Mr Norbert Kouwenhoven Special Advisor for Strategy and InnovationDutch Customs

Norbert Kouwenhoven joined the Customs Administration of the Netherlands October 2021 as Special Advisor Strategy and Innovation. He is leading their autodetection program, which is aimed to apply artificial intelligence on a combined set of external and internal data. The use of artificial intelligence techniques and machine learning in customs supervision tasks has his special attention. Amongst other activities he currently leads the developments in Dutch Customs on image recognition for letters, postal packages and sea containers. Before he joined Customs he worked in IBM. In that capacity Norbert Kouwenhoven was leading IBM’s Customs projects around the globe. Norbert is author of various articles on customs, supply chains, risk management and trade facilitation.

7th June, Wednesday

Time	Session

11:15 12:30	Session 6: Leveraging digitization and technology to harmonize procedures and solutions for a global transport network Mr Tejo KusumaTechnical OfficerWCO Moderator Technical OfficerWCO Mr Lati MatataDirectorPostal Technology Centre, Universal Postal Union Speaker DirectorPostal Technology Centre, Universal Postal Union Mr Norbert KouwenhovenSpecial Advisor for Strategy and InnovationDutch Customs Speaker Special Advisor for Strategy and InnovationDutch Customs Mr Jayvee SantosRegional Coordinator for the PacificASYCUDA Programme, UNCTAD Speaker Regional Coordinator for the PacificASYCUDA Programme, UNCTAD Mr Yuji SakuraiDeputy Manager for Logistics and Postal SolutionToshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Co. Speaker Deputy Manager for Logistics and Postal SolutionToshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Co.

Time

Session

11:15

12:30

Session 6: Leveraging digitization and technology to harmonize procedures and solutions for a global transport network

Mr Tejo KusumaTechnical OfficerWCO Moderator Technical OfficerWCO

Mr Lati MatataDirectorPostal Technology Centre, Universal Postal Union Speaker DirectorPostal Technology Centre, Universal Postal Union

Mr Norbert KouwenhovenSpecial Advisor for Strategy and InnovationDutch Customs Speaker Special Advisor for Strategy and InnovationDutch Customs

Mr Jayvee SantosRegional Coordinator for the PacificASYCUDA Programme, UNCTAD Speaker Regional Coordinator for the PacificASYCUDA Programme, UNCTAD

Mr Yuji SakuraiDeputy Manager for Logistics and Postal SolutionToshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Co. Speaker Deputy Manager for Logistics and Postal SolutionToshiba Infrastructure Systems and Solutions Co.