XXIVth International Security Printers’ Conference and Exhibition

October 13th, 14th and 15th 2010 - Barcelona, Spain

 

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The XXIVth International Security Printers’ Conference and Exhibition will be held on October 13th, 14th and 15th 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. Both Conference and Exhibition will take place at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya. The congress center is located favourably on Avenida Diagonal, within close distance from the conference hotels.

 

 

Welcome Address

 

After very successfully holding the first International Security Printers’ Conference in a Nordic country in May 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden, the INTERGRAF Planning Committee has decided to return to Southern Europe for the next conference. The XXIVth International Security Printers’ Conference and Exhibition will be held in Spain. Spain has been one of the most important actors on the European and indeed the world stage for almost a thousand years, in the cultural and political as well as the economic sphere. Very recently it has been one of the fastest growing European economies and although it has been hit quite hard by the current economic down-turn, it is certain to re-emerge as one of the leading European countries. Due to its historic ties to Central and South America it also wields considerable influence in the whole of the western hemisphere.

 

It is against this background that I have great pleasure to invite you all on behalf of the INTERGRAF Planning Committee to join us in Barcelona, for the XXIVth International Security Printers’ Conference and Exhibition in October, 2010. When selecting a venue, the INTERGRAF Planning Committee has to take into account that the conference now attracts close to a thousand participants, which need a sufficiently large conference and exhibition centre, an international airport in reasonable proximity and good hotels. In all of these, Barcelona completely satisfied the Committee. The city selected should also be interesting, from a cultural, historical and perhaps even culinary point of view, and here too, Barcelona meets all requirements in abundance. In some respects, Barcelona is a strikingly modern city, with some of the most inventive architecture found in Europe. In other respects, it is a great example of a medieval town surviving brilliantly in the 21st century – and of course there are innumerable witnesses to the artistic and cultural flowering the city experienced at the turn and in the first quarter of the last century. The names of Antoni Gaudí, Joan Miró and Picasso – although by birth an Andalusian – evoke this period. Of course, the location is important, but more important still is the content of the conference. The Planning Committee has put together a programme that reflects the current, and we hope, some of the future concerns of the security printing community, both in the banknote and the ID arenas. Expert speakers will discuss what the industry needs to do to incorporate the latest technical advances and to stay ahead of the forger and counterfeiter. And the exhibitors will show how the needs of the industry have been translated into reality.

 

You can be assured of a full, interesting and enriching programme, which will meet the highest expectations of all who will attend the XXIVth International Security Printers’ Conference and Exhibition. I look forward to welcoming you in Barcelona,

 

Efthimios Matsoukis

Chairman of the INTERGRAF Security Printers’ Section