP

  • Alicia Malo, Spanish National Police, Head of the DCI, Member of the Interpol Executive Committee
  • Eva Veldhuizen-Ochodničanová, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC)
  • Maria Eira, Artificial Intelligence Expert, Centre for AI and Robotics, UNICRI, UN
  • Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Executive Director of Europol, Governance Directorate
  • Michaela Schneider, Child Protection Specialist, Sexualised Violence Prevention Specialist, Child Protection Alliance, Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport
  • Minh Dao, Senior Solutions Architect, Chainalysis
  • Kateryna Pavlichenko, Deputy Minister of Interior, Ukraine

1.5 Establishing and securing rule of law structures in Ukraine

Chair: Theresa Caroline Winter, Networked security and defence policy, Friedrich Naumann Foundation

Participants: Stefano Tomat, Managing Director, Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability/Civilian Operations Commander, EEAS

  • Dr. Volker Jacoby, Director, European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management; Berlin
  • Dr. Andreas Wittkowsky, Senior Researcher, Center for International Peace Operations, Berlin
  • Josefin-Luise von Massow, Senior Manager, PwC
  • Oleksandr Sokolov , Deputy Director of the State Bureau of Investigation, Ukraine

1.6 Success factors and pitfalls in IT projects: From legally compliant procurement to effective project implementation

Chair: Dr Stefan Mager, specialist lawyer for public procurement law, Supervisory Board, Luther

  • Dirk Kunze, Head of Cybercrime Investigations, State Office of Criminal Investigation North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Tobias Osseforth, Specialist lawyer for public procurement law, Partner, Luther
  • Christian Kuss, Attorney at Law, Luther
  • Caroline Ackermann, Attorney at Law, Counsel, Luther

1.7 Leadership challenges in times of generational change

Chair: Carsten Rose, Director of the Police Academy of Lower Saxony

  • Michael Wilksen, State Police Director, Schleswig-Holstein State Police Office, Head of the Leadership Working Group of the IMK‘s UA FEK
  • Jennifer Otto, Federal Youth Chairwoman of the Police Union, young police manager, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Dr. Martin Mauri, Academic Director, Head of Social Sciences/Leadership Studies, Lower Saxony Police Academy
  • Heiko Thieser, Colonel, Commander of the Bundeswehr School for Military Police and Staff Service
  • Christoph Klettke, Colonel, Vienna Provincial Police Directorate, Head of a City Police Command, Austria
  • Marco Meißner, Organizational Psychologist, Transformation & Leadership Expert, Capgemini Invent

1.9 Security vs. freedom - What the use of video technology can achieve in the fight against crime and where the legal limits lie

Chair: Dr. Wolfgang Zink, Partner, PwC

  • Dagmar Hartge, Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und für das Recht auf Akteneinsicht, Land Brandenburg
  • Hagen Husgen, Polizeihauptkommissar und Bundesschriftführer im Vorstand der Gewerkschaft der Polizei
  • Andreas Stenger, President of the State Office of Criminal Investigation, Baden-Württemberg
  • Olaf Richter, Criminal Counsellor and former Head of SoKo Epaulette, Police Saxony
  • Jochen Sauer, Architect and Engineering Manager, Axis Communications
  • Jessica Deutsch, Head of Department, “Safety and Order”, City of Mannheim
  • Anne-Marie Karam, Consultant, PwC

1.10 OSINT in the police: structure and strategic development

Chair: Chiara Knöpfle, OSINT Analysis, Berlin State Office of Criminal Investigation

  • Serdar Günal Rütsche, Lieutenant, Zurich Cantonal Police, Head of Cybercrime
  • Louis Jarvers, Programm P20
  • Dr Alana Gramm, Competence Centre Internet and Operational IT, Coordination OSINT Analysis, Berlin State Office of Criminal Investigation
  • Thomas Wehlte, Chief Detective Inspector, Hamburg State Office of Criminal Investigation
  • Steffen Iwan, Head of Direct Sales, Maltego
  • Anna Wojtas, Director Germany & Northern Europe, Tadaweb
  • Jens Reumschuessel, Sales Director DACH region, Cobwebs

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1.11 Digitalization in traditional organizations

Chair: Frank Jacobsen, Vice President Public Sector & Health, Capgemini

  • Thomas Berger, Chief of Police Police Technology, Logistics and Service Department (PTLS Pol), Baden-Württemberg
  • Darren Scates, Chief Digital Data & Technology Officer, Digital Data and Technology – Metropolitan Police Service UK
  • Georg Ringmayr, Senior Ministerial Counsellor for Information & Communication Technology, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Sport and Integration
  • Gregor Malessa, Police IT Officer (KD) at the Ministry of the Interior, North Rhine-Westphalia

1.12 AI and technology - misuse and opportunities

Chair and keynote speech: Prof. Dr. Meike Ramon, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Mark Wittfoth, Europol Innovation Lab
  • Dr Anna K. Bobak, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, UK
  • Simon Rjosk, BearingPoint
  • Tessen Fritzsche, BearingPoint

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2.1 Ready for use: 5G innovations for critical scenarios

Chair: Paul Schubert, Behörden Spiegel

  • Peter Oelrichs, Project Manager Digital Infrastructures, Dataport
  • Andreas Thol, Principal Strategic Project Manager, Telefónica Germany
  • Stephanie Strassner, Technical Solution Manager, Airbus Secure Land Communications

2.3 Knife attacks – acts, perpetrators and concepts

Chair: Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Police Director ret.

  • Alexander Dierselhuis, Chief of Police, Duisburg
  • Elena Rausch, Ref. iur., Criminological Center Berlin Police, LKA, FüD POD (Prevention Victim Protection Diversion)
  • Karina Haß, Berlin Police, Prevention Victim Protection Diversion, State Office of Criminal Investigation
  • Gordon Roloff, Police Section, Prevention Team, Berlin Police
  • Boris Vieten, Crime Analysis, KURS NRW, Operative, Case Analysis, State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Florian Deuring, founder, 100 Life

2.4 Internal security through cooperation

Chair: Britta Zur, Alderwoman for Ordner, Citizen Services and Sports

  • Dr. Nathalie Hirschmann, Sociologist, criminologist, behavior and communication trainer
  • Holger Körber, Head of the General Administration and Regulatory Affairs Department, Public Order Office of the City of Düsseldorf
  • Dominique Lapprand*, Experte für den Sicherheitssektor, Polizeibeamter ret., Gendamerie
  • Mareike Kortmann, Senior Business Development Manager, Esri Germany
  • Dr. Philipp Mette, Partner, PwC Strategy

2.5 Digital transformation processes in the police

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director of the Federal Police ret.

  • Dennis Dederichs, IT Transformation Director, Business & Technology Solutions, Capgemini
  • Stefan Böhm, Director of Public Administration, Bundesdruckerei
  • Stephan Rebbelmund, Senior Sales Executive, Business Development Manager, Topcom Kommunikationssysteme
  • Till Elborg, Managing director, Sinc
  • Jörg Müller, Programme P20

2.6 Cyberwarfare through AI-driven cyber-crime attacks – what does the EU AI Act has to offer?

Chair: Katharina Sook Hee Koch, Federal Office for Information Security, Cybersecurity for the economy – DAX 40

  • Armin Fleischmann, Brigadier General, Head of Subdivision, Cyber/IT 1, Federal Ministry of Defence
  • Dr Regine Grienberger, Cyber Ambassador, Federal Foreign Office
  • Wilfried Karl, President, Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector
  • Andreas Stenger, President, State Office of Criminal Investigation, Baden-Württemberg
  • Sean Simon, CEO, QNtrol

2.7 Secure mobile Communication

Chair: Dr. Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

Introduction: Jan Tiedemann, Senior Key Account Manager, secunet Security Networks

  • Dr Günther Welsch, Head of Department, Crypto Technology and IT Management, Federal Office for Information Security
  • Tobias Stepan, Managing Director, N.N., teamwire
  • Marco Meiller, Police Councillor, Head of the Bavarian Police ICT Coordination Centre
  • Marco Gocht, Managing Director, ISEC7
  • Christopher Bick, CEO stashcat
  • Andrzej Kraszka, Central Police Headquarters Lower Saxony

2.8 Discover the transformative power of mindfulness in the police organization

Chair: Reinhard Renter, Former Chief of Police, Offenburg Police Headquarters

  • Alexander Hobbach, Programme Manager Mindful Leadership & Mindful Practice, Mercedes-Benz
  • Christoph Müller-Höcker, Allianz Group Mindfulness Lead, Allianz
  • Sven Steffes-Holländer, Chief Physician Heiligenfeld Clinic Berlin

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2.9 Cloud Platforms in Cybercrime: Multi-Agency Perspectives

Chair: Sophie Strecke, German Public Sector ACE Manager, Oracle

  • Thomas Caspers, Head of Department Technology Competence Centres, Federal Office for Security and Information Technology
  • Carsten Meywirth, Head of Cyber Crime Department, Federal Criminal Police Office

In this in-depth session, we broaden the discussion and look at the cybersecurity landscape through the prism of various specialised authorities and industry experts. Thomas Caspers will join Carsten Meywirth and Oracle to share in-depth perspectives on the challenges and strategies for success in IT security. Moderated by Sophie Strecke, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in a lively discussion aimed at fostering a collaborative approach to strengthening cyber resilience.

2.10 Possible applications of AI for security authorities

Chair: Oskar Neda, Head of Innovation Hub, Police Headquarters Lower Saxony

  • Ivan. L. Martinez, Innovation & Project Management Division, IMPROVE, Valencia Local Police
  • Dr. Daniel Gille, Head of Artificial Intelligence, Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit
  • Kai Küllmer*, Senior Director of Criminal Investigation, Head of Technical Operational Service, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Matthias J. Szymansky, Senior Solution Manager, KI & Datenwirtschaft, Materna
  • Robert Schwerdtner, Head of Solution Design, rola Security Solutions
  • PD Dr. habil. Immo Weber, Senior Consultant, adesso
  • Ali Sussmann, Senior Professional, Samsung Electronics

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2.11 AI and mass data

Chair: Oliver Hoffmann, President, International Police Association, Germany, Head of Economic Crime Department, Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation

Introduction: Dr. Benjamin Karer, Executive Consultant, CGI

  • Ralf Hettesheimer, Vice President Nonindustry Solutions, empolis
  • María Eira, Centre for AI and Robotics, UNICRI, UN
  • Prof Dr Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger, Chair of Criminology, Cybercriminology and Crime Prevention, Brandenburg Police University
  • Christoph Lange, Deputy Head of Data Competence Centre, Hessian State Office of Criminal Investigation

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2.12 Cyber attacks on important companies

Chair: Tassilo Singer, Central office for information technology in the security sector

  • Fred-Mario Silberbach, Deputy Director Division Cybercrime, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Dirk Kunze, State Office of Criminal Investigation North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Matthias Bölle, State Office of Criminal Investigation Baden-Württemberg
  • Stefan Küch, Senior Consultant, Cyber Security, Computacenter
  • Dr Dorgham Sisalem, CEO, FRAFOS, Member of the Frequentis Group

3.2 Cannabis: New edition of the Evolution Cannabis Act

Chair: Hermann-Josef Borjans, First Chief Superintendent of Police ret., Behörden Spiegel Foundation, Austrian Criminal Intelligence Service Association

  • Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, Association of German Criminal Investigators
  • Dr. Maria Tödling-Weiss, Deputy Chief Physician, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria
  • Felix Gasterstädt, Lieutenant Colonel, Federal Criminal Police Office, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Austria
  • Lukas Schiffer, Business Unit Director, Head of sales, Law Enforcement, TactiScan, Spectral Engines
  • Rainer Wendt, Federal Chairman of the German Police Union
  • Alexander Poitz, Deputy Federal Chairman, Police Union (GdP)
  • Konstantin Kuhle, Member of the Bundestag, Deputy Chairman of the FDP parliamentary group
  • Christian Schmidt, Chairman of the Green Social Club association

3.3 Clans: Structures, internal views and threat scenarios

Chair: Oliver Huth, State Office of Criminal Investigation of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Dr. Mahmoud Jaraba, Research Fellow, Postdoc, Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE)
  • Dilan Rohde, Arab clans from an insider‘s perspective
  • Charlotte Opresnik, Presiding Judge LG Stade
  • Marco Schepers, Company representative for appliance safety, MERKUR SERVICE

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3.5 Democratic police Force

Chair: Carsten Rose, Director of the Lower Saxony Police Academy, spokesman for the Conference of Universities and Police Departments

  • Axel Brockmann, State Police President, Chairman, Internal Security Working Group, Conference of Interior Ministers, Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport
  • Uni.-Prof. Dr. Anja Schiemann, Professor at the German Police University, Project Manager MEGAVO
  • Christiane von Websky, Head of Participation and Cohesion, MERCATOR Foundation
  • Anne Lepper, Representative of the German-speaking Countries Section at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
  • Bernd Dreier, Chief Superintendent of Police, democracy mentor, staff council member at the Oldenburg police headquarters, chairman of the Oldenburg police union

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3.6 Communication and transformation in police work

Chair: Heinz-Dieter Meier, Director of the Federal Police ret.

  • Chris Ullah, BlackBerry | Cybersecurity
  • Dr. Thomas Schweer, Head of „Research and Analysis”, Managing Director of LogObject Germany
  • José L. Diego, Head of the Innovation & Project Management Division, Valencia Local Police, Spain

3.7 Europe on the road to Vision Zero: Best practices for optimizing traffic monitoring

Chair: Michael Mertens, StV. Federal Chairman, Police Union (GdP)

  • Prof Dr Walter Eichendorf, President, European Transport Safety Council (ETSC)
  • Matthias Emmerich, Police Councillor, Trier Police Inspectorate
  • Anders Egeskov Knudsen, Professional secretary, Politiforbundet, Denmark
  • Frank Hellwig, Chief Superintendent of Police, Braunschweig Police Directorate

3.8 OSINT – Social Network Monitoring

Chair: M. L., Federal Criminal Police Office

  • Marius Anton Thewes, Operative Internet Investigations, Rhineland-Palatinate State Office of Criminal Investigation
  • Louis Jarvers, Programme P20
  • Daniel Pearce, Policing and Security lead, Dataminr
  • Jacques Zimmermann, Public Safety Sales, Maltego

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3.9 Cyber-Forensics

Chair: Prof Dr René Treibert, Dean, Information Security and Cybercrime, Niederrhein University

Introduction: Mike Dickinson, Senior Vice President, Sales Global, MSAB

  • Benno Krause, State Office of Criminal Investigation of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Sebastian Pieper, Sales Director, Cellebrite

3.10 Crime without victims – Illicit financial flows

Chair: Marco Tripodi, Attaché, Guardia di Finanza

  • Jörg Lehnert, Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, Money Laundering Supervision/Money Laundering Prevention, Berlin
  • Col. Gabriele Di Guglielmo, combating money laundering and terrorist financing: the economic and financial approach to disrupt organized crime’s assets, Italy
  • Colonel Armando Galletto, asset seizure and confiscation, Italy
  • Dominik Kampmann, Director, Head of Defence, Intelligence and Law Enforcement, Europe and Africa, Moody‘s
  • Seth T. Bridge, Officer for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI), U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Embassy Berlin

3.11 Cloud - Current projects and solutions

Chair: Oliver Stock, Crime Prevention, Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport

  • Dirk Rodenbücher, Digital Strategy, Police IT, State Centre for Quality Assurance, State Office of Criminal Investigation of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Christof Schrader, Chairman of the Future Working Group of the Federal-Länder Commission for Information Technology, Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony
  • Dr Willfried Wienholt, Head of InfoKom, Secure Digitalisation, IABG
  • Christoph Schäfer, Presales Cloud Architect, SysEleven
  • Raimo Klein, Dataport

Change in police mobility, patrol cars of the future - 16th April

10:30 Welcome

Rüdiger Wollgramm, former Senior Police Director ret

10:40 Mobility change and electromobility in the Lower Saxony police force

Oliver Suckow & Thomas Focke & Matthias Schröder, Police of Lower Saxony

Marcel Sander, Head of Electric and Hybrid Drives, Requirement Engineering, Technical University of Braunschweig

11:05 IT security/cyber security

Katharina Sook Hee Koch, Federal Office for Information Security

11:30 Experiences with electromobility from the perspective of the Basel Cantonal Police

Bruno Carnot, Department of Justice and Security of the Canton of Basel-Stadt Cantonal Police

11:55 The Future of Mobility

Ralf Erik Nikolaus, Director Centre of Excellence Autonomous Vehicles, Capgemini

12:20 The future of police mobility in the police force of North Rhine-Westphalia

Thomas Franta, Head of sub-department, North Rhine-Westphalia Police

12:45 Operational and procurement-related key points on vehicle equipment for the police in NRW for the next ten years years

Prof. Dr Klaus Schönenbroicher, Ministry of the Interior, State of North Rhine-Westphalia

13:10 The patrol car of the future from the perspective of the automotive industry

Arlina Benson, Holger Schultz, Daniel Hermann, Henry Kuhle, Martin Lorenz, Project Group „Emergency Vehicles“ Association of the Automotive Industry

13:35 Summary and closing remarks

Rüdiger Wollgramm, Former Senior Police Director
Strategy forum „Mobile broadband communication of the Authorities and organisations with security tasks (BOS)“ - 17th April

09:00 Opening of the user forum

Dr. Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

09:10 Mobile broadband communication - Quo vadis

Frank Buddrus, Vice President of the Federal Agency for Digital Radio of Authorities and Organisations with Security Tasks (BDBOS)

09:40 Virve 2.0 – The finnish public safety broadband network

Jarmo Vinkvist, CEO, Erillisverkot Group, operator of the state security network Virve, Espoo Finland

10:10 Messaging & Collaboration: Digital strategy for Euro 2024

Christopher Bick, CEO, stashcat

10:40 Mobile Police in Bayern – Always on!

LMR Georg Ringmayr, Head of the Police ICT Department, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
11:10 Coffee break

11:40 Secure and prioritised communication in the Vodafone mobile network for BOS - Smart coexistence of Tetra and public mobile radio

Robin Friedrich, Manager Converged Network Development, Network Evolution & Solutions, Vodafon

12:10 BOS mobile communications in NRW - today and in the future

Clemens Tabke, Department 402, Head of the Digital Radio Coordination Centre BOS North Rhine-Westphalia, Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

12:30 The smart way to mobile BOS broadband communication

Volker Hartwein, Director Business Development, Public Safety Frequentis Germany
13:00 Lunch break

14:00 The end of joint BOS communication? - A view from the perspective of Lower Saxony

Markus Schneider, Head of Operations, ASDN Lower Saxony, Central Police Headquarters Lower Saxony

14:30 Evolution of BOS broadband communication

Jens Elsner, Head of Business Development, VITES

14:50 Mobile radio communication of the Saxon BOS - today and in the future

Ralf Bernstein, Head of KoSt Digitalfunk Sachsen, Ministry of the Interior
15:10 Summary and end of the event

Attacks on public service employees are an attack on representatives of the state and therefore an attack on constitutional institutions and the common good as a whole. The need for protection and security has long affected more areas of service than just the police and emergency services. The aim of the event is to highlight the overarching relevance as well as the current situation and possible solutions.

German and English without translation

Violence against employees in the public sector - 17th April

09:30 Introduction

Falk Schnabel, Chief of Police, Hamburg Police

09:40 Together against violence - for more security and violence prevention in the public sector

Andreas Hemsing, Deputy Chairman of the German Civil Service Association and Collective Bargaining Union

09:50 Keynote speech

Michael Stock, Managing Director Unfallkasse Nordrhein-Westfalen

10:00 Keynote speech

R.K., lawyer, Netherlands

10:10 Interview

Elke Hannack, Deputy Chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation

10:20 Interview

Marc Elxnat, Councillor for Safety and Order of the Association of Towns and Municipalities

10:30 Interview

Andreas Stenger, President of the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Criminal Investigation

10:40

Moderation: Alexandra Dorndorf, Chief of Police, Münster Police Department

  • Prof. Dr. Henriette Neumeyer, Deputy Chairwoman of the Executive Board of the German Hospital Federation
  • Britta Zur, Alderwoman for Ordner, Citizen Services and Sports
  • Manuela Söller-Winkler, former State Secretary of Schleswig-Holstein and Managing Director of Weißer Ring
  • Prof. Dr. Jonas Rees, University of Bielefeld
  • Peter Traschkowitsch, Project Manager “Crime Scene Workplace”, vida Austria

Scientific side event - Artificial intelligence in future police work - 17th April

09:00 Welcome

Prof Dr Wilfried Honekamp, Head of the Institute of Police Technology, German Police University

Prof Dr Stefanie Kemme, Chair of Criminology, ­University of Münster

The technical perspective

09:10 Analysing crime incidents with the help of AI

Dr Felix Hamborg, Cybercrime Competence Centre, State Criminal Police Office of North Rhine-Westphalia

09:35 Thinking Machines: Automatic reasoning in police work

Prof Johannes Fähndrich, University of Applied Police Sciences, Baden-Württemberg

10:00 Challenges and solutions from the perspective of ZITiS

Dr Martin Hofer, Head of Research in the Big Data Analysis business unit, Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS)

10:25 Use of AI-based technologies to better manage mass offences

Dr. Christian Waldtmann, Client Delivery Executive, Civil Security Authorities, Eviden
10:50 coffee break

11:10 AI in the teaching of police degree programmes

Silvio Berner, Lecturer in Police Informatics, Saxon Police University
The legal perspective

11:35 The use of AI in the analysis of large amounts of image data by the police

Prof. Dr Niclas-Frederic Weisser, Chair of Public Law, Bremen University of Applied Sciences for Public ­Administration

12:00 From polygraphy to AI-based truth-finding

Dr Tamina Preuß, Research Associate, Julius-­Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
The social perspective

12:25 Artificial intelligence: a brief paranoid introduction - for the police and society

Prof Dr Roman Povalej, Chair of Applied Computer Science, Police Academy of Lower Saxony

12:50 Criminal and artificial intelligence = ?

Prof Dr Dirk Labudde, Chair of General and Digital Forensics, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

13:15 Lunch break

14:10 Automation and robotisation of police work - a perspective...

Prof Dr Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger, Professor of ­Criminology, Cybercrime Science and Crime Prevention, Brandenburg Police University

14:35 Predictive policing in Germany - current status and future development

Dr Simon Egbert, Research Associate, Bielefeld ­University

15:00 Challenges of using AI tools for police analysis of new digital communication spaces

Dr Robert Pelzer, Research Associate, TU Berlin

15:25 Potentials and dangers of LLMs from a police perspective

Matthias Brunnbauer, Research Associate, Federal Criminal Police Office

15:50 Summary, outlook and farewell

Prof Dr Wilfried Honekamp, Head of the Institute of Police Technology, German Police University

Prof Dr Stefanie Kemme, Chair of Criminology, ­University of Münster

Protection of critical maritime infrastructures - 17th April

12:00 Welcome

Dr. Ing. Frank Sill Torres, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute for the Protection of Maritime ­Infrastructures, Bremerhaven

12:05 Maritime sovereignty at the turn of an era

Dr Liliane Rossbach, Project Manager Resilience of Maritime Supply Routes, Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs and Transport

12:25 Protecting marKRITIS in the territorial sea

Jörg Beensen, Police Director, Head of the Water Police Inspectorate of Lower Saxony

12:40 Protection of an LNG Terminal from an Economic Perspective

Stefan Erdweg, Lecturer, University for Public ­Administration Bremen

12:55 Protection marKRITIS and BPOL Sea

Dirk-Heinrich Bothe, Police Director, M.A., Federal Police Headquarters, Principle of Command and ­Deployment, Special Forces

13:00 Discussion panel 1 - National perspective

  • Mario Schulz, Senior Police Director, Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, Command and Operational Matters of the Federal Police, Maritime Security
  • Lutz Müller, Chief Police Director, State Water Police Office Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Dirk-Heinrich Bothe, Police Director, M.A., Federal Police Headquarters, Principle of Command and­ ­Deployment, Special Forces
  • Stefan Erdweg, Lecturer, University for Public­Administration Bremen
  • Jörg Beensen, Police Director, Head of the Water Police Inspectorate of Lower Saxony
  • Karina Würtz, Managing Director, OFFSHORE-WINDENERGIE Foundation

13:30 Lunch break

15:00 Civil-military cooperation in the maritime space

Göran Swistek, Frigate captain, Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg)

15:20 Protection of marKRITIS in Poland

Dr Michał Piekarski, University of Wrocław

15:40 Protection marKRITIS in Belgium

Jeroen van Overloop, Advisor, North Sea and Maritime Security Belgium

16:00 Discussion panel 2 - European perspective

  • Göran Swistek, Frigate captain, Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg)
  • Dr Michał Piekarski, University of Wrocław
  • Jeroen van Overloop, Advisor, North Sea and Maritime Security Belgium
  • Dirk-Heinrich Bothe, Police Director, M.A., Federal Police Headquarters, Principle of Command and ­Deployment, Special Forces

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

* Speaker requested