2011 WCO IT Conference and Exhibition
Welcome: Tuesday, 10 May 2011
5:00 pm - 7:00 pmRegistration
7:00 pm - 8:30 pmWelcome cocktail
Sponsored by: Intrasoft & IBM

Day 1: Wednesday, 11 May 2011
8:00 amRegistration
10:00 am - 11:00 amOpening Ceremony of the 2011 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition
Mr. Alan Bersin, Commissioner, US CBP
Mr. Kunio Mikuriya
Mr. Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counter Terrorism Coordinator (tbc)
11:00 am - 11:45 amRefreshment and contact break
11:00 am - 11:45 amVIP Exhibition Tour
11:45 am - 1:00 pmKeynote Speeches
Dr. Hans Van Grieken, Vice President Business Innovation, CapGemini
Ms. Linda Zecher, CVP Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft Corp
1:00 pmPress Conference Room (tba)
1:00 pm - 2:30 pmNetworking lunch
2:30 pmConference Chair
Dr. Susanne Aigner, Compliance & Facilitation, WCO
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmKeynote Address from Host Administration
Mr. Richard Spires, DHS
3:00 pm - 4:30 pmSession 1: Cloud Computing: What is it. What it isn’t.
Mr. Nick Small, Crown Agents
Mr. Jim Canham, Accenture
Mr. Norbert Kouwenhoven, IBM
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmRefreshment and contact break
Sponsored by: ORACLE
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Mr. Miguel Lopera, President & CEO, GS1
5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSession 2: Why is Government So Different?
Ms. Renee Stein, Nathan Associates
Mr. Andre van der Post, ORACLE
Mr. Tom Butterly, UNECE
Moderator: Mr. Albert Menashe, Intrasoft International
7:00 pm - 10:30 pmGALA DINNER
Sponsored by: ICS
 
Gala Dinner on-board the Royal Argosy 

Day 2: Thursday, 12 May 2011
9:00 amRegistration
9:30 am - 9:45 amOpening Address
Mr. Carlos Alberto Schiopetto, Commercial Director for Latin America, Inspection & Control Services (ICS)
9:45 am - 11:00 amSession 3: National Administrations - Leading Customs administrations will present their view on outsourced data processing
Mr. David Hesketh, HM Revenue & Customs (UK)
Mr. Marius Papenfus, South African Revenue Service
Mr. Frank Heijmann, The Dutch Tax & Customs Administration
Ms. Anne Craig, Canada Border Services Agency
Mr. Frank Holder, Comptroller of Customs (Barbados)
Mr. Chris Thibedeau, , VP GreenLine Systems
Mr. Marius Papenfus, South African Revenue Service
11:00 am - 11:30 amRefreshment and contact break

Sponsored by: UNISYS 
11:30 am - 1:30 pmRound Table: A Legal Storm in the Cloud ?
Professor William J. Luddy Jr, Esq.
Ms. Lucy L. Thomson, Esq., Computer Sciences Corporation, CSC
Mr. James Bryce Clark, OASIS
Mr. Ivan Fong, General Counsel, DHS
Mr. David Satola, World Bank
Ms. Marina Comninos, General Counsel, Electronic Shipping Solutions
Moderator: Mr. Christopher Gillis, American Shipper
1:30 pm - 3:00 pmBuffet lunch
Sponsored by: BULL
3:00 pm - 6:00 pmSheraton - TechTalk
Continuous refreshments
 
Sponsored by: Expeditors
Moderator: Mr. Gareth Lewis, WCOModerator: Mr. Mark Emery, CSC
3:00 pm - 3:30 pmTechnology Architecture for Coordinated Border Management incorporating Single Window - WCO
Mr. Satya Prasad Sahu, WCO
TechTalk
Ms. Teresa A. Weipert, Accenture
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Mr. Tom Butterly, UNECE
TechTalk
Mr. Chandra Dube, Inspection & Control Services (ICS)
4:00 pm - 4:30 pmOffice of Information Technology - CBP
Ms. Linda Jacksta, ACE, Office of Information Technology - CBP

Mr. Frederic Montier, BULL
4:30 pm - 5:00 pmCBP Office of Public Affairs (tba)
Mr. Ira Reese, CBP
Expeditors (tba)
Mr. Jeff Musser, Senior Vice President - IS and CIO - , Expeditors
5:00 pm - 5:30 pmNigera (tba)
Mr. T.A Bashar, Reforms and Modernization, Nigerian Customs Service
Intrasoft (tba)
Mr. Barry Luke, Arctic Group
5:30 pm - 6:00 pmSmart-CM, A smart Europe - Asia supply chain management project – Belgium Customs
Mr. Herman Van Cauwenberghe, Belgium Customs
UNISYS
Mr. G. Michael Rodgers, Unisys
7:30 pm - 10:00 pmTaste of Seattle Reception
Sponsored by: Accenture


Day 3: Friday, 13 May 2011
9:00 amRegistration
9:30 am - 9:45 amOpening Address
9:45 am - 11:30 amSession 4: Maritime Port Systems
Mr. Ki Young Kim, Director General for Planning and Cooperation, Korean Customs
9:45 am - 11:30 amSession 4: Maritime Port Systems
Mr. Alan Long & Mr. Pascal Ollivier, IAPH
Ms. Debbie Givens, Port of Tacoma
Mr. John Kok, General Counsel, Hutchinson Port Holdings
11:30 am - 12:00 pmRefreshment and contact break
Sponsored by: FedEx
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmSession 5 : Customs IT Vision
Ms. Susanne Aigner, Deputy Director, C&F, WCO
Mr. Andres Monges, Paraguayan Customs
Mr. Robby Beau, Managing Director Global Trade Services, FedEx
Dr. Guilherme Mambo, Mozambique Revenue Authority
Mr. Mark Miller, Founder, Conceptivity
1:30 pm - 2:00 pmClosing Speeches
Mr. Charles Armstrong, Deputy Director, Office of Information Technology, CBP
Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary-General, WCO
2:00 pm - 3:30 pmBuffet lunch
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