The 2024 High Security Printing™ (HSP) Latin America conference took place for the second time in its 12-year history in Chile, a country renowned for its contrasting landscapes, ranging from the world’s driest desert to ancient, unexplored glaciers.

In May 2024, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of ID4Africa, the premier global gathering for the Identity for Development (ID4D) movement, celebrated its 10th anniversary in Cape Town, South Africa.

Registration is now closed for this year’s High Security Printing™ (HSP) Latin America conference, which will take place in Santiago, Chile, from 3-5 June. As with previous HSP conferences, Reconnaissance has had to close registration weeks ahead of the event due to its popularity.

By his own admission, Renaud Laffont-Leenhardt, Product Line Director for Travel Documents at Thales, will have long retired by 2044, but that didn’t stop him from presenting a compelling vision for travel documents at the recent ODDS conference.

The Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) conference series has established itself as the only technical conference for advances in the crossover between physical, digital, and virtual document security. ODDS has been the launchpad for numerous new techniques that go on to achieve commercial success in the ID and secure document industry.

Nestled among seven hills overlooking the Tagus River, Portugal’s vibrant capital city Lisbon played host to the Optical & Digital Document Security™ (ODDS) 2024 conference (8-10 April).

Nestling in the heart of the Balkans, Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, was the picturesque setting for the latest edition of the High Security Printing™ (HSP) conference series (4-6 March). The sell-out event, which had to close its doors to new registrations three weeks in advance, proved to be a success for participants, exhibitors, presenters, and sponsors alike!

Such has been the demand to attend the High Security Printing™ EMEA conference (HSP) in Sofia, Bulgaria, that registration for the event has now closed.

At a time when identity management systems have overlapping dependencies on physical documents, digital transactions and virtual identities, ensuring the security of our financial interactions and identity verification has become of paramount concern.

The 2023 High Security Printing™ (HSP) Asia conference took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 4-6 December, following a four-year break as a result of the pandemic.