The great and the good (sic) of the world’s identity technologists will come together in Abu Dhabi in February. The Citizen ID Forum describes itself as “the global symposium on the digitalisation of citizen identification documents”

A similar event held in 2008 was described thus:

“It really gave us the opportunity to see the best technologies available today for the creation of durable biometrics enabled documents, cutting edge data collection and boarder control systems as well as identity management solutions”

The event is being organised by Italian company Wise Media, who publish such delightful reads as Global IDentification, ID People, ID WORLD and OnBoard Technology. They also run other global events such as the ID WORLD International Congress and the Electronic Passport Forum.

This is one company we’ll be keeping our eyes on.