Keynote speakers 

Arnoud Engelfriet is a Dutch IT lawyer specializing in AI, data and software. He is a frequent speaker, book author and teacher in these and related topics. His latest books "ICT en Recht" and "AI and Algorithms" showcase the developments in IT law that culminated in the AI innovation revolution we are in today.

As Chief Knowledge Officer of ICTRecht Legal Services Arnoud is the head of the Academy, where he has deployed various IT related courses for legal and business professionals. Arnoud took the initiative in creating the certified "CAICO®" course for AI Compliance Officers. Believing in sharing knowledge, Arnoud has been blogging on IT law and technology every workday since 2007.

Next to his responsibilities at ICTRecht, Arnoud is a teacher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Arnoud's professional qualifications include the title of European patent attorney, which ties back to his decade-long work as IP counsel at Royal Philips.

The Lower Saxony Police, with its more than 24,000 employees, is not only located in the heart of Germany, but also in the middle of Europe. A total of eight borders with other German states, the border with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the connection to the only German deep-water port in Wilhelmshaven prove Lower Saxony's central and important location in Germany and Europe. 

Cross-border police cooperation within the Lower Saxony Police is therefore becoming increasingly important. In addition to operational and strategie cooperation in the border area with Dutch law enforcement authorities, specific case-related cooperation in cross-border crime fighting - with EU  states and outside the EU - is increasing. Moreover, with the involvement of EU agencies such as Europol or Frontex. 

In addition to the development and use of personal networks, the use of technologies is becoming more important in these collaborations. lnvestigative activities in the areas of organized crime, cybercrime and terrorism, in particular, and in specific investigations into the information transmitted by Europol regarding "EncroChat", "Sky-ECC", "ANOM" and "Double VPN" have impressively underlined the need for the use of these technologies across Europe in recent years. 

For this reason, the Lower Saxony State Crimina! Police Office (Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen), which is centrally responsible for combating crime in Lower Saxony, has developed an Al-based Software with the Team of Developers in the Unit Data Solutions of the department for analyzing mass data. Thereby making it possible for the Lower Saxony Police to use Al to combat cross-border crime.

Communication through various messenger services has become an established standard in society and plays an important role in the context of encrypted communication in crime prevention and law enforcement. Currently, these data are laboriously processed into tables using various applications and then manually reviewed by case officers. Additionally, the investigation departments of the State Criminal Police Offices and the Police Directorates in Lower Saxony are significantly burdened with processing investigations involving encrypted communication. 

The aim of the pilot phase was to evaluate the performance, user-friendliness, and operational capabilities of the software in the operational use of crime prevention in outstanding phenomenon areas. During the pilot phase of the Tracebook Chat-Module, we not only collected valuable user feedback but also identified potential for optimization.

Saul Johnson is a career software engineer and cybersecurity practitioner with a background in academia. Prior to moving to Emmen, he worked as a lecturer in Computer Science and Cybersecurity at Teesside University in the UK, where he taught at a bachelors and master's level and led the expansion of the final-year CS curriculum to cover software verification. After concluding his Ph.D. research on formal methods applied to digital authentication systems, he relocated to the Netherlands where he worked as Head of Software Engineering at an Amsterdam-based cybersecurity firm before moving on to launch his own Rotterdam-based AI startup. As part of his current research focus at the Maritime IT Security Research Group at NHL Stenden, he works on the design of deceptive applications of AI in cybersecurity.