BIO-key to Exhibit Fingerprint Authentication Solutions for ISAM at IBM Pulse 2014

WALL, NJ--(Marketwired - Feb 21, 2014) -  BIO-key International, Inc. (OTCQB: BKYI), a global leader in fingerprint biometric identification solutions, advanced mobile authentication and identity assurance technologies, today announced that the Company will exhibit at IBM Pulse 2014; Las Vegas, Nevada (February 24-27) Pedestal T-06. Pulse is the premier cloud conference with over 9,000 C-level and industry leaders and influencers in attendance.

BIO-key delivers validated biometric technology solutions for IBM customers to utilize in the financial, healthcare, government and enterprise space. BIO-key technology is pre-integrated with IBM ISAM; reducing the organizations reliance on passwords, enhancing security and improving work-flow.

"The Pulse event allows us to expand our relationship with IBMers and IBM resellers," said Jim Skidmore, VP Global Sales and Channel Development, BIO-key. "When selling technology solutions through the partner channel, education becomes an important part of the process. Pulse 2014, allows us to demonstrate BIO-key's latest advances in biometric fingerprint authentication with a targeted and captive audience. The net result is stronger and deeper relationships; along with the continued growth of the BIO-key sales support network."

BIO-key will also be hosting a special IBM partner dinner at Craftsteak on Monday, February 24^th. The dinner will be attended by leading influencers and will include a roundtable discussion and Q&A session. To learn more about the dinner event contact BIO-key.

About BIO-key
BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered in Wall, New Jersey, develops and delivers advanced identification solutions to commercial and government enterprises, integrators, and custom application developers. BIO-key's award winning, high performance, scalable, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy biometric finger identification technology accurately identifies and authenticates users of wireless and enterprise applications. Our solutions are used in local embedded OEM products as well as some of the world's largest identification deployments to improve security, guarantee identity, and help reduce identity theft. BIO-key's technology is offered directly or by market leading partners around the world. (http://www.bio-key.com)

BIO-key Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements contained in this press release may be construed as "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Act"). The words "estimate," "project," "intends," "expects," "anticipates," "believes" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, management pursuant to the "safe-harbor" provisions of the Act. These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected on the basis of these statements. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, our history of losses and limited revenue, our ability to develop new products and evolve existing ones, wider market acceptance of biometric technologies, our ability to raise additional financing, our ability to attract and retain key personnel. For a more complete description of these and other risk factors that may affect the future performance of BIO-key International, Inc., see "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to disclose any revision to these forward-looking statements whether to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or otherwise.

Contacts:
BIO-key International, Inc.
Jay Meier
VP Corp. Dev.
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651-789-6116