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Berlin, May 18-19, 2005

The most complete global event
on the world of MRTDs

The Electronic Passport Forum focuses on the most relevant issues related to the introduction of the new biometrics-enabled, machine readable travel documents. It is the only global event that showcases, with live demonstrations, the entire lifecycle of our future electronic passports: from the integrated circuits and the electronic inlays, to the durability tests, to electronic passport personalization and new border control processes.
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  4 hot e-passport topics
Durability
 
The embedding of electronic units into our future machine readable travel documents implies significant durability challenges, the expected lifecycle of electronic passports being a minimum of 10 years.
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Privacy
 
Laying the foundations for our future personal data collection and management infrastructure, governments face the challenge of creating the appropriate legislative environment to protect the fundamental rights of citizens.
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Interoperability
 
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and industry associations are rapidly progressing in the harmonization that is at the basis of the creation of a global interoperable border security infrastructure.
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Sustainability
 
The economics behind the technology shift from passports to electronic passports are by far more complex than analogous business models involving the implementation of advanced auto ID.
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A complete e-passport experience
CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
A two day conference, comprising parallel round table sessions and augmented by interactive networking activities will involve a select group of key players in the electronic travel document industry. These include experts and practitioners in e-passport technology, standards and privacy issues, document printers and pioneering end-users of the emerging solutions in the area of biometric-enabled, electronic passports.



E-PASSPORT EXHIBITION
The e-Passport Village will illustrate the entire lifecycle of e-passports, showcasing the offerings of some of todays’s leading global suppliers with stable and proven technology for the creation of durable and interoperable biometrics-enabled travel documents. Attendees will observe how key components and processes such as, integrated circuits, inlays, covers, software, data capture processes and read / write devices come together in this lifecycle.

LIVE DEMOS
Live demonstrations will complete the experience of the participants with examples of:
- integrated circuits
- inlays
- testing


- passport assembly
- data capture/personalization
- border control


NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
The Electronic Passport Forum will facilitate networking opportunities in an intense, interactive format that will maximize the potential for achieving your business goals. Technology panel sessions will be supplemented by opportunities for one-to-one meetings and discussions in an informal environment.

Berlin / 18-19 May
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