April 2020
Online member meeting: Good practices for biometrics at the border
Biometrics Institute events provide an extremely important platform for the dialogue between our members and key stakeholders committed to the responsible and ethical use of biometrics. As the world faces new and unprecedented challenges and opportunities, building a resilient community and continuing our conversations on good practices has never been more important. Due to the coronavirus, we have postponed our ID@Borders Conference from April to October 2020. But in response to the success of our extraordinary online meeting in March,…
Find out more »May 2020
Online member meeting: Responsible and ethical use of biometrics in a crisis – where should we draw the line?
Biometrics Institute events provide an extremely important platform for the dialogue between our members and key stakeholders committed to the responsible and ethical use of biometrics. As the world faces new and unprecedented challenges and opportunities, building a resilient community and continuing our conversations on good practices has never been more important. Due to the coronavirus, we have postponed our ID@Borders Conference from April to October and our Asia-Pacific Conference from May to December 2020. But in response to the…
Find out more »September 2020
Member Meeting, Singapore
In consultation with some of our Singaporean members, we have decided to postpone the member meeting planned for May of this year, this was because of the threat to travellers, visitors and locals of the coronavirus. We are currently exploring a date in the first two weeks of September, subject to how the virus is developing, government advice and the views of our members. We will confirm the new date in the coming weeks. For information about coronavirus and our…
Find out more »US Conference 2020
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we have postponed our US Conference to 21 September Please download the updated programme conference on 21 September by clicking on the button above. To read how the coronavirus has affected our other events, click here. We are delighted to have Patrick Grother to speak at this conference. Patrick is the biometric standards and testing lead from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is the author of Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) report released…
Find out more »October 2020
Biometrics Institute Congress and Biometrics Week 2020
Speakers Sponsors and Exhibitors Biometrics Week events Venue Our 2020 Biometrics Institute Congress will take place on 20-21 October 2020. For the first time it will co-locate with our annual ID@Borders Conference, which has been moved because of the coronavirus. The Biometrics Institute Congress has established itself as the meeting place for the international biometrics community to gather annually in London. It provides an…
Find out more »ID@Borders Conference 2020
We have moved our 8th annual ID@Borders Conference to 20-21 October in London. For the first time it will co-locate with our annual Biometrics Institute Congress. Over half of our existing April speakers have already confirmed that they'll be joining us in London. We will be updating the programme over the coming days, but you can still register by clicking the button at the top of this page. To read how coronavirus has affected our other events, click here.…
Find out more »December 2020
Showcase Australia incorporating Asia-Pacific Conference 2020
Because of the coronavirus, we have moved our Asia-Pacific Conference from May in Sydney to Canberra this coming December. For the first time this year it will be incorporated within our annual Showcase conference. The majority of speakers have already told us they will join us in December. We’ll be confirming this exciting new programme soon and hope you'll be able to join us. For how the coronavirus has affected our other events, click here. This year's two-day Showcase Australia…
Find out more »January 2021
Face Recognition Performance Workshop
Scheduled in Singapore in January 2021, this workshop will cover the latest updates in face recognition performance including results from the four ongoing tracks of the new NIST Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT). The session will give introductory material on biometrics performance comparing metrics for matching vs transactional rates, identification vs verification, false positives vs negatives. Thereafter more detail on the following topics will be covered include: gains from the new generation of algorithms; description and quantification of demographic effects;…
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