Main Conference Day One: Tuesday 23rd October 2007

8:10 Border Security

• Strategy
• Enforcement
• Operations

Ron Colburn
Deputy Chief, Office of Border Control
US CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

8:50 US-VISIT Program

• Current status
• Biometric exit procedures

Robert Mocny
Director
US-VISIT PROGRAM

9:30 Refreshment & Networking Break

10:10 Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

• Lessons learned from first phase (air)
• Moving forward with land and sea borders

Colleen M. Manaher
Director, Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION

10:50 Secure Border Initiative – An Overview

• Primary goals of SBI
• Effect on ports of entry
• SBInet program scope and overview

Rowdy Adams
Deputy Director
SECURE BORDER INITIATIVE

11:30 Leveraging Enterprise Data for Border Security

• Integrating and analyzing data from many sources and source systems
• Predictive analytics, event detection, and query complexity
• Datasharing with appropriate federal, state, and local enforcement agencies

Bill Cooper
Vice President, Government Solutions
TERADATA

1:10 Making The Secure Border Work For The US & Canada

Claude Carriere
Deputy Head of Mission, Canadian Embassy in the United States

1:50 Border Security: An Integrated Approach

• The Canadian-US border
• Threat environment
• Taking action: examples of integrated approaches and good news stories
• The way forward

Chief Superintendent Mike Cabana
Director General, Border Integrity
ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED POLICE

3:15 Border Security: Securing Travel at Ports of Entry

• The 9/11 Commission's recommendations concerning travelers entering the United States
• WHTI: changes to travel by American citizens
• US-VISIT: will the exit component be implemented in the near future?
• An examination of infrastructure issues at the ports: is security possible without significant investment?

Blas Nuñez-Neto
Domestic Security Analyst, Domestic Social Policy Division
CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

3:55 Border Crossing Issues – Initiatives to Secure US-Canada Supply Chains

• Introducing “Coordinated Clearance – Point of Departure Determination”
• Achieving facilitation of low-risk
• Preventing non low-risk from reaching our shores
• Minimizing US/Canada border crossing cost disadvantages

Jim Phillips
President & CEO
CANADIAN/AMERICAN BORDER TRADE ALLIANCE

4:35 UMBRA-DANTE Modeling for Security Applications

Steve Tucker
Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Intelligent Systems Principles
SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES