White Nights for HSP EMEA

High Security Printing EMEA took place 13-15 June in Tallinn, Estonia’s capital on the Baltic Sea.

Estonia is famed for its ‘white nights’ in mid-summer, when the sun hardly sets, and for the fact that its citizens are amongst the most tech-savvy in Europe, being one of the top-ranking countries in the world on the UN’s E-Government Development Index.

The event was host to over 200 delegates from more than 108 organisations and 35 countries.

The pre-conference ID seminar (13 June) looked at the increasing requirements for self-service, quick and reliable document authentication remotely and at scale now that fraudsters have access to increasingly excellent technology, leaked data and a vast library of faces from social media.

The conference itself was formally opened by Mr Raivo Küüt, Undersecretary for Population Facts and Civil Society from the Ministry of the Interior, Estonia. Mr Küüt made himself popular with the audience by saying that ID and other government issued documents were ‘more than just pieces of paper’ and by setting the ID industry a target to ensure that everyone in the world should have just one verifiable identity.