Chris Centamore is SVP of Business Development at ROC, the only American-made multimodal biometrics and computer vision provider. He has spent over fifteen years in the biometrics industry developing advanced solutions that secure identity and protect what matters most. Over the course of his career, Mr. Centamore has helped defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and commercial organizations develop comprehensive security architectures and identity management frameworks that strike a balance between security, convenience, and privacy. At ROC, he leads the federal business development practice for advanced technology development, delivering focused computer vision solutions that support ROC's mission to make the world safer and more convenient through trusted, agile, and ethical AI. He is a frequent speaker on face recognition policy, human-machine teaming, and the operational integration of biometric technologies.
Cognitive Surrender and the Face Recognition Workflow
Half of all people fail to notice a gorilla walk through a basketball game. Trained border agents routinely clear travelers whose faces don’t match their passports. And when we finally hand the job to an algorithm that can actually do it, research shows nearly 80% of us accept whatever it tells us, right or wrong. The weakest sensor in the face recognition pipeline has never been the camera. This talk explores what happens when we stop looking, stop matching, and stop thinking, and what it means for how we design the workflows that matter most.