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HID's Rob Sutton on How Identity Technology Is Transforming Air Travel
This week on the ID Talk Podcast, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis sit down with Rob Sutton, HID's Director of Solution Enablement for Aviation and Travel. Rob shares hi...
3D vs. 2D Biometrics, Part 2: Jay Meier on Liveness Detection and Revolutionizing IDV
Following Part 1 of our deep dive into 3D biometrics with FaceTec VP Jay Meier, the conversation delves even deeper into the innovations driving FaceTec’s technology—a...
3D vs. 2D Biometrics: Talking Photons, Bias, and Perspective Distortion with FaceTec's Jay Meier (Part 1)
For ID Talk's first episode of 2025, FaceTec VP Jay Meier returns to dig into the technical underpinnings of his firm's new UR Code solution. The discussion explores t...
TECH5’s Rahul Parthe on Decentralized Identity and the Future of Digital Public Infrastructure
In this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis welcome back Rahul Parthe, CTO, Chairman, and co-founder of TECH5. They dive into the challenges and opportu...
Anonybit’s Frances Zelazny on Privacy-First Biometrics and the Future of Identity
In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis are joined by Frances Zelazny, Co-Founder and CEO of Anonybit, to explore the evolving lan...
Understanding the Quantum Threat with Lastwall's Karl Holmqvist
This week, the ID Talk podcast welcomes Karl Holmqvist, founder and CEO of Lastwall, to explore the pressing challenges of cybersecurity in the age of quantum computin...
AuthenticID's Blair Cohen on the Evolution of Identity Tech
This week, the ID Talk podcast welcomes Blair Cohen, the Founder and President of AuthenticID. Blair is a serial entrepreneur with over three decades of experience in ...
How Do UR Codes Actually Work? A Deep Dive with FaceTec's Jay Meier
On this week's episode of the ID Talk podcast, FaceTec's Jay Meier returns to answer some follow-up questions about his firm's innovative new "UR Code" solution. Where...
ID Talk: Humanity Protocol's Founder on Biometrics, Blockchain, and Bridging Web3 and Real Life with Digital ID
This week, the ID Talk podcast welcomes Terence Kwok, the founder and CEO of Humanity Protocol—a blockchain-based digital ID project that uses palm vein biometrics to ...
ID Talk: SIA Experts Tell Us Why the Industry's Vibes are So Good During This 'Interesting' Election Cycle
This week on the ID Talk podcast, we present a fascinating conversation with two experts from the Security Industry Association: Ronald Hawkins, Director of Industry R...
ID Talk: How UR Codes Will Help Solve Identity Verification, with FaceTec's Jay Meier
FaceTec's Jay Meier returns to the ID Talk podcast to delve deeper into his company's important new solution for identity verification—the UR Code. Officially announce...
ID Talk: eu-LISA R&I Engineer Javier Galbally Talks Biometrics, Privacy, and the EES
This week, the ID Talk podcast is very fortunate to welcome Javier Galbally, a Capability Building Officer in Research and Development for eu-LISA, the European Union ...
ID Talk: Identity Week's Jonathan Drape-Comyn on Putting 15 Months Into a Week
On this week's episode of the ID Talk podcast, co-hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala talk with Jonathan Drape-Comyn, Head of Sales for Identity Week. With a very suc...
ID Talk: Decoding the IN Groupe-Idemia Talks with Danielle VanZandt
On the latest episode of ID Talk, Frost & Sullivan's Danielle VanZandt returns to the pod to discuss the identity technology industry's biggest M&A story of the moment...
How Bhutan Leapfrogged to Next-Gen Digital ID
On this week's episode of ID Talk, co-hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala are joined by Anand Acharya and Pallavi Sharma, who discuss their work on Bhutan NDI, a pion...
Dispatches from Identity Week America
The ID Talk team was recording on-site at this year's Identity Week America conference in Washington, D.C. Amid the energetic commotion of the show floor, hosts Tony B...
ID Talk: Why ID and Payments are Foundational to Digital Infrastructure, with Visa and TECH5
This week's episode of the ID Talk podcast delves into a fascinating new digital ID solution—the GovWallet, which combines TECH5's biometric digital identity technolog...
How to Make Biometric Data Useful – and Useless – with FaceTec's Jay Meier
On this week's ID Talk podcast, Jay Meier returns to expand on his ideas in a recent discussion about biometric binding—that is, linking a person's biometric data dire...