The Global Identity Summit is the first year for the Global ID Summit, which is currently in full swing in Tampa. The event was the main event of the U.S. government-sponsored Biometric Consortium, a consortium co-chaired by the NSA and NIST for the research, development, testing, evaluation and application of biometric-based personal authentication technologys. The project will not be fully realized until after 2020, the entire project will be called Connect.gov; it will be a login screen for citizens.”]