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Following earlier successes of this seminar we will now zoom into more practical issues of biometrics for financial services, such as the implementation of PSD2, privacy and data protection in the perspective of the new GDPR and how to choose the right solution. Presentations will be from end-users and other experts, who will share experiences regarding end-user acceptance, current solutions, digital on-boarding and end-user requirements.

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.

Biometrics in Banking and Payments presents a line-up of excellent international speakers. 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. Alongside the seminar there will be a Mini Expo, where various vendors show their state of the art technology and solutions.

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.

We thank the Media Partners of the event:

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As partner of Trustech the EAB has been invited to be speaker and panelist during the session 'Biometrics for Authentication' on 28th November. In addition, members of the EAB will receive special rates for the Trustech Conference (see more below).

TRUSTECH is the Largest International Event dedicated to Trust-Based Technologies with unprecedented networking opportunities and not-to-be-missed Keynote Speakers.

Join the whole industry for three days of Innovation, Business and Networking!

TRUSTECH will include amongst other things a selection of Startups and Fintechs who will showcase their latest innovations for the Payment and Identification industries.

TRUSTECH gathers in Cannes (French Riviera):

• 13,000+ Attendees from 125 countries,
• 49% Top Managers
• 350+ Exhibitors & Sponsors
• 250+ Leading International Speakers

For more information: www.trustech-event.com

The discount code for EAB members is : TTPAR17

This event is sold out. For inquiries please contact secretariat@eab.org

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. A mini-workshop at the at the end of the seminar ensures an interactive session with the speakers and the participants by discussing hands-on experiences and best practices. You can have face time with the sponsors at their table top stands during the intervals. 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.

The following financial institutions have already confirmed their participation: ABN AMRO, C. Hoare & Co., Capital One, Commerzbank, Coventry Building Society, Credit Bureau Of Turkey, CYBG plc, Investec Bank, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Rabobank, Santander, TSB Bank, UK Finance, Vanquis Bank, Merpay, American Express and Mastercard

The venue and the lunch are kindly offered to you by IBM.

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

We thank the Media Partner of the event:

This seminar is kindly sponsored by:

Local partner:

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 theme of the symposium is Mobile Biometrics and leading experts will discuss recent developments for different modalities

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.

Biometrics provides efficient and reliable solutions to recognize individuals. With increasing number of identity theft and miss-use 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 SmartBorder Concept, the Visa Information System (VIS) and Unique Identification (UID) in India require high accuracy and also reliability, interoperability, scalability 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 smartphones 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 2017 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

EAB is launching the eleventh 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 4^th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference will take place on the 18^th and 19^th of September 2017, at the premises of Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Germany. The conference is organized by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) in cooperation with the Joint Research Center (DG-JRC) of the European Commission, through its Cyber and Digital Citizens' security Unit. The EAB-RPC 2017 will be co-located with the EAB Research Award and the IEEE BIOSIG Conference, later that same week.

The conference is currently the largest event on research funded by the European Union in the area of Biometrics and Identity Management. Over the previous three successful editions, EAB-RPC has become itself as the main forum in Europe where attendees can simultaneously: promote research carried out in biometrics, forge new links and networks, and identify the appropriate partners for possible future project applications. Last year's edition welcomed over 100 participants from academia, industry and public institutions.

This year's edition will include the participation of numerous EU-funded research projects, such as: ARIES, iBorderCtrl, PYCSEL, AMBER, LIGHT^est, ABC4EU, HECTOS, BODEGA, PROTECT, SIIP, SWAN, INGRESS, FastPass or Tabula Rasa. Researchers from all over Europe will present the advances achieved in these projects, provide updates on how results from finished projects are being currently used to improve biometric technology and eventually give an insight into the future of biometric research.

In addition to the research community the conference will offer a more holistic and comprehensive perspective of the status of biometric and identity management technology in Europe with the participation of the following stakeholders:

1. End-users, represented by FRONTEX (border control), ENFSI (forensics) and others<;
2. Policy makers, represented by the Directorate-General of Migration and Home affairs (DG HOME);
3. Managers of large IT-systems, represented by the European Agency eu-LISA in charge of deploying and running European systems such as SIS-II or Eurodac;
4. industrial partners are also welcome to join in order to give their point of view and present the challenges that they face in the development of real-world solutions.

The conference will foster discussion among participants and will include a round-table where all the above communities of practice will put forward their ideas and needs, present the challenges that they face in their daily work and propose solutions.

As such, in addition to provide the latest updates on biometric research carried out in Europe, one of the main objectives of the conference is to bring together all stakeholders to try to find common approaches and strategies to give a coordinated response to the key needs identified by the Union in order to efficiently protect the freedom and security of EU citizens. All the projects in the conference are, in fact, engaged in one of the objectives driving the Union's policy development in order to reach a more secure society (EC COM(2011) 809 final):

1. Fight crime, illegal trafficking and terrorism;
2. Strengthen security through border management;
3. Provide cyber security;
4. Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters;
5. Ensure privacy and freedom including the Internet and enhance the societal dimension of security;
6. Enhance standardization and interoperability of systems.

SDW – now in its 11^th year – is the 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 – the biggest in the world for security documents. With over 140+ 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.

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 14^th 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 and forensic applications.
4. Biometric and Forensic identification 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, both for automated and computer-assisted processes, is becoming more important in the practice of policing, law enforcement (surveillance, intelligence, investigation and evaluation), immigration and border control due to growing phenomena such as mobility, migration, digital economy and cyber societies. Airports, airlines and governments are increasingly confronted with biometrics driven innovations. The e-passport has given an impulse to the development of so called e-gates (or ABC-gates), where verification based on facial recognition facilitates a semi-automated border crossing experience. Many countries have installed biometric equipment to register the biometrics data of incoming travelers. Airlines are working on paperless boarding.

It is evident that biometric technologies have taken a key role in the facilitation of more convenient and secure passengers processing schemes. However, these developments are fragmented. There is a need for information sharing on best practices and lessons learned. A lack of standardization hinders the market uptake of these innovative solutions. Testing and certification is still an area that needs to be explored and developed.

The seminar Biometrics in Aviation will discuss today’s developments in the perspective of the future of identity in an increasingly networked world.The seminar will further familiarize you with biometric methods and applications by providing guidance and new insights on how biometrics can optimize key aspects of the passengers processing at airports: seamless travel experience, customer interaction, operational efficiency, fraud reduction and prevention. During the seminar we will reflect the many new opportunities arising from improved biometric technologies and methods, intelligent use of networked data and sophisticated public/private partnerships:

1. Hear about biometric solutions being a key enabler for a seamless and secure passengers process;
2. Learn how biometrics support mega trends such as personalization and location independent services;
3. Identify how biometrics can be embedded into front end and back end processes;
4. Discuss the impact of biometrics for passengers processing in the aviation sector;
5. To understand the role of biometrics in the perspective of current and future developments in global identity management;

In addition Biometrics in Aviation will be a meeting place for all major stakeholders from the aviation industry, including airports, airlines, government and industry.

Entrances fees: 375,- (normal) / 225,- (EAB Members) / 0,- (end-users: airlines, airports, governments)

(see below the preliminary program; changes may occur)

We thank our partner:

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.

IWBF is an international forum devoted specifically to facilitate synergies in research and development in the areas of multimedia forensics, forensic biometrics and forensic science. IWBF provides the meeting place for those concerned with the usage of multimedia analysis in forensic applications and biometric recognition systems, attracting participants from industry, research, academia and end-users.

EuropeanPaymentSummit (EPS) offers a unique 2 day program featuring key developments ‘for-by professionals’ in the payments/transaction space combined with a full 2 day program with key sessions on international Security & Fraud. These two program sections will be programmed in parallel to enable delegates to switch and select key sessions to attend.

On day 1, Wednesday, 8 March 2017, a session on ‘Biometrics in Payments’ organized by EAB is programmed to give you an up to date briefing on state of the art developments and a look at trends of biometric applications in financial markets and transaction space. Max Snijder, co-founder and secretary of the European Association for Biometrics will be the moderator and Onegini and UL TS BV will join the panel.

Next to plenary introductions, delegates can create a full meaningful 2 day program in order to gain best insights on developments, debate on key issues and learn from best practices. Of course there will be ample time for meeting your international peers and thus networking.

The Hague Security Special program development will be supported by Hague Security Delta (HSD). HSD is the largest security cluster in Europe. In this cluster institutions work together on innovations and knowledge in the field of cyber security, national and urban security, protection of critical infrastructure, and forensics. HSD has partnerships and create knowledge bridges with the main global security clusters in the USA, Canada, Singapore and South Africa, next to having strong ties to the main European security regions and Brussels. They share a common goal: creating a secure world and transaction space.

Next to the many session, we do have many 30 minutes breaks so you can spend time at our lounge and visit key cases and presentations of professional suppliers and new start-ups (FinTech), selected to add value the program.

This event is for all who are interested in technologies, policies, applications, and wider acceptability of smartphone biometrics. The event in 2017 focuses on the topic “Smartphone based biometrics - Opportunities and Challenges”.