Success for the First Security Designers Forum – Creating Value for the Design Community

The inaugural Security Designers Forum (SDF) was held in Warsaw, Poland, from 10-13 September 2024. An initiative of the security design community, it was the successor to the International Banknote Designers Conference and was a full-capacity event, attracting 176 delegates from 82 organisations spanning 32 countries.

The issues addressed went way beyond the physical design, exploring a wide range of design-related themes for many secure documents, but principally banknotes and passports. Designers and technical experts haven’t had a chance to meet each other since before COVID, and the sell-out attendance clearly demonstrated the need for a forum run by the industry for the industry to work together and share experiences, ideas and know-how to enhance the aesthetics, functionality and security of secure documents.

What became clear early on in the forum was that there is a wide range of knowledge, engagement, and cooperation across the whole design process, coupled with a real desire to improve collaboration by bringing the community together through events such as the SDF.