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Announcing The Kairos Protocol: Blockchain Friendly ID Verification Powered by Face Recognition

We’re excited to announce the Kairos Protocol™— a new way to leverage the benefits of Kairos Face Biometrics, and the new standard in Identity Verification for dApps. (Links to code at the end of this article).

With just a few lines of code, developers can integrate state-of-the-art facial recognition with their dApps. Ensuring that face recognition technology remains inclusive, accessible, and accountable is our our priority and our mission. We’ve developed this protocol to improve our industry by making natural identity usable and safe— for everyone. This alpha release will expand greatly in the coming months. Our goal is to root Kairos Protocol™ as an identity standard to benefit the entire industry.

Kairos Acquires EmotionReader

Kairos, a leader in facial recognition technology, is pleased to announce the acquisition of EmotionReader, an Ireland-based startup that uses algorithms to analyze facial expressions around video content.

Co-founded by Dr. Stephen Moore and Dr. Padraig O’Leary in 2017. EmotionReader was backed by Enterprise Ireland, one of Europe’s largest VC funds. Dr. Moore, working from his Singapore base, had built an impressive R&D team in the South-East Asian country.

Meet Kairos' new CFO, Melissa Doval

As Kairos grows our base of customers, employees, and investors— it’s necessary that we have a strong leader for our finance team. I’ve known Melissa Doval and followed her work for years, and have been interested in onboarding her for just as long. Yet, her availability and our need never quite lined up— until now.

Melissa has led teams that bubbled from 50 to 500 employees in 24 months. Her kind of expertise is rare, and exactly what we need at this stage. I am also proud to add another rock star woman to our leadership team. With amazing women in senior roles (COO & General Counsel, and CFO & SVP), Kairos is leading by example.

Welcome Mary Wolff, Kairos' new COO

As a company scales, it’s really important to bring on world class talent. And Mary Wolff is just that. Mary has a diverse and unique set of skills and professional experiences, including artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and law.

Mary represented Kairos as outside counsel, and we are thrilled to have brought her in-house as our COO and General Counsel.

We've Retired Our Diversity Recognition App: Here's Why

Beginning somewhere around the release of the Apple iPhone X, mainstream media attention to Face Recognition has gone from nearly none whatsoever— to the press equivalent of a flood light being shined directly on the industry. With this new attention, concerns have been raised around privacy and safety— and we’ve been listening.

Last summer, our Diversity & Ethnicity Recognition App was released-- and over 10 million people uploaded their selfies, curious to see how the algorithms would classify their ethnicities.

We’re excited to announce the Kairos Protocol™— a new way to leverage the benefits of Kairos Face Biometrics, and the new standard in Identity Verification for dApps. (Links to code at the end of this article).

Kairos, a leader in facial recognition technology, is pleased to announce the acquisition of EmotionReader, an Ireland-based startup that uses algorithms to analyze facial expressions around video content.

As a company scales, it’s really important to bring on world class talent. And Mary Wolff is just that. Mary has a diverse and unique set of skills and professional experiences, including artificial intelligence, entrepreneurship, and law.

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