6. May 2026

07:15 Opening of the exhibition/registration - Please note: increased security measures apply!

08:30 Welcome

Dr. Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Behörden Spiegel & Dieter Wehe, Inspector General of the North Rhine-Westphalia police force (ret.)

08:35 Musical opening of the congress by the Berlin Police Combo

08:45 Keynote

Alexander Dobrindt*, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

09:05 Guest speech by the partner country

Matteo Piantedosi, Minister of the Interior, Republic of Italy

09:25 Keynote

Andy Grote, Senator, Minister of the Interior and Sports of Hamburg, Chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators of the federal states

09:45 Control the Device, Protect the People, Sovereignity, Security and Compliance in Digital Policing

N.N., GEMA International

10:05 Speech

Bruna Szego, Chair, Anti-Money Laundering Authority

10:20 Speech

Raffaele Grassi, Deputy Chief of Police – Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department, Italy

11:00 Panels I

  • 1.1 AI and mass data
  • 1.2 International drug trafficking, the new ways
  • 1.3 Faster, sovereign, but legally compliant? Government agility between pressure to innovate, public procurement law and sovereignty
  • 1.4 Security concepts in public institutions
  • 1.5 Cloud & Co.
  • 1.6 Partner panel – stashcat
  • 1.7 Partner panel – PwC

13:30 Debate: Security in public spaces

Input:

  • Alexander Dinger, Journalist and author, Die WELT
  • Thomas Kufen, Mayor of Essen

Chair: Alexander Poitz, Deputy Federal Chariman, GdP

  • Omid Nouripour, Member of the German Parliament, Vice-President of the German Parliament, Alliance 90/The Greens
  • Dr. Patrick Hennies, Head of Group Security, Deutsche Bahn
  • Ralf Großmann, Pool attendant, expert in swimming pool management and safety culture
  • Gwendolin von der Osten, Chief of Police, Hannover
  • Philipp Woldin, Journalist and author, DIE WELT
  • Alfredo Fabbrocini, Chief of Police, Barletta-Andria-Trani, Italy

14:45 Partner contribution

N.N.*, Partner

15:00 Demonstration

Federal Police Mounted Unit

16:00 Panels II

  • 2.1 Police action for greater road safety
  • 2.2 A troubled world – how is international terrorism developing?
  • 2.3 Riot police
  • 2.4 Do organised criminal groups endanger our society?
  • 2.5 Recruitment and retention
  • 2.6 MCx – Mission Critical Service in communications – Partner panel Motorola
  • 2.7 Master new public procurement law, find good bidders and award contracts quickly
  • 2.8 Police data analytics between state and market: How much autonomy do we need – and how much cooperation can we dare?

17:45 Debate: Migration between security and humanity

Keynote: Julia Ruhs, freelance editor, Bayerischer Rundfunk

Chair: Heiko Teggatz, Deputy Federal Chairperson, DPolG

  • Dr Ulrike Hornung, Head of Department for Migration, Refugee and Return Policy, Federal Ministry of the Interior
  • Lena Düpont, MEP, European Parliament
  • Prof Dr Günter Krings, Member of the German Parliament, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
  • Julia Ruhs, Reporter, Bayerischer Rundfunk
  • Dr Lars Gerdes, Deputy Executive Director, Frontex
  • Karl Kopp, Managing Director, Pro Asyl

19:00 Closing of the event & networking

Chairman & Moderation: Dieter Wehe, Inspector General of the Police NRW (ret.)

7. May 2026

07:45 Opening of the exhibition/registration - Please note: increased security measures apply!

09:00 Panels III

  • 3.1 New applications for AI in security agencies
  • 3.2 Human trafficking and illegal migration/routes, dynamics and criminal structures
  • 3.3 Police OSINT in the digital revolution
  • 3.4 New international crime phenomena
  • 3.5 Think globally, act locally – the value of international educational formats for police practice
  • 3.6 Youth violence – what is happening among young people?
  • 3.7 Sovereignty ‘Made in Practice’ – Partner panel Schwarz Digits

11:00 The cyber power failure

Sönke Marahrens, Head of Department, Digitalisation Centre and Cyber and Information Space Capability Development, German Armed Forces

11:15 Partner contribution

N.N.*, N.N.

11:30 Debate: 360° KRITIS – between digital attacks and real failures

Chair: Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, BDK

  • Dr Timo Hauschild, Head of Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructures, BSI
  • Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Executive Director, EUROPOL
  • Neal Jetton, Director of Cybercrime, INTERPOL
  • Stephen Köppe, Lecturer for Special Tasks, Police and Security Management, Berlin School of Economics and Law
  • Juliane Krömke, Corporate Security Expert, Security – SCY, BER Airport
  • Christiano Leggeri, Central Director for Forensic Science and Cyber Security, Italy

13:30 Partner contribution

N.N.

13:45 Round table of interior ministers and senators

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

  • Joachim Herrmann, Minister of the Interior, Sport and Integration, Bavaria
  • Thomas Strobl, Minister of the Interior, Digitalisation and Municipalities, Baden-Württemberg
  • Daniela Behrens, Minister of the Interior, Sport and Digitalisation, Niedersachsen
  • Prof Dr Roman Poseck, Minister of the Interior, Security and Homeland Protection, Hessen
  • Jan Redmann*, Minister for the Interior and Local Government, Brandenburg
  • Georg Maier, Minister of the Interior, Local Government and Regional Development, Thuringia
  • Dr Eva Högl, The Senator for Interior and Sport, Bremen

15:05 Police Future Prize Award Ceremony

Jürgen Hohnen, Former State Secretary, Ministry of the Interior and Local Government, Brandenburg

15:40 Panels IV

  • 4.1 Partner panel
  • 4.2 AI in everyday criminal investigation
  • 4.3 Digital transformation processes in the police force
  • 4.4 Are our trains and stations safe?
  • 4.5 Domestic violence – Femicide – Electronic tagging
  • 4.6 Secure mobile communication
  • 4.7 Partner panel – BDK
  • 4.8 Partner panel – Fraunhofer SIT

17:10 End

Panels 1

1.1 AI and mass data – Possibilities and limitations

Chair: Kai Küllmer, Head of Technical Operational Services and AI Coordination Office, Federal Criminal Police Office

  • Dr Judith Eckle-Kohler, Operational Data Analysis, Digital Text Analytics Unit, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Dr Ing Thorsten Laude, Head of Big Data Analysis Data Science Unit, State Criminal Police Office, Niedersachsen
  • Philipp Regenauer, Innovation Hub, Police Headquarters for Technology, Hessen
  • Santo Mirabelli, Chief Technical Officer, Polizia di Stato, Italy
  • Laurin Scheuer, Director Operations, INNOSYSTEC
  • N.N., secunet Security Networks
  • N.N., Magnet Forensics

 

1.2 International drug trafficking, the new ways

Chair: Oliver Erdmann, Organised Crime Division, Port Security Centre, State Criminal Police Office, Hamburg

  • Marco Alexander Millan Sanchez, Attaché, Aggregado de Policia, Embassy of the Republic of Colombia
  • Robert Fay, Senior Drug Investigator, EUROPOL
  • Tim Beyer, Project Manager, CEPOLIS, University of Public Administration, Bayern
  • Pietro Maida, Head of the RIS Chemistry Department, Carabinieri, Italy

 

1.3 Faster, more confident, but legally compliant? Government agility between pressure to innovate and sovereignty

Chair: Gregor Malessa, Chair of the Committee

  • Thomas Berger, Chief Superintendent of Technology, Logistics and Services for the Baden-Württemberg Police Force
  • Georg Ringmayer*, CTO, Bavarian Police
  • Henrik Ljungström, Managing Director, Capgemini
  • Stephan Hempel, Head of Division, Schwarz Digits Defence

 

1.4 Security concepts in public facilities

Chair: Heiko Müller, Councillor, City of Essen

  • Sascha Langenbach, Press Officer, State Office for Refugee Affairs, Berlin
  • Dr med Karlgeorg Krüger, DIAVERO Clinic, Essen
  • Christian Mankel, Managing Director, German Society for Bathing
  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

1.5 Cloud & Co

Chair: Oliver Stock, Advisor, Ministry of the Interior and Sport, Niedersachsen

Introduction: N.N., secunet Security Networks

  • Dennis Möller, Project Manager for the Evidence Cloud, State Criminal Police Office, Niedersachsen
  • Paul Jonkman, Global Contract & Partner Manager at Hansken, Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)
  • Arnold de Kleyn, Forensic Test Engineer, Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI)

 

1.6 Standardisation of law enforcement agency communications – civil military cooperation in operational situations

Chair: Michael Rosenzweig, PMeV Federal Network for Secure Communication

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

1.7 Partner panel – PwC

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, THW
  • N.N.*, German Bundestag
  • N.N.*, Federal Police
  • N.N.*, stashcat

Panels 2

2.1 Police action for greater road safety

Chair: Thomas Franta, Head of Traffic Management, Police Headquarters Recklinghausen

  • Gundolf de Riese-Meyer, Head of Traffic Police, Düsseldorf Police Headquarters
  • Jan Helm, Fire Service Institute, NRW
  • Marco Schäler, Traffic Safety Commission, DPolG
  • Paolo Cestra, Central Directorate for Traffic Police, Railway Police and Special Units, Italy
  • Dr Elisabeth Grießl, Senior Solution Manager, Bundesdruckerei

 

2.2 A troubled world – how international terrorism is developing

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • Markus Gemünd, State Security Police, Ministry of the Interior, NRW
  • Jochen Weingarten, Federal Prosecutor, Federal Court of Justice
  • Dr Daniel Koehler, State Security and Anti-Terrorism Centre, State Criminal Police Office, Baden-Württemberg

 

2.3 Riot police

Chair: Andreas Schmenkel-Backhoff, Inspector General of the State Riot Police, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

2.4 Do organised criminal groups endanger our society? (For specialist visitors)

Chair: Oliver Huth, Head of an investigation commission, State Criminal Police Office, NRW

  • Representative, State Criminal Police Office, NRW
  • Michael Esser, Head of Department, Crime Prevention, Police Headquarters, Cologne
  • Fredrick Boström, Chief of Police, Västra Götaland Police Authority, Sweden
  • Johan Sjöstrand, Chief of Police, Gothenburg Police Authority/North-East District, Sweden

 

2.5 Recruitment and retention

Chair: Franz Semling, Chief of Police (ret.), Freiburg

  • Falk Schnabel, Chief of Police, Hamburg
  • Mark Burkhard, Commander, Basel-Landschaft Police, Switzerland
  • N.N*, N.N.
  • N.N*, N.N.

 

2.6 MCx – Mission Critical Service in communications

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

2.7 Master new public procurement law, find good bidders and award contracts quickly

Chair: Dr Stefan Mager, Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for public procurement law, partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft

  • Dr Stefan Mager, Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for public procurement law, Partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
  • Adrian Freidank, Lawyer, Specialist lawyer for IT law, counsel, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
  • Dirk Kunze, Project Manager for large-scale public IT projects/consultant for cyber resilience/cyber security, Cyber Resilience Lab

 

2.8 Police data analytics between state and market. How much autonomy do we need – and how much cooperation can we dare? – Partner panel PwC

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

Panels 3

3.1 New applications for AI in security agencies

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

Participants: Alexander Poitz, Deputy Federal Chairman, GdP

  • Gioele Caruso, Head of the RIS Ballistics Department, Carabinieri Messina
  • Daniel Geyer, Head of Public/OTT & Streaming Competence Hub, Appsfactory
  • Magnus Svard, Director of Strategic Partnerships, DarkOWl
  • Martin Rollinger, Managing Director, SINC
  • Dr Ganen Sethupathy, Head of BOS Client Division, Sopra Steria

 

3.2 Human trafficking and illegal migration/routes, dynamics and criminal structures

Chair: Maren Baisch, Senior Specialist Planner, German Society for International Cooperation

  • Oliver Janser, Head of the Project to Combat Serious Crime in the Western Balkans, GIZ
  • Dr Lars Gerdes, Deputy Executive Director, Frontex
  • Angela Boranieva, Director of the Regional Centre, MARRI (Migration, Asylum, Refugees, Regional Initiative), Macedonia
  • Stefano Milani, Director, Central Directorate for Migration and Border Police, Italy

 

3.3 Police OSINT in the digital revolution

Chair: Louis Jarvers, Researcher in Information Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

  • Heiko Löhr, Operational Data Analysis OK, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Melanie Schneider*, Internet Research, Cybercrime and Digital Traces Division, State Criminal Police Office, Baden-Württemberg
  • Nicolas Glesel, OSINT Coordination,State Police Headquarters, Berlin Police
  • M.L., Cybercrime/Cyber Intelligence Unit, EUROPOL
  • Stefan Majchrzak, Lecturer in Criminalistics, University of Economics and Law, Berlin
  • Kilian Moser, Chief Customer Officer, Maltego
  • Dominik Kampmann, Director – Industry Practice Lead, Moody‘s

 

3.4 New international crime phenomena

Chair: Michael Esser, Head of the Crime Prevention Division, Police Headquarters, Köln

  • Leanne Noronha, Senior Analyst, Child Sexual Abuse, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Fabrice Herberger, Operational Analysis of Organised Crime, Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Andreas Franke, Deputy Operational Coordinator, National Situation Centre and Operational Investigation Unit, Sweden
  • Giuseppe Gilberti, Head of General Affairs Division, Department for International Police Cooperation, Polizia di Stato

 

3.5 Think globally, act locally – the value of international educational formats for police practice

Chair: Carsten Rose, Director, Police Academy, Niedersachsen & Dr Sebastian Knospe, Head of International Affairs, Police Academy, Niedersachsen

  • Veronika Lemke, Digital Transformation, Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Digitalisation, Niedersachsen
  • Arne Schönbohm, President, Federal Academy of Public Administration
  • Éva Földesy, Head of Department, National Liaison Office of the Central European Police Academy
  • Gabriele Jacobs, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Culture, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural-Sciences (ESSB)
  • Anne Weininger-Lepper, Representative of the Germanspeaking Countries Section, Overseas Education and Training Department, International School for Holocaust Studies Yad Vashem
  • Capo Vincenzo Maria Rossi, Police Academy, Polizia di Stato, Rome, Italy

 

3.6 Youth violence – what is happening among young people?

Chair: Hermann Josef Borjans, Project Development Manager, Behörden Spiegel Foundation

  • Alexandra Dorndorf, Chief of Police, Police Headquarters Münster
  • Norman Heise, State Parent Representative for Berlin Schools
  • Prof Dr Dirk Baier, Head of the Institute for Delinquency and Crime Prevention, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
  • Engin Çatık, School Director, Friedrich-Bergius-Schule, Berlin

 

3.7 Sovereignty ‘Made in Practice’ – Partner panel Schwarz Digits

Chair: Laura Anna Baur, Schwarz Digits Defence

  • Stephan Hempel, Managing Director, Schwarz Digits Defence
  • Hans Groff, CEO, futureLAB
  • N.N.*, N.N.

Panels 4

4.1 A secure cloud for all security authorities Partner panel – Rola & chapvision

Chair: N.N.*, N.N

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

4.2 AI in everyday criminal investigation

Chair: Prof Heiko Rittelmeier, Lecturer in Digital and General Forensics, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

  • Alexander Poitz, Deputy Federal Chairman, GdP
  • Prof Dr Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger, Head, Institute Cybercriminology, Brandenburg Police University
  • Claude Nujnic-Goll, Thales DIS FRANCE SAS

 

4.3 Digital transformation processes in the police force

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

  • Veronika Lemke, Digital Transformation, Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Digitalisation, Niedersachsen
  • Prof. Dr. Moreen Heine*, Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems, University of Lübeck
  • Salvatore Rapicavoli, Head of Data Processing, Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy
  • Matevz Domajnko, Managing Director, Verus Digital

 

4.4 Are our trains and stations safe?

Chair: Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Superintendent of Police (ret.)

  • Dr Alexander Schmelzer, Senior Superintendent, Federal Police Headquarters
  • Torsten Malt, Managing Director of Production, DB Security
  • Detlef Neuß, Federal Chairman, Pro Bahn
  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

4.5 Domestic violence – Femicide – Electronic Foot shackle

Chair: Marc Pawleta, Head of Department, State Criminal Police Office, North Rhine Westphalia

  • Kerstin Ascherfeld, EAÜ Coordination Office, State Criminal Police Office, Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • Stefanie Müller, Threat Management HG, State Criminal mnPolice Office, Hessen
  • N.N.*, Spanish Police
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

4.6 Secure mobile communication

Chair: Oskar Neda, Head of Department, Innovation Hub, Niedersachsen

  • Dr Günther Welsch, Head of Department, Federal Office for Information Security
  • Dirk Klimpel, IT Architect, BWI
  • Thomas Gmelin, Technical Sub-Project Manager in the Messenger in P20 project, ZPD, Niedersachsen
  • Dr Christoph Erdmann, Managing Director, Secusmart & SVP BlackBerry Secure Communications
  • N.N., ISEC7

 

4.7 BDK

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

 

4.8 Partner panel – Fraunhofer SIT

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

Guided Tour

Future4Public, the e-journal for young professionals in the public sector, is organising a ‘Guided Tour’ for students at the EPC. On a Guided Tour, participants will visit various exhibitors in small groups, get to know them and their offerings and have the opportunity to talk to them.

By registering for the Guided Tour and participating in the booked tour (verified on site), students benefit from a reduced admission price of 60 euros.

Group discount: Entire university courses are also welcome to register for the tours. When registering as a group of 8 or more people, participants pay 50 euros per person. Group registrations can be made by emailing annkathrin.herweg@behoerdenspiegel.de.

Important: As the number of places on the Guided Tour, including the discounted admission price, is limited to 120, we recommend registering early. Once a tour is fully booked, no further registrations will be accepted for that date.

The guided tours take place on the following dates:

  • Tour 1: 6 May, 09:15 a.m.
  • Tour 2: 6 May, 11:00 a. m. – fully bookek
  • Tour 3: 7 May, 09:15 a.m. – fully booked
  • Tour 4: 7 May, 11:30 a.m. – fully booked

When registering, participants will also receive the free Future4Public newsletter for one year.

Side Events

6 May: KI in der Polizeiarbeit (09:00 to 16:00)

09:00 Welcome

  • Prof. Dr. Wilfried Honekamp, DHPol, Münster
  • Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kemme, Professor of Criminology at the Institute for Criminal Sciences, University of Münster

09:10 AI litercy: a challenge for the practical use of AI by the police

  • Dipl.-Forstw. Roland Hoheisel-Gruler, Lecturer in Law, Federal University of Applied Administrative Sciences

09:40 The influence of AI on decision – making processes in police staff work

  • Gerrit Ries, Head of Department, LKA Hessen

10:10 Machine translations in police work – hallucination management – who, if not us?

  • Dr Armin Hoenen, Project Manager, Federal Criminal Police Office

10:40 Coffee break & networking

11:10 From RAG to ARG – Intelligent case file analysis

  • Prof. Dr. Dirk Labudde, Professor of General and Digital Forensics, Mittweida University of Applied Sciences

11:40 007 doesn’t just have one problem… Agents in the service of the state

  • Prof. Dr Johannes Fähndrich, Head of the Applied Computer Science, Cybercrime and Digital Traces Department, Baden-Württemberg Police University

12:10 Confidential computing and synthetic intelligence enable secure and constitutional data analysis

  • Armin Heydari, PhD candidate, Harvard University

12:40 Coffee break & networking

13:30 AI-supported onboarding – chatbot with personalised avatar for optimising administrative processes

  • Prof. Dr. Ralf-Rainer Piesold, Acting Professor of Public Administration and Non-Profit Management, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences

14:00 Between efficiency and ethics: What AI menas for the work of police officers

  • Christian Ehringfeld, Deputy Federal Chairman, GdP

14:30 Deepfake detection – applications and challenges

  • Dr Christian Riess, Research Associate, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
  • Dr Benjamin Tams, Senior Expert Data Science & Biometrics, secunet Security Networks

15:00 Coffee break & networking

15:20 Joint analysis capability – Yes, but …

  • Prof. Dr. Stefanie Grünewald, Professor of Public Law, Hamburg Police Academy University

15:50 LLM triage for mass data: Criminal investigation soft fact extraction

  • Tom Krawczyk, Technical Government Official, Federal Criminal Police Office

16:20 Use of enhanced RAG approaches for deployment in police investigations and case processing

  • Dr Christian Waldtmann, Customer Advisory Expert, SAP

16:50 Summary, perspective and closing remarks

6 May: Drones: Threat situation and organisational and legal risk prevention (10:00 to 13:00)

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

  • Stephan Koch, Senior Manager BOS, Sopra Steria
  • N.N.*, N.N.

6 May: Modern interrogation solutions for efficient investigative work (13:30 to 14:30)

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

6 May: Capgemini (13:30 to 15:00)

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.

7 May: Civil Defence/Civil-Military Cooperation (CV/CMC) The Role of the Police (09:00 to 15:30)

09:00 Welcome

  • Thomas Kubera. Chief of Police, Police Headquarters, Hamm

09:15 Shaping security together – national and alliance defence as a task for the state as a whole

  • Armin Schaus, Head of Civil-Military Cooperation, Operational Command of the German Armed Forces

09:40 Germany in a state of external emergency and the combatant status of the police

  • Verena Jackson, Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS), University of the Federal Armed Forces, München

10:05 The work of the Planning and Coordination Unit for the police matters relating to civil defence and civil-military cooperation

  • Thomas Schmidl, Police Inspector, Ministry of the Interior, Security and Homeland Protection, Hessen

10:30 The role of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Police in civil defence from a police perspective

  • Andreas Schmenkel-Backhoff, Inspector General of the State Riot Police, Federal Ministry of the Interior, Germany

10:55 Coffee break & networking

11:10 The importance of the security industry in protecting critical infrastructure

  • Prof. Dr. Harald Olschok, Department of Police and Security Management, University of Applied Scienes, Berlin

11:25 Hybrid threats from a security policy and military perspective

  • Dr Konstantinos Tsetsos, Head of Foresight, METIS, University of the German Armed Forces, München

12:00 Szenarien der Konfliktentwicklung aus polizeilicher Perspektive

  • Marcus Papadopulos, Police University, Rheinland-Pfalz

12:25 Cooperation between the military and law enforcement agencies to combat hybrid threats

  • N.N., INTERPOL

12:50 Civil defence from a municipal perspective

  • Markus Kreuz, City Councillor for Civil Defence, City Hamm

13:15 Lunch break & networking

15:00 Panel discussion: Are the police and their partners civil defence and civil-military cooperation well prepared?

  • Dagmar Klus, Permanent Representative, Federal Agency for Technical Relief, Federal Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance Agency
  • Sandro Wiesner, Commander, Military Police Command of the German Armed Forces (Military Police)
  • Patrick Moritz, Head of Public Safety and Order, Göttingen District
  • Martin von Langenthal, Deputy Team Leader, Operations Support, German Red Cross, General Secretariat, Berlin

16:00 Summary and conclusion

  • Thomas Kubera, Chief of Police, Police Headquarters, Hamm

7 May: Money laundering and financial investigations: New scenarios and European cooperation (09:00 to 15:00)

09:00 Welcome

  • Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Behörden Spiegel
  • Fabian Mazza, Senior Director, Global Head of Government, Moody’s

09:10 Advanced Financial Investigation Techniques: Cryptocurrencies

Moderation: Gianluca Vitagliano, Head of Anti-Money Laundering and Counterfeiting, Carabinieri, Italy

  • Mikro Guarriello, Head of Cryptocurrency Department, Carabinieri, Italy
  • Lillo Salvatore Moresca, Head of the Special Unit for Data Protection and Technological Frau, Guardia di Finanza, Italy
  • Rüdiger Nagel*, LKA, Rheinland-Pfalz

10:30 Coffee break & networking

11:00 Shadow financial systems: structures, fraud models and money laundering technqiues

Moderation: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, State Office for Combating Financial Crime, NRW
  • N.N.*, Sharks Unit, FIU
  • Sirin Sargut, BaFin
  • Bruno Ascione, Head of Special Unit for Currency Offences, Guardia di Finanza, Italy
  • N.N.*, Moody’s

12:30 Lunch break & networking

13:30 Europeans cooperation in investigations to combat money laundering: EU instruments, information exchange and cross-border financial investigations

Moderation: N.N.*, N.N.

  • Jens Münzer, Prosecution of Prohibited Transactions, BaFin
  • Carlo Della Gatta, Financial Police, Head of Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism, Guardia di Finanza, Italy
  • N.N.*, FIU
  • Francesco Maione Aro, Head of Department of the Service for International Police Cooperation, Silver Project, Guardia di Finanza, Italy
  • N.N.*, Federal Criminal Police Office

15:00 Conclusions and operational insights

  • Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, Behörden Spiegel
  • Fabian Mazza, Senior Director, Global Head of Government, Moody’s

7 May: BOS Strategy Forum (09:00 to 16:00)

09:00 Welcome and introduction

  • Clemens Tapke, Head of KSD, Ministry of the Interior, NRW

09:05 Keynote

  • Frank Buddrus, Vice President of the Federal Agency for Digital Radio of the BOS

09:35 Contribution

  • N.N., GEMA International

09:55 Next-generation BOS digital radio (current status, outlook)

  • Thomas Scholle, Head of Strategy/Control at BDBOS
  • Nathalie Gehrke, Project Manager of the KoMeT programme, BDOS
  • Roman Kreiblich, Project Manager of the MCx System programme, BDBOS

10:30 Coffee break & networking

11:00 Contribution

  • Christopher Bick, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, stashcat

11:20 The joint approach to broadband for public safety and emergency services from the perspective of the Strategy Board and the Steering Group of the Broadband Programme

  • Raphael Bögge, BOS Digital Radio Division, State Ministry of the Interior, Bayern

11:50 Mission-critical communication on the Vodafone mobile network for emergency services – Smart coexistence of Tetra and public mobile networks

  • Robin Friedrich, Manager Converged Network Development, Vodafone

12:10 Lunch break & networking

13:30 Contribution

  • N.N., Frequentis Deutschland

14:00 Contribution

  • Tobias Stepan, Managing Director, teamwire

14:15 The future terminal strategy – an initial overview from the perspective of the BOS Niedersachsen

  • Charlotte Schwer, Project Manager for Broadband BOS, Central Police Headquarters, Niedersachsen

14:45 The future of critical communications is already here – From TETRA to 3GPP MCX in Europe

  • Clemens von Skwarczinsky, Head of Portfolio & Business Support, Airbus

15:00 BOS Broadband Communication – When, What, How?

  • Thomas Scholle, Head of Strategy and Management Department at BDBOS
  • Stefan Wächter, Head of the ASDN, Lower Saxony Central Police Headquarters
  • Raphael Bögge, BOS Digital Radio Unit, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
  • Volker Hartwein, Frequentis Germany
  • Clemens von Skwarczinsky, Airbus Secure Land Communications
  • Christopher Bick, Stashcat
  • N.N., Vodafone
  • N.N., GEMA International

16:00 Summary and closing words

  • Clemens Tapke, Head of KSD, Ministry of the Interior, NRW

7 May: secunet Security Networks (09:00 to 16:00)

Chair: N.N.*, N.N.

  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.
  • N.N.*, N.N.