Smarter Background Checking: What's Next?

​For more than 120 years, One Birdcage Walk has been a home for innovation, precision, and high standards, exactly the same principles that drive the evolution of background checking today.

​Just as the engineers who gathered here in 1899 pushed the boundaries of what was possible in their industry, today the Background Check Advisory, i-COVER, FAMA and Matrix Security Watchdog are gathering background checking industry professionals together on the October 14th 2025 to explore the next frontier in smarter, more ethical, and more reliable background screening.

​Together, we will chart the path forward for ‘What’s Next’ in our field.

​The main agenda items include:

• ​Why the conversations is starting with risk again

• ​Bio-Metric ID and how it's re-shaping the screening journey

• ​How Social Media Checks really are a check of the future

• ​Why Direct Data Access has changed the verification game

• ​AI in Background Screening: Promise or Peril

• ​Prediction of what is on the screening agenda for 2026