Face.com CEO Gil Hirsch Presents at WIRED UK 2011; Demos Real Time Mobile Face Recognition

We’re  back from WIRED UK 2011 – cheerio, pip pip, tea, crumpets, and all that rot.

The two-day conference in London was billed as a celebration of ideas, innovations and the people reshaping our world and there’s no question it fit that bill.  The speakers in attendance provided brain food for personal development on a range of topics, from science and business to pop culture and politics. Of course, the highlight of the whole conference (from totally unbiased sources – like us) was Face.com CEO Gil Hirsch presenting on the power of face recognition, complete with a demonstration of something really cool that you’ll be hearing a lot more about in the near future – real time mobile face recognition.

Face.com was invited to speak on the general topic of the ‘Social Future’,  but our focus was to convey the power of face recognition in our lives and the possibilites and opportunities that exist in a more transparent world.  We were honored to attend and thank the organizers at WIRED for all their support.  As has been so often quoted in recent days and again at WIRED, “Here’s to the crazy ones.” We couldn’t agree more.

Many thanks to everyone working behind the scenes who made WIRED 2011 and our real time mobile face recognition demonstration possible.  Pictures of our visit to foggy London town below.