Ms. Krystal Howard has been with the Michigan State Police for 10 years. She is currently the Michigan State Police, Digital Analysis and Identification Section manager. She manages the Statewide Network of Agency Photos (SNAP) image database and the Digital Crime Scene Repository. She is a trained Digital Image Examiner, conducting morphological comparisons to aid with investigations statewide.

Johanna Morley is a Biometrics Expert with Interpol, based in Lyon, France and has been involved in Facial identification since 2004, when she worked for the Forensic Science Service in the United Kingdom. Johanna subsequently joined the Metropolitan Police Service in London where she worked as a senior facial examiner. As part of her role she lead on the development of facial image comparison as a scientific discipline, initiated research and gave evidence in court on several occasions. Johanna then changed her focus to facial recognition systems and for several years worked on the implementation, optimization and development of facial recognition services on behalf of law enforcement. Johanna joined the Facial identification Scientific Working Group and was elected as the Vice-Chair at the inaugural meeting in 2009. Since then, she has sat as a member of the One-to-One subcommittee and more recently the Systems & Capture subcommittee.

Aniela Pieterse, representing the Australian Federal Police, has spent her entire career in Forensic Science starting out as a crime scene examiner and moving into Facial Identification in 2011. She is the current chair of the Facial Identification Specialist Advisory Group for the Australian and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency. She is a forensic face examiner, and also delivers facial identification training to policing and government agencies. Her passion is in the identification of children and victims of crime.

Lora Sims is the Director of Facial Identification Training and a Biometrics SME currently employed by Ideal Innovations, Inc. In this position, Ms. Sims coordinates all training classes as well as many other Face related activities within the company and provides subject matter expertise on Biometrics for contracts and consulting/expert witness work. Involved in the biometrics field since 2007, Lora has advanced through her organization, starting as a helpdesk operator servicing worldwide tactical operations support in tenprint and latent print identification and being promoted to Tenprint Examiner in 2008. Soon thereafter, the system she worked on was upgraded to become a multi-modal system, integrating face and iris modalities to the fingerprint system, and her career evolved into the role of a Sr. Biometric Examiner (BE). In this Sr BE position, she has co-authored an internal training to competency program on facial identification & iris comparisons and been made responsible for mentoring and training new employees through the tenprint and facial training program while integrating them into an operational environment. She also further advanced her own qualifications and capabilities by qualifying as a Certified Tenprint Examiner through the International Association for Identification (IAI) in 2013 and was recertified in 2018. Lora joined the Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) in 2011 where she served first on the training subcommittee and then on the One-to-One subcommittee. She serves as the chair of the FISWG from Spring 2015 to present. Lora also served as the chair of the Facial Identification Subcommittee of the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science from 1 Oct 2014 to 30 Sept 2021. Lora was appointed to the FSSB in October 2021 and serves as the chair of the Digital/Multimedia Scientific Area Committee.

John Splain is President and Principal Consultant at Biometrics Guru LLC, bringing over 35 years of distinguished experience in biometrics, identity systems, standards, and systems engineering. Mr. Splain has provided strategic guidance to federal agencies and leading integrators, with significant contributions to the development and implementation of biometric standards and interoperability for large-scale identification systems. He has served in major standards bodies and industry organizations including the INCITS Biometrics Technical Committee, the ASB Friction Ridge Consensus Body, ASTM E30.12, FISWG, the IAI BiT and FI Subcommittees, and the OSAC Facial and Iris Identification (FII) Subcommittee. Mr. Splain holds an MS in Systems Engineering, Software Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park, as well as CBSP and CBSE certifications.