Main Conference Day One: October 16, 2012
7:45 Registration and Coffee
8:45 Chairperson’s Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00CBP Opening Keynote: U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Mission and the Way Forward
- Protecting our nation’s borders from terrorists and terrorist weapons in partnership with other federal state, local and foreign entities
- Securing and facilitating legitimate international travel
- Keeping illegal aliens and drugs from crossing U.S. borders
Thomas Winkowski
Deputy Commissioner
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
9:30 Border Security for the Mission
- Checking your backyard first: are there existing programs, capabilities or contracts within the Government
- Using human centered design concepts to fuse information, technology, operation and environment
- Bringing together the best of industry and academia to rapidly deliver new capabilities and improved components
Manny Mora
Senior Vice President, Strategic Business, Development & Integration
General Dynamics C4 Systems
10:00 Networking and Refreshment Break
10:30Opening of Expo Hall and Border Patrol Keynote: The New Border Patrol Strategy
- Understanding a risk-based analysis that targets resources to the greatest border threats: how will this be implemented?
- Strategies to work better with other law enforcement agencies and stakeholders to identify top enforcement priorities
- How to draw on the full range of enforcement responses to maximize the overall effectiveness of DHS’ border enforcement
Michael Fisher
Chief, U.S. Border Patrol
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
11:00Congressman’s Address to 2012 Expo Hall: Focusing Attention and Resources on the US-Mexico Border
- Securing America by combining needed changes in immigration laws with additional resources and personnel to staff the border and ports of entry
- Improving the flow of people and lawful commerce, protecting border communities and improving the health of border residents
- Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012
Congressman Silvestre Reyes
16th District of Texas
U.S. House of Representatives
11:30 Return to Conference Room for Pre-Lunch Block
11:45 Intelligence Keynote: Increasing Intelligence Operations
- Providing timely, relevant information and actionable intelligence to operators and decision-makers
- Understanding the important role intelligence plays in driving effective border operations
- Strategies for collection and dissemination of information relating to drug, alien and weapon smuggling
Donna Bucella
Assistant Commissioner
Office of Intelligence and Investigative Liaison U.S. Customs and Border Protection
12:15International Perspective: Lessons from European Border Security
- Border security policies and technologies in the European Union: What’s new?
- Balancing security and civil liberties: What have been the challenges and benefits?
- Current and future needs and requirements of Frontex
Ilkka Laitinen
Executive Director
FRONTEX
12:45 Identifying, Tracking and Targeting Asymmetrics to Border Security Threats
- Empowering local agencies through intelligence and experience
- Applying lessons learned to present day solutions
- Data analysis and collection
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1:15 Lunch in Exhibit Hall
2:15 SOUTHWEST BORDER SHERIFF PANEL: Tackling Gang Violence Before it Hits the U.S.
- Strategies to effectively combat rising illegal entry and drug smuggling at the local level
- How we are providing tactical support law enforcement battling violence on the border
- Deterrence measures – how, when and where it’s appropriate
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Sigi Gonzalez
Sheriff, Zapata County, TX and former Chairman
Southwestern Border Sheriff’s Coalition
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Rich Stanek
Sheriff
Hennepin County, MN
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3:15 Southwest Border Violence and the Potential for Spillover
- Examination of the Southwest border region and the illicit drug trade between the U.S. and Mexico
- Relationship between illicit drug markets and violence
- What types of violence may arise? When violence may appear? Where violence may occur?
Rick Van Schoik
Director
North American Center for Transborder Studies
3:45 Networking and Refreshment Break
Concurrent Track Sessions Begin - Choose Either Track A or Track B |
| Track A: Session in Main Conference
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Track B: Session in Exhibition Hall |
4:15CHIEF PATROL AGENT PANEL: Update from Border Patrol Sector Chiefs
- An update on the current strategies being utilized along the southwest border
- Critical sector programs and activities: What have been the challenges?
- Specialized operations: What can be learned?
John Smietana Jr.
Chief Patrol Agent
Big Bend Sector
Rodolfo Karisch
Chief Patrol Agent
Del Rio Sector
Leslie M. Lawson
Patrol Agent in Charge
Tucson Sector/Nogales Station
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4:15 Human Trafficking on the Border
- Forced labor and sexual exploitation: the realities of human trafficking
- How fear of deportation fuels modern slavery in America
- Understanding the additional pressure human trafficking puts on border security
Peter Minarik, Ph.D,
Regional Director, Western Regional Office
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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4:45 The Changing Role of the Military in Border Security Operations
- National Guard deployment and strategy
- What is the U.S. military involvement in domestic security
- Pros and cons of military involvement in border issues
Bert Tussing
Director, Homeland Defense and Security
U.S. Army War College
5:15 Cocktail Reception