ODDS 2023 – It’s Not Physical or Digital, It’s Physical AND Digital

Almost a year to the day since the inaugural Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) Conference in Vienna (Austria), 172 delegates from 94 global organisations along with representatives from government, research institutes and academia gathered (17-19 April) in Prague – the Czech Republic’s stunning capital city – to share recent technical developments in the fields of optical and digital document security.

The conference has its roots in the highly respected Optical Document Security Conference series, held every two years since 1996, and Digital Document Security, a spin-off event first held in 2019. In combining the two events, ODDS recognises the important role that optical technologies continue to play in securing documents as they transition to the digital domain.

Seminar

In the afternoon seminar on the first day of the event (17 April) entitled ‘Smartphones in the New ODDS World: Effective and Convenient’, Dr Alan Hodgson took the audience through the landscape life cycles, challenges, and opportunities of smartphone technology and posed the question whether we are becoming over-reliant on them as a guardian of security in the digital era and whether we are sacrificing identity data safety in favour of convenience?