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2011 Speakers

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The following speakers are among those that will speak at Biometrics 2011

KEYNOTES:
David Buckley
, CrossMatch, USA
Bringing biometrics to the people

Ken Gantt, Assistant Director, Project Integration Management Services at US-VISIT, USA
US-VISIT – Exploring emerging technologies of the future: Taking border management to new levels

Professor Brian C. Lovell, NICTA and The University of Queensland, Australia
Face-in-the-crowd biometrics: here's looking secretly at you

In Focus: Large-scale government programs

Angela Miller, Emerging Technologies, Consular Systems and Technology, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State
Advancements in the use of biometrics and identity management for US travel documents

Kevin Reid, Program Manager, Next Generation Identification, FBI, USA
Status of the FBI's Next Generation Identification System - Next steps and challenges

Vivek Raghavan, Volunteer Biometrics, Unique Identification Authority of India, India
Building the world's largest biometric database: From concept to reality

Privacy protection and ethical challenges

Emilio Mordini, Professor and Director, Centre for Science, Society and Citizenship, Italy
Ethical challenges of next generation biometrics

Didier Chaudun, Convenor of the Biometrics Task Force, Eurosmart, France
Biometrics for trust and convenience

Kush Wadhwa, Managing Director, GSI, UK
SAPIENT Project - Supporting fundamental rights, privacy and ethics in smart surveillance technologies

Biometrics - helping to win the fight against crime

Frank Smith, UK Border Agency, UK
e-MOBIDIG—Mobile ID for immigration and police in Europe

Marcel Boogaard, CEO, HSB identification, The Netherlands
Unique ID across the Criminal Justice Chain - A Dutch case history

James Grivet, Business Development Project Manager, DNA project, Safran Morpho, France
Fast DNA in the field, the benefits and the challenges for law enforcement

Commercial and public sector biometrics - Part 1

Mizan Rahman, CEO/CTO, M2SYS Technology, USA
The maturity of biometrics in the commercial marketplace – a global perspective

Diana Ombelli, Consultant, Kee Square srl, Italy
Biometrics as an all-round service in the financial world

Ulrich M. Kipper, CEO it-werke group, Germany
Multibiometrics with Hybrid Scanners – Convenience and Security

On the horizon - biometric trends, challenges and opportunities

Professor Michael Fairhurst, School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent, UK
The future of biometrics: A joint industry/academia enterprise?

Charles Y Li, Technical Director, Border Security, Identity Management and Biometrics Raytheon Intelligence & Information System, USA
Biometrics technology – A trend toward commoditisation?

Terry Hartmann, Vice President, Security Solutions & Portfolio Management, Unisys, USA
Biometrics: The secure mobility enabler

Cutting edge biometric passenger facilitation

Perry Hailey, Technology Leader, Gatwick Airport Ltd, UK and Jim Slevin, Transport Business Unit Manager, Human Recognition Systems Ltd, UK
Biometrics in mass transit – A case study of Gatwick Airport developments in 2011

Cyrille Bataller, Director - Accenture Technology Labs Europe, France
Insights into Automated Border Clearance – learnings from deployment at London Heathrow, the world’s busiest international airport

Gillian Ormiston Global Market Manager for Border Solutions, Morpho, France
In the face of destruction: preparing for the 2011 Rugby World Cup

Biometrics and identity assurance

Ross Greenwood, Principal, Identity Matters Consulting, Australia
Biometrics for managers - Designing biometric solutions to improve identity security in civil registration, passport issuance and border control applications

Pedro Janices, National Office of Information Technologies, Chief of the Cabinet Office, National Director, Argentina
Identification and digital authentication in the federal administration

Sir John Adye, Chairman, Identity Assurance Systems Ltd, previously Director of GCHQ, UK
Global identity assurance and the growth of biometrics

Pushing biometric boundaries

Kevin Reid, Program Manager, Next Generation Identification, FBI, USA
Advancing biometrics: Cutting-edge FBI research and activities

Alice J. O'Toole, Professor, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Human-Machine Fusion: How to improve state-of-the-art face recognition systems

Dr Behnam (Ben) Bavarian, President and CEO, AFIS and Biometrics Consulting Inc., USA
Advances in stand-off biometrics

Iris in focus

Arun Ross, Robert C Byrd Associate Professor, West Virginia University, and Assistant Director, Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR), USA
From the visible to the exotic: putting iris in different light

Patrick Grother, Biometric Standards and Testing Lead, NIST, USA
One-to-many iris recognition – promise fulfilled?

John Daugman, Professor, Cambridge University, UK
Vital principles for large-scale database search using iris

Testing and technology

Dr. P. Jonathon Phillips, Electronic Engineer, NIST, USA
Face quality analysis challenge

Michael Thieme, Director of Special Projects, IBG, USA
Department of Homeland Security – Synthetic biometric image development

Brad Moore, Biometrics Laboratory Accreditation Program Manager, National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) United States Department of Commerce, USA
What does it mean to be a NVLAP-accredited laboratory for biometrics testing?

Safe and sound - biometric liveness detection and vulnerabilities

Stephanie Schuckers, Associate Professor, Clarkson University, USA
Evaluation of anti-spoof (liveness) detection

Sébastien Marcel, Research Scientist, Idiap research institute, Switzerland
Trusted biometrics under spoofing attacks (Tabula Rasa)

Isabelle Moeller, General Manager, Biometrics Institute and Dr Ted Dunstone, Chair, Technical Committee, Biometrics Institute, Australia
The state of biometrics in Australia & New Zealand including vulnerability research, a review and future directions

Overcoming biometric enrolment challenges

Rob Mungovan, Vice President, Aware, Inc. USA and Fred Baradari, President Government Solutions, Cross Match Technologies, USA
Innovations in biometric enrolment - US Depart of Justice case study

Tony Mercer, Managing Director,  TM Associates and Greg Henwood, Chief Technical Officer, Hekemobio, UK
Addressing the challenges of cost efficiency and integrity in operational biometric enrolment solutions

Miguel Leitmann, Vision-Box Senior Vice-President for Marketing and Sales, Portugal
In pursuit of enrolling high-quality biometric data

Border management in focus

Monica Gariup, Research Officer, Frontex, Poland
Mapping fingerprints for border control: “features” of the European experience around the Schengen “core”

Fares Rahmun, Federal Office of Administration (BVA), Germany and Markus Nuppeney, Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), Germany
Biometric border control for the EU VIS

André Oeyen, Director Biometric Business Development, SITA Government & Security Solutions Line of Business, Belgium
Addressing the border management & security dilemma through consolidation of biometrics and biographic passenger identities

Raymond Wong, Biometrics Research Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Founding member, Hong Kong Biometrics Institute and Advisor, Public Security Bureau, Shenzhen China
Revolutionizing border control with biometrics

Commercial and public sector biometrics -  Part 2

Vance Bjorn, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, DigitalPersona, USA
CIVIL ID:  Securing the mobile public sector workforce

Christer Bergman, Vice President Biometric Solutions Group, Fujitsu Frontech North America, USA
Biometrics in healthcare – A US Case Study

Martin George, CEO, Smart Sensors Ltd, UK
Gambling – are the tables turning for iris recognition?

Conor White, Chief Technology Officer, Daon, USA
Using multi-factor authentication to secure online transactions and prevent fraud

Panel: Biometrics and identity as a software service (SaaS)

MODERATOR:
John Christensen, Senior Vice President, Strategic and Business Development, Global Technology Solutions, USA

William Vickers, Subject Mater Expert for Biometrics and Forensics, VP Biometrics, Forensics & Intelligence, Six3Systems, USA

David White, Identification Programme Manager, National Policing Improvement Agency, UK

Ken Lehman, Director, Identity Management, Defense Technologies Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, USA

Kris Ranganath, Chief Technology Officer, Government and Public Global Solutions Division, NEC Corporation, Japan/USA

Fred Preston, Director, FP Fidelity Ltd, UK

 

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