Past Events

Workshop of the Biometrics Working Group of TeleTrusT, the IT Security Association in Germany

This conference is organized in partnership with bitkom.

Join us for this year’s EAB Banking Seminars to debate one of the biggest questions facing FinTech and online services – ‘Do you REALLY know your customers?’

The EAB Banking Seminar in Frankfurt is organized in partnership with BITKOM and is attended by the financial sector and ID industry and will take place between September and December 2018 in Europe’s financial capitals – Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Madrid (2019). We will discuss the latest trends that are helping to improve customer ID security, such as blockchain, AI and smartphone biometrics. We will also share best practice models and assess the impact of new legislation, like GDPR.

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Join us for this year’s EAB Banking Seminars to debate one of the biggest questions facing FinTech and online services – ‘Do you REALLY know your customers?’

The EAB Banking Seminars are attended by the financial sector and ID industry and will take place between September and December 2018 in Europe’s financial capitals – Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Madrid (2019). We will discuss the latest trends that are helping to improve customer ID security, such as blockchain, AI and smartphone biometrics. We will also share best practice models and assess the impact of new legislation, like GDPR.

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The conference is focused on all technical factors affecting the deployment and use of high performance face recognition applications, including applications, standards, advanced and rapid capture, quality assessment, age and ageing effects, demographic effects, presentation attack detection, non-cooperative uses, accuracy measurement and performance tests.

TRUSTECH encompasses all the secure technologies and applications that are being developed and deployed including new, emerging & disruptive trends.

The event was first held over thirty years ago under the name "Cartes Secure Connexions" to promote the newborn technology of smartcards. In 2016, it is re-named TRUSTECH to better reflect the way the industry and the event have evolved, and its focus on trust-based technologies.

The schedule for TRUSTECH 2018 includes 3 days in which to inform, learn and discover.

This covers digital identity and credentials, new payment mechanisms, biometrics and the greater adoption of AI, which is increasingly being employed in automated threat detection, big data and analytics and so many areas from cybersecurity, to banking and financial services, to retail, to enterprise and smart home.

TRUSTECH is unique in its coverage of all secure and trusted solutions, from smart cards and secure documents through to AI and embedded hardware and software for the IoT.

For more information: www.trustech-event.com

The discount code for EAB members is: PARTT18

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.

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Biometric data use is an interdisciplinary challenge. The focus of this first conference is the discussion of the application of the new legal framework for the processing of biometric data imposed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, both in theory and in practice. The aim of the conference is to bring various stakeholders together, including the legal and technical academic biometric community, policymakers, governments, businesses and legal professions. Both challenges, best practices and opportunities will be discussed and illustrated.

Agenda of the workshop (267kB)

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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 2018 conference addresses these issues and will present innovations and best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

EAB is launching the twelfth 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.

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

For the 5^th edition of the EAB Research Projects Conference you may download the EAB-RPC-2018 Conference Report.

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 four successful editions, EAB-RPC has become 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: BODEGA, LIGHT^est, IDENTITY, SWAN, AMBER, iBorderCtrl, SMILE, PROTECT, LETSCROWD, TRESSPASS, CybSPEED, FOLDOUT, FACCESS, Smart-Trust and QuardCard. 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:

• End-users, represented by FRONTEX (border control), ENFSI (forensics)
• Policy makers, represented by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)
• 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
• 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 – 2011/0401 (COD)):

• Fight against crime and terrorism
• Strengthen security through border management
• Provide cyber security
• Increase Europe's resilience to crises and disasters
• Ensure privacy and freedom including the Internet and enhance the societal dimension of security
• Enhance standardization and interoperability of systems

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Fees are non-refundable as from 7 days before the start of the event

In its 14^th edition, Identity & Cybersecurity Innovation World explores the latest strong identification and authentication technologies that enhance cybersecurity, build customer trust and boost digital transformation.

Among the 2018 hot topics, let’s mention:

• ID on Blockchain & Other Decentralized Models
• New Privacy era impact on enterprises and trust providers
• Cybersecurity regulation with EU’s and US cybersecurity agendas
• Biometrics latest developments including behavioural approaches
• Identity as digital business enabler in multiple Verticals
• Cybersecurity for Banking & Finance in PSD2 era
• Identity and IoT: improving customer experience, EU certification…

Within Smart Security Week, additional learning, networking and innovation discovery events are also part of the agenda: exhibition & demos, workshops & tutorials, awards ceremony… along with multiple bridges with the co-located conferences

NEW: the government-issued credential technologies and schemes have now their dedicated conference: Government ID World. Several joint sessions between both conferences will address the topics common to public and private domains.

Recognized worldwide as the pre-eminent conference for professionals involved in secure ID credentials and government-identity solutions, the three-day SDW conference brings you innovations, insight, analysis and debate.

EAB members will have a special member rate will be £899 (full rate £1,250) providing a rebate of £351.This provides full facilities at the 3-day conference, including conference materials, catering, post-event conference proceedings and access to the exhibition. EAB Members can access this rate by going to www.sdwexpo.com/delegate-booking.com and then scroll down the page until they reach their booking rate which is the “Association Members” rate. There is no need to input a code. You can just go ahead and book. This rate will remain firm for EAB members right up to the show taking place.

SDW 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 required to produce and use advanced documents in live situations.

The EAB and SDW have engaged into a marketing agreement, that provides special rates for EAB members.

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.

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.

The objective of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities on Biometric Engineering and Applications. ICBEA 2018 provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experience face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration.

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.

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This event is for all who are interested in technologies, policies, and applications related to protecting the biometric data. The event in 2018 focuses on the topic "Privacy and Biometrics".

The Swedish Biometrics Forum (SBF) is a new open platform dedicated to regular exchange of information and experience related to the field of Biometrics and Security. 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.

In this session, we discuss the current state of international standardization in the field of data interchange formats for biometric systems designed to ensure interoperability. The latest project on quality assurance in portrait photography for use in biometric systems is presented. In addition, the efforts for ASN.1 coding are shown.