Keynote: Who are we and how does it affect our security?

by Ian Lancaster

In setting the context for this ODDS conference, Ian Lancaster will explore our multi-faceted digital identities and examine the implications of these multiple IDs for our online security and our real world and virtual world transactions.

Ian Lancaster

Ian has worked in the authentication and secured document sector for over 25 years. As co-founder and 25-year CEO of Reconnaissance he oversaw the company’s publications and conferences on secured documents – including tax stamps – and product protection. A member of the International Organisation for Standards technical committee on security and resilience, he was a key contributor to ISO 12931 (authentication solutions) and 14298 (management of security printing), then became Project Leader for ISO 22382, the new standard for tax stamps. He chairs the Optical Document Security conference, co-Chairs the new Digital Document Security conference and is a frequent presenter at the Tax Stamp Forum and other events. He has consulted for authentication and secure document suppliers and users.

Bridging the gap between the physical and the digital world

by Claudia Schwendimann

Austria’s Check-AT app merges the digital and physical worlds. With a simple scan of an ID-document, the app displays and cryptographically checks citizen data. Additionally, the solution guides verifiers through a number of physical security elements thus ensuring a safe document verification, as will be described in this presentation.

Claudia Schwendimann

Claudia Schwendimann has been working in the security document business for twenty years and is the CEO of OeSD International, a daughter company of the Austrian State Printing House since 2007. She advises governments of different countries on how to accommodate the special needs in ePassport and eID projects based on ICAO specifications and how to build central population registers for effective identity management. Claudia is the Austrian ISO representative for Travel Documents to ICAO and is contributing in various official roles to the electronic Travel Document development (member of ICAO’s Technical Advisory Group, member of ICAO’s Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group, chairperson of the Expert Advisory Committee of FastPass Project for Automated Border Management, member of Intergraf’s Committee of Experts). She studied Sinology in Vienna and Beijing and received her Executive Master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Hayward and recently, she graduated as Master of Law and Economics at Imadec University, Vienna.

The digital/physical transition, interface and balance

by Rob Haslam

We explain how the use of the traditional trio of biometrics (face, finger, iris) is evolving so fingerprints become as unobtrusive as facial recognition with the ability to capture and examine them using a smartphone. We put this in the context of bridging the gap between legacy physical documents and a digital/mobile-first approach to identity management.

Rob Haslam

Rob Haslam is a Strategic Advisor to TECH5. Rob has 30 years’ experience in the identity industry; that includes leading companies in the secure ID document and biometrics space; stretching back to managing Polaroid photo-based electoral registration programs in Africa; through to becoming the first industry advocate of mobile ID; back in 2015, long before he helped turn this into reality with Argentina’s National Mobile ID in 2018.
Rob’s industry experience began with British security printer and identity and passport specialist De La Rue in the 1990s; where he worked in Africa on a variety of electoral registration projects throughout the continent. Since then; he participated and spearheaded the evolution of the government identity credential industry as it moved from paper and Polaroid photos; through plastic and smartcards; ePassports and smartphones. Since then, he has worked with several leading companies in the secure ID document and biometrics space; including several years with L-1 Identity Solutions (now IDEMIA), latterly spending seven years at HID where he helped turn their citizen ID-focused business into a global solution provider; from being a largely component manufacturer when he joined in 2013; via a series of targeted acquisitions and strategic developments.
Rob Haslam was one of the first people in the market to present at industry events on the coming wave of mobile-based solutions, having recognized the potential in a world where every smart device is potentially a reader/verifier, as distinct from traditional smartcard infrastructure with its high capital investment and inflexible architecture. This was a world where other players’ concepts of ID on a phone was limited to visual representation of an ID card on the screen, missing the potential for a whole new ecosystem of interactivity and enhanced security when your ID is an advanced computer in the palm of your hand, a computer with GPS, cameras, sensors and a whole host of Identity-enhancing tools. This was a self-disrupting approach against a backdrop where many traditional players were keen to guard against encroachment on their installed base technologies.
In TECH5, as a strategic advisor, Rob brings a unique perspective to the transition of ID from ink-and-paper security, to a fully digital credential, and manages the strategy for one of the company’s latest innovations – T5-Digital ID solution.

See Rob’s LinkedIn profile here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-haslam-67084a1/