Upcoming Conferences Demonstrate Ongoing Importance of Optical Security Features
There are two conferences coming up soon which show just how important optical security features still are for authenticating documents such as banknotes, ID, and tax stamps.
However, what these conferences also demonstrate, very clearly, is that it is the symbiosis between optical and digital security that increasingly offers a more robust, comprehensive solution against counterfeiting, fraud, and illicit trade.
Holography Online
The first event is The Holography Conference Online (THCO) on 5-6 December. This is the only global conference for the commercial holography industry, tracking every new development in holography since 1990.
THCO brings together the industry under one, virtual, roof to hear about the latest developments in holography across a broad spectrum of markets and applications – security and authentication, brand enhancement and packaging, display holography, 3D imaging, to name a few.
Representatives from government organisations (including revenue, customs, and enforcement agencies) can register for the event at no charge.
Optical and Digital Security
The second event is the Optical & Digital Document Security conference (ODDS), from 17-19 April 2023.
According to Conference Chairman Ian Lancaster, ‘ODDS is a conference for our times, where physical secured documents exist alongside the digital world. The security levels already honed and under continuing development for physical documents have a lot to offer the digital document world, but in turn, digitisation has a lot to offer the world of physical documents’.
ODDS is targeted at organisations involved in the digital transaction, identity and authentication communities along with specifiers, designers, producers and issuers of secure documents, bringing together the traditional document security community and the younger digital ID and transaction community.
The event is geared towards R&D and product development specialists in such organisations, as well as academics and scientists working on pipeline and next generation technologies.
Organisers Reconnaissance International have now issued a call for papers, with topics of particular interest including new optical technologies and materials; security image design in the physical space; optical security in the point-of-sale environment; personalisation of optical features.
The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2022.
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