2018 Knowledge Academy
 

 

Day 1 – Monday, 2 July

Session I: Programme introduction

09:30-10:00

Programme introduction and overview

 

Ana Hinojosa, World Customs Organization, Director Compliance and Facilitation

Session II: E-Commerce

10:00- 11:00

Creating a secure and sustainable Cross-Border E-Commerce environment

 

Speaker:  Han Bosch, Senior executive Netherlands Customs Administration

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Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, World Customs Organization

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11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session II: E-Commerce

11:30-12:30

Framework of Standards on Cross-Border E-Commerce and associated tools

 

Speaker:  Gerry Rodrigues, Counsellor, Australian Border Force, Australian Embassy in Brussels

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Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, World Customs Organization

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement

 

 

Session III:  Trade Facilitation Agreement

 

14:00- 15:30

State of play and challenges ahead

 

Speaker: Sheri Rosenow, World Trade Organization

Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, World Customs Organization

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

 

Session III:  Trade Facilitation Agreement

 

16:00-17:30

Successfully navigating the challenges

 

Speaker:  Sheri Rosenow, World Trade Organization

Facilitator: Theo Hesselink, World Customs Organization

Day 2 – Tuesday, 3 July

 

Facilitating trade with modern tools

 

Session IV:  Single Window

 

09:30-11:00

Single Window as Trade Facilitation tool: Impact and evaluation of Single Window on a national economy

 

Speaker: Lorena Veiga, Manager Single Window International Trade Uruguay

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Facilitator: Armen Manukyan, World Customs Organization


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11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

 

Session V: SAFE Framework of Standards

 

11:30-12:30

The 2018 SAFE Package : strengthening  trade facilitation and supply chain security

 

Speaker: Chun Hun Lee, Deputy Director Multilateral Cooperation Division Korea Customs Service

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Facilitator: Pashupati Pandey, World Customs Organization


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12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

Session VI: Future of Customs

 

14:00-15:30

What will the future hold?

 

Speakers:

Matome Mathole, Customs Attache, South Africa – “The WCO Future of Customs Group”

Stewart Jeacocke, Customs Lead, IBM (tbc) – “Blockchain technology”

Facilitator: Milena Budimirovic, World Customs Organization

 

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

 

Session VI: Future of Customs

 

16:00-17:30

How can Customs meet future challenges?

 

Speakers:

Chahid Azarkan, Tactical Architect, Dutch Customs – “Virtual reality”

Mr. Ziv Baida, Gov,Trade & Emerging Tech Leader, Altares - Dun & Bradstreet - Data and (Artificial) Intelligence see presentation EN, see presentation FR

Gerry Rodrigues, Counsellor, Australian Border Force, Australian Embassy in Brussels – “Strategy Behind Technology”

Facilitator: Milena Budimirovic, World Customs Organization

 

 

 

Day 3 – Wednesday, 4 July

 

Capacity Building and Research

 

Session Capacity Building

09:30-11:00

 

WCO People Development Portfolio:  Roles of HRM in an organization and WCO Tools and instruments

 

Speakers: Giovanni Gaeta,

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Thibault Hermes

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 and Dimitrios Politopoulos

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11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session Capacity Building

11:30-12:30

 

Project Management in Customs context

Speakers: Richard Chopra and Nathan Taylor

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Session Research

14:00-15:30

 

Hao Wu: Legal Basis for Customs Cooperation

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Yeon-Soo Choi: Traces of Illicit Financial Flows in Trade Data

Bassem Chermiti, Inspecteur des douanes, Douanes Tunisiennes

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session Research

16:00-17:30

 

Thomas Cantens: Insecurity and cross border trade: the potential uses of modelling for customs intelligence.

 


 

 

Day 4 – Thursday, 5 July

 

Enforcing a secure business environment

 

Session XI:  Small Arms and Light Weapons

09:30-11:00

Customs’ role in UN SCR 2370 implementation.

 

Speaker: Glenn MacDonald, Small Arms Survey

                  Maria Carmello, Group for Research and Information on Peace

                                                and Security 

Facilitator: James McColm, World Customs Organization

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

Session XII:  API and PNR

11:30-12:30

“API and PNR”  Known versus Unknown threats.

 

Speaker: Phil Howarth, UK Counter Terrorism Police National Operations      

                Centre

                 Sian Henderson, National Targeting Centre, UKBF

Facilitator: Jatinder Randhawa, World Customs Organization

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

Session XIII: Drug Trafficking

14:00-15:30

The fight against drug trafficking in e-commerce

 

Speaker: Sun-hwa Cho, RILO AP

                Fumio ITO, Project ION, INCB

                Matthew Nice, OPIOIDS Project, INCB

Facilitator: Steve Yuen, World Customs Organization

15:30-16:00

Coffee/Tea Networking Break


Session XIV: Post-Clearance Audit

16:00-17:30

Sustaining the balance between trade facilitation and enforcement

Speaker: Jonathan Page, Canada Border Service Agency

Facilitator: Thabo Pase, World Customs Organization

                   Yasuhito Sakamoto,  World Customs Organization

 

 

Day 5 – Friday, 6 July

Session XVI:  Trends and Patterns in the Illicit Trade of Excisable Goods

09:30-10:30

Illicit trade in excise goods: getting ahead of the curve.

 

Speaker: Malcolm Woodall, HMRC

Facilitator: Giuseppe Marra, World Customs Organization

Session XV:  Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing

10:30-11:00

The WCO efforts – how effective are they?

 

Speaker: David Kane, World Customs Organization

 

11:00-11:30

Coffee/Tea Networking Break

11:30-12:30

Key elements in the fight against Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing

 

Speaker: Jeff Darin, US Homeland Security Investigations  

Facilitator: David Kane, World Customs Organization

 

12:30-14:00

Lunch

 

14:00-15:30

 

Evaluation

 

15:30-1630

 

Preparations for Practical Day Exercise  and Close out