Optical & Digital Document Security Conference Programme

Registration is now open for the new Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference, which will be in Vienna, Austria, 17-19 January 2022, with the programme available to view online at opticaldigitalsecurity.com.

This new conference combines the highly successful and respected Optical Document Security™ conference with the Digital Document Security™ conference, because it is no longer appropriate to separate these domains. This recognises the current reality in the digitisation of what have traditionally been paper or polymer documents, while encouraging the high levels of security in the digital domain as have been achieved in the physical domain.

The two-day conference opens with a session on the transition from physical to digital and virtual, followed by a short session on new approaches to physical document security, before separate afternoon tracks for identity and currency and payments.

The identity track opens with a presentation from the Secure Identity Alliance summarising its report on passport fraud trends and ways to combat them. There are then presentations on the Austrian approach to combining centralised and decentralised digital ID solutions; IDEMIA explaining how to use the secondary ID photo as a security feature; INCM describing a new digital authentication feature for portraits; Eurecom and SURYS discussing their approach to fighting deep identity theft, Thales’ approach to protecting the micro-controller and OVD Kinegram, presenting its new personalised optical security feature.

Presentations over the two days are also relevant to identity protection, not only those in the dedicated identity track, especially the special keynote presentation by David Birch, a well-known and sometimes provocative commentator on digital identity and digital currencies. His keynote is titled ‘Digital, Not Digitised: Security and Privacy, Identity and Credentials’.

David’s presentation leads into a session on a new but hot topic in 2021/22: health status passes. The conference closes with a panel discussion to look at the future evolution of optical and digital document security – a topic which epitomises the positioning, role and importance of the Optical & Digital Document Security conference.

Two half-day specialist events precede the main conference. On the morning of Monday 17 January, there will be a seminar on international standards relevant to the security of identity and financial transactions, led by Dr Alan Hodgson. This seminar will include a detailed look at the just-published ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard on mobile driving licences, with Loffie Jordaan of AAMVA, who was convenor of the joint Working Group 10 that drew up this standard. The afternoon is devoted to a masterclass on security for cryptocurrencies and digital identities.

Register for the conference at opticaldigitalsecurity.com.