Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Enhance Customs Operations
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- Session: SA 26.36
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Dates: September 14-18, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Event overview and eligibility
- Event title: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Enhance Customs Operations
- Session No.: SA 26.36
- Location: New Delhi, India
- Date: September 14-18, 2026 (1 week)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Qualifications: Open only to senior customs and ICT experts from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam, who are working in their respective country's administration.
- Target Audience: Senior customs and ICT experts involved in digitalization, technology management, modernization, policy and operations in their country's administration.
Training purpose and strategic focus
- Aim: Support selected Asia-Pacific economies in advancing digital transformation and strengthening data-driven decision making in customs.
- Strategic emphasis:
- Practical pathways for developing and implementing AI strategies in customs operations.
- Moving from concept to implementation, including identifying investment priorities and resource requirements across financial, technological, and human dimensions.
- Supporting tailored AI strategies that account for uneven AI adoption and gaps in infrastructure, skills, and integration across the region.
Applications, analytical themes, and implementation challenges
- Applications explored:
- AI in risk management.
- AI in trade facilitation.
- AI in compliance.
- Key implementation challenges addressed:
- Data quality.
- Interoperability.
- Governance frameworks.
- Resource constraints (financial, technological, and human).
Pedagogy and participant engagement
- Learning methods:
- Interactive discussions.
- Country presentations.
- Group exercises.
- Expected participant outputs:
- Exchange of experiences across participating administrations.
- Development of actionable roadmaps and implementation plans.
Course objectives and outcomes
- On completion, participants will be able to:
- Understand how to design tailored AI strategies from concept to implementation;
- Identify pathways for developing and implementing AI strategies in customs operations;
- Better understand applications of AI in risk management, trade facilitation, and compliance, and how to approach challenges (e.g., data quality); and
- Develop actionable plans to implement AI strategies.
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