Biometrics & Identity Management Summit is the only conference of its kind anywhere in the world. Featuring keynote presentations from all the leading government agencies forging the future of biometrics, including: US-VISIT, BIMA, DARPA, FBI, NIJ, and JIEDDO COIC

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IDGA announces the Biometrics & Identity Management Summit, taking place at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City Arlington, VA from August 20 to 22nd.

Although biometric identification isn’t new, the September 11, 2001 attacks did change people’s attitudes toward its use in three ways. First, the event dramatically lowered the general public’s resistance to technology previously viewed as invasive. Second, biometric identification was given a legislative green light, and third, the imperative to create standards and new technologies paved the way for a massive infusion of government funding. But before 9/11 biometric technologies had been used for identification for centuries. More here Biometrics Summit