2015 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition
 
Agenda and Presentations
05/05/2015
17:00 - 19:00Registration
Location: Grand Ball Room Foyer
19:00 - 20:30Welcome Reception
Location: Grand Lucayan Crescent Pool Deck

06/05/2015
9:00 - 10:00Registration
Location: Grand Ball Room Foyer
10:00 - 10:45Official Opening Ceremony of the 2015 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition
The Honorable Dr. Michael Darville, Minister , for Grand Bahamas
Mr. Charles James Turner, Comptroller, Bahamas Customs Department
Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization (WCO)
The Right Honorable Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister - Minister of Finance, Commonwealth of the Bahamas
10:45 - 11:30 VIP Exhibition Tour and Press Conference
10:45 - 11:30 Refreshment and contact break
11:30 - 11:45 Keynote Address from Host Administration
Mr. Charles James Turner, Comptroller, Bahamas Customs Department


11:45 - 12:00Keynote Speeches
Mr. Jhon Fonseca, Vice Minister , Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica


12:00 - 12:05Address
Mr. Don-Hyun Lee, Vice Commissioner, Korea Customs Service
12:05 - 14:00Networking lunch
14:00 - 14:20Address by Conference Chair
Mr. Tyrone Sands, Siperintendent, Bahamas Custom and Excise Departement


14:20 - 15:45 Round Table 1: Connecting Stakeholders in Engineering Regional Integration Processes
Facilitator: Mr. John Bescec, Director, Global Trade Compliance and Standards , Microsoft Corporation -- WCO PSCG
Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization (WCO)
Mr. Luis Cesar Priego Valdez, Central Administrator for Customs Planning and Strategic Coordination, Tax Administration Service, General Administration for Customs, Mexico
The Honorable Jay M. Cohen, Chief Operating Officer, Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC)
Mr. Intikhab Shaik, Group Executive, Business Systems, South African Revenue Service (SARS)
15:45 - 16:15 Refreshment and contact break
16:15 - 16:30 Keynote speech:
Mr. Paul A. Hilaire, Permanent Secretary, Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC)


16:30 - 17:30 Panel 1: Globally Networked Customs: Progressing Utility Blocks towards cross-border connectivity
Moderator: Mr. Pascal Ollivier, Director of Corporate Development, SOGET
Mr. Ramesh Siva, Lead E-Government Specialist , World Bank
Mr. John Bescec, Director, Global Trade Compliance and Standards , Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Pablo Bonavia, Director, IT Department, Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), Argentina
Mr. Pulak Chakrabarti, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chakrabarti Management Consultancy, Inc. (CMCI)
19:30 - 22:30 Conference dinner
Venue: Grand Lucayan, Grand Lawn

07/05/2015
8:45 - 9:30Registration
Location: Grand Ball Room Foyer
9:30 - 9:45Keynote speeches
Mr. James Canham, Managing Director, Global Customs Industry Lead, Accenture


9:45 - 11:00 Round Table 2: Emerging Issues for Customs and Border Management in handling growth of Inter- and Intra-Regional trade
Moderator: Mr. Rachid Benjelloun, Managing Director, Trade Facilitation , Nathan Associates Inc.
Mr. Dietmar Möllmann, Head of Unit “International Coordination”, Zollkriminalamt (Central German Customs Investigation Administration)
Mr. Ibrahima Diagne, Chair Person, African Alliance for E Commerce
Ms. Christine Macqueen, Director Corporate Affairs and Communications, SICPA Management SA
Mr. Johnathan Koh, Senior Director, CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd
11:00 - 11:15Keynote speech - Innovative technologies enabling Innovative Customs and Trade
Mr. George Gobin, Regional Manager – Bermuda, Cayman, Bahamas, Belize , Turks & Caicos, Jamaica , Microsoft
11:15 - 11:45 Refreshment and contact break
11:45 - 12:00 Keynote speech:
Mr. Dikko Inde Abdullahi, Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service , Vice Chair West and Central African Region of World Customs Organisation (WCO)


12:00 - 13:00 Panel 2: Benefits of Customs Statistics and other trade data exchange; matching import with export data
Moderator: Mr. Andreas Maurer, Chief, International Trade Statistics Section, World Trade Organization (WTO)
Mr. Chris Thibedeau, Vice President, Customs and Law Enforcement Solutions, A-T Solutions
Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief of Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division
Mr. Cheol Kyu Maeng, Research Fellow, Korea Customs & Trade Development Institute
Mr. Frank Heijmann, Head of Trade Relations, Customs Administration of the Netherlands
13:00 - 14:30 Buffet lunch
14:30 - 18:00Tech Talks
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Continuous refreshments
TechTalk 1
Room A
(English / Spanish)

Data Model and Single Window
TechTalk 2
Room B
(English)

IT Support for TFA implementation
TechTalk3
Room C
(English / French)

Analytics, Data Mining & Other Tools for Comprehensive Risk Management
2:30 pm - 6:00 pm


Moderator
Data Model and Single Window
Satya Prasad Sahu, Commissioner IT, Central Board of Excise & Customs, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, CBEC
~ Mr. Eamonn Sheehy, Senior Advisor on IT, Bahamas Ministry of Finance, Information to Knowledge Inc.
~ Mr. Alexander Goulandris, Chief Executive Officer, essDocs
~ Mr. David Nowell, IPPC
~ Mr. Christian Dellis, Director, Export Services, USDA/APHIS/PPQ
~ Mr. Ian Hogg, Manager, Trade Facilitation Centre of Excellence, Trade Facilitation Center, CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd, Singapore CrimsonLogic
~ Ms. Valentina Mintah, CEO, West Blue Consulting
~ Mr. Randy Rotchin, Founder, President, and CEO, 3CE
Mr. Pulak Chakrabarti, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chakrabarti Management Consultancy, Inc. (CMCI)
Ms. Sue Probert, Director, SEPIAeb Ltd.
Ms. Brenda Smith, Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Mr. Markie Muryawan, Chief of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section, United Nations,Trade SDMX
IT Support for TFA
~ Ms. Milena Budimirovic, Technical Officer, World Customs Organization (WCO)
Moderator: Mr. Andreas Maurer, Chief, International Trade Statistics Section, World Trade Organization (WTO)
~ Mrs. Nor Haziah Abd Wahab, Head Of International Affairs, Royal Malaysian Customs Department
~ Mr. Philippe Grosjean, Chief Information Officer, International Road Transport Union (IRU)
Mr. Christophe Renard, Marketing Services Director, SICPA Security Solutions SA
Mr. Nicolás Eddie Pulgar Sampedro, System Engineer / IT Manager, Ecuador Custom Services
Mr. Anton Eccles, Head of Solution Architecture , eTradex (Pty) Ltd.
Mr. Ryan Eickmeier, Senior Director, Public Affairs, GS1 Canada
Moderator: Mr. Bryce Blegen, Chief Executive Officer, Trusted Trade Alliance LLC
~ Ms. Andrea Hampton, Senior Consultant, Economic Growth & Trade, Crown Agents
~ Mr. Toshihiko Miyasaka, President and Chief Executive Officer, NACCS Center
Mr. Kenji Nagai, Executive Manager , NTT DATA Corporation
Mr. Donald Tan, Technical Attaché, Compliance & Facilitation Directorate , WCO
Risk Management
Ms. Subrenna Higgs, Deputy Director IT, Customs and Excise Departement, Bahamas
~ Mr. Duncan Cleary, Technical Assistance Advisor, International Monetary Fund
Mr. Steve Schwab, Senior Vice President, A-T Solutions Inc.
~ Mr. Samy Zayani, Project Director, Webb Fontaine
Mr. Jaime González, Director of Information Technology (IT), Chile National Customs Service
Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief of Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division
Moderator Ms. Louise Wigget, CEO, E-Tradex
~Mr. David Avsec, Deputy Director, Postal Technology Center, Universal Postal Union
Mr. Colin Gabay, TRIPS Product Manager, Techno Brain Limited
19:30 - 22:00Conference Dinner
Venue:

08/05/2015
9:00 - 09:30Registration
Location: Grand Ball Room Foyer
9:30 - 09:45 Opening Address
The Hon. Michael Halkitis, Minister of State for Finance, Bahamas
09:45 - 10:15Keynotes
Mr. Dato' Khazali Ahmad, WCO Regional Vice Chair & Director General , Royal Malaysian Customs Department
Mr. Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, International Road Transport Union (IRU)
10:15 - 11:15 Panel 3: Efficient Transit Solutions for Reduced Costs of Trading
Moderator: Mr. Alioune Ciss, Sales Director, Webb Fontaine.
Mr. Andre van der Post, Senior Director Public Sector Industry Solutions Group, Oracle
Mr. Kateshumbwa C. Dicksons, Assistant Commissioner, Customs Audit Division, Uganda Revenue Authority
Mr. Xavier Cardenas Moncayo, Director General, Servicio Nacional De Aduana Del Ecuador
Mr. Brian Glancy, Director, Trade Facilitation, USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub
11:15 - 11:45 Refreshment and contact break
11:45- 13:15 Round Table 3: Ultimate benefits for trade in cross-border AEO programmes
Facilitator: Mr. Daniel Dreyfus, Director,, Accenture
Mr. Kester Meijer, Director Operational Integrity and Division Safety & Compliance Monitoring Manager, KLM
Mr. Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Officer,, Department Of Homeland Security, Customs And Border Protection
Mr. Diego Daniel Diaz, Executive Director, Argentinean Chamber of Customs E-Seals (CaPeMa)
Mr. Hideharu Tanaka, Counselor for International Cooperation, Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan
13:15 - 14:00 Conclusions and Closing speeches
Mr. Tyrone Sands, Siperintendent, Bahamas Custom and Excise Departement
Mr. Charles James Turner, Comptroller, Bahamas Customs Department
Mr. Ray McDonagh, Head, Administration and Personnel, WCO


14:00 - 18:00 Lunch and excursion