Master of Ceremony: Denis Chagnon.

Opening Remarks:
• Mr. Essa Abdulla Al-Malki, Representative of Qatar on the Council of ICAO & Chairman, Air Transport Committee.

• Ms. Alison August Treppel, Executive Secretary, Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE), Organization of American Sta...

This session will set the stage for the Symposium by highlighting recent accomplishments across the Facilitation environment – from Annex 9, the TRIP Strategy and the Public Key Directory (PKD) in terms of promoting traveler clearance through international borders and protecting border security. ...

This session will focus on the underlying processes and protocols related to identification management to support secure and integral document issuance for passports, visas, and identity cards. Session 2 will highlight the ICAO approach on Evidence of Identity and the important role of civil regi...

Andy Smith, Director of Industry & Innovation at SITA, shares how digital identities can revolutionize travel by enhancing security and making the journey smoother for everyone. He explains the benefits of pre-clearance and early traveler authorization through efficient data sharing among airline...

EMERGING TRENDS and TECHNOLOGIES

Current and emerging ICAO Machine Readable Travel Document (MRTD) specifications for passports, visas and identity cards are significant tools to enhance traveller identification management, passenger processing and related border security measures. This session ...

Biometric identification and verification technologies have matured significantly over the last decade. Facial recognition in particular has become the biometric solution of choice and related traveller facilitation schemes are being deployed around the world, not only for border entry and exit p...

Presented by Janet Chemeli, Facilitation Technical Officer, ICAO.

Border Control Improvements and Leveraging Electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDS)

An essential element in strengthening border security is the validation of electronic MRTDs to establish trust in the document, thereby achieving greater trust in the biometric and biographic data fr...

While air transport stakeholders today are focused on digital transformation and streamlining operations, SITA’s expertise shows you can modernize processes—without abandoning existing systems or infrastructure.

In this session, learn how to:
Leverage SITA’s 28 years of border management experti...

ICAO is continuing its work in the field of Digital Travel Credentials (DTC) in support of the overarching and traditional objective of achieving eMRTD global interoperability. Critical to the deployment of DTC solutions around the globe will be the continued efforts on ensuring that eMRTD valida...

This session will focus on the ICAO driven developments to resolve interoperability issues caused by non-standardized “eVisas” and health certificates, as well as non-standardized barcodes as such. The session will explain the existing terminologies for visas and travel authorizations, followed b...

Sylvain Lefoyer, Deputy Director, Aviation Security & Facilitation, ICAO.