The agenda for the BEST Network Conference at BIOSIG 2010 is now available. Tim Cooper from Frontex and Fernando Podio from NIST will address the event which takes place in Darmstadt, Germany from 8-10 September 2010. Click here for the agenda.

This event entitled 'The Biometric Landscape in Europe' will examine biometrics will examine biometrics and its impact for 'mandatory' state security such as border control and national ID programmes as well as applications in e-commerce, e-banking and health monitoring, and voluntary security applications such as positive identification for fast tracking border control.

All of these biometric applications are expected to have a profound ethical, social, and legal impact on everyday life. The first large scale implementations of biometric Identity Management Systems revealed basic challenges requiring further research and development in order to improve the state-of-the-art towards higher maturity and better biometric performance, interoperability, scalability, system reliability and usability. The BEST Network Dissemination Conference will address these issues and will also look at the ethical and privacy concerns of biometric systems. The event will also present best practices that can be transferred into future applications.

The BEST Network Biometrics Conference at BIOSIG 2010 is jointly organised by the Biometric European Stakeholders Network (BEST Network),the Competence Center for Applied Security Technology (CAST), the German Federal Office for Information Security BSI,  the EU Joint Research Centre, and the special interest group BIOSIG of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. BEST Network is led by the EBF.

Click here for the agenda