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The seminar will reflect the trends and opportunities of biometrics in the financial market. It will be discussed how processes can be designed both convenient and privacy compliant. The speakers will provide you with their experience on how to best benefit of biometric technologies and solutions.

The seminar presents a line-up of excellent international speakers, ranging from end users (who share their experiences with biometrics in their day to day applications) to experts who will bring you up to date with the state of the art in biometric technology advances. Speakers will focus on the underlying business cases and developments in mobile banking and financial transactions. They will share their experiences from a business perspective, touching important aspects such as process flows, added value, fraud reduction, implementation strategy and client experience.

The seminar is kindly hosted by ABN AMRO Bank Netherlands.

Biometrics in Banking and payments will provide guidance on how biometrics can be used to optimize key aspects of the banking and payment processes, such as customer interaction, operational efficiency, fraud reduction and prevention. During the seminars we will reflect the many new opportunities arising from the gradual shift away from desktop/notebook computing towards smartphones, tablets and other portable devices, while sharing best practice of apps and web-based applications. You will learn about biometric solutions for in-branch and mobile environment and for internal and customer-facing usage. There will be presentations about how biometrics support mega trends such as personalization and location independent services. It will also be discussed how biometrics can be embedded into front end and back end processes.

At the Mini Expo the following companies will be present: Behaviosec, BioTrust, DAON, Fujitsu, iProov, Lucom, Nuance, Onegini, UL and Veridium.

Changes in the program may occur

The Norwegian Biometrics Forum (NBF) is an open platform dedicated to regular exchange of information and experience related to the field of Biometrics. The target of the group is the interdisciplinary discussion between research, technology developers, data privacy experts, governmental agencies and operators of Biometric Systems. In the regular meetings new applications, latest research results and products are presented.

The seminar will reflect the trends and opportunities of biometrics in the financial market. It will be discussed how processes can be designed both convenient and privacy compliant. The speakers will provide you with their experience on how to best benefit of biometric technologies and solutions. Financial institutions get free entrance (lunch included).

The seminar presents a line-up of excellent international speakers, ranging from end users (who share their experiences with biometrics in their day to day applications) to experts who will bring you up to date with the state of the art in biometric technology advances. Speakers will focus on the underlying business cases and developments in mobile banking and financial transactions. They will share their experiences from a business perspective, touching important aspects such as process flows, added value, fraud reduction, implementation strategy and client experience.

Biometrics in Banking and payments will provide guidance on how biometrics can be used to optimize key aspects of the banking and payment processes, such as customer interaction, operational efficiency, fraud reduction and prevention. During the seminars we will reflect the many new opportunities arising from the gradual shift away from desktop/notebook computing towards smartphones, tablets and other portable devices, while sharing best practice of apps and web-based applications. You will learn about biometric solutions for in-branch and mobile environment and for internal and customer-facing usage. There will be presentations about how biometrics support mega trends such as personalization and location independent services. It will also be discussed how biometrics can be embedded into front end and back end processes.

Changes to the program my occur

This one-day workshop will focus on privacy issues surrounding biometric technologies and applications. We will together reflect upon the many new threats and opportunities arising from the rapid increase in the channels of biometric data capture (e.g. sensors on mobile devices) and processing capabilities. The workshop will bring together various stakeholders from amongst end users, technology developers, researchers and legal experts to discuss the serious challenges that these developments present and explore together ways for addressing them.

Please note that we published a Call for Papers for this event.

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miscues incidents we do observe a significant fraud in e-commerce and thus growing interests on trustworthiness of person authentication. Nowadays we find biometric applications in areas like border control, national ID cards, e-banking, e-commerce, e-health etc. Large-scale applications such as the European Union Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and also reliability, interoperability, scalability, system reliability and usability. Many of these are joint requirements also for forensic applications.

Multimodal biometrics combined with fusion techniques can improve recognition performance. Efficient searching or indexing methods can accelerate identification efficiency. Additionally, quality of captured biometric samples can strongly influence the performance. Moreover mobile biometrics is an emerging area and biometrics based smartphone can support deployment and acceptance of biometric systems.

However concerns about security and privacy cannot be neglected. The relevant techniques in the area of presentation attack detection (liveness detection) and template protection are about to supplement biometric systems, in order to improve fake resistance, prevent potential attacks such as cross matching, identity theft etc.

The BIOSIG 2016 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

EAB is launching the tenth European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research in Europe.

We thank the sponsor of this event:

All members of EAB are invited to join us for our annual General Assembly.

The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and numerous EU research projects, namely FIDELITY, FastPass, BEAT, FutureID, MobilePass, Eksistenz, PCAS, PIDaaS, ORIGINS, ABC4EU, INGRESS, HECTOS, BODEGA, OCTAVE, PROTECT and SpeechXRay are jointly organizing the 3rd EAB Research Projects Conference (EAB-RPC) to present research results and to discuss the benefits of this research for our European society. This third conference will present updates of the projects introduced in the first and second conference. New projects in the fields of border control, speaker identification, template protection and more will be presented. Experts from the biometric community will report about their results.

The European Agency for the operational management of large-scale IT systems in the area of freedom, security and justice (eu-LISA) and also the Directorate-General of Migration and Home affairs (DG Home) will be supporting the event by contributing keynote talks. Moreover both institutions as well as the European Agency for the Management of External Borders (Frontex) will discuss current and future research objectives in a panel discussion "Mind the gap – what research is needed for current and future operational biometric systems". DG Home will also provide an overview of current research projects and the future work programme in the field as supported by the Horizon 2020 "Secure Societies" challenge.

Motivation

Biometrics and Identity Management are key research topics that are currently investigated in a variety of EU projects running under the seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and in the Horizon 2020 research program. International research is dealing with innovative solutions for secure and privacy compliant biometrics and federated identity management. For the third time all major European research projects in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management will be provided with a single platform for information exchange and discussion. This will contribute to a stronger research community at European level and a stronger position for European R&D in an international context.

Background

The development of a mass-market in connected mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets, has allowed users the convenience of accessing remotely a variety of services which previously needed face-to-face interactions or to have physical access to the service provider’s infrastructure. For some services, convenience should not need to concessions to the necessary security needs. These services include for example remote payment on commercial websites, banking transactions or certified signing of official documents.

To allow for these trustful interactions, the need of reliable user authentication is of paramount importance. It is then important to properly evaluate the accuracy of biometric authentication to ensure that security is strong enough to allow trusted mobile transactions. Currently no common standards on quality and performance for mobile biometrics exist, nor the capabilities to independently verify if certain predefined quality requirements are met. This is partly due to the fact that suppliers deliver their biometric modules as a black box, partly because end users don't have clear requirements to impose on biometric suppliers.

Objectives of the workshop

The rapidly expanding integration of biometrics into smart phones for transaction authentication makes quality assurance of the biometric modules increasingly important. Independent assessment of performance and security will be needed to keep transactions safe and reliable within the regulations and standards of existing payment and transaction frameworks.

The workshop has the objective of coming to an approach on how to move forward in the process of establishing minimum standards for biometrics on mobile devices, as well as to provide for a draft roadmap of developing capabilities to evaluate the performance of mobile biometrics based on these standards.

The International Conference on Information Fusion is a premier forum for interchange of the latest research in information fusion and discussion of its impacts on our society. The conference brings together researchers and practitioners from industry, government, and academia to report on the latest scientific and technical advances. Authors are invited to submit papers describing advances and applications in information fusion.

The 19^th Fusion conference will be held in Heidelberg, Germany at the Heidelberg Convention Center located right at the river Neckar within the historic city. Heidelberg's famous historical castle, the Old Town, and the longest pedestrian zone in Europe are a must see for everybody visiting Germany.

This session will focus on the latest innovations and best practices in the emerging field of multi-biometric fusion. Biometrics builds an identity recognition decision based on the physical or behavioral characteristics of individuals. Multi-biometrics aims at outperforming the conventional biometric solutions by increasing accuracy, and robustness to intra-person variations and to noisy data. It also reduces the effect of the non-universality of biometric modalities and the vulnerability to spoof attacks. Fusion is performed to build a unified biometric decision based on the information collected from different biometric sources. This unified result must be constructed in a way that guarantees the best performance possible and take into account the efficiency of the solution.

The topic of this special session, Information Fusion in Multi-Biometrics, requires the development of innovative and diverse solutions. Those solutions must take into account the nature of biometric information sources as well as the level of fusion suitable for the application in hand. The fused information may include more general and non-biometric information such as the estimated age of the individual or the environment of the background.

What are the most up-to-date core biometric technologies developed in the field? What is the potential impact of biometrics in forensic investigation and crime prevention? How can biometrics cope with mobile applications? What are the most relevant issues in biometric standardization? What can we learn from human perception? What does it involve to integrate a biometric recognition system?

This school follows the successful track of the International Summer Schools on Biometrics held since 2003. In this 12th edition, the courses will mainly focus on new and emerging issues:

1. How Biometrics will cope with the demand for mobile applications;
2. How to exploit new biometric technologies in forensic and security applications;
3. Standardization, evaluation and assessment of biometric applications.
4. Biometric technologies and advanced research: What is next?

The courses will provide a clear and in-depth picture on the state-of-the-art in biometric verification/identification technology, both under the theoretical and scientific point of view as well as in diverse application domains.

The lectures will be given by 18 outstanding experts in the field, from both academia and industry.

An advanced feature of this summer school will be some practical sessions to better understand, "hands on", the real potential of today's biometric technologies.

Biometrics for Civil ID is a workshop and conference about the use of biometrics for national identity systems and electronic services. The paper ‘Identity Management in 2030’ by the Dutch National Office for Identity Data provides us with a vision where conclusive proof of identity is evolving into a situation of achieving evidence of identity, subjected to scenarios, availability of information and prior knowledge about a person.

The first Apple smart phones with inbuilt fingerprint authentication functionality has brought biometric authentication into the domain of mass markets. At the same time, governments understand that identity management is crucial to their operations and that a reliable identity infrastructure is a precondition for a successful implementation of identity management. Both in the electronic services domain as well as in national identity management, biometrics seem increasingly to take a pivotal role in facilitating convenient electronic consumer services, while providing an important addition to the establishment of a credible identity. This includes the power of biometrics to de-duplicate ID databases and to prevent identity fraud with tokens such as passports, national ID cards and smart phones.

The workshop and conference will look into future scenarios starting with the reality of today. Topics to be discussed are:

1. Identity Management in 2030: the global approach on identity;
2. Exchange of formal legal and functional credentials in European context;
3. Civil-id in consumer markets;
4. Biometrics & mobile authentication: new payment platforms leading the way in biometrics (Samsung Pay, Apple Pay etc.);
5. Biometrics for Civil-ID international context (international speaker)

For the 9^th edition, in 2016, ICB will be held in the Swedish city of Halmstad. The conference is intended to have a broad scope, including fundamental advances in pattern recognition techniques relevant to biometrics, sensor design, new algorithms and/or technologies for biometrics, analysis of specific applications, security and privacy, and analysis of the social impacts of biometrics technologies. Areas of coverage include biometric systems based on fingerprint, iris, face, voice, hand, handwriting, gait and other modalities as well as biometric fusion and emerging biometrics based on novel sensing technologies.

The seminar will reflect the trends and opportunities of biometrics in the financial market. It will be discussed how processes can be designed both convenient and privacy compliant. The speakers will provide you with their experience on how to best benefit of biometric technologies and solutions.

The seminar presents a line-up of excellent international speakers, ranging from end users (who share their experiences with biometrics in their day to day applications) to experts who will bring you up to date with the state of the art in biometric technology advances. Speakers will focus on the underlying business cases and developments in mobile banking and financial transactions. They will share their experiences from a business perspective, touching important aspects such as process flows, added value, fraud reduction, implementation strategy and client experience.

Biometrics in Banking and payments will provide guidance on how biometrics can be used to optimize key aspects of the banking and payment processes, such as customer interaction, operational efficiency, fraud reduction and prevention. During the seminars we will reflect the many new opportunities arising from the gradual shift away from desktop/notebook computing towards smartphones, tablets and other portable devices, while sharing best practice of apps and web-based applications. You will learn about biometric solutions for in-branch and mobile environment and for internal and customer-facing usage. There will be presentations about how biometrics support mega trends such as personalization and location independent services. It will also be discussed how biometrics can be embedded into front end and back end processes.

SDW – now in its 10^th year – is a world-leading event providing a global showcase for next-generation human identity solutions, focusing on intrinsic document security and on the new cutting-edge secure infrastructure now required to produce and use these advanced documents in live situations.

At the heart of the event is our exhibition. With over 130+ exhibitors and a visitor-ship from across the globe, SDW is the perfect meeting place for all attendees to exchange ideas and source solutions that meet their requirements.

Designed by the editors of the critically acclaimed Security Document World news and information portal, our conference programme is always packed with an international line-up of quality speakers who will deliver an imaginative programme on issues that are of real consequence.

The Norwegian Biometrics Forum (NBF) is an open platform dedicated to regular exchange of information and experience related to the field of Biometrics. The target of the group is the interdisciplinary discussion between research, technology developers, data privacy experts, governmental agencies and operators of Biometric Systems. In the regular meetings new applications, latest research results and products are presented.

IDIAP and EAB will host an informative workshop for those who are interested in new research and development opportunities in the area of biometrics and other identification technologies in Europe. The European Collaborative Identification Technologies Research Consortium, the EAB-CITeR, offers a new approach on boosting R&D in Europe. It is set up to stimulate and improve end user driven research and development. Its innovative approach complements the existing funding vehicles at national and European level. The objectives of the workshop are to learn:

• How does the EAB-CITeR work and how can your organization participate
• What are the benefits and opportunities of joining the EAB CITeR
• When will the first research projects start

The International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) is organized by COST Action IC1106 – "Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital Age" and the Cyprus University of Technology. It is an international forum devoted specifically to the development of synergies between the biometrics and forensic science research areas. IWBF provides the meeting place for those concerned with the usage of biometric recognition systems in forensic science applications, attracting participants from industry, research, academia and users.

Research in biometrics has been increasing over the last few years. More and more companies are founded that specialize in offering biometric solutions. New biometric modalities have been investigated in the near past. Major companies are integrating biometric solutions in consumer electronics.

What will be the trend in biometrics in the (near) future? Will there be more booming modalities? Will there be a more widespread use of biometrics? Will biometrics become as common as passwords? In other words, what is "THE FUTURE OF BIOMETRICS"? Speakers from academia as well as from commercial and governmental organizations will give their opinion on this issue. In a panel debat at the end of the day the audience will have the opportunity to ask critical questions to a panel of experts.

OMNICARD, the celebrated conference for experts in the field of electronic identification, is now known as OMNISECURE. Enormous technological change over the conference's 23-year history has broadened the spectrum of topics covered by the conference, and for this reason it is appropriate that we take on a new name. Electronic identification and the security measures it requires are now the conferences cross-sectional themes, and are relevant to all sectors and application fields, such as energy, banking, payment, the automotive industries or Industry 4.0. The name OMNISECURE captures succinctly the new breadth of our approach. With our motto "The world of smart ID solutions", the conference will be launched under its new name in January 2016.

Research and Standards on Biometric presentation Attacks -- Leading experts will speak about current status in R&D on the detection and prevention of presentation attacks for various biometric modalities.