About Speaker

Gerald Smith is a senior consultant at Identification Technology Partners, Inc. (IDTP), providing technical subject-matter expert support in smart card application software, biometric standards, biometric authentication and identification, concept modeling, and programming. He is in his 14th year serving as SME to the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Program Management Office—a large-scale government program that has issued over six million biometrically enabled smart card credentials to transportation workers.

Smith is the editor of the TWIC Hardware and Card Application Specification, the architect of the USCG TWIC validation card set, and the thought leader behind the Next Generation (NEXGEN) TWIC card specification. He also conceived the TWIC ADVISR mobile application, allowing smartphone operators to determine if a TWIC card is canceled without electrically reading the card.