Tuesday, 6 June 2017

17.00 – 19.00

Registration

19.00 – 21.00

Welcome reception

Sponsored by : NUCTECH

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

09.00 – 18.00

Registration

10.00 – 11.00

Official Opening Ceremony Master of Ceremony: Ms. Maka Khvedelidze, Deputy Head, International Relations Department, GRS

Mr. Dimitry Kumsishvili, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Georgia

Mr. Giorgi Tabuashvili, First Deputy Minister of Finance, Director General, Georgia Revenue Service (GRS)

Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, World Customs Organization (WCO)

Mr. Jong-Woo Lee, Director General of Information and International Affairs Bureau, Korea Customs Service

11.00 – 12.00

VIP Tour & Press Conference

11.00 – 12.00

Refreshment & Contact Break:

Sponsored by: Bureau Van Dyke

Keynote speeches

12.00 – 12.15

Mr. Tim S. Norton, Global Market Director, Ports & Borders, Smiths Detection

12.15 – 12.30

Mr. Weidong Wang, Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development, NUCTECH Co. Ltd.

12.30 – 14.00

Networking lunch

Sponsored by : Smiths Detection [Corporate Sponsor]

14.00

Conference Chair:
Mr. Samson Uridia, Head of International Relations Department, Ministry of Finance, GRS

14.00 – 14.15

Keynote address from the host administration

Mr. Nika MAMUKELASHVILI, Personal Tax Adviser, GRS

14.15 – 15.45

Session 1: E-COMMERCE

Moderator: Mr. Simon Cocking, Senior Editor, Irish Tech News

Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, WCO

Mr. Samuel Laurinkari, Head of EU Affairs, eBay and WCO Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG) Member

Dr. Eng. Rana Raouf Farag, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Soukcom

Mr. Jhon Fonseca, Vice Minister, Ministry of Foreign Trade, Costa Rica

15.45 – 16.15

Refreshment & Contact Break:

Sponsored by: IBM

16.15 – 16.30

Keynote speech

Mr. Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, IRU

16.30 – 18.00

Session 2: SINGLE WINDOW

Moderator: Ms. Sue Probert, CEO, SEPIAeb

Mr. Richard Morton, Secretary General, International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA)

Mr. Shane Sela, ePhyto Project Manager, International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)

Mr. Chong Kok Keong, CEO, GeTS Global, Assistant CEO, CrimsonLogic

Mr. Erich Kieck, Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist, World Bank

Mr. Murray Young, Chief Information Officer and Strategic Business Change Manager, New Zealand Customs

20.00 – 22.30

SOCIAL EVENT

Dinner Hosted by: Korea Customs Service

Thursday, 8 June 2017

08.30 – 18.00

Registration

09.30 – 09.45

Opening Address

Mr. Simon Cocking, Senior Editor, Irish Tech News

09.45 – 11.15

Session 3: BIG DATA, DATA MINING AND PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS

Moderator: Mr. Abu Alghanam Mazen, Business Development Manager, Webb Fontaine

Dr. Yann Alix, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Soget, TRAFIS LAB

Mr. Youyi Wu, Chief engineer, China Customs

Mr. Charles Massey, Nuclear Security Officer, Department of Nuclear Safety and Security, IAEA

Mr. Ian Symondson, Solutions Architect, L3 Technologies

Mr. Luis Carillo, Director Tax & Transfer Pricing Solutions, Bureau Van Dyke

11.15 – 11.45

Refreshment & Contact Break:

Sponsored by: Webb Fontaine

11.45 – 12.00

Keynote speech

Mr. Binh Cong Nguyen, Deputy Director General, General Department of Vietnam Customs

Session 4: DATA GOVERNANCE

Moderator: Ms. Katie Wong, Senior Manager, Accenture

Mr. Satya Sahu (SP), Commissioner (Single Window), Central Board of Excise & Customs, India

Mr. Kester Meijer, Director Operational Integrity, Compliance & Safety, KLM Cargo

&

Mr. Armand ter Schure, Director Information Management, Cargo Operations & Martinair, KLM

Mr. Oren Elimelech, Founder & CISO, Cyber Team 360, Israel

Mr. Nick Small, Advisor (SGS), Department of Customs, Nepal

&

Mr. Shreekrishna Nepal, Deputy Director General, Department of Customs, Ministry of Finance, Nepal

13.15 – 14.30

Networking lunch:

Sponsored by: CrimsonLogice

14.30 – 18.00

TECHTALKS:

Continuous refreshments: IRU

TechTalk 1

TechTalk 2

TechTalk 3

TechTalk 4

English/French

“Data Model/Single Window”

English

“E-Commerce”

English

IT solutions - diverse

English

IT solutions - diverse

Moderator:

Mr. Satya Sahu (SP), Commissioner (Single Window), Central Board of Excise & Customs, India

Moderator:

Ms. Milena Budimirovic, Senior Technical Officer, WCO

Moderator:

Ms. Louritha Green
International Trade Liaison,
Office of International Affairs
US Customs and Border Protection

Moderator:

Mr. André Sceia Information System Officer, Sustainable, Transport Division

UNECE

Mr. Michael Dill, CEO, GEFEG mbH
&
Mr. Frederico Fróes Fontes’  Single Window Manager, Secretaria da Receita Federal, Brazil.
&
Ms. Elizabeth Titi Opare
Assistant Commissioner, e-Records & Applications Management, Ghana Revenue Authority

Mr. Harald Weyerich, Director Postal Technology Centre, UPU

Ms. Siranuysh Sargsyan, Project Manager/Business Analyst
Webb Fontaine

Mr. Geraint Dermody, Business Development Director, Symetrica Security Limited

Ms. Valentina Mintah, CEO, West Blue Consulting.

Mr. Gerard Rodrigues, Counsellor (Europe and Africa) Australian Border Force, Australian Embassy, Brussels

Dr. Yann Alix, Head of Strategy and Marketing, Soget, TRAFIS LAB

Mr. Musa Bin Abu Bakar, Senior Manager (Solutions and Consulting), CrimsonLogic

“Jump-Start Customs Management System Implementation”

Ms. Varsha Singh, Senior Manager: Business Relations, South Africa Revenue Service (SARS)

Mr. Robert Lake, Customs Counsellor,
New Zealand

Mr. Tim S. Norton, Global Market Director, Ports & Borders, Smiths Detection

Ms. Louise Wiggett,
Managing Director, ETradex Pty Ltd

TECHTALKS:

Continuous refreshments: S2 Global

IT solutions – diverse

Moderator:

Mr. Satya Sahu (SP), Commissioner (Single Window), Central Board of Excise & Customs, India

IT solutions – diverse

Moderator:

Mr. Perry Clay, SVP Global Markets, Integration Point

IT solutions – diverse

Moderator:

Mr. Oluimo da Silva,
Technical Attaché, OMD

IT solutions – diverse

Moderator:

Ms. Louise Wiggett,
Managing Director, ETradex Pty Ltd

Mr. Shane Sela, ePhyto Project Manager (IPPC)

Ms. Fabienne Le Tadic, Executve President, SICPA SA

Mr. David Ware, Director, Deloitte

Global Trade Radar: Identifying global customs risk and opportunities

Mr. Steve Hill, Principal Industry Consultant, CHAMP Cargosystems

“Solving the airfreight compliance conundrum - quality-driven digitized communities“

Mr. Ali Baeidi Mofradnia, Deputy, President in Planning and International Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA)

Mr. Michael Ritschewald,
Area Sales Manager,
TRUSTCONCEPT,  LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG

 “The Evolution Never Ends…”

Mr. Shinichiro  Naruse, General Manager, NACCS Center
&
Mr. Kenichiro Aoki, Senior Manager, NTT DATA CORRPORATION

Mr. Xiang Wang, Deputy CIO, China CusLink Co. Ltd.

“Customs IT service, standard and technology: Innovation-Driven and Win-Win Solutions ”

Mr. Daniel Kern, Senior Manager, Trade Policy Affairs, IRU

Mr. Jerome Pichot, Head of Product Marketing, Authentication & Traceability, De La Rue

Mr. Jianmin Li
General Manager of Production & Chief Information Officer
NUCTECH COMPANY LIMITED

Mr. Andrew Farrelly,
 Co-founder, CT Strategies

Mr. Raphaël Hirt, Head of eTIR, IRU Geneva
&
 Mr. André Sceia Information System Officer, Sustainable, Transport Division
UNECE

Mr. Ben van Rijnsoever, Lead Architect Customs & Borders, IBM Global COC

Mr. Vineet Malhotra, Director, Kale Logistics Solutions

Mr. Stewart Jeacocke, Customs Lead Expert, IBM Global COC

19.30 – 22.30

GALA DINNER

Hosted by: Georgia Revenue Service

Friday, 9 June 2017

09.00 – 09.15

Keynote speech:

Mr. Shota Chachkhunashvili, Deputy Chairman of the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR), Head of IT Department of NAPR, Ministry of Justice of Georgia

09.15 – 10.45

Session 5: BLOCKCHAIN

Moderator: Ms. Valentina Mintah, CEO, West Blue Consulting

Ms. Yeo Beng Huay, Chief Information Officer (CIO), Singapore Customs

Mr. Jacco Spek, Researcher Connected Business, Wageningen University of Research (WUR), the Netherlands

Mr. Georges Al Medawar, Chief Visionary Officer, Humaniq

Mr. Norbert Kouwenhoven, Customs, Borders Leader, IBM Global Trade Digitization

10.45 – 11.15

Refreshment & Contact Break:

Sponsored by: Accenture

11.15 – 11.30

Keynote speech:

Mr. Vladimir D. Zubkov, Secretary General, The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)

11.30 – 13.00

Session 6: INTEGRATED SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Moderator: Ms. Melissa Odegaard, Director Marketing, S2 Global

Ms. Susanne Aigner, Head of Unit, Customs Legislation, DG TAXUD, European Union

Mr. Frank Heijmann, Head of Trade Relations, Customs Administration of the Netherlands

Mr. Tahir Syed, Manager Cargo Technology, IATA

Prof. Yao-Hua Tan, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

13.00 – 13.30

Conclusions :

·         Conference Chair: Mr. Samson Urida, Head of International Relations Department, Georgia Revenue Service, Ministry of Finance of Georgia

·         Mr. Giorgi Tabuashvili, First Deputy Minister of Finance, Director General,  Georgia Revenue Service (GRS)

·         Mr. Ray McDonagh, Head of Administration, WCO

13.30

Take Away Lunch

Tour: 15.00 – 18.00