Esteban Morrás and Miguel Ángel Adán, from the Navarre startup Veridas, presented to the students of seminar ThinkTech how artificial intelligence is used for digital identity verification. Both professionals have explained internship how this Navarrese business , a joint creation between BBVA and Das-Nano, validates millions of identities daily through facial, voice and document recognition technologies. 

According to them, these solutions are advancing rapidly around the world and prevent identity theft problems associated with paperwork. They detailed that they are currently present in sectors such as banking, energy and utilities and will soon be part of most security and identification processes in places such as sports venues and airports.

The students have had the opportunity to reflect and discuss with them some aspects associated with this sector, such as privacy of data, algorithmic biases, the responsibility linked to the Education of Username in these technologies and ethical issues associated with hypervigilance.

Esteban Morrás and Miguel Ángel Adán emphasized the challenge involved in working with personal data ; in their opinion, it requires delicacy and rigor. They have emphasized that they have strict privacy and security policies and that they are accredited annually by official bodies internationally at subject for the regulation and protection of data.

Professional opportunities
The intervention of these Veridas professionals closed the 2020-2021 edition of seminar ThinkTech. result After their talk, the ThinkTech Review took place: the most veteran students shared their experience about the professional opportunities that have arisen as a result of their participation in the seminar. These include job offers in prestigious technology companies(Amazon, Google and Citrix), trips(Mobile World Congress and 4YFN), professional internships(King Digital Entertainment), networking(Harvard)...

The seminar ThinkTech is promoted by the group 'Youth in transition' of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) of the University of Navarra and counts with the participation of students from different Schools, who have a reflective and deep conversation about technology during the sessions. 

Among other projects, the students maintain a blog, medium.com/thinktech. They also produce the monthly digital bulletin ThinkTech+, which includes a selection of relevant news from the world of technology, a summary of seminars and reflections, and recommends content such as series, books, articles and documentaries. Anyone wishing to receive it can subscribe at link.