Call for Papers for New Technical ‘Super’ Event

The Optical Document Security and Digital Document Security conferences have now been combined into one ‘super-conference’, Optical & Digital Document Security (ODDS).

Described as ‘THE technical conference for physical, digital and virtual document security’, it takes place in Vienna 17-19 January 2022.

ODDS will be the platform to bring together the 1,000-year experience of the banknote and ID document worlds with the fast-moving fields of digital financial transactions, virtual ID and digital identity verification. The programme will be directed at R&D and technology specialists involved in the digital transaction, identity and authentication communities and specifiers, designers, producers and issuers of secure documents.

The call for papers offers a glimpse of the final agenda. Some of the topics are futuristic, such as optical security at the point-of-sale or smartphones for personal identity and payments and what to do without one, while others consider new optical technologies and materials or issues such as serialisation, coding and unique identifiers.

A number of hybrid topics are floated for consideration – convenience versus security, ergonomics and engagement with human senses, benchmarking, metrics, statistics and analytics. As with its predecessors, this conference seeks to bring the technical and market thinking together looking firmly to the future, with a particular emphasis on creating a bridge between the physical and digital ‘document’ security worlds.

The call for papers in now open, see opticaldigitalsecurity.com. As with previous events, papers are peer reviewed reflecting the technical nature of the event.

CBDC Academy Launched

Linking up with the online CBDC conference 4-6 October 2021 is the launch of the CBDC Academy. This is a series of webinars during August and September in the run up to the conference to introduce key topics relating to Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

The webinars are free, although you must register for them, and are intended to provide background information to allow people to maximise their experience at the conference itself.

More information can be found on the website, www.CBDC-conference.com.