ODDS 2024 – Innovate to Thrive

From 8-10 April, Portugal's vibrant city of Lisbon played host to the 2024 Optical & Digital Security™ (ODDS) conference, providing a collaborative environment for the ID, currency, and secure document technical community to convene, exchange ideas, and unveil new security technologies.

Laying the groundwork

As with previous editions of ODDS, the seminars that preceded the two-day conference invited experts to lead in-depth analyses of topical interest in the document security industry.

In the morning session, Franziska Granc and Arno Fiedler from Nimbus Technologies reviewed the EU's work in setting out rules and structures for a European digital identity wallet.

The afternoon seminar on the potential impacts of AI and quantum computing (QC) was divided into three parts, hosted in turn by seminar leader Prof Dr Volker Lohweg (inIT-Institute Industrial IT), who gave a thought-provoking overview of AI, Dr Anke Ginter (Bundesdruckerei, Germany) who explained the concepts behind QC, and Ian Lancaster (ODDS Programme Director) who pulled the threads together to consider the implications for optical and digital document security.