Speaker Biograghy: Jonathan has over 30 years of engineering and management experience in the aviation domain. His experience covers the development of policy and procedures used in the design of data and telecommunications systems, enterprise network security designs, enterprise architecture formulation, and systems engineering. He has experience designing systems for airlines and airports throughout the world, and is a member of RTCA Special Committee 224 (SC-224) working on the development of guidelines for airport security access control systems. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and holds a BSc in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and an MSc in System Engineering from George Washington University. He is a Systems Engineering PhD candidate at George Washington University. His research interests include investigating the effects of systems engineering and the use of systems dynamics models for airport security access control system designs.


Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

15:05 - 15:30 - Applying systems thinking to airport security access control designs
Synopsis: Access control systems (ACS) evolved as autonomous systems, but the need for sharing of personal identity verification (PIV) information and the collection, retention, use and disposal of credentialing information has led to privacy and trust issues. This lack of trust has resulted in law enforcement personnel and first responders being denied access to facilities during emergency situations. This presentation will show how a systems dynamics modelling approach to the ACS design can be used to mitigate this privacy and trust concern, thus reducing access denial incidents for adjudicated authorised personnel.

Audience will learn:

• Introduction to an emerging approach to airport security access control design methods
• How to improve identity and access management system relationships using systems dynamics models
• How to improve the identification of privacy and trust concerns using a systems approach
• How the application of systems engineering principals can improve access control systems solution design
• How the use of systems thinking can help adjudicate privacy and trust concerns in access control systems

Day 2 - 26 March
Session: Aviation Security, Border Control & Facilitation

15:45 - 16:10 - Panel Discussion: Challenges and opportunities of large scale and international development in airport based border control. What does the future hold?
Synopsis: Automated border clearance is now installed at over 120 airports in more than 40 countries. However, large discrepancies exist between the category of eligible travellers and the various biometrics verified at the e-gates. The fact is that pre-registered frequent traveller programmes coexist with simple, free, e-passport-driven ones. - Which is best? Which one is likely to enjoy the best international acceptance? - Which one should I choose for my airport? With which selection criteria? - Which provides better security? - Better handling of third-country nationals bearing e-visas? - Better grip over risk management? The panel will review which scheme is likely to evidence the best growth and, ultimately, has the better potential for broader interoperability.

Audience will learn:

• Shouldn’t control of destination border begin at the country of origin?
• How to take a ride with the TRIP: how can border clearance best use ICAO's new ID management program?
• Sharing airport resources: time for Glasnost and Perestroika between the various ABC programmes?
• Drivers and impediments to large-scale automation in border control
• Big Data at the service of risk assessment during border control: friend or foe?