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About the Organisers and Partners

Event Partners

Forum Europe www.forum-europe.com

Forum Europe is the leading EU dedicated conference and event provider. Founded in 1989 and with offices at the heart of the European Union in Brussels, Forum Europe specialises in EU focussed political and economic conferences and debates. We work successfully with businesses, institutions, NGOs and governments alike while organising our own portfolio of sector leading events.

The Forum Europe team consists of multilingual EU policy and events specialists and our strategic services can maintain and develop your networks at EU level while delivering forums where key issues can be aired and debated.

You can find out more about us by going to www.forum-europe.com

RAND Europe www.rand.org/randeurope

RAND Europe is a not-for-profit research organisation whose mission is to help improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. We are the European affiliate of the RAND Corporation. We conduct empirical, objective and policy-relevant research, which is widely disseminated to benefit the public interest.

RAND Europe’s work has steadily expanded to cover a kaleidoscope of policy-relevant topics from defence and security, innovation and technology policy, and criminal justice through to health and social issues. Cutting across topical areas are the methods-focused groups, including evaluation and impact measurement, and choice modelling and valuation. The mix of subject expertise, contextual understanding and innovative methodologies creates insightful yet robust analysis.

Diamond Sponsor

IBM www.ibm.com/be-en/

IBM is one of the worldwide leaders in the area of IT Services and Consultancy. More than 400,000 IBMers worldwide are involved with inventing and integrating hardware, software and services to enable advanced companies, institutions and people to be successful. Computing power is no longer reserved for computers in the traditional way we think of it. There are chips in our cars, our domestic devices and our cameras.  Even our highways have started to become intelligent, as has medicine and food.  Furthermore, everything is connected and we have powerful new systems and advanced analyzing possibilities to transfer piles of data into knowledge, insight and useful information. This is how IBM can help make the world smarter.

Platinum Sponsors

Coppernic www.coppernic.fr/en/

Coppernic, provider of professional mobile computing solutions, offers a real answer to migration and border control issues with a mobile terminal dedicated to secure IDentification : the C-One e-ID.

Compact and robust, the C-One e-ID facilitates real-time, incontestable proof of an individual’s identity thanks to its biometric ‘signature’.

This e-ID multi-use terminal will allow:

Police control in the field with access to central files - Border control (fixed and mobile Customs) - Registration of biometric data in the field - Migration issues - Real-time fingerprint verification via a centralised AFIS.

Which integrates a wealth of the most advanced e-ID technologies:

With- and without-contact card-readers dedicated to IDentification - 8MP video camera with autofocus and flash - 2D imager allowing high-density barcode recognition - 3 reading options (camera/imager/’swipe’) - Integrated GPS and secure communications (4G LTE / 3G / UMTS / WiFi / Bluetooth 4.0)

Dun & Bradstreet www.dnb.com/government/about-us.html

Uncover Critical Relationships with Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet helps you achieve your mission by uncovering the truth and meaning from data in relationships that matter most to your agency. Since 1926, we have honed our expertise of data and analytics to uncover the critical relationships necessary to solve government agency missions. Dun & Bradstreet partners with all 15 U.S. Cabinet-level departments and most federal agencies and state governments, many European government agencies as well as nearly 90% of Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Dun & Bradstreet’s dedicated team of government specialists collaborates closely with customers to provide data-inspired perspectives that deliver decision-ready insights when, where, and how you need them. Perspectives that protect our nations and our global supply chains, detect, mitigate and prevent threats, reduce fraud, and better understand businesses that operate in your jurisdictions and their relationships. We have the largest global commercial database on the planet. Our nearly 5.000 employees around the world are dedicated to this unique purpose, and we are guided by important values that makes us the established leader in commercial data and insight.

SITA www.sita.aero

SITA is the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and IT solutions. Owned by the industry, SITA delivers solutions to airlines, airports, GDSs and governments over the world’s most extensive communications network. Its portfolio covers every aspect of the industry from managed global communications, to passenger, baggage, flight and aircraft operations, border management and air-to-ground communications. Today with over 30 major government systems deployed , and with a presence at more than 400 airports around the world, SITA provides a unique service to its government, 430 air transport industry members and 2,800 customers in more than 200 countries.  In 2014, SITA had consolidated revenues of US$1.7 billion.

SITA’s subsidiaries and joint ventures include SITA OnAir, CHAMP Cargosystems and Aviareto. 

Sopra Steria www.soprasteria.be

Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation, provides one of the most comprehensive portfolios of end-to-end service offerings on the market: consulting, systems integration, software development, infrastructure management and business process services.

Sopra Steria is trusted by leading private and public-sector organisations to deliver successful transformation programmes that address their most complex and critical business challenges. Combining high quality and performance services, added value and innovation, Sopra Steria enables its clients to make the best use of digital technology. 

Workshop Hosts

SAS www.sas.com

SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions, SAS helps customers improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. SAS gives you THE POWER TO KNOW®.