Topics of Interest

The Programme Committee offers the following list of topics as guidance but recognises that it is not possible to draw up a comprehensive list for this innovative and fast-moving field. So please submit your proposal if you think that it is right for this event whether or not your topic is shown here. Your paper could be about the digital world, the physical world or both, covering strategic or technical issues. We are particularly interested to have case studies which show how the transition from physical to digital has worked and how effective digital or phygital (physical + digital) security is.

Optical

● Novel optical approaches, materials, products and technologies

● Interfacing optical features and digital systems

● Security image design in the physical space

● Optical security in the point-of-sale environment

● Personalisation of optical features

● Durability and permanence of optical features.

Digital

● Digital currencies: CBDCs and cryptocurrencies

● Serialisation, 2D codes and unique identifiers

● The role of smartphones and operating in non-smartphone environments

● Digital credentials, decentralized identity management, identity ecosystems

● National or transnational digitisation of citizen data and identity verification.

● Detection of digital fakes.

Phygital

● Applications, threats and opportunities of artificial intelligence & machine learning

● The digital/physical transition

● Ergonomics and human engagement

● Reconciling convenience and security

● Enrolment systems

● The future travel environment

● Counterfeit resilience assessment, benchmarking, metrics, statistics and analytics

● Vaccination certificates, health status certification

● ID theft, counterfeit, denial-of-service and fraud countermeasures

● Authentication of the item, the data and the person.

ODDS Committee

Programme Director

Ian Lancaster Lancaster Consulting (UK)

Paul Dunn, Optical Security Consultant (UK)

Jörg Fischer, Bundesdruckerei (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)

Johannes Schaede, Orell Füssli (Switzerland)

Harald Walter, OVD Kinegram (Switzerland)

Yaohua Wang, Security Identity Union (China)

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You can find all of the details: opticaldigitalsecurity.com/call-for-papers

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If you have any questions about the conference, contact the conference team: Ian Lancaster, Chairman Francis Tuffy, Conference Director Weronika Komorowska, Conference Manager