OPENING SESSION
Senior officials from ICAO and other organizations will provide high-level perspectives on opportunities to improve traveller identification to accelerate the recovery of aviation. The pandemic has shown how important the role of technology can be to improving traveller identifica...

This session will emphasize how international and regional cooperation can stimulate aviation recovery. The session will provide an update on the initiatives and projects of international organizations closely involved with measures to enhance identification management in the post COVID-19 recove...

SESSION 2. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ICAO TRIP PROGRAMME STRATEGY – INNOVATION IN FACILITATION AND THE FUTURE OF TRAVEL
Effective implementation of the ICAO TRIP Strategy is essential in helping States optimize the economic, social, and political benefits of international travel and to achieve t...

SESSION 3. SUPPORTING IMPROVED NATIONAL IDENTITY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Credible evidence of identity, involving the tracing, linkage and verification of identity against breeder documents is essential to ensuring robust traveller identification for security and border control purposes. National id...

SESSION 4. ICAO MRTD STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS: TRAVEL DOCUMENT INTEGRITY
Current and emerging ICAO Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) specifications for passports, visas and identity cards are significant tools to enhance traveller identification management and security measures. The imp...

SESSION 5. Health at the Border
This session will highlight how states and organizations have developed tools for passengers to assert health proofs for international travel purposes. The ICAO VDS specification will be highlighted, with a view to explaining its benefits for quick and contactless ...

SESSION 6. BORDER CONTROL: INSPECTION SYSTEMS AND TOOLS & INTEROPERABLE APPLICATIONS
A key element of border inspection systems is the capture, verification and storage of data contained in MRTDs at different phases of the journey. This session will address a key pre-requisite to verifying the id...

SESSION 7. PASSENGER DATA: IDENTIFICATION OF TRAVELLERS & RISK ASSESSMENT
Border management must deal with the increased flow of passengers and ensure that there are protocols that provide for timely, secure and reliable linkage of MRTDs and their holders to available and relevant data in the co...

Session 8. ICAO Capacity Building and Assistance to States
The ICAO Secretariat and the Technical Advisory Group on Traveller Identification Programme (TAG/TRIP) framework have undertaken a number of initiatives to support Member States to implement Annex 9 provisions, ICAO Doc 9303 and the ICAO ...

SESSION 9: WAY FORWARD – ACHIEVING SEAMLESS & CONTACTLESS PROCESSES TO ACCELERATE RECOVERY
This session will outline a strategic way forward and discuss next steps that can be taken to achieve seamless and contactless processes to accelerate aviation recovery. Effective implementation of the ICAO...