Youverse CEO to discuss responsible AI in biometrics at EAB Research Projects Conference Written on 17 Sep 2024

Lisbon, September 17, 2024

Youverse, a leading provider of privacy-preserving biometric solutions, announced today that its co-founder and CEO, Pedro Torres, will be a featured speaker at the upcoming EAB Research Projects Conference. Torres will discuss the critical role of responsible AI in biometrics and share insights into Youverse's commitment to developing ethical and trustworthy biometric products.

The presentation will focus on Youverse's work within the Center for Responsible AI, a government-backed initiative aimed at promoting the development and adoption of responsible AI technologies. It will take place on Sep 24 at 11:55 AM (CEST). You can view the full schedule here.

As a key member of the Center, Youverse is collaborating with a consortium of startups, research centers, and industry leaders to develop innovative AI products that prioritize fairness, explainability, and sustainability. By leveraging responsible AI principles, Youverse is striving to create biometric solutions that are both effective and ethical. The focus is to deliver a responsible identity platform that is unbiased, privacy-preserving and that can explain its decisions.

"AI will soon be permeating all aspects of our lives and we believe that a responsible approach is essential for ensuring that technology, in particular biometrics and reasoning with personal identifiable information, are used in a way that benefits society," said Pedro Torres, CEO of Youverse. “By collaborating with the Center for Responsible AI, we're helping to develop ethical AI products that will shape the future of identity.”

The Center for Responsible AI is a consortium of 14 partners from diverse fields, with a total project investment of approximately €80 million.

About Youverse

Youverse makes customer interactions a breeze with private, convenient, and secure face authentication and identity verification technology. Our technology has been independently certified as top-tier for accuracy by international benchmarks. With a decentralized, zero-knowledge privacy architecture, Youverse addresses a long-standing issue of privacy by breaking away from centralized biometric databases and providing an unmatched level of privacy, convenience, accuracy, and trust in face authentication.