Speakers · 2021

Across the bench and the bar.

A cross-disciplinary faculty of forensic practitioners and legal professionals, drawn from the laboratory bench, the investigation room, and the courtroom. Between them they cover the full path that evidence travels — from the moment a trace is collected to the moment an opinion is tested under cross-examination. The profiles below are illustrative and do not depict real individuals.

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Dr. Diane Marlow

Digital forensics lead

Diane heads a digital examination unit and has spent two decades on device and network evidence. Her sessions focus on imaging that survives challenge and on the contemporaneous notes that prove an exhibit never changed in an examiner's care.

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R. Khanna

Forensic ballistics examiner

A comparison-microscopy specialist, Khanna works on tool-mark and cartridge-case identification. A frequent advocate for honest uncertainty, he teaches examiners to state confidence as a probability of agreement rather than as a courtroom certainty.

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Joana Pereira

Trial advocate

Joana is a litigator who builds and contests cases that turn on technical proof. She runs the cross-examination clinic, where she shows how a well-prepared expert answers the question actually asked and refuses to be drawn past the limits of the analysis.

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Tomas Salko

Evidence & procedure scholar

Tomas studies how rules of evidence treat scientific findings across different forums. His comparative work helps examiners understand why the same report is welcomed in one courtroom and excluded in another, and how to write to the strictest likely standard.

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Dr. Amelia Osei

Crime-scene reconstruction

Amelia reconstructs events from physical traces, linking what is recovered at a scene to a defensible account of what happened. She is firm that every reconstruction must disclose its assumptions, so that the opinion can be tested rather than simply trusted.

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Marco Vidal

Prosecutor, cybercrime unit

Marco prosecutes matters built on digital evidence and works closely with examiners before charges are laid. His panel contributions address chain of custody and admissibility, and the gap between what investigators collect and what a court will ultimately accept.

Speakers move between tracks rather than staying in their own lane. The same matter that begins as a digital acquisition may end as contested testimony, so examiners and advocates appear together in panels and clinics, taking turns to explain and to question. That overlap is the point of the faculty: each speaker has stood on more than one side of the evidence and can show participants how it looks from the other.