The Biometric Update Podcast
The Biometric Update Podcast bridges the gap between industry insiders and a general interest audience with clear, compelling stories about the biometrics and digital identity industry.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2025
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 14: Yoti's Robin Tombs reflects on one month of UK age assurance
Around the July 25 enforcement deadline for the UK's Online Safety Act and its age assurance requirements for adult content platforms, Yoti's digital identity wallet app took off on the App Store cha…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 13: Vouched gets $17M to address agentic AI
Vouched CEO Peter Horodan and Misha Polovneff of BHG Financial join the BU Podcast to discuss a recent Series A funding round that will see Vouched get 17 million dollars to tackle the growing issue …
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 12: The EUDI Wallet deadline, with Fime's Steve Pannifer
Steve Pannifer of Fime labs says the December 2026 timeline for EU member states to provide wallets and digital aII to citizens is "aggressive." Sharing insights on testing, interoperability, the pay…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 11: 1kosmos nets $57M in funding
IDV firm 1kosmos recently closed a $57 million Series B funding round led by Forgepoint Capital. Biometric Update Managing Editor Chris Burt sits down with 1kosmos CEO Hemen Vimadalal and Forgepoint'…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 10: Socure's Rivka Little on Age Assurance
Socure has expanded its Risk OS platform to enable a host of options for age assurance. In this episode of the Biometric Update Podcast, the company's Chief Growth Officer Rivka Little offers insight…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 9: Two CEOs of Entrust talk transition
Entrust has a new CEO in Tony Ball. But outgoing CEO Todd Wilkinson isn't done just yet. The two digital identity leaders join the Biometric Update Podcast to discuss the handing off of the baton, th…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 8: Alan Goode on the IDV market
Alan Goode of Goode Intelligence walks us through his latest research on the booming IDV market, including insights on reusable ID, mobile driver's licenses and the technology building blocks of iden…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 7: AVPA's Iain Corby on Age Assurance
It's the summer of age assurance. With major developments happening in the UK, EU, Australia and the U.S., age assurance is going mainstream. In this episode, we talk with Iain Corby, executive direc…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 6: No Phone Home
Biometric Upadate editor-in-chief Chris Burt speaks with three representatives from the No Phone Home campaign, which is warning against the potential privacy risks in digital identity systems that u…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 5: Humanity Protocol CEO Terence Kwok
An interview with Humanity Protocol CEO Terence Kwok, who talks about the firm's recent acquisition of blockchain-based ticketing and access company, Moongate, and how to bring digital ID into more p…
Biometric Update Podcast Ep. 4: 1Password on agentic AI, Formula 1 Racing data security
An interview with 1Password CEO Jeff Shiner, on the opportunities and risks of agentic AI - and a peek into how 1Password works with Formula 1 Racing on data security.
Biometric Update Podcast Episode 3: Association of Digital Verification Professionals
Meet the Association of Digital Verification Professionals, or ADVP, a trade body beginning to make itself known in the debate over the Gov.uk Wallet and the question of digital identity. Featuring A…
Biometrics in Minutes: MOSIP Connect and ID4Africa 2025
Biometric Update Editor-in-Chief Chris Burt breaks down what happened at the MOSIP Connect conference in Manila, and looks ahead to ID4Africa in Addis Ababa.
Biometric Update Podcast Episode 2: 2025 Global Age Assurance Standards Summit
Biometric Update reports from the 2025 Global Age Assurance Standards Summit, where stakeholders discussed how age assurance can be regulated, standardized and put into practice for use cases around …
Biometric Update Podcast Episode 1: Pindrop on Deepfakes
Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of voice biometrics firm Pindrop, goes deep on how generative AI tools have changed the game for fraudsters, enabling a deluge of deepfake video and audio that presents hu…