ODDS 2024 Opens Call for Papers

The Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference, which takes place in Lisbon, Portugal from 8-10 April 2024, has released a call for papers.

ODDS ’22 and ODDS ’23 have shown the importance of this conference in uniquely bringing together two communities: secured documents, and digital identity and transactions. The conference fills a necessary role in uniting these two domains to share ideas, information and concerns as society becomes ever more virtual and digital.

Are we more vulnerable to identity and financial theft in this new virtual environment than in the world of banknotes, identity cards and passports? How do we ensure comparable levels of security and protection in both domains? And how do the worlds of physical and digital documents and products interact and work together; indeed, do they need to? What is the function of governments and central banks when global technology companies are so powerful? And how will artificial intelligence affect this field?

These questions form the backbone of ODDS. The conference is the opportunity to sense-check your thinking, approach and technologies as well as showcase your solutions to the technical communities focused on securing our products, money, transactions, and identity.

We invite you, therefore, to submit your proposals for presentations on the critical issue of document and product identity and transaction security in this era where the physical, digital, and virtual worlds co-exist.

If you are involved in the digital transaction, identity and authentication communities or the physical secure document field, whether commercially, in academia or government, then you will find ODDS a valuable forum to explain, share, learn, network, and explore possibilities.

The deadline for submissions is 31 October 2023. 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).

Your proposal will then be reviewed by the ODDS Programme Committee, and you will be notified if your presentation has been selected by December 2023.

Topics of interest

Your paper could be about the digital world, the physical world or both, covering strategic or technical issues. We are particularly interested in case studies showing how the transition from physical to digital has worked and how effective digital or phygital (physical + digital) security is.

Here are some of the topics proposed by the Programme Committee as guidance: 

Optical

• Novel optical approaches, materials, products, and technologies Interfacing optical features and digital systems

• Security image design in the physical space

• Optical security in the point-of-sale environment

• Personalisation of optical features

• Durability and permanence of optical features.

Digital

• Digital currencies: CBDCs and cryptocurrencies

• Serialisation, 2D codes and unique identifiers

• The role of smartphones and operating in non-smartphone environments 

• Digital credentials, decentralised identity management, digital identity wallets 

• Identity ecosystems: national or transnational digitisation of citizen data and identity verification 

• Detection of digital fakes.

Phygital

• Applications, threats and opportunities of artificial intelligence and machine learning 

• The digital/physical transition

• Ergonomics and human engagement

• Reconciling convenience and security

• Enrolment systems

• The future travel environment

• Counterfeit resilience assessment, benchmarking, metrics, statistics, and analytics 

• Vaccination certificates, health status certification

• ID theft, counterfeit, denial-of-service, and fraud countermeasures 

• Authentication of the item, the data, and the person

• Global trust and global approaches for digital identity.

For more information visit: https://opticaldigitalsecurity.com/call-for-papers/.