August 2019
Member Meeting, Wellington
We are pleased to announce our next Wellington Member Meeting will take place on 28 August 2019, hosted by The Department of Internal Affairs. Confirmed speakers are; Hon Terry Aulich, Head of the Privacy Expert Group, Biometrics Institute, presenting on The law, ethics and practicality of biometrics Tim Waldron, Manager, Market and Business Development, Department of Internal Affairs New Zealand, presenting on RealMe web capture performance and development To register please email alex@biometricsinstitute.org. This meeting is free for members. Non-members are…
Find out more »September 2019
Member Meeting, Sydney
We are pleased to announce our next Sydney Member Meeting will take place on September 11 2019, 9:00am - 12noon. The meeting will be held at the Optus Campus Sydney (OCS), Building F - FG.MR.05, 1 Lyonpark Road, Macquarie Park Presentations include: Update on the use of biometrics at Optus John Duggan, SVP South East Asia and ANZ, Daon on Digital onboarding: Face biometric considerations Lyria Bennett Moses, Professor,UNSW speaking on legal issues in the use of open source /…
Find out more »Member Meeting Washington DC
Kindly hosted by OBIM, DHS Our next US Member Meeting will take place on 12 September 2019, 9:00 - 12.30. The meeting will be hosted by the Department of Homeland Security, OBIM at: 1616 N. Fort Myer Drive Arlington VA 22209. The agenda is still being finalised, but you can download the current version above. The focus of this event is on the issues around facial recognition technology. Confirmed speakers are: Patrick Nemeth, Director, Identity Operations Division, Office of Biometrics…
Find out more »October 2019
Member Meeting, Singapore
We are pleased to announce our next Singapore Member Meeting will take place on October 10 2019, 9:00 – 13:15, kindly hosted by SITA, 11 Lonyang Way, Singapore, 508723. Speakers include: Pam Dixon, Privacy Expert Group Member, Biometrics Institute and Director, World Privacy Forum Lisa MacDonald, Director, Identity Capabilities Management Division, Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USA Younkyung Kim, Regional Manager, Airport, Passenger, Cargo & Security, Asia Pacific, IATA, Singapore John Rule, Managing Director,…
Find out more »Biometrics Institute Congress and Biometrics Week
Speakers Sponsors and exhibitors Biometrics Week events Venue The Biometrics Institute Congress has established itself as the meeting place for the international biometrics community to gather annually in London. It provides an independent platform for off-the-record discussion among the institute's global multi-stakeholder community. In 2018, around 300 representatives from over 30 nations came to the Congress. This is a must-attend week of events, organised…
Find out more »Biometrics Vulnerabilities Workshop – how robust is your system?
This half day workshop will take place as a part of the Biometrics Institute Congress and Biometrics Week 2019 and will focus on: Biometric Vulnerabilities – how robust is your system? What biometric vulnerabilities do you need to be aware of? What does Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Liveness mean? What accreditation is available to trust the biometric systems? What does FIDO offer? Why testing is important Red-teaming Who should attend: end-users, integrators and others interested in understanding spoofing,…
Find out more »Face Recognition Performance Workshop
This half day workshop will take place alongside the Biometrics Institute Congress and Biometrics Week 2019. The 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…
Find out more »Joint Expert Group Briefing
This half day satellite event offers an opportunity to meet with Sector and Expert Groups of the Biometrics Institute. It will deep-dive into themes from the congress held on the two prior days, and explore where the groups shall place their efforts and focus in the coming year. It also presents an overview of some of the guiding material the Institute has been working on, and is a chance for members to provide input into current and future projects. The…
Find out more »How to implement a Privacy Impact Assessment Workshop
This half day workshop will take place alongside the Biometrics Institute Congress and Biometrics Week 2019. The workshop will help you clarify your ideas about privacy management in your organisation, looking at good practice implementation and how to position your organisation at the forefront of the biometrics industry. It will provide answers to the following questions: Do you know how to deal with privacy and artificial intelligence issues? How to deal with potential losses of private data? When does…
Find out more »November 2019
Showcase Australia 2019
The Biometrics Institute is proud to present its flagship government event, Showcase Australia – Wednesday 20 November 2019. Since 2005, Showcase Australia has provided a unique and effective platform to connect biometric users from key government agencies with technology providers to share experiences that will help shape the future of the biometrics industry. Topics to be discussed include: • How to do we protect against potential cyber attacks • Law enforcement: The responsible and ethical use of biometrics •…
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