The conference fills a necessary role in bringing together the physical secured document community and the digital identity and financial transactions community to share ideas, information and concerns on how best to continue to protect personal identity and financial information.
8–10 APRIL 2024
Lisbon, Portugal
The technical conference for physical, digital and virtual document security.
opticaldigitalsecurity.com
£655*/£730
This table-top exhibition is the opportunity for a closer interaction between presenters and delegates, a “show, tell and handle” to complement the “tell” in the presentation. Non-presenters may also exhibit, so this exhibition shows some of the most interesting and exciting innovations for protecting our personal data and transactions, whether in physical, digital or phygital form. The exhibition is held during the conference buffet dinner, so it is well-attended by ODDS participants.
This third Optical & Digital Document Security™ conference continues and updates the topics of physical, digital and virtual security documents, and in particular the transition from physical identity and fiduciary documents to digital records and transactions. It does so in the context of rapidly advancing technology, including artificial intelligence and quantum computers, which are potentially game-changing developments. So ODDS 2024 has a number of papers covering these important topics, including the keynote paper on AI-driven counterfeits.
The security of the documents that we use to pay and identify ourselves, and new techniques and technologies for ensuring their integrity and authenticity, is a cornerstone of the conference. But equally, as we conduct more of our personal business online, a whole new front has opened up in fraud. Despite the implementation of strengthened security procedures, such as two-factor authentication, the number of data breaches and hacks remains worryingly high. Such breaches affect thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, many more than any fraud involving a physical ID or financial document.
This vulnerability risks being compounded by AI and quantum computing. That is why physical secured documents, and the optical security features that protect them, remain so important, and why the link between the digital and physical domains is critical. It is also why ODDS is an important conference as it uniquely explores this confluence of the physical and digital worlds.
So it is that the first session of this year’s conference is titled Phygital: The Link Between the Physical and Digital Worlds, with the following session titled Phygital Approaches to Document Security. These two sessions highlight how this link is currently operating and how it is likely to develop. (“Phygital” is a coinage from this event which has now entered the security lexicon.)
The programme then moves through new approaches to document security to two sessions dedicated to protecting identity in the digital age. Following on are sessions reporting numerous innovations in optical security, demonstrating the continuing relevance of visual features for document protection.
As society becomes more online, physical identity and financial documents, and the interaction between the digital and physical, remain significant in protecting ourselves – especially in view of the game-changing developments mentioned above. Attendance at the 2024 conference reflects the range of organisations active in this field, with papers from wellestablished security document producers; younger, specialist companies establishing their role; academic and other research organisations, and start-up organisations. This variety in turn shows the importance and vitality of this field.
The two half-day seminars on Monday 8 April cover critical topics for this still-developing field. As our citizen identity records are increasingly now recorded in digital form, there is – rightly – more governmental involvement and regulation of this field. The EU is one of the leaders in this, so, as the ’24 conference will be in Portugal, the first seminar on Monday covers these EU moves in detail. This will be an essential informative seminar for any organisation providing ID products or services.
The second seminar explains the game-changing developments of quantum computing and artifical intelligence, with a consideration of what these might mean for digital and optical document security.
ODDS ’24 takes place at a pivotal moment in the history of security documents and the security of our personally identifiable information, as the quantity and quality of the papers submitted attest while also showing the contribution that ODDS is making to this field. Join us in Lisbon to learn more.
Ian Lancaster, Programme DirectorOptical & Digital Document Security is a forum to meet, share ideas and establish mutual understanding across the digital and physical document security domains. So we recommend that you attend if you are:
Involved with the design, production or examination of any government-issued security document, whether physical or digital, including financial, tax and identity documents or similarly involved with private sector transaction facilitation, payment apps, credit cards, online ordering and payment, identity cards, transport or event ticketing a specifier, developer, designer or producer of physical security features or digital security equipment or software a researcher or academic looking into security issues for physical or digital approaches
a researcher or developer in the security component, biometrics or security printing fields a producer or designer of systems and equipment for the production, personalisation, issuance or reading of secure documents and/or data involved in researching or developing methods for the human interaction with physical secured documents or digital ID or transaction systems or involved in any other way with digital security systems or secured documents.
While technological means are developing rapidly and new technologies can already create solutions for all sorts of document and credentials issuance, storage and presentation, regulation needs to catch up to it. A steady regulatory framework is needed to secure data protection and privacy and to avoid fraud and manipulation. Accordingly, the EU is working towards a framework which is the first of its kind, setting out rules and structures for a European Digital Identity Wallet. The provision of the wallet will be mandatory for all member states and its acceptance as a means of identification, authentication, and authorisation obligatory for all Large Online Platforms (eg. Google, Amazon, Meta). Backed-up by other European regulations such as the Digital Services Act and the Digital Market Acts, as well as upcoming stricter rules for organisations in the critical infrastructure defined by the Network and Information Security Directive (NIS II), Europe is facing big changes that will fundamentally transform the digital sphere. As the EU thus leads the way towards a solution for secure digital identities and identity-related documents, this seminar will explain the main goals, potential and challenges of the revised eIDAS regulation and how this relates to the Digital Wallet. We will give an overview of these inter-related regulations that support eIDAS and strengthen Europe’s digital sovereignty, but which might also raise conflicts between EU and national law. Join us to learn more about these far-reaching developments that, if implemented correctly, could be a worldwide pioneering solution for secure digital identities and identity-related documents. If you are involved in issuing, storing, and verifying identity information you need to understand these EU moves and how they will affect your organisation.
Seminar Leader: Franziska Granc, Senior Project Manager at Nimbus Technologieberatung GmbH
Franziska Granc is a senior project manager at Nimbus Technologieberatung GmbH and specialises in eIDAS, self-sovereign identity, identity wallets and trust services. She is co-author of various ENISA studies and professional articles. Another focus of her work is the market analysis of qualified trust service providers and identity service providers. She is part of the accompanying research of the showcase programme ‘Secure Digital Identities’, initiated by the German Ministry of Economy and Climate. Her aim is to actively contribute to the development of a secure and interoperable European ID ecosystem. To this end, she regularly appears as an expert at international conferences or moderates on these topics.
“This is the leading conference from a technology perspective for our industry & long may it continue”
Prof. Dr Volker Lohweg is the head of the research group ‘Discrete Systems’ and Director of the inIT-Institute Industrial IT. The research group’s working area is dedicated to Cognitive Systems in automation especially Information Fusion and Optical Document Security, including banknote inspection and authentication. He is active in SPIE and IEEE as a reviewer in the field of image processing and data analysis. His interests are sensory conflict modeling and Multi-Scale signal analysis in the context of optical and digital document security.
Anke Ginter is a Senior Innovations Developer at Bundesdruckerei GmbH in Germany. She works on quantum computing and quantum communication systems with special focus on usability and security. Anke Ginter studied physics and made her dissertation in quantum optics analysing interaction processes between movable colloidal quantum dots.
13:30 – 17:00
This seminar explains the current developments in two areas of computing which could have a significant impact on identity and transaction security: artificial intelligence and quantum computing.
The seminar is in three parts: Dr Volker Lohweg will give an overview of AI; Dr Anke Ginter will then explain quantum computing, and Ian Lancaster will pull this together and consider the implications for optical and digital document security.
Artificial intelligence is much talked about and read about, but what is actually behind it? What types of AI are there and what applications are possible?
Apart from ethical and cultural considerations, there are numerous challenges and hurdles in the use of AI. It is necessary to integrate AI methods into existing systems and structures and, in some cases, to reorganise responsibilities and processes.
In this short survey of AI, Volker will explain the differences between human intelligence and artificial intelligence, then take a look at the history and consider what AI can do today. He will also explain how such systems are trained and what impact this has on us in the application. He will conclude with a discussion of examples from image processing and the design of documents, pointing out the possibilities for use, but also explain the current dangers, such as deep fakes, before glancing at the future prospects for AI
Increasing performance and algorithmic realizations of Quantum computing devices bring the quantum threat closer to current ID systems and documents. Even if experts disagree when and how this will be manifested, the effects of such threat are far-reaching. Moreover, the development of quantum computing demonstrated how quickly disruptive technologies can emerge and question security considerations. This is the reason why reactions and adaptions should be done as soon as possible. Post-quantum security and crypto agility can be viewed as the first step on the way to a secure quantum era.
In this seminar, we will give an overview of the current state of quantum computing devices to get a deeper understanding of the technology. Furthermore, we illustrate how quantum computing, quantum communication and security work together and should be regarded as a unit to see the whole picture and react appropriately.
So what does this mean for our field of document security? What are the implications for our digital or virtual identities and our online transactions, whether checking our bank account or buying from Amazon? How does this impact the physical documents we carry: our IDs and banknotes? Do they need to change, adapt, interact more with the online world?
Ian Lancaster will lead this part of the seminar, pulling together what we have learned and facilitating a discussion of what it means for this field.
Tuesday 9 April
Welcome & Introduction
Ian Lancaster, Reconnaissance International (UK)
KEYNOTE: AI-driven Counterfeits: the Possibilities and How to Fight Them
Jordan Brough, Homeland Security Investigations Forensic Laboratory
Session 1:
Artefactometry by Artificial Intelligence for Marked Objects
Zbigniew Sagan, Advanced Track & Trace (France)
Digital Product Passports – unintended consequences for digital ID?
Alan Hodgson, Alan Hodgson Consulting (UK)
Simple and Cost-Effective Phygital Solutions
Gabor Zsámboki, ANY Security printing (Hungary)
Session 2:
Optically Variable Devices On Secure Documents - Where Next?
Francis Tuffy, Reconnaissance International (UK)
Strategies For A Standardisation Of PPE Certificates
Volker Lohweg, INiT (Germany)
Taggant-Based Holographic Track and Trace Labels for Liquor
Sajan Ambadiyil, Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (India)
Stealth Spectral Landmarks for Complex Objects’ Authentication
Marc Pic, Advanced Track & Trace (France)
Session 3:
Think Quantum - A New Perspective on Security
Anke Ginter, Bundesdruckerei (Germany)
30 international speakers
Behind the Barcode – Multi-Layered Functional Barcodes for Security Documents
Tom Mitchell, Luminescence Sun Chemical (UK)
An OVD Secured By Design
Jeremy Malinge, Crime Science Technology (France)
Development of Innovative Machine-Readable Luminescent Features
Scott Haubrich, SICPA (Switzerland)
Aldric Molina, Laboratory Manager Machine-Readable Features
Secure and Trusted Identification Interactions in The Digital Sphere
Jérémy Chmiela, IDEMIA (France)
Session 4:
Protecting IDs In The Quantum Computing Era
Alexander WInnen, Veridos (Germany)
Leveraging In-Brain Identity Validation Mechanisms for Detection of Live Video Deepfake Attacks
Hendrik Graupner, Bundesdruckerei (Germany)
Transforming an Identity Management System
Aftab Baloch, FTO/FBR (Pakistan)
Color-Tunable Photonic Crystals: Dynamic or Serial coded? You decide!
Heeyeon Kim, NanoBrick (South Korea)
Session 5:
What Will Passports Look Like in 20 Years?
Renaud Laffont-Leenhart, Thales (France)
Enabling Citizen Protection with Seamless and Secure Digital Identity Wallets
Jorge Carvalho, State Printing House (Austria)
Security Challenges of Mobile IDs
Frank Schmalz, Veridos (Germany)
Protection Through Personalized ‘Watermark-Like’ Features
Roger Bollström, MOZAIQ (Switzerland)
Session 6:
Modern Optical Features for ID Documents - A Review
Yit-shun Leung Ki, Security Identity Alliance
Utilizing Two-Colour Colourshifts For Highest Security
Sebastian Mader, OVD Kinegram (Switzerland)
Special Information Encryption for Optical Lithography Technology
Chao Sun, Wuhan Huagong Image Technology (China)
Panel Discussion
ID and Document Security in the Face of AI And Quantum Computing
Session 7:
Security Features Based on Light Field Shaping with Freeform Micro-Structure
Dr Dong Yang, ZSST (CBPM Group) (China)
Brilliantly Innovative: A New Security Feature
Using Micro-Optical Free-Form Elements
Martin Egginger, Hueck Folien (Austria)
Print Document Protection: A ComputerGenerated Holography Solution
Leehwan Hwang, Kwangoon University (South Korea)
Particle-Based Colour Change Security Feature
Michael Natan, Diametryx (USA)
Development of Novel Overt Security Feature for ID Documents
Keitaro Sugihara & Yoshiyuki Mizuguchi, Toppan Digital (Japan)
Chairman: Ian Lancaster, Reconnaissance International (UK)
Paul Dunn, Optical Security Consultant (UK)
Jörg Fischer, Bundesdruckerei (Germany)
Franziska Granc, Nimbus Technologieberatung (Germany)
Alan Hodgson, Alan Hodgson Consulting (UK)
Sun Kai, China Banknote Printing & Minting Corp (China)
Renaud Laffont-Leenhardt, Thales (France)
Volker Lohweg, InIT (Germany)
Josh Marmol, G.E.T Secure (USA)
Jean-Baptiste Milan, HID Global (USA)
Marc Pic, Surys (France)
Tony Poole, Document Security Alliance (USA)
Mikihiko Sakakibara, Seculysis (Japan)
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Johannes Schaede, Orell Füssli (Switzerland)
Harald Walter, OVD Kinegram (Switzerland)
Yaohua Wang, Security Identity Union (China)
To be part of Optical & Digital Document Security™ 2024, click here to book online.
Add either or both of the pre-conference seminars to your booking – European Wonder Wallet and/or Artifical Intelligence and Quantum Computing.
Fees
£1,300*/£1,450 Delegate
£1,000*/£1,100 Presenter Delegate
£ 900*/£1,000 Academic**
£200 Social partner
£ 590
One seminar
£ 790 Two seminars
Conference dinner: £6,000
App & Handbook: £3,000
Welcome reception: £2,400
Proceedings: £1,500
Coffee-refreshment-lunch breaks over 2 days: one day £3,100 / two days £6,200
Farewell Drinks: £2,400
Lanyards & Badges: £2,400 SOLD
Contact Samantha Burns for more information: sam@recon-intl.com
£655*/£730
Optical & Digital Document Security includes an informal topical exhibit for hands-on demonstrations of the latest security technologies. All presenters may reserve a table to show examples illustrating their paper.
Non-presenters are also welcome to show their security products and systems to this specialist and decision-making group, contact sam@recon-intl.com
“An interesting and thought provoking conference, bringing together many technologies and perspectives, united by digital security.”
Luminescence SunChemical Security
Lisbon Marriott Hotel places travelers near many of Lisbon’s top attractions. Centrally located, we are close to the city’s historic monuments and museums, Bairro Alto, lively football stadiums, sunny beaches and Lisbon Airport.
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On the evening of Tuesday 9 April we will be holding a tabletop exhibition and buffet dinner. This informal setting is the perfect opportunity for delegates to see, handle and discuss in detail what is happening in this field.
The exhibition and dinner is an excellent opportunity for meeting and learning more about your fellow delegates. It is an occasion for all conference participants to show their results in an informal ambience and will be a very lively event!
If you have any questions about the conference, contact the conference team:
Weronika Komorowska, Conference Manager
Alison Bell, Conference Executive
Tel: +44 (0)1932 785 680
Email: events@recon-intl.com
Your Conference Organiser: The event is organised by Reconnaissance International, the leading source of business intelligence for authentication, identity, security printing and holography. Visit www.reconnaissance.net
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The conference will be conducted in English.
* Ends 29 February 2024
** Academic rate applies to delegates from universities or other educational establishments
RECONNAISSANCE INTERNATIONAL
Tel: +44 (0)1932 785 680
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