ODDS 2022 Review – Vienna

Michael Fuchs

Michael Fuchs is Head of the Unit for Passports, ID Cards and e-ID at the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior since 2006.
Michael is responsible for the issuance of passports and ID cards, and for the registration of the electronic ID at the authorities.
He also represents Austria in the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

Keynote: Digital, Not Digitised: Security and Privacy, Identity and Credentials

by David G.W. Birch

We need to accept that trying to digitise identity simply has not worked and we need to start creating a new kind of identity for the new digital age instead. We need to stop trying to import those analogue identity models, rooted in Industrial Age bureaucratic hacks to deal with urban anonymity and develop notions of identity for a digital age; in short, we need digital identity, not digitised identity.
But what exactly is “digital identity” and why is it different from “digitised identity”? This talk will address this question and deliver the answers.”

David G.W. Birch

David G.W Birch is an author, advisor and commentator on digital financial services. Principal at 15Mb, his advisory company, he is Global Ambassador for the secure electronic transactions consultancy, Consult Hyperion, Fintech Ambassador for Digital Jersey and Non-Executive Chair at Digiseq Ltd. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money. Ranked one of the top 100 fintech influencers for 2021, previously named one of the global top 15 favourite sources of business information by Wired magazine and one of the top ten most influential voices in banking by Financial Brand, he created one of the top 25 “must read” financial IT blogs and was found by PR Daily to be one of the top ten Twitter accounts followed by innovators (along with Bill Gates and Richard Branson).

His latest book “The Currency Cold War—Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony” was published in May 2020. His previous book “Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From money we understand to money that understands us” was published in June 2017 with a foreword by Andrew Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England. The LSE Review of Books said the book should be “widely read by graduate students of finance, financial law and related topics as well as policy makers involved in financial regulation”. The London Review of Books called his earlier book “Identity is the New Money” fresh, original, wide-ranging and “the best book on general issues around new forms of money”.

More information is available at www.dgwbirch.com and you can follow him @dgwbirch on Twitter.

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 identity and 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, mainly developing countries on how to effectively manage identity and civil registration and how to accommodate the special needs in ePassport and eID projects based on ICAO specifications.
Claudia served as the Austrian ISO representative for Travel Documents to ICAO and was 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 she graduated as Master of Law and Economics at Imadec University, Vienna

The digital/physical transition, interface and balance

by Rob Haslam

Learn more about the technologies designed to bridge the gap between legacy physical documents and a digital/mobile-first approach to identity management, some of the challenges and recommendations on how to overcome them from the presentation of Rob Haslam, TECH5.

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 Patrick holds a global solution provider; BSc International Sales 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.

Seamless Authentication of Phygital Documents

by Alex Breton

COLOP, a leading provider of modern marking solutions, is introducing the e-mark secure solution. Riding on the waves of digitalization, this presentation will show how it is fully attainable to smoothly move between the digital- and physical worlds of document authentication and verification.

Alex Breton

Alex Breton is a serial international entrepreneur, designer, inventor and author to over twenty patent applications and several publications. He is the CTO and co-founder of COLOP Digital. a hi-tech start-up company affiliated to the COLOP group headquartered in Austria. His latest invention, the COLOP e-mark has won multiple global awards including the RedDot award and the IF Design Award 2020. The invention has also been selected as the European Office product of the year 2020 and most recently been nominated for the North American Office Product of the year 2021 in two different categories including the technology category. Previous engagements include the Swedish high-tech startup company PrintDreams and the Swiss authentication technology invention PaperDNA now consolidated into COLOP Digital. Mr. Breton’s latest invention is a hybrid document authentication & verification method that has the ingredients to become a de-facto standard in many geographies around the world.