Call for Papers

The Optical Document Security Conference is a highly-respected technical conference held every two years since 1996, while Digital Document Security, a spin-off event, was quickly recognised as an essential bridge between the physical and digital ‘document’ security worlds. In combining the two events, Reconnaissance is recognising the current reality in the digitisation of what have traditionally been paper or polymer documents, with the need to maintain the highest levels of security in the digital domain as have been achieved in the physical domain.

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ODDS will be the platform to bring together the thousand-year experience of the banknote and ID world with the fast-moving field of virtual and digital ID and financial transactions.

People involved in the digital transaction, identity and authentication communities and specifiers, designers, producers and issuers of secure documents will find ODDS a valuable forum to explain, learn, network and explore possibilities.

14 December 2022– Summary Deadline

Proposals should be submitted as a 400-word summary of your paper, with an additional 150 word description of the author/s and their qualifications for presenting this paper (both documents must be in English).

Topics of Interest

The Programme Committee offers the following list of topics as guidance but recognises that it is not possible to draw up a comprehensive list for this innovative and fast-moving field. So please submit your proposal if you think that it is right for this event, whether or not your topic is shown here.
Your paper could be aimed at the digital world, the physical world or both, covering philosophical or technical issues.

Optical

New optical technologies and materials
Micro- and nano-optics
Security image design in the physical space
Optical security in the point-of-sale environment
Durability and permanence of optical features
Window security features
Colour matching in optical features

Digital

Smartphones for personal identity and payments and what to do without one
Combatting hackers, denial of service and other internet attacks
Machine learning, artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography
Cryptocurrencies, blockchain and distributed ledgers
Serialisation, coding and unique identifiers

Hybrid

The digital/physical transition, interface and balance
Ergonomics and engagement with human senses
Convenience versus security
Enrolment systems for physical or digital identity and the transfer from physical to digital;
Security design – optical and digital
The future travel environment
Benchmarking, metrics, statistics and analytics
Vaccination certificates and health status certification
ID theft, counterfeit, denial-of-service and fraud countermeasures

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ODDS Committee

Ian Lancaster

Chairman
Reconnaissance International
UK

Francis Tuffy

Conference Director
Reconnaissance International
UK

Aurélie Berthon

Koenig & Bauer
Switzerland

Paul Dunn

Optical Security Consultant
UK

Jörg Fischer

Bundesdruckerei
Germany

Alan Hodgson

Alan Hodgson Consulting Ltd
UK

Renaud Laffont-Leenhardt

Thales
France

Volker Lohweg

inIT – Institute Industrial IT, Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences
Germany

Joshua M Mármol

G.E.T SECURE ID CORP
USA

Marc Pic

Advanced Track & Trace
France

Tony Poole

Document Security Alliance
USA

Mikihiko Sakakibara

Seculysis
Japan

Johannes Schaede

Koenig & Bauer
Germany

Sun Kai

China Banknote Printing and Minting Corporation
China

Harald Walter

Kinegram
Switzerland

Yaohua Wang

Security Identity Union
China

John Winchcombe

Cash & Payment News
UK

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