Company: BKYI
Filing Date: 2025-11-21
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001437749-25-036032
Chunk: 39

Company: BIO KEY INTERNATIONAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-21
Form: S-1
Chunk 39
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/ Michael DePasquale                                 |
|                             | Michael DePasquale                                     |
|                             | Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive |
|                             | Officer (principal executive officer)                  |

| By: | /s/ Cecilia Welch                                |
|     | Cecilia Welch                                    |
|     | Chief Financial Officer (principal financial and |
|     | accounting officer)                              |

<div align='center'>POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>

We, the undersigned officers and directors of BIO-key International, Inc., hereby severally constitute and appoint Michael W. DePasquale, our true and lawful attorney with full power to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below, the Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed herewith and any and all pre-effective and post-effective amendments to said Registration Statement and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and the other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and generally to do all such things in our name and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable BIO-key International, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorney to said Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

| Signature               
 /s/ Michael DePasquale  |     | Title                                        
 Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief 
 Executive Officer                            |     | Date              
 November 21, 2025 |
|:------------------------|:----|:---------------------------------------------|:----|:------------------|
| Michael DePasquale      |     | -Principal Executive Officer                 |     |                   |
| /s/ Cecilia Welch       |     | Chief Financial Officer                      |     | November 21, 2025 |
| Cecilia Welch           |     | (Principal Financial Officer and Principal   |     |                   |
|                         |     | Accounting Officer)                          |     |                   |
| /s/ Robert J. Michel    |     | Director                                     |     | November 21 2025  |
| Robert J. Michel        |