About the Biometric Consortium

The Biometric Consortium serves as a focal point for research, development, testing, evaluation, and application of biometric-based personal identification/verification technology. The Biometric Consortium organizes a premier biometrics conference every fall (advertised below). Information about past conferences, current government and standards activity, a bulletin board service, and other biometric resources can be found throughout this web site.

The Biometric Consortium is co-chaired by Jeffrey S. Dunn and Fernando Podio.

Biometric Consortium Conference 2009: Registration Open

The 2009 Biometrics Consortium Conference Program now contains links to most abstracts, speaker biographies, and presentations.

Supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA), the Biometrics Consortium Conference is focused on Biometric Technologies for Defense, Homeland Security, Identity Management, Border Crossing and Electronic Commerce.

The Conference will be two and a half days of presentations, seminars and panel discussions with the participation of internationally recognized experts in biometric technologies, system and application developers, IT business strategists, and government and commercial officers.

The conference will be held September 22 - 24, 2009 at the Tampa Convention Center, Tampa, Florida U.S.A.

Current keynote speakers for the Biometric Consortium Conference are The Honorable Zachary J. Lemnios, Director, Defense Research & Engineering & DoD Chief Technology Officer and The Honorable John M. (Mike) McConnell, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Former Director of National Intelligence and Mr. Louis E. Grever, Executive Assistant Director, Science & Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Ms. Barbara Humpton, Vice President, Security & Citizen Protection, Lockheed Martin Corporation and Mr. Bradley Buswell, Acting Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security.

Join nearly 2,000 participants including:

• 100 speakers
• 60 Federal, State and local agencies
• 25 Universities
• Biometric Industry, System Integrators and Users
• IEEE Featured Speaker: Dr. Delores M. Etter, TI Distinguished Chair for Engineering Education, Southern Methodist University

Two and one half day program:

• Multiple Conference Sessions
• IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Identity and Security (BIdS). BIdS is organized & sponsored by the IEEE Biometrics Council.
• Panel discussions and Q&A

Partner Websites

• Biometrics Catalog
• Biometrics.gov

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