Date:         Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:12:08 -0700
From: "Farrow, Rik" <rik@SPIRIT.COM>
Subject:      Biometrics conference
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM

Aleph:

This conference may be of interest to some list readers, and the
price is reasonable enough.

Rik

From fernando.podio@nist.gov Mon Jul 17 09:37:09 2000
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:55:43 -0500
From: Fernando Podio <fernando.podio@nist.gov>
Subject: Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference Announcement
Reply-To: bc2000@biometrics.org
To: rik@spirit.com

(Our apologies if you receive this message more than once!)

We would like to cordially invite you to attend the upcoming Biometric
Consortium 2000 Conference “Biometric Technologies... Emerging Into the
Mainstream”
http//www.nist.gov/bc2000

Please, help us circulate the announcement below to individuals from
private industry,  Federal/State/Local governments, academia, including
private industry executives, Government officials, information technology users
and developers, law
enforcement officers, system integrators, personal authentication and
information security educators, students of these technologies and anyone
that wishes to know how biometrics will play a role in their future.

Thank you for your cooperation in making BC2000 a success.

Sincerely,

Fernando Podio, NIST
Jeffrey Dunn, NSA

Co-Chairs,
Biometric Consortium
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Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference
“Biometric Technologies... Emerging Into the Mainstream”

September 13 and 14, 2000
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

Please check the Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference web page for
detailed information, including information on the conference hotel, and
registration (mail-in/fax and on-line) at http//www.nist.gov/bc2000

The registration fee is $150 per person and includes coffee breaks,
lunches, an evening reception, and conference materials.

The students' registration fee is $75. A student's ID is required.  It
includes all of the above except for the reception.

In addition to the speakers and panel sessions, over fifteen Supporting
Organizations will have exhibits and demonstrations available (the
preliminary list of organizations is included below).

The Conference is open to the Biometric Consortium members and to the
general public.

We are very pleased to announce that Stephen Walker, a widely recognized
expert and leader in information security technology and policy, is
scheduled to deliver the opening address.

Steve Walker is the President of Steve Walker & Associates and is
Principal of Walker Investment Funds, a venture fund focused on companies
in the
mid-Atlantic area. He currently serves on several Boards of Directors and
was formerly President and CEO of Trusted Information Systems, Inc. (TIS),
a
leading supplier of firewalls and encryption products. Before its purchase
by Network Associates in 1998, TIS had become a publicly traded company,
employed more than 350 people, and had offices throughout the world.   Mr.
Walker
is a 22-year veteran of the US Department of Defense (DoD) at NSA, ARPA
and
the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He was one of the elite members of
a
team responsible for the development of the ARPAnet. He is nationally
recognized for his pioneering work on the DoD Computer Security
Initiative, establishment of the National Computer Security Center and the
Defense
Data Network.

Conference sessions will address:

* Private industry and Government applications and initiatives in
Biometrics and related technologies (e.g., smart cards)
* Recent advances in biometric technologies
* Research
* Assurance
* Metrology
* Standards

Some of the topics that will be examined include

*** Biometric technologies... Emerging into the mainstream ***
* What are the technological issues and challenges looming ahead?
* What are the user requirements?
* What standards are available or are being developed?
* How is interoperability achieved?
* How assurance is achieved?
* What novel applications of biometrics does the industry envision for
secure personal authentication and identification?

For newcomers to the technology we will offer the Seminar “Introduction to
Biometric Technologies”. The 45 minutes seminar will be given immediately
following the first day's lunch break to attendees new to the field.  No
additional fee is required to attend.

In addition to NIST's Information Technology Laboratory and NSA's
Information Assurance Research Office, this year's conference will be
co-sponsored by the Biometrics Management Office (operated by the US
Depart. of the Army),
GSA's Federal Technology Service/Office of Smart Card Initiatives, and
NIST's Advanced Technology Program. More Information on the sponsors can
be obtained through the conference's web page.

The preliminary list of the Conference's Supporting Organizations and
Exhibitors includes:

ANADAC/Identix Inc., Authentec, Inc., BioAPI Consortium, Bionetrix,
Gemplus, the International Biometric Industry Association, IriScan, Inc.,
Keyware Solutions, LLC, Mitretek Systems, Mytek Technologies, Inc., the
Ottawa
Telephony Group (OTG, Inc.), Precise Biometrics, RAND, and SAFLink Corp.

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To give more exposure to the BC 2000 Conference and the Biometric
Consortium activities, we would like to invite your organization to
insert,
if at all possible, a link to our Conference web page (www.nist.gov/bc2000)
in your
organization's web site. Also, please feel free to send this invitation to
anyone that might be interested in participating.

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For more information about BC2000, please contact
Fernando L. Podio of the Information Technology Laboratory of NIST at
bc2000@biometrics.org or at (301) 975-2947.