ODDS 2024 – Navigating the Confluence of Physical and Digital Security

At a time when identity management systems have overlapping dependencies on physical documents, digital transactions and virtual identities, ensuring the security of our financial interactions and identity verification has become of paramount concern.

The Optical & Digital Document Security™ Conference (ODDS), 8-10 April 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal tackles the intricate challenges posed by the coexistence of physical and digital document security in our rapidly evolving world.

The conference serves as a unique platform, combining the rich heritage of the Optical Document Security Conference, held since 1996, with the innovative insights of the Digital Document Security event. Conference organiser, Reconnaissance, acknowledges the digital transformation of traditional paper or polymer documents and the imperative to maintain the highest security standards in this new digital realm.

On the day prior to the main ODDS conference, two seminars will be held that bring together valuable insights from experts in their respective fields.

The first, titled ‘European Wonder Wallet: Essential Information for ID and Document Providers’, will be led by Franziska Granc, Senior Project Manager at Nimbus Technologieberatung. She will describe how the EU is working towards a first-of-its-kind framework for an EU Digital Identity Wallet and how this digital wallet ties in with the goals and challenges of the revised eIDAS regulation for electronic identification, authentication, and trust services.

Additionally, Arno Fiedler, Managing Director of Nimbus, and member of the European Technical Committee (TC) for Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI), will cover this organisation’s current standardisation activities around eIDAS.

He will explore how these regulations, backed by other European directives, could transform the digital sphere, making the provision of the wallet mandatory across member states. He will also cover the implications for identity information issuers, storers, and verifiers in this era of evolving regulations and digital sovereignty.

The second seminar, titled ‘AI and Quantum: Where Now for Document Security?’ embarks on a journey into the realms of artificial intelligence and quantum computing and what these might mean for digital and optical document security.

The seminar has three parts: Prof Dr Volker Lohweg of the Institute Industrial IT of the Technische Hochschule OWL will demystify AI, its history, challenges, and potential applications; Dr Anke Ginter of Bundesdruckerei will then delve into the impact of quantum computing on security, with a focus on usability and security considerations; and Ian Lancaster, ODDS Programme Director, will draw connections, examining the implications of these technologies on optical and digital document security.

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