Planet Biometrics

3 months to go until Identity Week Europe!

3 months to go until Identity Week Europe!

There are exactly 3 months until the opening of Identity Week Europe 2023 in Amsterdam - the first upscaled edition to reflect the size and magnitude of this industry's innovation. Our exciting move to Amsterdam is to primarily upgrade a suitable venue to house the...

Celebrating women in identity

Celebrating women in identity

On this International Women's Day, we want to take the chance to highlight and celebrate female identity thought leaders within the ecosystem that have always driven and continue to drive successful use cases and bring solutions to the forefront in a largely dominant...

AEGEAN’s digital ID mobile app driven by innovation of gov.gr wallet

AEGEAN’s digital ID mobile app driven by innovation of gov.gr wallet

AEGEAN's digital wallet gov.gr will be made more interoperable with customers' digital IDs, available in a new mobile application to advance on the Ministry of Digital Governance recently announced ambitions to store a digital version of ID documents on smartphones....

Collection of biometrics resumes for temporary residence in Canada

Collection of biometrics resumes for temporary residence in Canada

For people applying for temporary residency within Canada, news just in from the Government of Canada has confirmed that the collection of biometrics will resume for issuing visa applications. The more streamlined experience of using biometrics is upending lengthy and...

Call for speakers at Identity Week Asia 2023! 🎤

Call for speakers at Identity Week Asia 2023! 🎤

Share your insight and participate in a full stakeholder forum with all of the identity industry based in Asia. We are now accepting enquires to be involved and speak at Identity Week Asia in November 2023, with an expanded conference agenda to cater for any...

Face biometrics used for humanitarian ends in Turkey-Syria earthquake

Face biometrics used for humanitarian ends in Turkey-Syria earthquake

Whilst facial recognition software is widely recognised as a useful mechanism to eliminate airport chaos, it is truly amazing to see how the advances in facial biometric technology can be used for humanitarian ends - most recently in identifying young victims of...

Foundation offers funding injection for 9 tech projects

Foundation offers funding injection for 9 tech projects

Nine exciting tech projects, some offering security tech and biometrics, will be selected to receive a cash injection worth a total of $8.4 million from the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial R&D Foundation. The projects offered the funding will be evaluated by the...