Annual Meeting on the Risks of Future Crime (AMRFC)

Posted On March 14, 2025

May 14, 2025 - May 16, 2025

Kadir Has University
Istanbul, Turkey

REGISTRATION 

The Annual Meeting on the Risks of Future Crime (AMRFC) brings together scholars, industry, and policymakers to exchange information and knowledge about the future of crime and the future of crime research. Its goal is to highlight and promote interdisciplinary and multi-sector experts to present original research and industry state-or-play talks by researchers, policy-makers, and industry leaders to share cutting edge findings and trends across a multitude of criminal behaviors and enterprises. It also aims to threat forecast new types of crime and recommend policy and interventions to control, prevent, or intervene these threats before they generate large-scale negative outcomes for society. Topics range widely but cover the advent of accelerating technologies (artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, virtual reality, law enforcement and private deterrence technologies, biotechnology and biohacking, manipulation of social media platforms and processes, the use of cryptocurrencies to facilitate or perpetrate crimes, jurisdictional and legal challenges to enforcement and prevention, public-private partnerships, the development of new statistical and actuarial methodologies, etc). Disciplines represented include management information sciences, criminology, computer science, law, sociology, biotechnology, psychology, risk management, engineering, public policy and others.

Confirmed Speakers

  • Pekka Abrahamsson - Professor of Software Engineering, Tampere University (Finland)
  • Kat Albrecht - Assistant Professor, GSU and Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation EventS Open Knowledge Network (SCALES OKN) Consortium (USA)
  • Francesca Bosco - Chief Strategy and Partnerships Officer, The Cyberpeace Institute (Switzerland)
  • Gian Maria Campedelli - MobS Lab: Mobile and Social Computing Institution: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
  • Mariam Elgabry - CEO, Bronic Cyberbiosecurity (UK)
  • Glenn Harrison - Distinguished Professor, C.V. Starr Chair in Risk Management and Insurance, and Director of Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) (USA)
  • Thomas Loughran - Professor, Department of Criminology, University of South Florida (USA)
  • Daniel Nagin - Heinz Professor of Public Policy and Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University (USA)
  • Manja Nikolovska - Research Fellow in Future Crime, University College of London, Dept of Security and Crime Science (UK)
  • Selami Pazarbasi - Ignite Insights Consulting, LLC
  • Mikko Siponen - Professor of Cyber Security, Professor of MIS, University of Alabama, Culverhouse School of Business (USA)
  • Volkan Topalli - Professor, GSU Dept. of Criminal Justice and Criminology (USA), Co-Lead Editor Criminology
  • Jean-Louis Van Gelder - Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (Germany)
  • Sarah Zheng - Post Graduate Teaching Assistant, University College London, Dept of Security and Crime Science (UK)

Conference Schedule

The exact agenda/schedule is still being finalized, but the plan is tentatively as follows:

  • Wednesday, May 14th
    • 09:00 - 12:30: Pre-conference Workshop 1
    • 12:30 - 14:00: Discussions and break for LUNCH
    • 14:00 - 17:30: Pre-Conference Workshop 2
    • 17:30 - 19:30: Free time before dinner and keynote
    • 19:30: Welcoming remarks, OPENING DINNER, KEYNOTE SPEECH
  • Thursday, May 15th
    • 09:00 - 10:00: Presentation 1
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Presentation 2
    • 11:30 - Noon: Discussions and short break before lunch
    • Noon - 13:00: LUNCH
    • 13:00 - 14:00: Presentation 3
    • 14:00 - 14:30: Coffee break
    • 14:30 - 15:30: Presentation 4
    • 15:30 - 15:45: Short break
    • 15:45 - 16:45: Presentation 5
    • 16:45 - 19:30: Free time before dinner cruise
    • 20:00 - 22:30: BOSPORUS DINNER CRUISE
  • Friday, May 16th
    • 09:00 - 10:00: Presentation 6
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Coffee break
    • 10:30 - 11:30: Presentation 7
    • 11:30 - Noon: Discussions and short break before lunch
    • Noon - 13:00: LUNCH
    • 13:00 - 14:00: Presentation 8
    • 14:00 - 14:30: Coffee break
    • 14:30 - 15:30: Presentation 9
    • 15:30 - 16:00: Break before closing session
    • 16:00 - 17:00: Closing Session: Retrospectives and Discussion on Future Crime
    • 19:30: OPTIONAL FAREWELL DINNER
  • Saturday, May 17th
    • (Optional) Local tours and goodbyes

Conference Location and Host

This in-person conference is being hosted by and will take place at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Türkiye on May 14-16, 2025. Kadir Has University (KHAS) was founded in 1997 in Istanbul. The university is dedicated to becoming a leader in educational and cultural fields in Turkey and establishing itself as an international center for research and scientific development.

Hotel Information

Whenever possible, lodging accommodations will be made for conference speakers and select guests (at the discretion of the conference organizers) at the JW Marriott Istanbul Bosphorus. We will be in touch with these individuals directly as we get closer to the conference.

Conference Sponsors

In addition to our gracious host university, the conference sponsors are the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR) and the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group (EBCS) in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, both of which are located at Georgia State University, as well as the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, and The Dawes Centre for Future Crime at University College London.