Programme
Monday 4 March 2024
09:00 – 12:30 Currency – The Future of Cash Seminar
Led Antti Heinonen, former Director of Banknotes at the ECB and Guillaume Lepecq, Cash Essentials
The seminar will focus on understanding the changing cash environment and what stakeholders are doing to optimise the cash cycle and ensure the future viability and sustainability of cash. It brings together all stakeholders to discuss new strategies for shaping the cash ecosystem of the future.
The seminar will be led by Antti Heinonen, former Director of Banknotes at the ECB and Guillaume Lepecq, founder of the CashEssentials think Tank.
The seminar will address three key questions:
- How can stakeholders contribute to shape a viable and sustainable cash ecosystem in an increasingly uncertain environment?
- Is cash a public good? Or a basic right? If so what are the policy implications in terms of access and acceptance, resilience and the funding of the cash cycle?
- What can we learn for the global evolution of cash demand?
In addition, Round Table Conversations will offer the opportunity to debate the burning questions, ranging from declining transactional demand for cash; the need for a more resilient cash cycle in a multi-crisis environment or the loss of privacy in a less-cash environment. Participants will be invited to deploy their collective intelligence to assess and discuss some of the key challenges and opportunities facing the future of cash.
09:00 – 12:30 Identity – The Emerging Behaviour of Fraudsters in the Modern World – The obstacles in future-proofing document design
Michael Van Gestel & Simon Horswell, Onfido
The digital revolution is here to stay. Consumers, and therefore governments and corporations, demand self-service, and with it, remote document authentication at scale. With recent advances in AI, fraudsters have access to better tooling, and limitless source material.
In this seminar, we will take a deep dive into the statistics and findings of Onfido’s 2024 Identity Fraud Report; in particular, the emerging behaviour of fraudsters in the modern world. We will look at the current methodology employed by organised fraud rings, the importance of document design in their approaches, and potential solutions.
13:30 – 17:00 Currency – Operation Timerbrier- A Counterfeiters Fall from Glory
Kerre Corbin, Kerrency Ltd
A father and son team were sentenced in December 2022 after pleading guilty to manufacturing £977,000 worth of counterfeit banknotes. This is their story.
Learn how these counterfeiters used Dearneside Press, a legitimate printing business, to manufacture counterfeit Scottish banknotes. The counterfeit notes were printed at the shop, then taken to the son’s house to simulate all the security features. Three boxes of evidence were submitted for examination after the raid on both properties, but there was more to come.
Sheets of counterfeit banknotes, inks, stamps, rolls of used and unused foil, dies for hot foil stamping machine, genuine pattern banknotes, crime scene photos, and computer files/images had to all be linked together for the six different counterfeit banknotes. Holograms, windowed threads, and UV patterns were simulated on UV dull paper. Amongst all the evidence was a huge surprise that Mr. Gaunt could not refute. A mammoth task, but it was all worth it!
18:30 Welcome Reception
Tuesday 5 March 2024
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Session 1 – Currency and Identity Documents in EMEA
09:10
The Art of Oberthur Fiduciaire
Plamen Tzviatkov
Oberthur Fiduciaire (France)
Sven Busselberg
Oberthur Fiduciaire (France)
09:50
Conceptual Design of the New Bulgarian Documents. New Bulgarian ID Card
Petia Yordanova
Ministry of Interior (Bulgaria)
10:30 Session Q&A
10:50 Break – Refreshments
Session 2 – Currency Developments
Session 2 – Developments in Identity Documents
11:40
Escher®: Advancing Digital 3D Intaglio Design
Dr. Michael Kasch
Orell Füssli Security Printing (Switzerland)
13:00 Session Q&A
11:40
Unveiling the Future of Secure Travel with Latvia’s New ePassport
Ēriks Vismanis
Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) (Latvia)
Liis Vilde
Veridos (Germany)
12:00
DOVIDs for Travel and Identity Documents – Recent Trends and Developments
Micaal Sidorov
Demax Holograms (Bulgaria)
13:00 Session Q&A
13:20 Lunch
Session 3 – Design & Security
16:10 Session Q&A
Session 3 – Design & Security
14:50
Updating eID Documents in the Field is Essential to Their Security
Juliette Thomas
IDEMIA (France)
Jérôme Boudineau
IDEMIA (France)
15:30
From Mammoth to Robot: True Story of The National Identity Guard
Robert Dvorak
IQ Structures (Czech Republic)
16:10 Session Q&A
16:30 Extended Exhibition Viewing
18:30 Gala Dinner and Presentation of Regional Banknote and ID Awards
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Session 4 – Production and Sustainability
09:00
Security & Sustainability – A Mutual Journey
Thomas Kleindienst
Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co KG (Germany)
09:40
Closing the Loop: Unfit Banknote Disposing Practices, Emerging Trends and Recycling Innovations
Jeroen Kusters
Royal Dutch Kusters Engineering (Netherlands)
10:00
Introducing Banknote Fiber Extraction – Decompose Unfit Banknotes for Optimal Repurposing
Ferdinand Storek
G+D Currency Technology (Germany)
10:20 Session Q&A
Session 4 – Travel
09:00
Harmonizing the Skies: Navigating Global Standardization and Regulatory Challenges in Digital Travel Credentials (DTC)
Tomasz Mokrogulski
HID Global (UK)
09:20
National ID Documents Production Waste Management
Emmanuel Kpakpo Brown
National Identification Authority (Ghana)
10:00
The Inexorable Demise of Physical Visa Stickers – Should we be Worried?
Francis Tuffy
ID & Secure Document News (UK)
10:20 Session Q&A
10:35 Break – Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
Session 5 – TBC
Session 5 – Document Fraud and Anti-Counterfeiting
11:30
Visualization and Verification of Holograms. Do we have all the Tools and Solutions?
Dmitrijs Bobrovs
Regula Forensics (Latvia)
12:10
New Generation of Dynamic Luminescent Inks Based on Nanotechnology to Prevent Counterfeiting
Àlex Julià Lopez
Distinkt SL (Spain)
12:30 Session Q&A
11:30
Moldova’s Actions to Reduce Counterfeiting of Travel Documents
Maria Donos
General Inspectorate of Border Police of MIA (Moldova)
11:50
An Ideal Upgrade Path for Data-Pages and Secure Documents
Richard Perera
Landqart AG (Switzerland)
12:30 Session Q&A
12:45 Lunch
14:00 Session 6 – Technology and Innovation
14:30
Sustainability in the Destruction Process of Banknotes
Gabriel Moser
Hunkeler Systeme AG (Switzerland)
14:50
Automation Grade Non-Cloneable Print With Credible Remote Authentication – Where The World has Missed the Plot!
Ashish Anand
Linksmart Technologies (India)
Kishor Badiger
Linksmart Technologies (India)