Hour one: Sentinel Background Checks, Rachid Zahidi, CEO.
The success of a company relies on its people. Protect your assets by conducting background checks. Taking steps to properly screen your applicants can help you increase productivity and profitability by connecting the right person with the right position. Although, there are different types of background checks, establishing a clear and concise background screening policy can ensure consistency in the screening process; avoid exceptions and favoritism and conduct checks on all applicants. Sentinel’s mission is to provide the highest degree of competent, accurate and professional background screening solutions. Their best practices approach, risk management perspective and focus on informing and serving their clients, creates a culture that strives to provide excellence at every step of the screening process.
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Hour Two: Dr. Jan Camenisch, Cryptographer at IBM Research.
We all use electronic services increasingly often in our daily lives. To do so, we have no choice but to provide plenty of personal information for authorization, billing purposes, or as part of the terms and conditions of service providers. Dispersing all these personal information erodes our privacy and puts us at risk of abuse of this information by criminals.
Identity Mixer allows users to minimize the personal data they have to reveal in such transactions. For instance, if electronic identity (eID) cards were realized with Identity Mixer, then teenagers possessing such eID cards could log onto a teenage chat room just proving that they are indeed 12–15 years of age without revealing any other information stored on the card such as their name or address.