ODDS 2024 – Innovate to Thrive

Laying the groundwork

As with previous editions of ODDS, the seminars that preceded the two-day conference invited experts in the field to lead in-depth analyses of topical interest to the document security industry.

In the morning session, Franziska Granc and Arno Fiedler from Nimbus Technologies reviewed the work of the EU in 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 and authorisation will become obligatory for all large online platforms such as Google, Amazon and Meta.

The afternoon seminar, on the potential impacts of AI and quantum computing (QC) was divided into three parts, hosted in turn by seminar leader Prof Dr Volker Lohweg (inIT-Institute Industrial IT) who gave a thought provoking overview of AI, Dr Anke Ginter (Bundesdruckerei, Germany) who explained the concepts behind QC, and Ian Lancaster (ODDS Programme Director) who pulled the threads together to consider the implications for optical and digital document security.