Overview

Chair’s Opening Remarks

Gordon Corera, Security Correspondent, BBC (CONFIRMED)

Opening Keynote: Closing Security Gaps – Building a Resilient Britain

• Investment to secure CNI and counter the terrorist threat: A changing landscape following the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack
• An update on Contest 2 and the new UK Science and Technology Strategy for Countering International Terrorism
• Matching products and ideas to problems
• Using horizon scanning to understand future scientific and technical threats
• Identifying and sharing priority science and technology requirements
• Enhancing international collaboration on counter-terrorism related science and technology
• Rolling out identity cards for foreign nationals: A secure and simple way to prove entitlement to live, work or study in the UK
• The role of the new Identity Commissioner, ensuring high quality in data management

Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson MP, Home Secretary (INVITED)

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Strategy and Counter-Terrorism: New Threats, New Approaches

• Looking ahead: The changing nature of the terrorist threat
• The evolution of CONTEST - What can be expected going forward?
• The changing counter-terrorism discourse

Charlie Edwards, Head of Strategy and Planning, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (CONFIRMED)

Frontline Security and Border Protection in Practice: Looking Ahead  

• An update on the £1.2 billion eBorders programme:  Land, air and sea – Where next?
• Toward 2011 and the activation of automated clearance systems (ACS) at all entry ports, rolling-out autogate systems to 10 additional UK airports

• Towards the e-Borders Operations Centre and an update on the implementation timescale

• Working collaboratively

Julie Gillis, e-Borders Programme Director, UK Border Agency (CONFIRMED)

Morning Keynote: Tackling the Threat Serious Organised Crime Poses to UK Security and Resilience

• The role of SOCA in implementing an integrated, cross-government system to disrupt international serious organised crime networks operating in the UK
• Tackling the estimated £20 to £40 billion which these networks cost the economy annually 

• Using digital forensics to maintain evidential rigour, securing arrest and conviction

• Working jointly with the UKBA to disrupt organised crime at the ‘pinch point’ of the UK border
• Preventing organised immigration crime – Implementing checks against the Interpol Stolen and Lost Transport Documents database
• Reducing exploitation of illegal migrants in the UK
• Foiling people smuggling plots and human trafficking: An update on the UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking  
• Vigilance in stemming the flow of funds to terrorists at home and abroad: The UK Financial Intelligence Unit’s Terrorist Finance Team

Sir Ian Andrews, Chair (Non-Executive), Serious Organised Crime Agency (CONFIRMED)

Morning Questions and Answers

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Afternoon Keynote: Pursuing a Comprehensive and Strategic Approach to Homeland and Border Security

• Establishing a National Security Council (NSC) – Providing the machinery at the centre of government to identify and assess risks to national security on a more comprehensive basis
• Joining up the work of CPNI and the NSC to evaluate the state of the country’s essential sectors and critical assets
• Security of territory, seas and airspace: Creating a military homeland command
• Creating a unified border police force with full powers of pursuit and arrest
• Countering radicalisation with a united, community-led approach
• Avoiding reliance on surveillance as a key tenet of security 

Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Shadow Security Minister (INVITED)

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The Identity and Passport Service: Ensuring Accuracy and Security

• A National Identity Service run to the highest standards
• A biometric future: Understanding the practical implications of using biometrics and its potential
• The importance of first-rate front office services in providing biometric registration services
• The expansion of the Identity Card scheme for foreign nationals: A secure and convenient way for people to prove their identity
• The role of the Identity Commissioner: Ensuring the security of information collected

Duncan Hine, Executive Director of Integrity and Security, IPS (CONFIRMED)

Special Keynote: Developing an Integrated Border Security System in the European Union – Countering the Terrorist Threat

• Implementing the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) – How will this impact UK security?
• European Programme on Critical Infrastructure Protection (EPCIC)
• To what extent will Eurosur contribute to improving Critical Infrastructure Protection in the EU?
• Creating a common data and information-sharing environment at the European level, interlinking all user communities
• Building a technical framework for interoperability and future integration, making best use of existing systems
• Increasing the use of biometric technology, stored on a central database, to increase EU internal security and prevent cross-border crime
• Safeguarding personal data and maintaining confidentiality provisions

Ilkka Pertti Juhani Laitinen, Executive Director, FRONTEX (CONFIRMED)

Closing Keynote: Balancing Social Research and Physical Science in Counter-Terrorism Policy

• Integrating different kinds of science and innovation in countering the terrorist threat
• The potential for social research data in understanding what motivates and constrains individuals and groups in society
• Improving horizon scanning - The benefits in predicting changes in social and economic structures, attitudes, values, and behaviours
• Surveillance and Privacy: Striking a balance
• Developing and promoting the right equipment, understanding motivations

• Improving processes in sharing data to improve security, efficiency, and effectiveness in fighting terrorism and other crimes

• Video Analytics – New strategies to support surveillance and detection

Professor Paul Wiles CB, Director and Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Science and Research Group, Home Office (CONFIRMED)