07:30 Opening of the exhibition / registration

08:30 Opening of the Congress by the State Police Orchestra Brandenburg

08:35 Welcome

Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and editor-in-chief, Behörden Spiegel

Dieter Wehe, inspector of the North Rhine-Westphalia police force (ret.)

08:45 ``Internal security – EU – preparedness and Zeitenwende as a basis for democracy”

  • Magnus Brunner, European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration
  • Alexander Dobrindt*, Federal Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Gerhard Karner*, Federal Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Austria

09:15 ``Strategic milestones in the context of the EU Council Presidency 2025``

Czeslaw Mroczek*, State Secretary, Polish Ministry of the Interior and Administration

09:45 Partner contribution

N.N.*, congress partner

10:05 ``The police security situation in Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova``

Special Guest, Ukraine
Vladislav Cojuhari, Secretary General, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Moldova

10:45 Police service horses in action in the outdoor exhibition with a livestream on the main stage

Riding squadron of the federal police.

11:30 Expert forums block I

14:00 ``Asylum policy and Homeland Security``

Chair: Rainer Wendt, Federal Chairman, German Police Union (DPolG)

Keynote speech: “Developments in crisis regions and migration movements”

  • Jörg Dehnert, Regional Director – MENA, Friedrich Naumann Foundation
  • Hans Leijtens, Executive Director, Frontex
  • Lena Düpont, MEP, CDU/European People‘s Party in the European Parliament (EPP)
  • Michal Rosol, Police Councillor, Main Command of the Polish Police (KGP)
  • Engelhard Mazanke, Director of the State Office for Immigration Berlin
  • Jürgen Ebner, Deputy Executive Director, Europol

15:00 Greenbone AI: Cybersecurity Redefined

Dr Jan-Oliver Wagner, CEO and Founder, Greenbone

15:55 Expert forums block II

17:45 Keynote

Dr Tamra Zieschang*, Minister of the Interior and Sport of Saxony-Anhalt

18:00 ``Zeitenwende: Operational prerequisites for success``

Chair: Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, BDK

  • Peter Mosch, Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Markus Trebes, Inspector of the Bavarian Police, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Leadership, Operations and Crime Prevention
  • Dr Barbara Slowik Meisel, Police President of Berlin
  • Holger Münch, President, Federal Criminal Police Office

19:00 Decision at the limit - stunt impulses for everyday operations

Holger Schumacher, former stuntman, Cobra 11, coach & trainer for risk competence for high performanc
19:20 End of the event & networking
08:00 Opening of the exhibition / registration

09:00 Expert forums block III

10:30 Rescue dog squadron - support for police operations in the outdoor exhibition with a livestream on the main stage

BRH Rescue dog squadron Berlin e.V.

10:50 Cloud and co in traditional organizations

Thomas Berger, Chief of Police, Baden-Württemberg Police

11:05 ``Youth Crime - a question of prevention or sentencing?``

Chair: Jochen Kopelke, Federal Chairman, GdP

  • Prof Dr Theresia Höynck, Federal Chair, German Association for Juvenile Courts and Juvenile Court Services e.V. (DVJJ)
  • Roland Weber, Victims Commissioner of the State of Berlin
  • Winfried Bausback, Member of the state parliament of Bavaria, former Minister of State for Justice of the free state of Bavaria (CSU)
  • Jörg-Konrad Unkrig, Former Chief Criminal Director, Steering Team of the NRW initiative “Kurve kriegen”, Ministry of the Interior NRW

12:00 Messaging: The key to cross-agency networking

Christopher Bick, CEO and Co-Founder, stashcat

12:15 Innovative solution for police - tackling crime with modern tools

Cyril Gout, Acting Executive Director of Police Services for Interpol

13:45 Round table of home affairs ministers: “Zeitenwende – strategic, political, future oriented”

Moderation: Dr Eva-Charlotte Proll, Publisher and editor-in-chief, Behörden Spiegel

  • Ulrich Mäurer, Senator for the Interior and Sport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and chairman of the Standing Conference of Interior Ministers and Senators of the States
  • Christian Pegel, Minister of the Interior, Building and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Georg Maier, Thuringian Minister of the Interior, Communities and State Development

14:50 Presentation of the “Future Prize for Police Work”

Jürgen Hohnen, State Secretary (ret.)

15:20 Expert forums block IV

16:40 End of the event

1.1 AI and mass data

Chair: Tim Beyer, University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Bavaria, CEPOLIS

  • Nils Bergemann, Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
  • Alexander Poitz, Deputy federal chairman, GdP
  • Kai Küllmer, Operative deployment and investigation support, BKA
  • Heiko Löhr, Operative data analysis / Investigation and IT-Support, BKA
  • Dr. Günter Koch, Global Practice Lead Data & AI Platforms, DXC Technology
  • Maximilian Kälbert, Public Sector Data & AI Lead, Capgemini
  • Alexandra Haberstroh, Head of PLAIN Hub, Bundesdruckerei
  • Laurin Scheuer, Director Operations, Innosystec

1.2 Small Data – Use of technology in police forces

Chair: Dr Philipp Mette, Partner PwC Strategy

  • Andreas Stenger, President of the LKA Baden-Württemberg
  • Anke Domscheit-Berg, Former member of the German Bundestag for Die Linke
  • Peter Beuth, Managing Director, PwC Strategy&
  • Gerald Eder, technical program manager P20
  • Carolina Stindt, Manager, PwC Strategy&

1.3 Procurement of IT systems for police and security authorities - example of an operations control center system

Chair: Dr Thomas Kirch, specialist lawyer for procurement law, Leinemann & Partner Lawyers, Berlin

  • Sascha Zink, overall project manager ELS 2.0, head of the state operations center, Thuringia State Police Directorate
  • Anne Müller, lawyer, specialist lawyer for procurement law, Leinemann & Partner Lawyers, Berlin

1.4 Family-based forms of crime – what answers does the rule of law have?

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

  • Dr Mahmoud Jaraba, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Research Centre for Islam and Law in Europe
  • Uwe Mühlhoff, Public prosecutor, public prosecutor‘s office Duisburg
  • Michael Esser, Chief Criminal Director, Head of Cologne Criminal Investigation Department

1.5 Combating smuggling and illegal migration

Chair: Maren Baisch, Senior specialist planner, Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

  • Matthias Seeger, President of the German Federal Police (ret.), GS- Foundation Nigeria
  • Antonio Montanaro, Project Manager (EU4FAST), Italian Ministry of Interior
  • Oliver Janser, Head of Project, Countering Serious Crime in the Western Balkans, GIZ

1.6 Diverse and democratically strong police force

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

  • Lena Düpont, MEP, EPP
  • Uli Grötsch, Federal Police commissioner at the German Parliament
  • Anne Weininger-Lepper, International School of Holocaust-Studies
  • Jennifer Otto, Federal Youth Chairwoman, GdP
  • Alexandra Dorndorf, Police chief, Münster

1.7 Money, power, crime – Who controls whom? Financial crime – enforcement and regulatory deficits

Chair: Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, BDK

  • Sebastian Friedler, MdB, Crime policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
  • Prof Dr Kilian Wegner, Junior Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law and Commercial Law
  • Lars-Heiko Kruse, Partner PwC
  • Ramzi Bouaouni, Head of Financial Crime, Serious and Organized Crime Department, Hessian State Office of Criminal Investigation

1.8 Whatsapp to P20 - Standardization of BOS Messaging

Chair: Dr Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

  • Bernhard Klinger, Chairman of the Board of the PMeV (Secure Communication Network)
  • Jörg Müller, Program Manager P20 Lower Saxony
  • Max Brandt, Team Leader Critical Communication, European Commission
  • Christopher Bick, CEO und Co-Founder, stashcat

1.10 TENSOR: Advancing Suspect Identification with Behavioural Biometrics Fujitsu

Chair: Mirjam Klinger, Behörden Spiegel

  • Dr Niklas Palaghias, CEO, Quadible, Greece
  • Claudia Mertinger, R&I Business Development Manager, Fsas Technologies, Germany
  • Anastasios Nikolakopoulos, Senior Research Engineer, Netcompany-Intrasoft, Greece
  • Dr Tabea Rosenkranz, Research Project Manager, Central Office for Information Technology in the Security Sector (ZITiS), Germany

2.1 Cloud - current projects and solutions

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

Introduction: Christoph Schäfer, Presales Cloud Architect, secunet Security Networks

  • Thomas Berger, Chief of Police, Baden-Württemberg Police
  • Oliver Stock, Fight against crime, Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport
  • Nikolaus Hagl, Head of Sovereign Cloud Germany, SAP SE, Chief Executive Officer, Delos Cloud
  • Sebastian Kolbinger, Senior Strategy Consultant / Competence Center – Data Center & Cloud Strategy, Controlware
  • Mike Wobig, Public Sector, Cloud Infrastructure Lead, Capgemini

2.2 Secure mobile communication

Chair: Dr Barbara Held, Behörden Spiegel

  • Dr Günther Welsch, Head of Department, BSI
  • Oskar Neda, Innovation Hub Lower Saxony
  • Pascal Wulff, Key Account Manager, Materna Virtual Solution
  • Marco Gocht, CEO, ISEC7 Group
  • Tobias Stepan, Managing Director, Teamwire
  • Dr Christoph Erdmann, Managing Director, Secusmart
  • Mustafa Alaa Eddine, Senior Productmanager Mobile, secunet Security Networks

2.3 Daily service - traffic police tasks

Chair: Marcus Bramow, German Police University

  • Dr Oliver Brockmann, TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences
  • Grzegorz Rytel, Expert at the Office for Road Traffic at the KGP
  • Markus Szech, Rheinisch-Bergisch district police authority

2.4 Cybercrime: new forms and how to combat them

Chair: Katharina Sook Hee Koch, BSI

  • Wilfried Karl, President of the Central office for Information Technology in the Security Sphere (ZITiS)
  • Carsten Meywirth, Head of Department for Cybercrime, Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)
  • Prof Ciaran Martin CB, Professor, University of Oxford, Director, SANS Institute
  • Dr Katja Papenkort, Head of Division Cyber and Information Security, Federal Ministry of the Interior
  • Sönke Marahrens, Colonel in the General Staff, Head of Department, Bundeswehr Digitisation and Capability Development Centre CIR
  • Dr. Matthias Vianden, Managing Director, rola Security Solutions

2.5 Financial investigation/money laundering

Chair: Antonia von Kruedener, Money Laundering Supervision and Prevention, Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises Berlin

  • Colonel Bruno Ascione, Head, Nucleo Speciale Polizia Valutaria
  • Captain Riccardo Fiore, Head, “Gruppo Investigativo e Supporto Operativo” of the Central Office for Organized Crime Investigations
  • Jörg Lehnert, Senate Department for Economy, Energy and Enterprises
  • Michael Scherer, Director of DACH, TRM Labs
  • Robert Klemm, Senior Expert Finance, LogObject
  • Frank Gramüller-Heinz, Director Sales Public, SAS

2.6 Science at Police Colleges

Chair: Prof Dr Heike Wagner, President HSPol Brandenburg

           Uwe Marquardt, Vice President, DHPol

  • Matthias Zeiser, President of the Police College Baden-Württemberg
  • Prof Dr Dr Markus Thiel, Head, „Public Law with a focus on police law“, German Police Academy
  • Prof Dr Gabriele Jacobs, Professor, „Organizational Behaviour and Culture“, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Carsten Rose, Director, Police Academy of Lower Saxony
  • Dr Michal Bukowski, Head, Institute for Criminal Police, Security Sciences and Legal Sciences of the Police Academy, Poland

2.7 AI in action

Chair: Mirjam Klinger, Behörden Spiegel

  • Prof Dr Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger, Cybercriminologist, Police College Brandenburg
  • Stephan Weh, State chairman of the Berlin Police Union
  • Alexis von Kruedener, lecturer at the University of Oldenburg
  • Florian Domin*, Senior Expert ML Ops, secunet Security Networks
  • Stephan Hempel, Managing Director, Schwarz Digits Defense

2.8 Workplace Road - Safety of Employees in Traffic

Chair: Michael Mertens, Deputy Federal Chair, GdP

  • Yannick Porepp, Police motorway and district station in the centre of Schleswig-Holstein
  • Edgar Winkel, Politie Eenheid Noord-Nederland
  • Jonas Hurlin, Head of Policy and Law, German Road Safety Council (DVR)

2.9 Digital transformation processes in the police

Chair: Mathias Schaef, Head, Crime Prevention Division, Federal Police Headquarters

  • Hendrik Flohr, Project Manager, Federal Police
  • Till Elborg, Managing Director, SINC
  • Tim Gehring, Global AI Consulting, DXC Technology

3.1 Intelligent analysis for the detection of concealed arms

Chair: Maximilian Steiert, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Innovation, Transfer and Exploitation

  • Michael Stork, Information Strategy and Technology of the Police, State Police Headquarters Hesse
  • Dr Joachim Jonuscheit, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
  • Thorsten Bartelt, Federal Police Academy on the topic of Regulation & Acceptance

3.2 Work-Life Blending

Chair: Franz Semling, Police president of Freiburg

  • Peter Smets, President, European Federation of Police Unions (EU.Pol)
  • Marius Weyermann, Commander, Zurich Cantonal Police
  • Daniela Glück, Personal Assistant to the Police President of Freiburg
  • Yvonne Tamborini, Head of Digital Communication, Berlin Police
  • Monique Pilgrimm, Head of Social Media Management, Berlin Police

3.3 Security concepts in refugee centres

Chair: Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Police Director (ret.)

  • Sascha Langenbach, State Office for Refugee Affairs Berlin
  • Matthias Kornmann, Foundation German Forum for Crime Prevention
  • Maria Klaman*, Deputy Mayor, Krakow, Poland
  • Marten van der Mei, CEO KWC Professional & Managing Director KWC Aquarotter

3.4 Digital working on site – INSITU project

Chair: Juliane Joswig, Project Lead INSITU, Police Berlin, LKA

  • Dr Steffen Franz, Project Manager INSITU, BKA
  • Dr Robert Irmler, Solution Architect, BKA
  • Adrian Böhme, Chief Superintendent, Berlin Police

3.5 Capacity building in Moldova and Ukraine

Chair: Stefan Schwarz, Assistant Chief Constable, Head International Office, German Police University

  • Maura O´Sullivan, Deputy Head of Mission, European Union Advisory Mission
  • Yuriy Holodnyk, Special Advisor to the Head of the SBI
  • Klaus Kandt, Project Manager Moldova, GS-Foundation
  • N.N., Federal Police

3.6 Daily service - a paradigm shift in combating mass criminality

Chair: Peter Mosch, State Criminal Police Director of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Andreas Stenger, President of the State Criminal Police Office of Baden-Württemberg
  • Mario Germano, President of the State Criminal Police of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Thomas Jungbluth, Chief Criminal Director, State Criminal Office of North-Rhine Westphalia (ret.)

3.7 Digital sovereignty in the police environment in times of crisis – an easy-to-understand legal categorisation for practitioners

Chair: Dr Stefan Mager, Lawyer, specialised lawyer for public procurement law, Partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft

  • Christian Kuß, Lawyer, Partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
  • Tobias Osseforth, Mag. rer. publ. attorney-at-law, specialised lawyer for public procurement law, partner, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
  • Dirk Kunze, Cyber Resilience Lab,

3.8 Learning de-escalative communication: police behavioural training using artificial intelligence

Chair: Prof Dr Andreas Bock, Project Manager, Akkon University, Berlin

  • Eckhardt Lazei, Berlin Police
  • Peter Schellenberg, Berlin Police
  • Dr Sebastian Bosse, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI)
  • Thomas Koch, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI)

3.9 Crowd Controlling

Chair: Jörg Lehnert, Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Enterprises

  • Michelangelo La Tella, Vice Questore, Italian State Police
  • Roman Seifert, Berlin Police
  • Dr Sarah Chisholm, Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institute, EMI
  • Carsten Humrich, Responsible for the organisation of major running events at SCC Berlin
  • Marcel Altenburg, Senior Lecturer – Crowd Science, „Crowd Safety and Risk Analysis“ an der Manchester Metropolitan University

3.10 Partner forum: Drones and Drone Defence

Chair: Dr Maike Hoffmann, Senior Managerin PwC

  • Dr Wolfgang Zink, Partner, PwC
  • Markus Piendl, Senior Technical Expert, Detection International GmbH Cologne
  • Christoph Fritsche, Site Security Manager, ChemTech-Park Brunsbüttel
  • Prof Christian Janke, College of Aviation
  • N.N., Berlin Police

3.11 Cybercrime – trends, developments and solutions

Chair: Christian Brecht, Behörden Spiegel

  • Prof Dr René Treibert, Dean, Information Security and Cybercrime, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences
  • Serdar Günal Rütsche, Head of Cybercrime, Zurich Cantonal Police
  • Benno Krause*, LKA NRW
  • Serdar Tuztas, Presales Engineer, One Identity

4.1 International drug trafficking

Chair: Oliver Erdmann, Harbour Security Centre, State Criminal Police Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

  • Nils van der Sanden, Deputy Commander, Seaport Police Rotterdam
  • Sigurd Jäger, Vice President, Police Offenburg
  • Mathias Bölle, Vice President, Police Pforzheim
  • Teniente Coronel Raúl Fuenzalida Mora, police attaché of the Carabineros de Chile at the embassy in Berlin
  • Sebastian Wolters, Intelligent Industry, Head of Connected Platform Solutions, Capgemini
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.2 Daily service: police deployment

Chair: Thomas Dublies, Berlin Police

  • Stefan Rau, Cooperative control centre, Police Berlin
  • Johannes Karpati, Focal point unit, Police Berlin
  • Mathis Lechner, Mobile police work, Police Brandenburg
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.3 Undermining Community

Chair: Andrea Menke, Deputy President, Police Osnabrück

  • Sander Huisman, National Police Corps (Netherlands)
  • Yannick van Veldhoven, Head of Police, Twente, National Police Corps (Netherlands)
  • Martin Piepmeyer, Police Osnabrück
  • Jens Burrichter, Coordinator Regional Liaison Office, Police Osnabrück
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.4 Emergency police task management in dynamic times

Chair: Andreas Schmenkel-Backhoff, Inspector of the State Riot Police, BMI

  • Stephan Katte, Head of the Police Operations/Traffic Directorate, Berlin Police Headquarters
  • Stefan Dörner, Head of the Command Staff, State Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Saxony
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.5 Violence support for women

Chair: Mirjam Klinger, Behörden Spiegel

  • Petra Söchting, Head of Department, Protection of women against violence, Federal Ministry for Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
  • Andrea Schütte, Member of the Domestic Violence Working Group of the German Women‘s Party (GdP)
  • Kristin Fischer, Coordinator, protection from violence and police intervention, Berlin Initiative Against Violence Towards Women (BIG)
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.6 OSINT - Disinformation, Mobilization and Cybercrime

Chair: Dr Alana Gramm, Senior Consultant Digital Defense – Intelligence, BWI

  • Nicolas Glesel, OSINT Coordination, State Police Directorate, Police Berlin
  • Hervé Letoqueux, Chef de la Division des Operations – VIGINUM, Paris
  • Roman Höfner, Investigative Journalist and OSINT-Specialist, Der Spiegel
  • Louis Javers, Guest Researcher Disinformation & FIMI at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Daniel Pearce, VP, EMEA Public Sector, Dataminr
  • Kilian Moser, Head of Customers, Maltego

4.7 Checking on duty - partial legalisation of cannabis

Chair: Hermann-Josef Borjans, Vice President, IPA Germany

  • Alexander Poitz, Deputy state chairman, GdP
  • Dirk Peglow, Federal Chairman, Association of German Criminal Investigators (BDK)
  • Konstantin Kuhle*, FDP, Member of the Bundestag (ret.)
  • Dr Peter Cremer-Schaffer*, Federal Opium Agency, Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
  • Jana Halbreiter, Board of Directors Cannabis Association Germany
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner
  • N.N., Congress Partner

4.8 Generational and Value changes in the police forces - Demands for value-driven leadership and organizational development

Chair: Stephen Köppe, Department of Police and Security Management, HWR Berlin

  • Prof Dr Birgit Wiese, Professor for Social Management, Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
  • Mario Gruschinske, Organizational Psychologist and Head of Office for Consulting and Strategy of the Brandenburg Police
  • Hannes Lerke, Ministry of the Interior, Construction and Digitalization, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • Phil Heyna, Federal Police Directorate Bad Bramstedt, Directorate Division Federal Maritime Police
  • Prof Dr Sandra Schmitt, Leadership Sciences and Security Management, Faculty 5 – Police and Security Management, Berlin School of Economics and Law

20 May 2025, 10:00 to 16:20 - Protection of critical infrastuctures

10:00 Part 1: Zeitenwende: Civil Defence Introduction
Dr Daniela Lesmeister, State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, North Rhine-Westphalia

10:05 Zeitenwende: Civil Defence
Dr Martin Weber, Federal Academy for Civil Protection and Civil Defense, Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance

10:35 Zeitenwende: Disaster Relief (Blackout as an example)
Dr Christian Endreß, CEO, Training Base Weeze

10:55 Coffee Break & Networking

11:05 A turning point: Training for Civil Protection and critical infrastructure managers
Jürgen Schart, President of the Federal Association of Rescue Dogs

11:35 Discussion
Moderation: Dr Daniela Lesmeister, State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, North Rhine-Westphalia

  • Dr Martin Weber, Federal Academy for Civil Protection and Civil Defense, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
  • Dr Christian Endreß, CEO, Training Base Weeze
  • Jürgen Schart, President of the Federal Association of Rescue Dogs

12:05 Lunch Break & Networking

14:00 Part 2: Protection and resilience of critical infrastructure against hybrid threats
Moderation: Daniel Hiller, Business unit manager, Security and Resilience, Fraunhofer-Institute for Short-Term Dynamics, EMI

  • Heike Buss, Deputy Head of Unit – Counter-Terrorism, Directorate-General for Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission
  • Sabine Lackner, President, THW
  • Stefanie Ostheimer, Head of Civil Emergency Planning, Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance
  • Lieutenant General André Johannes Bodemann*, Commander, Territorial Command, Bundeswehr

15:20 Part 3: EU-Projects and Solutions from Industry
Moderation: Jonas Brandstetter, Behörden Spiegel
Introduction: José L. Diego, Valencia Local Police

  • N.N.*, Congress Partner
  • EU-Hybnet
  • Paolo Venturoni, CEO at European Organization for Security
  • N.N.*, Quantum Systems
  • EU-CIP
  • Emilia Gugliandolo, Senior Researcher at Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Project Coordinator EU-CIP project
  • Henry Weinert, Sales of specialised security solutions, Securiton

16:20 End of the Side Event

20 May 2025, 10:00 to 13:15 - Emergency vehicle of the future

10:00 Introduction
Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Police Director (ret.)

10:05 Standardized CAR to CAR or CAR to X communication to prevent traffic accidents and increase work safety on motorways
Thomas Heinrich, Head, ADAC Foundation

10:35 Technical Guidelines (TR) for patrol cars
Anja Kuhlemann, Police Technical Institute Münster (PTI), German Police University (DHPol)

10:55 Keynote Speech
Leutrim Mustafa, Head of consider innovation, considerit

11:15 The vision of the North Rhine-Westphalia Police‘s networked emergency vehicle
Thomas Franta, LZPD NRW

11:35 Digital requirements for emergency vehicles
Martin Lorenz, Head of Security, Data & Digitalisation, VDA
Arlina Benson, VDA

11:55 Keynote Speech
N.N.*, Standby Group

12:15 Requirements for the emergency vehicle of the future from the perspective of the staff representatives
Meike to Baben, GdP NRW

12:35 Keynote Speech
Marc Dongus, project urban 213

12:55 Can AI and connected driving reduce the number of road traffic fatalities?
Peter Schlanstein, VOD Germany

13:15 Lunch Break & Networking

20 May 2025, 14:45 to 15:45 - Modern interrogation solutions for efficient investigative work

14:45 On-premises solutions with automated transcription and legally compliant data security
Michael Marufke, First Chief Detective Inspector (ret.) and IT-Consultant

15:00 Live demonstration in a mock interrogation situation

15:20 Analysing the results

21 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:00 - Scientific side event – Artificial Intelligence in police work

09:00 Introduction
Prof Dr Wilfried Honekamp, Head of the Police Technical Institute, German Police University

Prof Dr Stefanie Kemme, Faculty of Law, University of Münster

09:10 Is AI the last straw for humanity or is AI paving the way for the ultimate incompetence of humans?
Prof Dr Roman Povalej, Police academy of Lower Saxony

09:40 Challenges of using AI in law enforcement
Heiko Rittelmeier, ZITiS

10:10 Requirements for the AI ​​competence of public administration employees in the context of the EU AI Act
Prof Dr Ralf-Rainer Piesold, Frankfurt AUS

Prof Dr Tobias Krause, Frankfurt AUS

10:40 Coffee Break & Networking

11:10 Requirements for AI support of investigative work
Dr Christian Waldtmann, Client Executive Partner for Homeland Security Eviden

Steve Haas, Sales Director at Eviden and former police officer, Eviden

11:40 Challenges of using AI to support action using the example of LLM
Prof Dr Wilfried Honekamp, DHPol, University of Münster

Prof Dr Stefanie Kemme, Faculty of Law, University of Münster

12:10 AI-PaaS – security research and practical testing in the real laboratory for effective practical transfer
Dominic Reese, LZPD NRW

12:40 Lunch Break & Networking

13:45 The BKA‘s AI service portfolio
Dr Tonio Wandmacher, BKA

14:15 Integration of large language models into law enforcement
Prof Dr Johannes Fähndrich, Police Academy Baden-Württemberg

14:45 Current developments in the platformization of the police in Germany
Dr Simon Egbert, Bielefeld University

15:15 AI system ready and then what?
Prof Dr Dirk Labudde, College Mittweida

15:45 Summary, Outlook and Farewell
Prof Dr Wilfried Honekamp, Head of the Police Technical Institute, German Police University

Prof Dr Stefanie Kemme, Faculty of Law, University of Münster

21 May 2025, 09:00 to 16:00 - BOS Strategy Forum – „Safety-Critical Broadband Communications for Mobile Emergency Services“ (exclusively in German)

09:00 Introduction
Gerd Lehmann, Behörden Spiegel

09:05 Mobile broadband communication – The clock is ticking
Frank Buddrus, Vice President of the Federal Agency for Digital Radio of the BOS (BDBOS)

09:35 Mission Critical 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, Vodafone

10:00 The smart way – Implementation steps for nextgeneration digital radio
Volker Hartwein, Director Business Development Public Safety, Frequentis Germany

10:30 Coffee Break & Networking

10:50 The importance of 5G for Mission Critical Mobile Broadband Communications
Katrin Bachert, KAM Mission Critical Networks, Ericsson
Dr Christoph Bach
, CTO Mission Critical Networks

11:20 Gradual transformation of digital radio BOS to mobile, safety-relevant broadband communication
Markus Schneider, Head of Digital Radio Operations, Central Police Directorate of Lower Saxony

11:40 Transformation to 5G MCX – experiences and best practices from Europe
Ersin Kaya, 5G & Mission Critical Services Lead, Capgemini

12:10 Police apps make everyday work easier
Bodo Koch, Vice President of the Hessian Police Headquarters for Technology (HPT)

12:35 Lunch Break & Networking

13:45 New ways of networking – 5G Direct Access via satellite
Thomas Heyn, Group Leader Mobile Communications, Fraunhofer-Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

14:10 Messaging: The key to cross-agency networking
Christopher Bick, CEO and Co-Founder, stashcat

14:40 Convergence of public safety broadband communications: 5G & SATCOM
Jens Elsner, Business Development Manager, VITES

15:10 Discussion round (expectations, wishes and demands)
Impulse & Moderation: Clemens Tabke, Head of KStD NRW, Ministry of the Interior of the State of NRW

  • Thomas Scholle, Head of the Strategy and Control Department of the BDBOS
  • Stefan Wächter, Head of the ASDN, Central Police Directorate Lower Saxony
  • Michael Bauer, Head of KStD Hamburg, Authority for Interior Affairs and Sport
  • Ralf Bernstein, Head of KStD Saxony, Saxon State Ministry of the Interior
  • Volker Hartwein, Director Business Development, Public Safety Frequentis Germany
  • Robin Friedrich, Manager Converged Network Development, Network Evolution & Solutions, Vodafone

16:00 Summary and Conclusion
Gerd Lehmann, Behörden Spiegel

21 May 2025, 11:00 to 16:00 - Symposium on knife attacks

11:00 Welcome
Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Police Director (ret.)

11:05 Homicide Case Involving Two Young Ukrainian Athletes in Oberhausen / Prevention Project „Yellow Card“ / Knife and Weapon Carrying Bans
Heike Schultz, Oberhausen Police Headquarters

11:35 Prevention Project „Knives Make Murderers“
Karina Haß, LKA Berlin
Gordon Roloff
, Berlin Police Headquarters

12:05 Prevention Work of SIKO Ruhr
Sandra Simon, SIKO Ruhr

12:35 Lunch Break & Networking

13:45 Experiences with Weapon-Free Zones
Stefan Bauerkamp*, Federal Police Directorate Cologne

14:15 Preventing Knife Violence in Train Stations and Deutsche Bahn Vehicles
Kai Hewelt, Federal Police Directorate Hanover

14:45 BROTHERS – Violence Prevention among (Refugee) Youth
Julia Pfrötschner, BROTHERS Project Coordinator

15:15 PeRiskoP NRW
Marc Pawleta, State Police Department, NRW

15:45 Partnerbeitrag
N.N.*, Speedsafe

16:00 Conclusion
Rüdiger Wollgramm, Chief Police Director (ret.)

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