2022 Review - High Security Printing EMEA in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia’s capital on the Baltic Sea, is the country’s cultural hub. It retains its walled, cobblestoned Old Town, home to cafes and shops and it’s Gothic Town Hall, built in the 13th century sitting in the main square which made the perfect backdrop for this event. But don’t get the impression that Tallinn lives in the past – its citizens are amongst the most tech-savvy in Europe and it is one of the top-ranking countries in the world on the UN’s E-Government Development Index. The event was host to over 200 delegates from more than108 organisations and 35 countries.
The 2022 High Security Printing Conference in Tallinn was exceptional, maintaining a clear focus on the latest technologies, features, processes and applications for the production and protection of financial and identification documents. And, it provided unparalleled networking opportunities alongside the seminars, the various presentations over the two days and the awards for regional excellence in banknotes and ID documents respectively, not to mention the various social events.
The conference programme was split into two parallel tracks – one focusing on currency and the other on travel and identity documents – allowing attendees to concentrate on the topics and issues that interest them most. A total of 52 presentations was delivered over the two days with six dedicated sessions covering regional developments in currency, passports and national eID, security features, production and print as well as issuance and identity management, authentication, cash management, developments in other secure documents, and technology and innovation.
The ID seminar looked at the increasing requirements for self-service, quick and reliable document authentication remotely and at scale now that fraudsters have access to increasingly excellent technology, leaked data and a vast library of faces from social media.
The currency seminars started with reducing the environmental impact of cash now that sustainability has become a high-profile topic, taking a look at what producers of cash and coins and what cash management stakeholders can do to reduce their environmental impact of their operations and the cash cycle.
The seminar also covered issues faced in developing and sustaining the circular economy, identifying where materials have come from and where goods, after their useful life, are going to.
A second currency seminar – entitled Going Inside Counterfeiting Print Shops – used open source intelligence to demonstrate the equipment and materials used in counterfeiting operations.
The conference itself was formally opened by Mr Raivo Küüt, Undersecretary for Population Facts and Civil Society from the Ministry of the Interior, Estonia. Mr Küüt made himself popular with the audience by saying that ID and other government issued documents were ‘more than just pieces of paper’ and by setting the industry a target to ensure that everyone in the world should have just one verifiable identity.
A specialised exhibition of over 30 companies was held alongside the conference sessions, providing delegates with an opportunity to see the latest industry products and solutions.
There were two other highlights of the event which included the conference dinner at the stunning Tallinn Seaplane Harbour, which offered delegates the chance to network in a more informal setting and experience a taste of the local culture. The dinner also provided the setting for the presentation of the annual Best Banknote and Best ID Document Awards.
Several new notes and a note series were recognised for their outstanding technical advancement and design, and security excellence.
The Best New Banknote Series award went to the Central Bank of Central Bank of Oman for the new notes launched to launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Modern Omani Renaissance. The Reserve Bank of Malawi picked up the award for Best New Banknote for the 5,000 kwacha and the winner of the Best New Commemorative Banknote was Narodowy Bank Polski (National Bank of Poland), for the 20 zloty collectors banknote entitled ‘Is It Worth Being a Pole?’ issued in November 2021 to commemorate Prof Lech Kaczyński, former President of the Republic of Poland.
The ID document awards included four winners and the awards recognised outstanding achievements and technical sophistication of the documents and the best in system infrastructure and implementation of the schemes.
The award for the Best New Passport went to the Zetes-Thales consortium and the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs department for the new Belgian ePassport.
There were two winners of the Best New National ID Card award – IDEMIA and the General Directorate of National Security for the new Morocco national eID card, and the Service of Technological Security of State Documents under the Ministry of Finance for the new Lithuanian eID card.
The award for Best New ID or Travel Document – was made to Veridos, USPC and the Ministry of Works and Transport for the new Ugandan driving license.
The full press releases for these awards can be found here:
https://reconnaissance.net/the-best-in-banknotes-and-id-documents-in-emea/
On the final evening the established HSP football match allowed delegates to play at the prestigious ‘Sportland Arena’, with 22 delegates participating, this was as competitive as ever and with no injuries which is always a relief ! Except Will Stamper should have got a yellow card for a cynical late challenge on Francis (Frankmeister) Tuffy!
The location of our HSP EMEA 2023 event will be held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, from the 7-9 March 2023. We are also honoured to be able to offer central banks and government issuing authority delegates the opportunity to visit the Oumolat Security Printing Printworks – the new banknote printing company in the United Arab Emirates and is a specialized facility for printing banknotes, equipped with ultra‐modern and fully integrated security and protection systems.
So, this was my ‘first one’!! It was a must. Really enjoyed the subjects and presentations. Hopefully I’ll be back! Many thanks.
Good venue – excellent! A pity what is happening in the world – great that it still happened! Well done!
Great location, beautiful gala dinner, interesting working conference. Useful sessions raising new ideas.
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It has been splendid, excellent presentations from distinguished players in the currency and ID documents ecosystem. The coronavirus threat couldn’t stop HSP EMEA, Lisbon, Portugal!
Continues to be a very interesting conference that lets us know the news and good practices used by partner as well as trends.
It was worth coming to this conference even more/although difficulties of corona. But we could meet our customers and hear great presentations.
Attendees
Great location, beautiful gala dinner, interesting working conference. Useful sessions raising new ideas.
Good venue – excellent! A pity what is happening in the world – great that it still happened! Well done!
So, this was my ‘first one’!! It was a must. Really enjoyed the subjects and presentations. Hopefully I’ll be back! Many thanks.
Programme
Monday 13 June 2022
09:00 – 12:30 Identity – Digitizing Identity: Benefits and Risks Highlighted by the Current Regulatory Landscape
In this interactive workshop we will provide the context of international remote identity verification and will compare and contrast different global approaches and how they impact user experience, fraud detection and document design.
This session is designed to bring together specialists from different fields to brainstorm problems and present their proposed solutions. All of the attendees will focus on distinct problems and highlight their insights for the benefit of all the participants.
09:00 – 12:30 Sustainability – Reducing the Environmental Impact of Cash
Sustainability has become a high-profile topic for good reasons. This seminar will look at what producers of cash and coins and what cash management stakeholders can do to reduce the environmental impact of their operations and the cash cycle. The aim of these talks, given in a workshop format to allow discussion and exchanges of views and information, is to share best practice and to provide examples which others might want to consider doing. They will include what has been done, and with what results, and how the organisations approached making these changes. A specialist sustainability consultancy will introduce the topic and layout thoughts on how to plan a sustainability programme.
New Solutions to Support the Circular Economy
While reducing the environmental impact of operations plays a critical role in sustainability, is there more that the high security printing industry can do to use novel applications of its technology to help develop the emerging circular economy?
As the name implies, a circular economy (CE) extends the traditional notions of operations management to include production, consumption, reuse and waste management.
This part of the seminar will focus on the beginning and end of the CE (if that’s possible for a circle) – ethical sourcing and waste management. Many of the issues faced in developing and sustaining the CE are bound into identifying where materials have come from and where goods, after their useful life, are going to. These topics are familiar to many companies involved in the security print and identity industries, but which provide new opportunities for their solutions beyond the conventional applications for brand protection, track and trace and authentication.
Wherever you are on your journey to sustainability, this seminar aims to give food for thought about new opportunities to do things differently.
13:30 – 17:00 Currency – Going Inside Counterfeiting Print Shops
What would you expect to find inside a counterfeiting print shop? Using open source intelligence, this interactive seminar will develop your understanding of the equipment and materials used in counterfeiting operations and train you to identify them in media reports. It will be demonstrated that this approach can be useful for counterfeit analysis without having access to the counterfeits. This seminar will be of interest to delegates who have responsibility for examining and processing counterfeits or developing security features.
Tuesday 14 June 2022
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Secure Document Landscape Review
09:00
Welcome and Conference Overview
Astrid Mitchell
Currency News (UK)
09:20
Regional Developments in Banknotes and Coins 2020-2022
Astrid Mitchell
Currency News (UK)
09.40
Sustainability & Ethics – Taking Action Together to Drive Change
Lachlan McDonald
CCL Secure (Australia)
10.00
Fraud Phenomena in the Context of Document and Identity Checks
Didier Godard
Frontex (Belgium)
Regional Currency Developments
11:05
Neuroscience Applied to Banknotes and Security Features
Cristina García
Banco de España (Spain)
11:25
TBC
PWPW
PWPW (Poland)
11:45
An Objective Look at Security and the Future of Cash
Gerben van Wijk
Luminescence Sun Chemical (UK)
12:05
JUMP – Bring Your Notes to Life
Christoph Gebauer
G+D Currency Technology (Germany)
Identity Landscape – Design through to Delivery
11:05
What can Possibly go Wrong when Designing a new Document?
Toni Kaskiala
Thales (Finland)
11:45
The Emerging Influential Factors of Document Design
Michael van Gestel
Onfido (UK)
12:05
The New German ID Card – More Than Meets The Eye
Anna Wandschneider
Forensic Science Institute at the Bundeskriminalamt (Germany)
Duncan Faulkner
Bundesdruckerei (Germany)
12:25
Counterfeit Travel and Identity Documents in the Republic of Moldova
Maria Donos
General Inspectorate of Border Police of MIA (Republic of Moldova)
Design and Production
13:45
Digital, Modular, Sustainable: The Future of Banknotes
Christophe Butzerin
Koenig & Bauer Banknote Solutions (Switzerland)
14:05
Relief™ : 3D Solutions for the Future
Will Stamper
Oberthur Fiduciaire (France)
Guillaume Chapeau
14:25
A Culture of Improvement
Steve Craig
Komori (Japan)
14:45
Nanoengineered Optical Security Features for Protection of Banknotes
Robert Dvorak
IQ Structures (Czech Republic)
15:05
Advanced Security Features for Banknotes
Ian Smith
LEONHARD KURZ Stiftung & Co. KG (Germany)
15:25
Introducing the latest UV-feature Mouve (INK)
Ulrich Walter
Gleitsmann Security Inks (Germany)
Authentication and Certification
13:45
Innovative Optical Technology Dedicated to Security Document Authentication
Andrey Karyuchin
SICPA (Switzerland)
14:05
The Ghanacard’s Trajectory to the ICAO Certification
Emmanuel Kpakpo Brown
Ghana National Identification Authority (Ghana)
14:25
Uganda’s new Driver’s Licensing System
David Jacob Ruhinda
Ministry of Works and Transport (Uganda)
Mujo Karaosmanovic
Veridos (Germany)
14:45
Barcoded Postage Stamps: Variable Matrix Code Printing and Inspection Challenges
Maarten Rambach
Lake Image (UK)
Manuel Hernandez
Domino Printing (UK)
15:05
eID Innovative Antenna Connections for Ultra-thin and Robust Contactless eID Documents
Ksenia Egorova
Infineon Technologies (Germany)
15:25
The new Lithuanian eID
Leonas Stankevičius
Service of Technological Security of State Documents, Ministry of Finance (Lithuania)
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Processes
09:00
Different Substrates Within the Devaluation Process – Shreds fit for Recycling
Gabriel Moser
Hunkeler (Switzerland)
09:20
Applications of DLC for increased Security and Sustainability
Eric Serenius
Roto Hybrid Advanced Technologies (USA)
09:40
Yes, you can recycle cotton banknotes
Richard Perera
Landqart (Switzerland)
10:00
Closing the Cycle – Sustainability Starts From Design
Veronica Esponda
WTG Water Treatment (Austria)
Substrates, Features and Secure Docs
09:00
Pushing boundaries in ID Document Innovations via Specialty Films
Georgios Tziovaras
Covestro (Germany)
09:20
Innovative Solution to the Polycarbonate IDs
Robert Dvorak
IQ Structures (Czech Republic)
09:40
Passport Transition From Paper to Polycarbonate Datapage
Guy de la Roche
Surys (France)
10:00
The New era of Colour in ID Documents
Thomas Poreaux
IDEMIA (France)
10:20
Next Level Security Windows
Terhi Halminen
Thales (France)
Sustainability / Cash of the Future
11:30
Cash of the Future
Johannes Beermann
Deutsche Bundesbank (Germany)
11:50
Cashtech: Can Innovation Solve the Cash Conundrum?
Guillaume Lepecq
Agis Consulting (France)
12:10
De La Rue Data Analytics – Banknote Data Trends
Simon Jones
De La Rue (UK)
12:30
The Road to Net Zero – a Simple, Uncomplicated, and Affordable Solution
Philippa Desiderio
The Hut Group (UK)
Verification / Fraud / Examination
11:30
Why Mobile Identities Need a Card
Liz O'Brien
HID Global (USA)
11:50
Addressing Document Fraud and Facilitating Ease of Use.
Joachim Caillosse
Secure Identity Alliance (France)
12:10
MagID: a Totally new Authentication Technology
Nathalie Muller
MagVision (UK)
12:30
Digital Printing and Counterfeiting
Alex van Duuren
Andrupos (Netherlands)
14:00 Panel Session – Design and Production of Security Documents through Digital Print
Welcome and intro presentation – David Tidmarsh
HP Indigo – Gidi Amir
Komori – Phil Holland
Jura – Barna Barabas
Luminescence Sun Chemical Security – Gerben van Wijk
This panel will provide an introduction to high-end digital print equipment and its use for security documents. It will offer information, guidance and a contextual overview on the digital security print, as well as practical insights in to setting up and using the systems. The session will be invaluable to all involved in security document issuance design and printing.
Dgital printing technologies are finding an ever-increasing role in the production of secure documents, particularly in areas that require low setup costs and the individualisation of documents with unique or sequential features. This is seeing the development of digitally-specific security print design features. What are they and how do you incorporate them in to your security document?
Before adopting digital printing for your secured documents you need to consider its characteristics, the consumables available for digital printing and the supporting design and pre-press software available – as well as how you might integrate with traditional analogue printing. You also need to consider the easy availability of digital printers and how its output compares against the output of the specialist equipment being developed for security printing.
This panel will examine the characteristics of these specialist digital printers for secured documents, with information on security inks for digital printing, feature design software, printing hardware and real-life applications. It will also take a big-picture look at the opportunities and threats arising from these printer developments.
The session will feature presentations from equipment, software and ink suppliers as well as a company already offering digitally printed documents, to ensure that you get clear, detailed and practical information on the possibilities and options of using high-end digital systems for security documents.
Sponsors
Thank you to our 2022 Sponsors and Exhibitors
Many thanks to the following sponsors and exhibitors for taking part in our wonderful exhibition running alongside the conference:
Platinum – IDEMIA
Gold – Koenig & Bauer, Komori Corporation, Stardust
Silver – HID Global, Hungarian Banknote Printing Company / DIPA, Jura / PARVIS, Luminescence Sun Chemical Security, SICPA, WTG Water Treatment GmbH
Exhibitors – Covestro, Heidelberg Instruments, Hunkeler Systeme AG, Infineon, International Reference Systems, IQ Structures, Lake Image Systems / DOMINO, Luminochem, MagVision, Regula, ZEISER