PEN-Cast
by PEN-CP Pan-European Network of Customs Practitioners
This is ”Pushing the Envelope: Life at the Cutting Edge of Customs Innovation,” with Tom Mueller of the Cross-border Research Association. On this show, we explore the frontiers of Customs creativity, in conversations with Customs and logistics experts, technology innovators, research scientists, and other leaders in the field. Industry insiders call this show “the Pencast,” because it’s part of PEN-CP, a network for boosting Customs innovation funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program.
Episodes
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 12) – Mark Procter - Part3
This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 12) – Mark Procter - Part2
This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 12) – Mark Procter - Part1
This Pencast conversation features Dr. Mark Procter, Vice President of Cargo Science and Technology at Rapiscan Systems.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 11) – Nanette van Schelven - Part3
This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 11) – Nanette van Schelven - Part2
This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 11) – Nanette van Schelven - Part1
This Pencast conversation features Nanette van Schelven, Director General of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands, and one of the leading voices in customs innovation.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 10) – Lars Karlsson - Part4
Today’s Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 10) – Lars Karlsson - Part3
Today’s Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 10) – Lars Karlsson - Part2
Today’s Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 10) – Lars Karlsson - Part1
Today’s Pencast features Lars Karlsson, Global Head of Trade and Customs Consulting at A.P. Møller-Maersk, and a world authority in customs, borders and international trade policy.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 9) – Ana Hinojosa - Part3
A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 9) – Ana Hinojosa - Part2
A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 9) – Ana Hinojosa - Part1
A wide-ranging conversation with Ana Hinojosa, former Executive Director of US Customs and Border Protection, and current head of ABH Global Trade Consulting.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 8) – Tony Smith - Part4
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 8) – Tony Smith - Part3
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 8) – Tony Smith - Part2
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 8) – Tony Smith - Part1
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Tony Smith CBE, former Director General of the UK Border Force, currently Managing Director of Fortinus Global Ltd and Chair of the International Border Management and Technologies Association (IBMATA).
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 7) – Rashed Lahej Naser Al Mansoori
Today’s Pencast features the Director General of Abu Dhabi Customs, His Excellency Rashed Lahej Naser Al Mansoori. He has over 20 years of IT expertise, and previously held leadership positions in strategic project management and information systems.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 6) – Gerassimos Thomas - Part2
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Gerassimos Thomas, Director General of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate, and one of the leading thinkers and actors in the process of EU customs reform. Mr. Thomas has previously held senior positions in finance, energy and elsewhere at...
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 6) – Gerassimos Thomas - Part1
Today’s Pencast features Mr. Gerassimos Thomas, Director General of the European Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate, and one of the leading thinkers and actors in the process of EU customs reform. Mr. Thomas has previously held senior positions in finance, energy and elsewhere at...
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 5) – Dr. Zsolt Dézi - Part2
This week's podcast is Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Zsolt Dézi, Senior Training Expert at the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 5) – Dr. Zsolt Dézi - Part1
This week's podcast is Part 1 of my conversation with Dr. Zsolt Dézi, Senior Training Expert at the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 4) – Ashley Bell - Part3
Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 4) – Ashley Bell - Part2
Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 4) – Ashley Bell - Part1
Today's Pencast is with Ashley Bell, Assistant Secretary for Customs and Border Modernization at the Australian Border Force. Mr. Bell discusses the role of AI, machine learning and big data in tomorrow's cutting-edge customs administration.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 3) – Kunio Mikuriya - Part2
Honored today to be speaking with Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, longtime Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, who concluded his distinguished career at the WCO just a short time ago.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 3) – Kunio Mikuriya - Part1
Honored today to be speaking with Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, longtime Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, who concluded his distinguished career at the WCO just a short time ago.
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 2) – Dragoş Tudorache
Today's interview is with Dragoş Tudorache, Member of the European Parliament, former Chair of the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age (AIDA), and the rapporteur on the AI Act for the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
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Pencast 2024 (Episode 1) – Axel Kerep
Today’s podcast looks at the dark, mysterious world of antiquities trafficking, with Axel Kerep, an archaeologist who’s developing new technologies to detect and halt illicit trade in cultural property. Axel is the head of the Arti-Fact Project at PARCS Solutions, an organization devoted to...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 15) – Edward Kieswetter - Part2
This is part 2 of a 2-part Pencast with Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner of SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and Chairperson of the World Customs Organization. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/DlV530PZmk8
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 15) – Edward Kieswetter - Part1
This is part 1 of a 2-part Pencast with Edward Kieswetter, Commissioner of SARS (South Africa Revenue Service) and Chairperson of the World Customs Organization. Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QYJbsB7TwHc
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 14) – Damien Romestant
Today we speak with Dr. Damien Romestant, an international expert in the areas of financial crime, anticorruption, compliance, economic sanctions and export controls. Damien works with private companies, NGOs and EU projects, and is currently Head of Economic Sanctions for the Corporate Crime...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 13) – Satya Prasad Sahu - Part3
This is the third part of the conversation with SP Sahu: Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank. SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 13) – Satya Prasad Sahu - Part2
This is the second part of the conversation with SP Sahu: Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank. SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 13) – Satya Prasad Sahu - Part1
Today's Pencast features Satya Prasad ("SP") Sahu, senior trade facilitation specialist at the World Bank. SP has decades of experience in trade and finance, both with the Indian Ministry of Finance and as Senior Technical Officer at the World Customs Organization. Watch on Youtube:...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 12) – Andrew Grainger
Today’s Pencast is with Prof. Andrew Grainger, an academic, teacher and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the field of trade facilitation. In particular, we discuss his ground-breaking book, Cross-Border Logistics Operations: Effective Trade Facilitation and Border Management. Watch…
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 11) – Jose Luis Perez Diaz - Part 2
Today's Pencast is with Jose Luis Perez Diaz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alcalá and coordinator of MELCHIOR, a Horizon 2020 funded project to rapidly detect drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on or inside people, employing a range of novel,...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 11) – Jose Luis Perez Diaz - Part 1
Today's Pencast is with Jose Luis Perez Diaz, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alcalá and coordinator of MELCHIOR, a Horizon 2020 funded project to rapidly detect drugs, explosives, weapons and illicit goods concealed on or inside people, employing a range of novel,...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 10) – Marek Helm
Today's episode features Marek Helm, the CEO of GScan, an Estonia-based producer of vehicle and cargo scanning technology that uses recent developments in atmospheric ray tomography. Data provided by muons, electrons, positrons and neutrons that pass through objects, once processed by AI and...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 9) – Micha Slegt
Today’s conversation is with Micha Slegt, a senior scientist in the customs laboratory of the Customs Administration of the Netherlands. After earning a PhD in chemistry, Micha has worked for Dutch Customs for 17 years as senior chemist and researcher. He’s currently in Brussels for a year,...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 8) – AELER
Meet AELER, a forward thinking logistics firm that brings advanced technologies to the container, the building block of our global economy, and to the ecosystem that surrounds the container. AELER scored second in the recent PEN-CP Innovation Prize. Today’s interview features company founder and...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 7) – Dawn Wilkes / Part2
Today's Pencast features Dawn Wilkes, Program Manager of the Security Group at the Universal Postal Union, the primary forum for postal cooperation between governments, Posts, regulators and other stakeholders, whose membership spans 192 countries. Previously, Ms. Wilkes worked at the Global...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 7) – Dawn Wilkes / Part1
Today's Pencast features Dawn Wilkes, Program Manager of the Security Group at the Universal Postal Union, the primary forum for postal cooperation between governments, Posts, regulators and other stakeholders, whose membership spans 192 countries. Previously, Ms. Wilkes worked at the Global...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 6) – Rupa Ganguli
Rupa Ganguli is an Indian social entrepreneur and campaigner for sustainable development and equality within the textile industry. She has founded a series of organizations, including SPINNA Circle and most recently Inclusive Trade, which aims to be the Amazon of fair trade. Inclusive Trade was...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 5) – Enrika Naujoke
Enrika Naujokė is co-founder of CustomsClear, an E-learning platform for customs practitioners that aims to engage customs practitioners in continuous professional growth and lifelong learning, and to contribute to the seamless and sustainable movement of goods across borders.
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 4) – Frank Heijmann
Frank Heijmann is a senior executive in the Customs Administration of The Netherlands, with over 35 years of customs experience. He wrote CUSTOMS: Inside Anywhere, Insights Everywhere, the most complete and up-to-date introduction to the complex world of Customs available in print, published in...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 3) - David Spottiswood, Martin Palmer - Hurricane Commerce
In 2016, a team of veterans of logistics and transportation founded Hurricane Commerce, a data platform that aims, as the company says, to “be brilliant at the boring.” Hurricane’s goal is to create a unified data highway that calculates duty and taxes in real time, while screening out prohibited...
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 2) – Carlos Grau Tanner – Global Express Association
On this episode we meet Carlos Grau Tanner, the Director General of the Global Express Association (GEA), which represents the three leading express delivery carriers (DHL, FedEx and UPS), members of a US $ 200 billion industry who operate in over 200 countries and territories. Carlos discusses…
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Pencast 2023 (Episode 1) – Ricardo Treviño Chapa – World Customs Organization
On the first episode of our Pencast re-launch, we speak with Ricardo Treviño Chapa, Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization, whose diverse background in finance, revenue collection, social security and in customs for Mexico and the Caribbean Region provides invaluable skills…
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PEN-Cast Episode 16
PEN-CP will organize an introductory webinar targeted for all the EU customs administrations who are not part of the PEN-CP consortium, on 14 June 2021. As of today (8 June), we have already nine customs administrations registered for the event! In this PEN-Cast episode, Dr. Juha Hintsa, PEN-CP...
About this show
This is ”Pushing the Envelope: Life at the Cutting Edge of Customs Innovation,” with Tom Mueller of the Cross-border Research Association. On this show, we explore the frontiers of Customs creativity, in conversations with Customs and logistics experts, technology innovators, research scientists, and other leaders in the field. Industry insiders call this show “the Pencast,” because it’s part of PEN-CP, a network for boosting Customs innovation funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 program.
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PEN-CP Pan-European Network of Customs Practitioners
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