INTERPOL World 2017 Congress to lead industry dialogue for a unified approach to combat future crime

INTERPOL World 2017 Congress to lead industry dialogue for a unified
approach to combat future crime

SINGAPORE, 24 April
2017 – INTERPOL World 2017 is set to bring law enforcement agencies,
government bodies, academia, security professionals and solution providers
together over three days of networking and information exchange this July. The
global exhibition and congress aim to stimulate collaborations between
stakeholders to address crimes in the future.

This year, the INTERPOL
World Congress will see a brand-new conference structure to give attendees a
more guided experience with an end-to-end approach. Featuring over 40 speakers
across the public and private sectors, the Congress will address pressing concerns
via three dedicated tracks – Cybercrime (4 July), Safe Cities (5 July) and
Identity Management (6 July). All three days will begin with a macro dialogue
to highlight the spectrum of future security challenges. This will be followed
by a segment covering strategic perspectives from practitioners, researchers
and academia, who will cast light on technologies that are available to address
the security challenges. The days will end with insightful case studies
featuring real-life applications and results that some organizations have
achieved in different parts of the world.

Participants at the
Congress will hear from leading security solutions providers such as Kaspersky
Lab, Microsoft, NEC, Securiport and SICPA, as well as thought leaders from
Police Departments and Security Research Institutions such as:

·         Arthur Holland Michel, Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Drone,
Bard College

·         Cheri McGuire, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Standard
Chartered

·         Dr Donato Colucci, Senior Regional Immigration and Border Management
Specialist, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

·         Jim Pitkow, Chair Technical Task Force, Thorn

·         Michael Hershman, Group CEO, International Centre for Sport Security
(ICSS)

·         Nils Andersen-Röed, Operational Specialist / Project Leader Darkweb
Team, Dutch National Police

·         Rob Leslie, Chief Executive Officer, Sedicii Innovations Limited (World
Economic Forum’s 2015 Technology Pioneer)

Please refer to the
appendix for the full list of speakers, panelists and moderators.

Cybercrime – Managing
future cyber threats to society from the “hidden” Internet

Emerging technologies today
is making cybercrime increasingly sophisticated and a growing concern for
individuals, companies, governments and countries around the world. The cost of
cybercrime to the global economy is estimated at $445 billion a year. A
diplomatic dialogue and knowledge sharing amongst all stakeholders can help to
elevate the industry’s understanding of new crimes and future threats. This
track will zoom into the future of security and how technology can be harnessed
to prevent, detect, and investigate risks presented by an ever-changing
internet. It will bring out the underlying social and technological causes of
cybercrime that law enforcement needs to understand, to mitigate it
effectively.

Supported by the World
Economic Forum (WEF), the first day of the congress will focus on the new
challenges of cybercrime, such as the rise of Darknet, and how a collaborative
effort can address its adverse impact. This discussion is in line with WEF’s
Cybercrime Project, launched in 2015 to bolster cooperation and collaboration
between the public sector, private sector and law enforcement authorities for a
unified and balanced approach to cybercrime.

Moderator of INTERPOL –
World Economic Forum Cybercrime Dialogue on the first day of the Congress,
Jean-Luc Vez, Head of Public Security Policy and Security Affairs, Member of
the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum said, “While there are many
instruments dedicated to fighting cybercrime today – including platforms for
sharing information, private industry standards and best practises – these
efforts tend to be industry specific or regional at best. Leveraging on
INTERPOL’s unique position as the global hub for cybercrime related data and
intelligence, the INTERPOL-WEF led dialogue will help broaden the awareness of
available tools among organizations to aid in dealing with complex cyber
threats.”

Safe Cities – Preparing
strategies, approach and tactics for securing urban centres and global cities
of the future

The rise of urban centres
and “Smart City” initiatives enabled by big data, network of sensors and the
Internet of Things (IoT) bring a new set of challenges to future policing.
While digital technologies have helped compress the reaction time of police all
over the world, the increased connectivity can similarly be leveraged by
criminals to carry out increasingly sophisticated crimes.

There is now a growing
consensus that technology transformation must be part of the overall solution.
To keep our cities and citizens safe, law enforcement must be armed with the
right technology, tools and processes to solve – or even prevent – the toughest
crimes at faster rates. Panelist and speaker at the INTERPOL World 2017
Congress, Commander Jorge R Rodriguez, Los Angeles Police Department said,
“Many law enforcement agencies such as LAPD, Seattle and Florida Police
Departments are using cutting-edge cloud-based crime prediction software to
predict drug crime, gang crime, anti-social behaviour and gun violence.”

Such crime prediction
software work by analysing data through a sophisticated algorithm that applies
proven criminal theories to predict the top 10 to 20 spots where crime is most
likely to occur over the next few hours. To do so, it leverages on a variety of
factors, such as historical and recent crime data, real-time activity, weather
forecasts, locations and other information. Once these ‘hot spots’ are
identified, police officers can adapt their patrol schedule and frequency at
these locations, making their presence felt in the area and thereby prevent
crime from taking place.

“As digital technologies
continue to be a game-changer for the future of policing, it is now imperative
for law enforcement to better coordinate, command and control critical
resources to make quick sense of an explosion of information in crisis
situations,” Commander Rodriquez added further.

Identity Management – Law
enforcement, migration and border management in an age of globalisation

While technology
advancements have enabled immigration and law enforcement agencies to cope with
an increasingly challenging operating reality, it has also enabled those
seeking to circumvent border controls using false identities, counterfeit
travel documents and more to pursue illegal immigration, transnational
organised crimes and/or terrorism.

As governments tighten
immigration and border controls, there is currently no single universal
standard pertaining to the identification, verification and validation of
identity of people, goods and vehicles. The varying standards across the globe
have resulted in gaps, which can be exploited by criminals and terrorists
alike.

As a key highlight of the
identity management discussion, Dr John Coyne, Head of Border Security Program,
Australian Strategic Policy Institute, will be sharing his insights on a new
technology to be utilised by the Australian Department of Immigration and Border
Protection (DIBP). By 2020, the immigration will no longer require passenger
passports, instead, they will be processed by biometric recognition of the
face, iris and or fingerprints, making them the first in the world to adopt
such technology.

INTERPOL World 2017
Exhibition            

The second edition of
INTERPOL World 2017 Congress will happen from 4 to 6 July 2017 while the trade exhibition will take place from 5 to 7 July 2017 in Singapore. The exhibition will feature international
manufacturers and solutions providers presenting their latest cutting-edge
technologies across cybersecurity, public safety, biometrics, identity
solutions, forensics and investigations and many more to over 10,000 security
professionals and buyers from both public and private sectors. For more
information, please visit www.interpol-world.com