BEST Network Conference/BIOSIG 2010 to take place in Darmstadt on 8-10 September 2010.

PRLog (Press Release) - Sep 06, 2010 -
The BEST Network Conference in conjunction with BIOSIG 2010 will be hosted in Darmstadt, Germany from 8-10 September 2010. The event will hear from a number of high level biometric experts and will include poster sessions and an exhibition booth.Speakers at the Conference include Tim Cooper from Frontex; Ali Al-Khouri, United Emirates and Fernando Podio of NIST. The BEST Network is led by the EBF and the Conference will take place in Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt.

Follow this link http://www.best-nw.eu/events.24.html for the latest agenda.

The event includes a non-public Working Group session for partners of the BEST Network, the largest European network on biometrics funded by the European Commission,  on Wednesday, 8 September and a public event on BEST Network and BIOSIG 2010 on Thursday and Friday, 9 & 10 September.

This conference entitled 'The Biometric Landscape in Europe' 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.

BEST Network (www.best-nw.eu) will also provide results from the project in the form of a number of already published reports.

All reports can be found here
These have been produced by each of the 7 working groups.
WG 1 Border Management – Inventory of biometrics enabled registration processes for immigration purposes
WG 2 Emerging applications -Survey of existing (non-governmental applications) and emerging biometric applications
WG 3 European Registered Travellers schemes - Inventory of best practices biometrics at airports.
WG 4 Biometrics and e-ID - State of Art: Biometrics in eID systems.
WG 5 Training & Education - Inventory of Training & Skills Provision
WG 6 Testing & Certification - Inventory of Testing & Certification Institutions in Europe
WG 7 Ethical, Legal and Socio-technical aspects - Biometrics in Europe: inventory on politico-legal priorities in EU27

For more information on the Conference, contact:
Cathy Donnelly
European Biometrics Forum
Tel: +353-1-488 5811
Email: cathy@eubiometricsforum.com
Visit: www.best-nw.eu