7^th Border Management and Identity Conference

Amy Pope became Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on 1 October 2023, bringing a wealth of experience in addressing complex migration issues and passion for changing the global narrative about people on the move. She is the first woman to hold the post in IOM’s 73-year history. In the early part of her five-year term, Ms. Pope put the organization on a new strategic path designed to ensure that IOM can respond to an increasingly complex migration landscape. The new direction enables IOM to help save and protect people on the move today, but also to be proactive about challenges before they become crises.

Building on reforms she began implementing as IOM’s Deputy Director General for Management and Reform, Ms. Pope has also led organizational changes that focus IOM’s structure and resources toward the work its teams do in the field.

Before joining IOM, DG Pope served as the Senior Advisor on Migration to US President Biden and served as the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama. While at the White House, Ms. Pope developed and implemented comprehensive strategies to address migration in areas such as countering trafficking in persons, resettling refugees, and vulnerable people, and preparing communities to respond and adapt to climate-related crises.

Ms. Pope has also occupied positions at the US Department of Justice and US Senate and was a Partner in the London-based law firm, Schillings. She graduated magna cum laude from the Duke University School of Law with a Juris Doctor and has a BA in Political Science (with Honors) from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Ms. Pope is married, with two daughters.

The latest IOM director general is a former European Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (1999-2004) and former Minister of the Presidency and National Defence (1995-1997). He has also enjoyed a distinguished career in Portugal as a lawyer as well as in electoral politics.

Dion Chamberlain is the Director, International and Product Strategy, Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand. He has worked for DIA since 2003 in advisory and managerial roles spanning Passports, Citizenship, Digital Identity and Civil Registration.

Dion is responsible for the development of new identity products for New Zealanders - a function that includes systems thinking and user-based design to put customer at the centre of development. His role also oversees business intelligence and innovation, new product and service development, information sharing services, and working in public and private sector partnerships. He has been closely involved in the development and delivery of highly successful initiatives, including RealMe digital identity, the introduction of e-Passports, the use of facial recognition technology in automated issuance processes, and the world's first fully online Passport renewal service. He also holds technical programme governance roles, and is a standing DIA member on New Zealand's Pacific Security Coordinating Committee, and the Border Sector Governance Group.

Dion has led assistance missions in the South Pacific, focussing on the implementation of new passport and civil registration systems, and supporting legislative and operational policy change in developing nations. Dion is currently the Secretary of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group (ICBWG), which is focussed on improving capability of travel document issuance authorities and border control agencies globally.

Ms Scorretti is the Senior Regional Specialist for Immigration and Border Governance of the IOM Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. She supports the Immigration and Border Governance portfolios of IOM Offices in the entire region, by providing guidance to IOM offices and Governments on the formulation and implementation of migration and border policies and initiatives in line with international standards and best practices.

Before joining the IOM Regional Office in Bangkok, Ms Scorretti served at IOM China and IOM Ukraine as Head of Immigration and Border Management unit, as well as at the IOM Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa. With experience in the European Union, Eastern Europe and Caucasus, the Middle East and Nord Africa, as well as East Asia, Ms Scorretti has developed in her career initiatives in Integrated Border Management, return and readmission, ITC and biometric solutions for identity management, human resources and training development for border authorities, anti-corruption, support to policy dialogue and infrastructure development for border posts and training facilities for law enforcement authorities. Prior to joining the UN, Ms Scorretti worked for the Development Cooperation Office of the Italian Embassy in Morocco on migration and development issues, as well as in the private sector on labour mobility, migrant remittances and regional development. Ms Scorretti holds a MA cum laude in Development Economics from the university “La Sapienza” of Rome, and a MA in European Economics from the College of Europe, Belgium, after which she served at the European Commission, EuropeAid office, in Brussels.

Greg Pote is Chairman of APSCA, the business association for secure identity and payments, which he co-founded in 1997. Greg is also Chief Information Officer of ID4Africa, a multi-stakeholder movement that promotes the transparent and responsible adoption of digital identity in the service of development in Africa. Greg has chaired and spoken at more than 200 industry conferences, forums and seminars covering identity and payments, across 22 countries in Asia, Africa, the Gulf and Europe, leading discussions with experts from governments, banks, transport operators, mobile operators and technology companies. Greg is a jury member for the Radiant Awards for government electronic identity schemes, and was a jury member for the Cartes Paris and Cartes Asia SESAMES Awards, the NFC Forum & WIMA Global Competition and the Asia PKI Innovation Awards.

Donato is the Regional Immigration and Border Management (IBM) Specialist at the IOM Regional Office for Asia and Pacific, based in Bangkok, Thailand. He provides to IOM offices and Governmental counterparts expertise, planning and guidance in the development, coordination, and implementation of capacity building initiatives, in particular on border and migration management including Integrated Border Management and data collection and analysis. He assists IOM Country Offices and Governmental counterparts in developing, implementing and monitoring IOM's capacity building strategy and training activities, at national as well at regional level, undertaking, when requested, technical field assessments.

With the IOM IT-Expert, he provides technical support for assessing, budgeting, installing and training on Border Management Information System (BMIS) and trains on various IBM topics including passport examination procedures. Prior he was Project Manager of two CBMM programs in Africa before being appointed as "Migration Management Specialist" at the African Capacity Building Centre (ACBC), in Moshi (Tanzania), IOM's center of excellence for capacity building.

With UN he was Police Commander of the international airport of Pristine seconded from the Italian Police Department (Polizia di Stato) to the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). In Italy, he is a Police Officer from the Central Directorate of Immigration and Border Police of the Italian Ministry of Interior, currently on special leave for serving IOM as expert on migration management issues.

Isabelle has been working with the Biometrics Institute since May 2002 and, after almost 10 years in Australia, she is now based in London.

She has played a key role in the establishment of the Biometrics Institute, the independent and international impartial membership organisation which is promoting the responsible and ethical use of biometrics worldwide.

She has created a global network of diverse stakeholders bringing together technical, research, privacy and public policy people all joining forces to make the world a better place through the responsible use of biometrics.

Isabelle has successfully managed many government-funded projects in this field, including the Biometrics Vulnerability Assessment Project, the Biometrics Institute Privacy Guidelines, the Three Laws for Biometrics, Ethical Principles for Biometrics, the Good Practice Framework and the UN Counter Terrorism Compendium on Good and Recommended Practices for the Use of Biometrics in Counter-Terrorism, where the Institute was the penholder.

She received the SIA Women in Biometrics Award in 2017 for her contribution to the biometrics community in promoting the responsible and ethical use of biometrics. The award is dedicated to recognising innovative women creating a more secure world by guiding the biometrics technology market.

She has spoken at many of the Biometrics Institute events but also at important meetings of the United Nations, Interpol, OSCE, ICAO and Frontex to name a few.

Isabelle holds a Master of Arts in English Literature, Business and the Arts from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt Main, Germany.

The Biometrics Institute is the independent and impartial international membership organisation for biometric users and other interested parties. It was established in 2001 to promote the responsible use of biometrics and has offices in London and Sydney.

With more than a thousand members from 200 membership organisations spread across 36 countries, it represents a global and diverse multi-stakeholder community. This includes banks, airlines, government agencies, biometric experts, privacy experts, suppliers and academics.

The Biometrics Institute connects the global biometrics community. It shares knowledge with its members and key stakeholders and most importantly, develops good practices and thought leadership for the responsible and ethical use of biometrics.

For more than 25 years, Stephan has been an expert in ISO (SC17 WG3), CEN (TC224 WG 18 Biometrics, 19 Breeder Documents, 20 SSI eWallet) and ICAO working groups on identity. He is the editor for the CEN TC224 WG19 Breeder Document Trust framework.

He has been seconded by IOM, UNDP, ICAO, ICRC and others to various advisory missions in Brazil, South Sudan, Malawi, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burkina Faso and other countries.

He is co-author of the IOM Guide to Free Zones and a guide on biometrics to be published in early 2023.

In addition to various individual consultancy assignments for IOM, Stephan is Managing Partner of SECOIA Executive Consultants. He holds a Master's degree in Security Studies from London Met University and a degrees in Business Administration, Print and Media Science and Technology.

Fons is a Fellow at the University of Texas (US) and member of the board of advisors of Center for Identity. He has retired since October 2022, and was an official of the National Office for Identity Data (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom relations).

He advised on the development of the security concept for the Dutch passport and identity card.

In addition, he advised different Governments during the development of many (electronic) passports and identity documents. He advised Governments by the restructuring of their identity infrastructure and redesigned the identification process of suspects arrested by the police.

Fons has executed assessments on the identity ecosystem in over 10 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Fons was supervisor of the EU SOTAMD research project on photo morphing (2019) and was as researcher involved in the European program FIDELITY (2012).

He has both developed and taught various national and international training courses including a Masterclass on ID Management. Participants of Governments of more than 35 nationalities have participated in the Masterclass.

In addition to several publications on identity documents, fraud, etc., he has authored various books, including “Documents: The Developer's Toolkit”. A toolkit on identity document development, a IOM publication in cooperation with Fons Knopjes.

Jakob Dam Glynstrup is head of the Danish National ID-centre. Jakob has a background from the immigration field and has been head of the Danish National ID-centre since it was established in 2018. The centre is an independent expert centre who assist Danish authorities with questions connected to the identification of foreigners within the area of biometrics, document verification and training. Jakob is also Chairman at the Biometrics Institute, an organization which focus on the responsible, ethical and effective use of biometrics.

Italian, born in 1973, Paolo Benanti is a Third Order Regular Franciscan - TOR - and works on ethics, bioethics and ethics of technologies. In particular, his studies focus on the management of innovation: the Internet and the impact of the Digital Age, biotechnology for human improvement and biosafety, neuroscience and neurotechnology.

f As he writes, "I try to focus on the ethical and anthropological significance of technology for Homo sapiens: we are a species that has inhabited the world for 70,000 years, transforming it; the human condition is a techno-human condition..."

At the Pontifical Gregorian University, he received his licentiate in 2008 and his doctorate in moral theology in 2012. The doctoral dissertation entitled "The Cyborg. Body and Corporeality in the Age of the Posthuman" won the Belarmino - Vedovato Prize.

Since 2008 he has been a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He works on neuroethics, ethics of technologies, artificial intelligence and the posthuman. He was part of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force to assist the Agency for Digital Italy. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life with a particular mandate for the world of artificial intelligence. In late 2018, and a again in 2023, he was selected by the Ministry of Economic Development as a member of the group of thirty experts tasked at the national level with developing the national strategy on artificial intelligence and the national strategy on shared ledger and blockchain-based technologies. He is part of Hight Levels Advisory Board own Artificial Intelligence of UN.

Mr David Scott is a senior Australian Government official and Co-Manager of the Regional Support Office of the Bali Process. As Co-Manager and Officer-In-Charge of the RSO, David is responsible for the management of all day-to-day operations of the RSO to ensure the RSO is appropriately resourced and positioned to deliver on its priorities and effectively support the Bali Process and its Member States to counter people smuggling, trafficking in persons and related transnational crime. David is also responsible for setting the strategic direction for the RSO, executive engagement with Bali Process Co-Chairs, Members States and RSO donors and representing the RSO and Bali Process at a range of international meetings and fora.

David has worked across Government in policy, program management and regulatory focused roles focused on transport and border security, security risk analysis, critical infrastructure and cyber security and international policy and capacity building.

Most recently David worked on Australia’s COVID-19 border measures developing policy settings and implementation arrangements to support the re-opening of Australia’s international border and related quarantine policy settings. Prior to this role, David led the Government’s development of enhanced legislative settings to uplift Australia’s critical infrastructure security including cyber security resilience and undertook an international posting to Indonesia focused on improving transport and border security resilience and counter-terrorism efforts across the Indo-Pacific region.

David completed his undergraduate studies in Communications and Media with Honours at La Trobe University in Melbourne and postgraduate studies in Government at the Australian Public Service Commission and Law at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Lt Col Michael Jones joined CARICOM IMPACS on 01 March 2009 as the Deputy Director of the Joint Regional Communications Centre and was promoted to Director the following year (2010). On the retirement of the previous Executive Director, he was granted permission to act in that capacity 6th January 2018 while maintaining his substantive duties as Chief Operations Officer, Border Security at the Joint Regional Communications Centre (JRCC) in Barbados. He was confirmed as Executive Director on 01 March 2021.

A national of Barbados, he holds a baccalaureate degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a Master of Science Degree in Project Management & Evaluation, both from Cave Hill Campus, University of West Indies and a Master of Research, Business Administration from the University of Liverpool. He has been a serving member of the Barbados Defense Force as a Commissioned Officer (Reserves) for the last 27 years; and served as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee for the Force up until June 2023.

He previously taught in the areas of Information Systems and Computer Applications for Business Management Studies Department and currently serves as a member of the inaugural Advisory Committee of the Centre for Biosecurity Studies at Cave Hill Campus.

Under his tenure of leadership, a strategic plan has been crafted to guide the transformation of the organization that has, in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goal(s) 16 & 17 in particular, to adopt the motto of “Mutual Security through Partnerships”.

Mr. Akuila Ratu is the Head of the Pacific Immigration Development Community (PIDC) Secretariat based in Apia, Samoa. Akuila is a Fijian national and is the longest serving staff of PIDC having worked with PIDC and its membership for the last 16 years. Akuila was a former civil servant of the Fijian government prior to joining PIDC.

Akuila has worked closely with Heads of Immigration agencies, Directors, Managers and Officers from immigration agencies across the Pacific over the last 16 years supporting PIDC Members in the areas of capacity building, legislation and policy reform, information sharing and coordination, institutional strengthening and regional agenda setting for its membership. Mr. Ratu has also been heavily involved with Pacific Island Countries on regional issues impacting immigration agencies and law enforcement across the Pacific, serving on peak regional bodies like the Pacific Island Forum’s regional technical working groups in addition to undertaking advocacy for PIDC members in regional and international forums. Akuila is a strong supporter of partnership approaches and has been an advocate of the Pacific Regional Law Enforcement Partnership arrangement between immigration, customs and Police through their respective regional Secretariats at the Pacific Immigration Development Community, Oceania Customs Organization, the Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police and the Forum Fisheries Agency.

Akuila is a graduate of the University of the South Pacific with a Degree in History, Politics and Geography in addition to being a graduate and Alumni of the University of York in the United Kingdom with a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration. Akuila has worked in varying roles with PIDC including as the Deputy Head of Secretariat prior to taking up his new role as the Head of Secretariat in March 2023.

Lorna McGregor is a Professor of International Human Rights Law, Deputy Dean (External Relations) and Director of the multi-disciplinary Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project (HRBDT) originally funded with £4.7m from the UK Economic and Social Research Council, at Essex Law School. She is currently writing a book, under contract with Cambridge University Press, on artificial intelligence and human rights and in 2023, was one of the authors, together with Dr Petra Molnar, of a joint Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and University of Essex study, Digital Border Governance: A Human Rights-Based Approach which was part of a wider project funded by the Foreign Affairs Department of Switzerland.

Jeff is the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Adviser for the Pacific Community (SPC), based in Suva and Noumea. He works across 22 Pacific countries to strengthen birth and death registration, ensuring citizens have a legal identify and can engage digitally with public and private services. This includes advocating for interoperability between CRVS and Identity systems.

Previously, Jeff led the transformation and delivery of identity and civil registration services globally to all New Zealanders, including groundbreaking integrated digital services around birth of a child – www.smartstart.services.govt.nz. He played a leading role in the ongoing transformation of the New Zealand passport service, where now all applications can be made entirely online. For 10 years he held the statutory position of the Registrar-General for Births Deaths and Marriages.

Ms Frøy Løvåsdal has worked for the Norwegian Government for 25 years, in different agencies, in several areas, often encompassing innovation, technology and identity. She has worked with biometrics for 14 years and is also a trained forensic face examiner. In 2013 she headed the first pilot project in Norway on automated facial recognition. She has headed, and worked in, several pilot projects aimed at improving quality, security, efficiency and user experience in different areas of Immigration, borders and Law Enforcement. Today, she is a Senior Adviser in the National Police Directorate in Norway and is also pursuing a PhD at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology.

Chris is a double MSc, war veteran, former EU police, criminal intelligence officer and biometrics specialist. Chris has worked in Finland and overseas for several law enforcement and immigration agencies for well over 2 decades and currently is the head of ID-centre at the Finnish Immigration Service.

Sarah Zacka joined the Department of Home Affairs as an officer of the Australian Border Force (ABF) in 2012 and has worked in a variety of roles including Sydney International Airport, the Character and Cancellations Section, and the Regional Returns and Removals Taskforce in Papua New Guinea. Sarah commenced a posting to Thailand in December 2023 at the Australian Embassy in Bangkok in the role of First Secretary Airline Liaison Officer. She has regional coverage for Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar with a focus on facilitating legitimate travel, and the offshore deterrence, detection, disruption and dismantling of threats to the Australian border.

Sarah has a Bachelor’s of Social Science, majoring in Criminology and Humanitarian and Peace Studies. As part of this degree, Sarah undertook a scholarship exchange program in the UK and France with a focus on Human Trafficking.

Mr. Sumnesh Joshi is an officer from 1993 Batch of Indian Telecom Service and has over 25 years of experience at various positions in Government of India. At present Mr. Joshi is heading Technology (Vertical) in Mumbai Area and responsible for proliferation of 5G technology, Internet of Things, Machine to Machine Communications in various sectors. In addition, he is the nodal officer for monitoring of 4G Mobile saturation project in East and West region of India.

He worked with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as a first officer at UIDAI Regional Office Mumbai in April 2010 as a part of the founding team under leadership of Mr. Nandan Nilekani. He was instrumental in roll out of the implementation of biometric based Digital Identity “Aadhaar” project in Western part of the India comprising states of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa, Dadra Nagar Haveli and Daman Diu. He also headed Enrolment & Update vertical of UIDAI PAN India. As part of multiple committees, he has contributed towards the Strengthening of Aadhaar Enrolment Processes, Regulations and SoPs, Automation of various Processes and development of Universal Client for Enrolment & Update.

He has the deep knowledge of various governance projects / schemes and driving the use of Aadhaar -a Digital Identity in E-governance for Direct Benefit transfers and for beneficiary identification. He has been working with state governments in designing the solutions for convenient delivery of various services using Aadhaar Digital Identity be at Public distributions system, Transport department , MNREGA , National Social assistance Pension schemes and also driving financial inclusion using aadhaar. He ensured the use of Digital platform for targeted delivery of services / benefits. He is a leader, a visionary , a implementer, a go-getter and has been playing an important role to reap the benefit of JAM ( Jandhan Aadhaar Mobile) Trinity to boost the digital economy.

During early years of his career, he worked as Director / Divisional Engineer with Department of Telecommunications and has vast experience in Telecom Traffic Planning , Data Analytics, Project implementation, Marketing of Services, Market Strategies, Market Intelligence, Product Development and Brand building.

Mr. Joshi did his engineering in Electronics & Communications from Rajasthan Technical University Kota Rajasthan India. He holds MicroMasters in Data Economics and Development Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He pursued a Certificate course in Public Policy from University of California Berkeley and holds MBA from the Management Development Institute Gurgaon, India.

Mr. R Rajeshkumar is the convener of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC17/WG3, the ISO body that creates the specifications for Traveller Identification. Within that group, he is also the leader of Task Force 5, which deals with the electronic part of the eMRTD. He is the editor of Doc 9303-9, Doc 9303-12, the specifications for Digital Travel Credentials (DTC), VDS-NC, 39794-5 Application Profile and ICAO Datastructure for Barcodes (IDB).

He is an active participant in ICAO’s New Technologies Working Group (NTWG) and Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group (ICBWG), and a member of the ICBWG sub-group examining non-compliant travel documents, with focus on issues related to eMRTDs and/or the digital PKI certificates associated with eMRTDs. Mr. Rajeshkumar helped develop an ICAO TRIP strategy course for ICAO Global Aviation Training, and is a Master Trainer for the same course.

In 2023, Rajeshkumar was the recipient of ICAO TRIP Award of Excellence, which is bestowed in recognition of the outstanding contribution of individuals to the development, promotion and implementation of the Traveller Identification Programme as a pillar of enhanced civil aviation security and facilitation worldwide.

Rajeshkumar is the Chief Executive of Auctorizium Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based company specialising in solutions for ePassport PKI and the validation of ePassports.

With a background in international relations and forced displacement issues, Amanda has been working at UNHCR since 2012. She holds a position in the Division of International Protection based in UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Amanda has previously held UNHCR appointments in Rwanda, Niger and South Africa. Before joining UNHCR, Amanda also worked in Kenya and in the US to support refugees in the US Refugee Admissions Program. Throughout her career, Amanda has focused on fulfilling UNHCR’s protection mandate and enabling refugees to access solutions. Her current portfolio at UNHCR includes scaling higher education opportunities for refugees globally and supporting access to refugee travel documents. Amanda is working with States and key actors on generating and implementing commitments for the issuance and acceptance of machine-readable refugee travel documents that align with ICAO standards. Originally from the United States, Amanda holds a MA in Diplomacy and International Commerce from the University of Kentucky, Patterson School.

Since January 2024, Ross Greenwood has worked as a Principal Consultant at Biometix, a Biometric services company. Between 2010 and 2023 Ross worked as an independent consultant primarily undertaking border, passport, visa and civil registration related assessments for IOM, ICAO, OSCE and other international organisations. Ross was contracted by ICAO as the lead author of the ICAO TRIP Guide on Border Control Management, which was published in 2018.

Until 2010, Ross was a senior executive in the Australian Passport Office with responsibility for the design of Australian passports; the application of biometrics in passport issuance; and preventing, deterring, and investigating passport fraud.

Ross was Australia’s delegate to the ICAO Machine Readable Travel Document TAG from 2007 to 2010 and the inaugural Chairperson of ICAO’s Public Key Directory Board.

Ross worked for the Australian Department of Immigration from 1977 to 2007 where he worked in border control and identity management roles.

Ms. Bradley is the Chief of the Countering Terrorist Travel Section within the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT). Within this role, Ms. Bradley leads coordination of UNOCT’s flagship global initiative, the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel Programme, as well as managing programming of the UNOCT Addressing Counter Terrorism within Aviation Security (ACTAS) portfolio. Ms. Bradley also serves as Head of UNOCT’s Programme Office in Budapest, Hungary.

Prior to her appointment as Chief of Section within UNOCT, Ms. Bradley managed a global programme on Border Security and Management (BSM) within the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT). Ms. Bradley has also worked with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Regional Office for Eastern Africa, serving as Head of Office and Programme Coordinator for the country programme in Ethiopia. Her work in this regard included leading national projects relating to criminal justice reform, better migration management and countering transnational organized crime and terrorism.

Ms. Bradley’s professional career includes more than twenty years with the Government of Canada working within the fields of border security, migration management, and national security intelligence. This includes more than ten years within diplomatic missions managing border security and migration integrity programming in Southern and Eastern Africa and Eastern Europe.

Ms. Bradley holds a postgraduate diploma/M.Litt in Terrorism Studies from the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews, and a bachelor’s degree in criminology from the University of Calgary, Canada.

Nigel has dedicated twenty years to a significant career in immigration and border management. Recently transitioning to the role of Executive VP for Global Government Engagement at Somapa Information Technology, Nigel is now based in South Africa. His expertise spans all major border management processes, where he has been instrumental in the development of regulatory structures, systems modernisation, and enhanced border capacities.

Working with Somapa IT and its Smart Border Solution, Nigel brings a unique blend of practical experience and innovative thinking to border management. He is committed to understanding the specific needs of each country and designing tailored solutions that leverage strategic policy to provide modernisation solutions that can be implemented without capital investment by governments.

With over a decade of experience in the biometrics industry, Mate has developed a deep understanding of the market and product landscape. His expertise spans software development, pre-sales, and solution delivery, with a focus on law enforcement and government agencies. Leading a regional team in Singapore for the past five years, Mate has driven business development and implemented large-scale biometric solutions across Southeast Asia.

Fanni Vikor is an Application Marketing and Business Development Manager for Government ID projects in Asia Pacific and Greater China at Infineon Technologies AG, Germany. Her main focus is to facilitate the deployment of highly efficient and robust electronic documents in the regions and to empower partners and governments with the relevant and up-to-date knowledge about secured chips, technologies and components embedded in electronic ID documents. Fanni's professional journey has seen her involved in diverse range of roles in product line management, business development and strategic marketing with a strong emphasis on delivering value and innovation to customers.