Zac Franken has been working in the computer and technology industry for over 20 years for major industry players such as ICL, Informix, British Airways and Motorola. Founding his first company, Point 4 Consulting at the age of 25, he built it into a multi-million pound technology design consultancy. Point 4 was the leading provider for critical back end technology in the UK and was used by many major web sites such as The Electronic Telegraph, MTV, United Airlines, Interflora, Credit Suisse, BT, Littlewoods and Sony. Following Point 4 he went on to found Ablaise, a company that manages the considerable intellectual property generated by Point 4, and Aperture Labs Ltd. In his spare time he manages the worlds largest and longest running security conference, DEF CON.

Zac's research focuses on embedded hardware with a penchant for access control systems and biometric devices, he has spoken and trained at public information security conferences in Europe and the US and for private and governmental audiences. He is responsible for identifying major vulnerabilities in access control and biometric systems, and has a passion for creating devices that emulate access control tokens either electronic physical or biometric. Zac has been responsible both directly and indirectly for changing access control guidelines for several western governments.