Conference Programme

09.15

Conference Opening
Mark Lockie, Editor of Biometric Technology Today

09.30

Keynote: Countdown to the UK’s National Identity Scheme

• One month to the launch of the first identity cards for foreign nationals.
• Plans for further roll out of the national identity scheme in 2009/2010.

Meg Hillier, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Identity, UK Government

10.00

Round table: Biometric identity documents: What can they do for me?
What are the true benefits of biometric ID cards for the consumer and for business? How can this message be communicated effectively? How do we overcome consumer fear? What is the longer term vision for biometrics in government? A panel of top industry and government participants will discuss the issues at stake.

Andrew Dent, Director and Senior Responsible Owner for the Critical Workers Identity Card (CWIC) Scheme, Identity and Passport Service, UK

Amjad Mustafa, Director Public Sector, Logica Middle East and General Manager of Saudi Arabia

Samir Nanavati, Partner, International Biometric Group, USA

Plenary session: Help! My biometric has been stolen…
If there is one thorny biometric issue that puts serious doubts into the minds of the general public and wider industry, it is the question of stolen or compromised biometrics. Are these fears justified? What is the industry doing to ensure this issue doesn’t become a debilitating problem? Are there technical answers on the horizon?

11.25

Session Chairman’s Introduction

11.30

Integrity and security in the national identity scheme

• Protecting the data, protecting the individual.
• Repair and redress: getting your identity back.

Duncan Hine, Executive Director of Integrity and Security, Identity and Passport Service, UK

12.00

Trusted Revocable Biometrics Identities (TURBINE) or fingerprint representation through cryptography

• Crypto-biometric approaches open new perspectives for fingerprint application combining revocation capability and re-use of the same fingerprint.
• Research status, applications perspectives for identity management and time lines.
• Using pseudo-identities to link a person to a service. Protecting privacy.

Nicolas Delvaux, Project Coordinator, Sagem Sécurité, France

12.30

Privacy, personal identification information and the role of anonymous biometric authentication

• Understanding the problem of large centralized databases from a privacy perspective.
• The development of a process for the anonymous biometric authentication of individual identity, in a virtually anonymous operation. 
• Application areas.

Russ Ryan, VP Information and Communication, National Biometric Security Project (NBSP), USA

13:00

How secure is my biometric? - measuring assurance against spoofing
Dr Geoff Poulton, Director, Biometrics Institute and Member, BI Technical Committee, Australia

Parallel session: Biometrics on the move
Rather than defining a fixed location for the capture of biometrics, numerous implementations are now using mobile biometric devices to identify people in non-ideal locations. Hear how this sort of technology is being used at the border and by police.

Parallel session: Streamlining business – the power of biometrics
Improve your company’s bottom line and customer perceptions. The unique properties of biometrics can be applied to streamline business practices, whether that is to improve consumer experience in a call centre environment, by reducing cumbersome paper trails or by ensuring your workforce’s activities are monitored in a professional manner.

14:30

Session Chairman’s Introduction

Session Chairman’s Introduction

14:40

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) Mobile ID Project: From pilot to countywide roll-out

• Implementation information on Los Angeles County’s Mobile ID solution.
• Project involves Bluetooth-enabled fingerprint capture devices communicating over high-speed public networks to PDAs, Mobile Data Computers, and desktop computers.
• Future plans.

Sergeant Thomas J. Smith, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, USA

Safeguard against fraud and identity theft with voice biometrics

• A review of the benefits of voice biometrics.
• Results of research on consumer perceptions of the technology.
• Highlight of best practices for making voice biometrics a success.

Adam Shearn, Senior Solutions Architect, Nuance

15:10

The usability of mobile AFIS: Results from EURO 2008

• How the technology was deployed and used.
• User perceptions.
• An overview of the challenges involved.

Gillian Ormiston, Senior Solutions Consultant, Motorola, UK

Biometrics: A novel solution for your company’s bottom line

• Understand how successful biometric deployments reduce reoccurring costs and enable new opportunities.
• How biometrics can benefit the entire stakeholder chain: customers, employees, security personnel, suppliers, management, and most importantly the CFO.
• Case history: Examining a patient management system in the health care industry from the bottom line perspective of all stakeholders.

Matthew Ennis, Vice President, Business Development, Lumidigm, USA

15:40

Delivering mobile identification in the UK police service

• Building the business case - drivers for mobile ID.
• The Lantern pilot and lessons learned.
• Mobile ID in the context of a wider Mobile Data capability for the police.
• Project MIDAS - working towards a national capability.

Geoff Whitaker, CTO - Biometrics, National Policing Improvement Agency, UK

Streamlining the business of the construction industry

• Using biometrics for clocking on and off at work creates an opportunity to reduce wage fraud, eliminate ghost workers, improve health and safety and streamline payroll and sub-contractor costs procedures.
• The success of this system in the UK construction industry has led to an extensive rollout in the Middle East where there is substantial building activity.
• Similar implications and benefits could be achieved in a range of other UK businesses.

Hugh Carr-Archer,Chief Executive Officer, Aurora CS Ltd, UK

16.30

Keynote Presentation: INTERPOL Biometrics Program, the need for international co-operation
Mark Branchflower, Head of Fingerprint Unit, Identification Branch, INTERPOL

• Current biometrics exchanged through INTERPOL and the possible extension of
  new biometrics.
• The need for increased data matching and linking of various national and international initiatives.
• The benefits of centralized storage.

17.00

End of Day One

Parallel Session: Biometrics in Europe – Programmes and policy
In co-operation with the European Commission, this special session focuses on the increasing use of biometric technology by the European Commission and EU Member States to enhance areas such as border security and immigration. The aim is to understand today’s landscape, the roadmap for the future and the challenges that must be overcome.

09:10

Session Chairman’s Introduction

09:15

The EC’s next steps in border management: What impact on the biometrics industry?
Frank Paul, Head of Unit “Large Scale IT Systems”, European Commission, Belgium

09.50

Biometrics at the EU Member State level: the challenges ahead

• The deployment of tools and devices in accordance with legal prescriptions, especially regarding privacy.
• The search for performance and robustness, in an anticipative vision (for example in considering the possibilities of biometric controls by mobile devices).
• Building interoperability on an European scale to optimise the use of biometrics by each state member.

Jean-Luc Aminot, L'agence nationale des titres sécurisés, France - TBC

10.45

A concrete look at existing EC biometric projects
Elfa Kere, Administrator, European Commission, Belgium

11:20

Rolling out large-scale IT systems: The missing pieces of the research jigsaw
Dr Günter Schumacher EC JRC, Institute for Protection and Security of the Citizen Institute, Italy  

12:00

Keynote presentation: Biometrics and data protection: reliable interaction at new frontiers?

• Biometrics in recent EU regulatory policy.
• Prerequisites for implementation of biometrics.
• Research and development for reliability and trust.

Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), Belgium

Parallel session: Come fly with me - Biometrics in aviation security
The aviation industry can use biometrics in many ways – from identifying workers to ensuring passengers at check in are the same as those boarding the plane. This stream discusses issues such as airport security, automation, data protection, biometric selection and ergonomics – all paramount factors when specifying a successful system.

13:45

Session Chairman’s Introduction

13:50

Airport automation: the major transformation ahead

• Airport passenger operations still amounts to mostly manual activities.
• As well as a security technology, biometrics should be seen as an automation technology.
• Partial or full automation of passenger operations represents a sizeable opportunity for airports, airlines and border control authorities.

Cyrille Bataller, Partner, Accenture Technology Labs, France

14.25

Border control at the airport: Security and convenience

• Biometric systems work best when they streamline airport operations from the perspective of all stakeholders: passengers, frequent travellers, security personnel, airlines, airport operation managers, and the retail base of the airport.
• An integrated border security system will be discussed using the trial at the Ben-Gurion International Airport as a case study.

Matthew Ennis, Vice President, Business Development, Lumidigm, USA

15.20

Secure passenger processing: Public acceptance of disposable biometrics?

• Voluntary versus mandatory participation in programmes.
• Repeat benefit versus one-off inconvenience.
• Cultural acceptance of solutions, technology and regulation.

Simon Longlands, Principal Consultant, Communications and Systems Division Telecoms, Atkins, UK

15.55

Speech title to be confirmed
Mike Fazackerley, Customer Services Director for Manchester Airport, UK

16.30

CTO Corner: The future of biometrics – Tomorrow’s technology
In this round table you will gain an insight into the inner most thoughts of the biometric industry’s most influential technology experts. The future is always hard to predict, but through a series of presentations and debate you will hear their vision for the future development of biometric technology. Will future technology be all about smaller, cheaper, faster and more accurate technology or can we expect more developments in areas such as enhancing privacy, improving user ergonomics or pushing the concept of biometric fusion and anti-spoofing?
Participants:
Jean-Christophe Fondeur, CTO Sagem Sécurité, France
Jon Telford, Technical Director, UKB International, UK

17.45

End of Day Two

17.45– 19.00

Delegate Exhibition Viewing and Reception

Parallel session: Developing effective automated biometric border control
Biometrics are increasingly being specified to facilitate border control. This session explores the latest thinking from around the world in areas such as biometric-based ePassports and entry/exit systems.

Parallel session: Consumer-facing biometrics
Often seen as the holy grail for the biometrics industry, consumer, rather than government-based biometrics systems encompass a diverse range of applications, such as the financial industry, healthcare, education, mobile phones, PCs/laptops and so on. When will the market will take off? What are the drivers and detractors and what technological issues must be overcome before these markets can be successfully tapped?

09.00

Session Chairman’s Introduction

Session Chairman’s Introduction

09.05

Facial recognition from e-Passports: the Australian Customs' SmartGate

Jim Wayman, Director of the Biometric Test Center at San Jose University, USA (Paper co-authors Tony Mansfield and Stephen Clarke)

Biometrics in everyday life? – A perspective from the consumer’s point of view

• Understanding the factors influencing consumer market growth as well as growth inhibitors, such as culture, resistance to change and unfamiliarity.
• A selection of case histories with emphasis on Asia Pacific and the Middle East markets, which have great potential in the coming years.

Dr Sri Hartati Kurniawan, Chief Technology Officer, RCG Holdings Limited

09.35

Border control system in Japan

Tony Wong, Manager, 2nd Government Solutions Division, NEC Corporation

Clive Bourke, Vice President for Asia Pacific, Daon

10:05

VB-eGate, one year later: ½ million happy passengers

• More nations have signed up to the concept: Finland, UK, S.Tome and Principe Islands, Cape Verde islands.
• Understanding the human behaviour has been key for success.s
• Progress and lessons learned to date in Portugal and the new countries.

Francisco Batista, IT Data Centre – Production Division Manager, Portuguese Border and Immigration Service, Portugal

Miguel Leitmann, Vice President Sales, Vision-Box, Portugal

Biometrics in emerging sectors

• Trends in emerging biometric modalities.
• Exploring how advances in technology will make biometrics more acceptable to the public.
• Drawing on Fujitsu’s experience in education, healthcare and retail.

Jonathan Agre, VP&GM, Fujitsu Laboratories of America

11.00

Biometrics is not enough - Further aspects for automated border control
systems

• The trade off between efficiency and security.
• User aspects such as usability and acceptance.
• German project examples.

Frank Steffens, Senior Consultant Biometrics and eIDs, secunet Security
Networks AG, Germany

Selecting the biometric technology that best fits an application: a customer's view

• Brazilian ATM banking scenario.
• Selection process.
• What comes next?

Francimara Viotti, Banco do Brasil - Security Management Division - IT Security Manager, Brazil

11.30

Registered traveller schemes using mobile phones

• How to retain the privacy of the traveller and accountability of scheme operators in a registered traveller scheme.
• Existing applications of Match-on-Card in Travel and Transportation.
• Use of mobile phones in RT programs.

Steen Munch-Schmidt, Director Solutions, Precise Biometrics, Sweden

Biometrics as a frequent flyer strategy

• Building a “joint” customers relationship.
• Why a client recognition program.
• How it works and why a biometric solution.
• Our next goals.

Philippe Auroy, CCI Director General, France.

Parallel Session: Bleeding-edge technology and testing
Although the biometric industry is maturing, it is crucial that innovation is still a cornerstone issue for the future. This stream is dedicated to the latest technological advancements and on up-to-the-minute test results – so important to measure progress and to keep industry participants on their toes.

Parallel Session: Standards and security
Standards and security issues often go hand in hand. There has been an impressive amount of progress in the last decade, but there is still much work to do. This stream focuses on the next phase of biometric standardisation. It also investigates potential security loopholes and asks how these might be rectified through good technology design and appropriate system architecture.

12.05

Session Chairman’s Introduction

Session Chairman’s Introduction

12:10

Man vs. machine: Face comparison on CCTV material

• Performance by untrained and trained people.
• Biometric system performance.
• Latest test results.

Arnout Ruifrok, Forensic Scientist, Department of Digital Technology and Biometrics, Netherlands Forensic Institute, Netherlands

Saying what we mean and meaning what we say: The Vocabulary Harmonization work of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37

• An overview of vocabulary harmonization work.
• Biometric faux pas.

Jim Wayman, Director of the Biometric Test Center, San Jose University, USA

12.40

How testing is pushing forward the biometric technology envelope

• What technological areas need to be advanced
• Constructing testing programmes to advance biometric technology
• Example: The Multiple Biometric Grand challenge

Jonathan Phillips, Program Manager for Multiple Biometric Grand Challenge, NIST, USA

GlobalPlatform – Creating smart card specifications to meet the needs of the biometrics community

• Examine the risks presented by the innovative, fast growing identification economy. 
• Introduce GlobalPlatform’s recently launched Biometric Sub-task Force (part of GlobalPlatform’s Government Task Force) which aims to establish an industry understanding of how biometric technology should be implemented
• Insight into GlobalPlatform’s work to adopt and modify its established and mature specifications to meet the dynamic needs of the biometrics community. 

Kevin Gillick, Executive Director of GlobalPlatform, UK

14.10

Testing of bleeding-edge technology
Samir Nanavati, Partner, International Biometric Group, USA

The importance of being biometrically earnest

• The importance of seriously applying security controls and procedures to biometric devices and systems. The possibilities for misusing and abusing biometric-related data will be demonstrated.
• Understand why it is important not rely on security through obscurity for the overall security of systems.
• Mitigation strategies for the risks associated with exposed biometric data.

Matthew Lewis, Senior Consultant at IRM, UK

14.45

Testing fingerprint quality to be used in ePassports

• Setting fingerprint reader quality parameters.
• How to deal with poor quality fingerprints.
• Specific test observations.

Tero Tammisalo, Project Manager, Ministry of the Interior, Police Department, Finland