IOTA’s First Webinar: Seeing is Believing

The recent webinar ‘Seeing is Believing: Optical Features for High-Stakes Security’, held on 25 June, was the International Optical Technologies Association’s (IOTA) first public event under its new identity.

Over 200 professionals from more than 48 countries participated in the session, the purpose of which was clear – to show how light, when shaped by science, becomes protection.

Session highlights

Dr Mark Deakes, Chairman of IOTA, opened the session by highlighting the association’s transition to include not only diffractive OVDs but all optical technologies delivering motion, colour, and dynamic recognition.

This was followed by a series of captivating showcases.

Alexandre Noizet (IN GROUPE) presented on the colour shifting zero order device DID™, Moov™ – an animated colour-shifting feature based on micro- and nano-structures, and Plasmogram™ Reversal, a feature for polymer substrates that shows three distinct colours on the front, back, and in transmission.

Jim Keller (CRANE Authentication) focused on volume holograms and micro- optics.