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Terry Hartmann

Identity Security Event Egypt

Terry Hartmann
Terry Hartmann is Global Director, for Identity & Credentialing, for Unisys Corporation. Based in Canberra Australia, Terry has overall responsibility for developing and implementing Unisys homeland security strategy with particular emphasis on human identity management: passports, visas, ID cards, drivers licences, employee id and other identity centric solutions. Unisys is a recognized leader in consulting, applications management, outsourcing, system integration, biometrics integration and server options.

During his last three years with Unisys, Terry has built up a vibrant enterprise security practice in Asia Pacific, leading to recognition of Unisys as the solutions leader in the identity field. 

In September 2007, he was appointed to a broader role for Unisys to manage the company's global identity portfolio. Terry is now responsible for directing Unisys ID strategy and solutions worldwide.

Terry has over 25 years experience in the IT industry and is an internationally recognised authority on all aspects of homeland security and positive-identification technology, including briefing of foreign governments and the media. He regularly speaks at international conferences on identity matters and is a globally recognized leader in the biometrics industry.

Terry continues to play a major role in the development of biometrics standards for positive-identification, as a technical expert to the International Standards Organisation (ISO) on biometrics specializing in facial recognition, and as a Director of the Australian Biometrics Institute. He has also been extensively involved with ICAO (the International Civil Aviation Organisation) which is responsible for setting world standards for travel documents. He was Chairman of the ICAO ePassports Task Force for its duration, and in that context coined the term "ePassport" to describe more simply "contactless integrated circuit biometric passports". Terry also wrote the travel document Biometrics Deployment Technical Report which was endorsed by ICAO in May 2004, and subsequently incorporated into the ICAO Document 9303 travel document standards.

Prior to joining Unisys, Terry was responsible for leading-edge research and development, strategic planning and implementation of business process transformation in his role as Information Technology Manager for Passports Australia - part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He played a key role in establishing the Australian public sector as a world leader in biometrics technologies.

Terry has a Bachelor of Science Honours level degree specialising in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from the Australian National University , in Canberra .

Egypt, Middle East and Africa
6th Digital Assurance Exhibition and Conference
Cairo International Convention Center
25-27 May 2008

smart cards biometrics event middle east