Wednesday, 6 May 2015 

Official Opening Ceremony of the

2015 WCO IT Conference & Exhibition:

The Honorable Dr. Michael Darville, Minister for Grand Bahamas

Mr. Charles Turner, Comptroller, Customs and Excise Department, The Bahamas

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

The Right Honourable Perry Gladstone Christie, Prime Minister & Minister of Finance, Commonwealth of The Bahamas

Keynote Address from Host Administration:

Mr. Charles Turner, Comptroller, Customs and Excise Department, The Bahamas

Keynote Speech:

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

Address:

Mr.  Don-Hyun Lee, Vice Commissioner, Korea Customs Service

Address by Conference Chair:

Mr. Tyrone Sands, Superintendent, Customs and Excise Department, The Bahamas

Round Table 1: Connecting Stakeholders in Engineering Regional Integration Processes

Facilitator: Mr. John Bescec, Microsoft – Member of the Private Sector Consultative Group (PSCG)

Mr. Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary General, WCO

Mr. Luis Cesar Priego Valdez, Central Administrator for Customs Planning and Strategic Coordination, Tax Administration Service / General Administration for Customs, Mexico

The Honorable Jay M. Cohen, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret) and Chief Operating Officer, Decision Sciences International Corporation (DSIC)

Mr. Intikhab Shaik, Group Executive, Business Systems, South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Keynote Speech:

Mr. Paul A. Hilaire, Permanent Secretary, Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council (CCLEC)

Panel 1:  Globally Networked Customs: Progressing Utility Blocks towards cross-border connectivity

Moderator: Mr. Pascal Ollivier, Director of Corporate Development, SOGET

Mr. Ramesh Siva, Lead e-Government Specialist, World Bank

Mr. John Bescec, Director, Global Trade Compliance & Standards, Global Trade Organization, Microsoft

Mr. Pablo Bonavia, Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP), Argentina

Mr. Pulak Chakrabarti, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chakrabarti Management Consultancy, Inc. (CMCI)

Thursday, 7 May 2015

Keynote speech: Enabling Collaboration through Technology: The Next Generation Customs Agency

Mr. James Canham, Managing Director, Global Customs Industry Lead, Accenture

Round Table 2: Emerging Issues for Customs and Border Management in handling growth of Inter- and Intra-Regional trade

Moderator: Mr. Rachid Benjelloun, Managing Director for Trade Facilitation, Nathan Associates Inc.

Mr. Dietmar Möllmann, Head of International Co-ordination, German Customs (ZKA) & Chair of the EU Working Group Customs Against Internet Crime (C@IC)

Mr. Ibrahima Diagne, Chair, African Alliance for E-commerce

Ms. Christine Macqueen, Director Corporate Affairs, SICPA

Mr.  Jonathan Koh, Senior Director, Trade Facilitation Centre of Excellence, CrimsonLogic Pte Ltd, Singapore

Keynote speech:

Mr. George Gobin, Regional Manager for Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Belize Turks & Caicos and Jamaica (BCBBTJ), Microsoft.

Keynote Speech:

Mr. Dikko Inde Abdullahi, Comptroller General, Nigeria Customs Service

Panel 2: Benefits of Customs Statistics and Other Trade Data Exchange

Moderator: Mr. Andreas Maurer, Chief of International Trade Statistics Section, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Mr. Chris Thibedeau, Vice President, Customs and Law Enforcement Solutions, A-T Solutions

Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief Trade Statistics Branch, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)

Mr. Cheol Kyu Maeng, Research Fellow, Korea Customs & Trade Development Institute

Mr. Frank Heijmann, Head of Trade Relations, Tax and Customs Administration, The Netherlands

TechTalk 1
Electronic Single Window Implementation & the WCO Data Model

TechTalk 2
IT Support for TFA implementation

TechTalk 3
Analytics, Data Mining & other Tools for Comprehensive Risk Management

Mr. Satya Prasad Sahu,

Commissioner IT, Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC), Department of Revenue,India

Mr. Eamonn Sheehy, Senior Advisor on IT, The Bahamas Ministry of Finance, Information to Knowledge Inc.,

Mr. Alexander Goulandris,
CEO, essDocs

Mr. Christian Dellis, Export Services, Plant Health Programs USDA

Ms. Valentina Mintah, CEO, West Blue

Mr. Randy Rotchin, President and CEO, 3CE

Mr. Pulak Chakrabarti, President & Chief Executive Officer, Chakrabarti Management Consultancy, Inc. (CMCI)

Ms. Sue Probert, Director, SEPIAeb Ltd.

Ms. Brenda Smith, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of International Trade (OT), United States Customs and Border Protection (US CBP)

Mr. Markie Muryawan, Chief of International Merchandise Trade Statistics Section, United Nations

Ms. Milena Budimirović, Technical Officer, WCO

Mr. Andreas Maurer,

Chief of International Trade Statistics Section, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Ms. Nor Haziah Abd Wahab, Head of International Affairs

Corporate Planning Division, Royal Malaysian Customs Department

Mr. Philippe Grosjean

Chief Information Officer, International Road Transport Union (IRU)

Mr. Christophe Renard, Marketing Services Director, SICPA

Mr. Nicolas Pulgar, IT Director, Servicio Nacional de Aduana, Ecuador

Mr. Anton Eccles
Head of Solution Architecture, eTradex, South Africa

Mr. Ryan Eickmeier,

Senior Director, Public Affairs, GS1 Canada

Mr. Bryce Blegen, CEO, Trusted Trade Alliance

Ms. Andrea Hampton, Senior Project Manager, Growth & Trade,
Crown Agents

Mr. Toshihiko Miyasaka ,President & Chief Executive Officer, Nippon Automated Cargo & Port Consolidated Systems, Inc., (NACCS),

AND

Mr. Kenji Nagai, Executive Manager Public Sector, NTT DATA Corporation

Mr. Donald Tan, Technical Attaché, WCO

Ms. Subrenna Higgs, Deputy Director IT, Customs and Excise Department, The Bahamas

Mr. Duncan Cleary, Technical Assistance Advisor, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Mr. Steve Schwab, Senior Vice President, ATSolutions Inc.

Mr. Samy Zayani, Project Director,
Web Fontaine

Mr. Jaime González Pradenas, Deputy Director IT, Dirección Nacional de Aduanas, Chile

Mr. Ronald Jansen, Chief Trade Statistics Branch, UNSD

Ms. Louise Wigget, e-Tradex

Mr. David Avsec, Deputy Director, PTC Account Relationships Coordinator, UPU

Mr. Colin Gabay, TRIPS Product Manager
Technobrain

Ms. Helen Bostock-Rolle, IBM

Friday, 8 May 2015

Opening Address:

The Hon. Michael Halkitis, Minister of State for Finance

Keynote Speeches:

Dato' Khazali Ahmad, WCO Regional Vice Chair & Director General of Customs, Royal Malaysian Customs Department

Mr. Umberto de Pretto, Secretary General, International Road Transport Union (IRU)

Panel 3: Efficient Transit Solutions for Reduced Costs of Trading

Moderator: Mr. Pascal Minvielle, Business Development Director, Webfontaine

Mr. Andre Van der Post, Senior Director, Public Sector Industry Solutions Group, Oracle.

Mr. Kateshumbwa C. Dicksons, Assistant Commissioner, Customs Audit Division, Uganda Revenue Authority

Mr. Xavier Cardenas Moncayo, Director General, Servicio Nacional de Aduana, Ecuador

Mr. Brian Glancy, Director/Team Leader, Trade Facilitation Team, USAID Southern Africa Trade Hub (SATH)

Round Table 3: Ultimate benefits for trade in cross-border AEO programmes

Facilitator : Mr. James Canham, Managing Director, Global Customs Industry Lead, Accenture

Mr. Kester Mejier, Director Operations Integrity, KLM

Mr. Charles Armstrong, Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Information and Technology (OIT), US CBP

Mr. Diego Daniel Diaz, Executive Director, Argentinean Chamber of Customs E-Seals (CaPeMa)

Mr. Hideharu Tanaka, Counselor for International Cooperation, Customs and Tariff Bureau, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Conclusions by Conference Chair:

Mr. Tyrone Sands, Superintendent, Custom and Excise Department, The Bahamas

Closing Speeches:

Mr. Charles Turner, Comptroller, Bahamas Customs Department

Mr. Ray McDonagh, Head of Administration and Personnel, WCO