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Michael Kramer, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, VOICE.TRUST AG, Germany
 1) Briefly tell us what it is about your company/project that makes it so special?
VOICE.TRUST is the technology leader for biometric voice authentication. Today we are resetting millions of passwords of our blue chip customers, based on voice authentication over the telephone. Tomorrow we will abolish PINs and authenticate online sessions based on VoIP / SIP voice biometrics.
Identity management is a rapidly-growing industry and the use of biometric-based authentication is one of the fastest growing market segments of that industry with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of over 60%.
One critical problem that has hampered widespread deployment of biometrics is the need for specialized input devices, such as fingerprint sensors and cameras designed for facial and iris recognition.
Voice-based biometrics, primarily speaker authentication, is the sole exception to the biometric-input problem because it processes input from standard telephones and telephone networks. As a result, voice-based biometrics makes secure, biometric, identity-management available to each and every individual who has access to a telephone.
VOICE.TRUST´s technology is innovative has got a long-term impact on business and society. We have the potential to be a long-term market leader in voice biometrics, and our technology is proven by thousands of daily users.
VOICE.TRUST is uniquely positioned to satisfy the market need for secure biometric authentication.
2) What country best facilitates starting a tech company?
The US, France, UK, Israel and Germany
3) What single thing can a government do to encourage Technology Pioneers?
We need unburocratic ways to get high level specialists into the country, flexible tax rates, security for country aliens
3) What makes an innovator?
Trust in your ideas, courage to bring them to life and persistance to make them usefull for many people.
4) How does your company directly contribute to improving the state of the world?
VOICE.TRUST technology protects human beings from identiy theft, fraud and misuse of personal data.
VOICE.TRUST helps to protect the individuals data privacy and makes life easier and more secure.
5) What value do you hope to gain from being a Technology Pioneer?
Visibility in my mission to evangalize the world with VOICE.TRUST security technologies
6) What do you think the role of technology should be in society?
Technology should serve the human beeing and society, make things easier,cheaper, more secure, make information available for everybody.
7) What is the right balance in society between scientific interest and ethical concerns?
We would achieve a balance if our conviction would change from "There is not enough for everybody" to "there is enough for everybody". Scientific interest has to serve this goal.
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