Dates for Citizen ID Forum 2010:
Abu Dhabi, May 3-4
Wise Media announces that the fifth Citizen ID Forum will be hosted at the ID WORLD Abu Dhabi annual EMEA summit under the patronage of UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, H.H. Sheik Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan. ID WORLD Abu Dhabi will be held at the Beach Rotana Hotel, Abu Dhabi on May 3-4, 2010.
Register and pay before March 5, 2010 and save 20% on the registration fee.
The two-day conference and
exhibition will welcome the key
players behind the success
of citizen ID programs and
secure ID projects including
high-level government representatives,
border control and law enforcement
authorities.
Among the confirmed speakers,
the Citizen ID Forum sees the active participation
of government representatives
and end users including:
Dr. Ali Al-Khouri
Emirates Identity Authority - UAE
Dr. Gérald Santucci
European Commission
John Wagner
US Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
Ratan Bajaj
Income Tax Department - India
Andreas Reisen
Ministry of Interior - Germany
Dr. Muhamad Saleh Benten
Saudi Post
Brig. Saleh Alkubaisi
Ministry of Interior - Qatar
Chris Onyemenam
National Identity Management Commission - Nigeria
Citizen ID Forum highlights from ID WORLD 2009:
Middle East strategies for global mobility
High profile keynotes from the Middle East spoke in Milan, Italy, at the eight ID WORLD International Congress on automatic identification, giving a strong focus on the region’s citizen ID sector and its current developments.
Contributing to the session, “In the Era of Global Mobility”, Dr. Ali al-Khouri, Acting Director General of the Emirates Identity Authority, highlighted the successful citizen and government ID projects being undertaken in the UAE, while Brig. Saleh Alkubaisi, Director of Information Systems Department, Qatar, outlined his country’s strategies for identifying citizens of and visitors to Qatar. Among other speakers who contributed to the outstanding success of the Milan event, which saw 2608 visitors, including 72 CEOs in attendance, were Dr. Khaled Almazroui, General Manager of Fujairah Airport and Naser Al Mazrouie, Chief Executive of ICT at the Emirates Identity Authority.
Dr. Ali al-Khouri
Saleh Alkubaisi
The valuable discussions that took place in Abu Dhabi earlier in the year were continued in Milan on November 3-5 2009, at the 8th ID WORLD International Congress.
You can now
purchase the proceedings
of the 2009 Citizen ID
Forum that took place on
November 3rd, 4th and 5th at
the heart of the th ID WORLD
International Congress,
the global summit of the
auto ID industry. Please
download and fill in the
order form for the proceedings
and fax it at +39 02 6738
8322.
The
proceedings of the
Citizen ID Forum
are available for
sale (CD-ROM + binder
with speaker details).
Record attendance at the Citizen ID Forum 2009
in Abu Dhabi: "Best ID WORLD Forum ever"
Wise Media’s Citizen ID Forum opened its doors in Abu Dhabi on February 15 under the patronage of UAE Minister of Interior H.H. Sheik Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The second edition of the two-day conference and exhibition in the Middle East proved to be an overwhelming success with 382 high-profile participants (+21% compared with 2008) – the highest attendance on record for any ID WORLD Forum since their launch in 2005. Outstanding success of the inaugural NFC Academy Conference hosted at the Citizen ID Forum 2009.
The two-day conference and
exhibition welcomed the key
players behind the success
of citizen ID programs and
secure ID projects including
high-level government representatives,
border control and law enforcement
authorities.
First Citizen ID
Forum in
Abu Dhabi:
February 25-26,
2008
The
discussions
that took place in
Istanbul in 2007 continued
again in Abu Dhabi
on February 25-26,
2008.
The
Citizen ID Forum opened
its doors under the
patronage of the Minister
of Interior of the
UAE, H.H. Sheik bin Zayed al Nahyan .
"Wise
Media is honored to
announce that H.H.
Sheik Saif bin Zayed
Al Nahyan, the UAE
Minister of Interior,
will speak on February
25 and H.E. Eng. Sultan
Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri,
Minister of Economy,
will speak on February
26 at the Citizen
ID Forum, the world's
premier summit on
the digitalization
of citizen ID documents."
The two-day conference and
exhibition welcomed the key
players behind the success
of citizen ID programs and
secure ID projects including
high-level government representatives,
border control and law enforcement
authorities.
Among the confirmed speakers,
the Citizen ID Forum saw the active participation
of government representatives
from:
H.
H. Sheik Saif bin Zayed
Al Nahyan
Minister of Interior - UAE
H.E. Eng. Sultan Saeed Nasser Al Mansouri
Minister of Economy -
UAE
Dr. Khalid M. Al Tawil
National Information Center - Saudi Arabia
Gen.
Mohsen Abd El-Aal
Civil Service Organization - Egypt
Col. Saleh Al Kubaisi
Ministry of Interior - Qatar
Brig. Ahmed N. Al Raisi
Abu Dhabi Police – Ministry of Interior
H.E. Darwish Ahmed Al Zaraouni
Emirates Identity Authority
Eng. Ahmed M. Aldammas
Council of Cooperative Health Insurance - Saudi Arabia
Jeanie T. Bernolia
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation - Philippine
Alan Matthews
The Forensic Science Service - United Kingdom
Brig. Saleem Ahmed Moeen
National Database & Registration Authority - Pakistan
Dr. Frank Paul
European Commission
Elham Mohammed Saleh
Central Informatic Organisation (CIO) - Bahrain
Martin
Schallbruch
Federal Ministry of the Interior - Germany
Outstanding
Success of Citizen ID Forum
Istanbul, June 2007
The
Electronic Passport Forum
and Citizen
ID Forum opened its
doors in Istanbul on June
21st in the presence of Turkish
Minister of Labor and Social
Security Murat Basesgioglu.
Endorsed by the European Commission,
the first edition of the event
outside the EU proved to be
a great success with 249 high-profile
participants attending the
2-day conference and exhibition.
Murat Basesgioglu,
Turkish Minister of Labor
and Social Security, opened
the event by discussing the
technology shift that the
Turkish government has spearheaded
since 2003, aimed at providing
citizens with access to a
variety of eGovernment services
in the fields of customs,
social security, education
and justice. The Minister
also announced the beginning
of the electronic ID and social
security card project in pilot
areas as of July 2007.
The Electronic
Passport Forum and
Citizen
ID Forum welcomed an
array of world-class panelists
to review the status of the
progressive digitalization
of Passports, as well as National
IDs, Driver’s Licenses, Health
Cards, Visas and Green Cards
worldwide. These included
representatives of Malaysian
National Registration Department,
the Belgian Ministry of the
Interior, US Department of
Homeland Security the Dutch
Ministry of Justice, Frontex,
the Estonian National Certification
Authority the German BSI Federal
Office for Information Security,
the Polish Ministry of Interior,
the Belgian FEDICT Public
Federal Service, the French
Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
UK Border & Immigration Agency
and the Italian Ministry of
the Interior.
The
Electronic
Passport Forum
and Citizen
ID Forum 2007 proceedings
(CD-ROM + binder with speaker details)
are available for
sale.
