Conference schedule - International Crime Science Conference 2024

9:00 Registration and refreshments (Williams Lounge)

10:30 Welcome (Henry Wellcome Auditorium)

Prof Kate Bowers, UCL Security & Crime Science
Prof Shane Johnson, Dawes Centre for Future Crime

10:45 Plenary session 
Psychological inoculation against misinformation (Henry Wellcome Auditorium) 

Chaired by Prof Shane Johnson, UCL Security & Crime Science

Prof Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge

11:30 Refreshments and networking (Williams Lounge)

12:00 Parallel sessions 

Session 1: Conspiracy beliefs and violent extremism (Henry Wellcome Auditorium)
Chaired by Prof Noemie Bouhana, UCL Security & Crime Science

Dr Bettina Rottweiler, UCL Security & Crime Science: Conspiracy beliefs and support for violent extremism
Dan Jolley, University of Nottingham: Inequality’s Ripple: Conspiracy beliefs and the road to violent extremism

Session 2: Perspectives from offenders and working with industry (Franks Room)
Chaired by Prof Victoria Baines, Gresham College

Prof Herve Borrion, UCL Security & Crime Science: Ransomware: what we learn from offenders
Kärt Padur, UCL Security & Crime Science: Studying Hybrid Threats and Defensive Countermeasures: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach

Session 3: Fraud typologies and online anonymity and fraud* (Steel Room)
Chaired by Dr Lorenzo Pasculli, UCL Security & Crime Science

Mike Skidmore, Police Foundation: Fraud typologies
Bina Bhardwa, Police Foundation and Ema Mauko, Police Foundation and UCL Security & Crime Science:
Understanding the role of online anonymity in the facilitation of online fraud

12:40 Turnaround break

12:45 Parallel sessions

Session 1: Deepfake threats, law enforcement and the law (Henry Wellcome Auditorium)
Chaired by Prof Paul Ekblom, UCL Security & Crime Science

Dr Lorenzo Pasculli, UCL Security & Crime Science: The role of the law in preventing and punishing deepfake crime
Detective Inspector Andy Marsh, National Police Chiefs’ Council : CSA Offender Misuse of Emerging New Technologies - A Law Enforcement Perspective
Ardi Janjeva, Alan Turing Institute: The rapid rise of generative AI: assessing the risks to safety and security

Session 2: Tackling economic crime and the impact of fraud on victims* (Franks Room)
Chaired by Prof Mark Button, University of Portsmouth

Dr Manja Nikolovska, UCL Security & Crime Science: Fraud prevention stakeholders’ use of social media to prevent fraud
Dr Janice Goldstraw-White and Prof Martin Gill, Perpetuity Research and Prof Mark Button, Portsmouth University: The difficulties of interagency-cooperation in tackling economic crimes
Manon Roberts and Sophie Davies, Crest Advisory: Behind the screen: Perceptions and experiences of online fraud victimisation

Session 3: From psychology to cyber security (Steel Room)
Chaired by Prof Ingolf Becker, UCL Security & Crime Science

Dr Sarah Ying Zheng, UCL Security & Crime Science: Human-in-the-loop scam/fraud detection methods
Sarah Lawson, UCL Information Services Division: Social engineering in UK academia

13:45 Lunch and networking (Williams Lounge) 

14:30 Plenary session 
Digital Identity and Identity Fraud (Henry Wellcome Auditorium)

Chaired by Dr Lorenzo Pasculli

Sandra Peaston, CIFAS

15:15  Afternoon break and networking (Williams Lounge)

15:30  Parallel discussions 

Session 1: Generative AI threats and countermeasures (Henry Wellcome Auditorium)
Chaired by Juliana Gómez Quintero, UCL Security & Crime Science

Prof Lewis Griffin, UCL Computer Science: A primer on generative AI
Kimberly Ton-Mai, UCL Security & Crime Science: Can humans detect speech deepfakes?
Prof Lewis Griffin, UCL Computer Science: Generative AI and homeland security - risk and response

Session 2: AI and Online fraud* (Franks Room)
Chaired by Prof Lorenzo Cavallaro, UCL Computer Science

Sharad Agarwal, Stop Scams UK and UCL Computer Science: Investigating Hi Mum and Dad SMS Scams in the UK
Nilufer Tuptuk and Antonis Papasavva, UCL Security & Crime Science: Identifying data sources and developing AI-based solutions to analyse online fraud
Dr Kacper Gradon, Warsaw University of Technology: GenAI and medical disinformation

16:30  Afternoon break and networking (Williams Lounge)

16:45  Panel discussion
Deepfakes, bad actors, and new tech: will they destabilise society and are we doing enough to mitigate the threat? (Henry Wellcome Auditorium) 

Chaired by Prof Martin Gill, Perpetuity Research

Prof Lewis Griffin, UCL Computer Science
Prof Victoria Baines, Gresham College
Tara Annison, Twinstake
Prof Mark Button, University of Portsmouth

17:30 - 19:00 Drinks reception and networking (Williams Lounge)

*Dawes Trust funded research programme.