Full Video: Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker at Skift Global Forum 2021


Skift Take

Clear's previous experience vetting travelers and moving them quickly through airport security put it in an excellent position to take on the challenges of identity, health, and vaccination in the (hopefully) coming post-Covid panic world.

Clear CEO Caryn Seidman Becker spoke with Skift Senior Travel Tech Editor Sean O'Neill at Skift Global Forum 2021. The two discussed the theme "Technology’s Role in Safely Re-Connecting the Globe."

You can watch a full video of their discussion as well as read a transcript of it, below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osTSc4w9evU

Sean O'Neill: Hi, Caryn.

Caryn Seidman Becker: Hi. They told me not to swivel.

O'Neill: They told me the same thing.

Seidman Becker: Yeah.

O'Neill: The last time we met, we were mentioning this backstage before we come on, was in a much less glamorous place than the TWA Hotel. It was in Midtown in 2018 in an airless fishbowl conference room. It was about 20 square feet. We were sort of on top of each other. And the idea of an IPO was still a little bit of a distant vision. And Caryn was telling me about why CLEAR Secure, as a membership based biometric identity company, had just tremendou