{"id":255,"date":"2008-04-15T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/moderating-the-user-centric-identity-track-at-the-2nd-european-identity-conference"},"modified":"2008-04-15T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:19:10","slug":"moderating-the-user-centric-identity-track-at-the-2nd-european-identity-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/moderating-the-user-centric-identity-track-at-the-2nd-european-identity-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderating the User-Centric Identity Track at the 2nd European Identity Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks at Kuppinger &amp; Cole, organizers of the highly successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.id-conf.com\/eic2008\">European Identity Conference<\/a>, have graciously invited me to put together the track on user-centric identity at their second conference next week.<\/p>\n<p>With now hundreds of millions of OpenIDs available in the market from major providers, CardSpace shipping with all copies of Windows Vista, and the first slate of non-Windows identity selectors appearing from name-brand vendors, user-centric identity is now clearly <b>the<\/b> red-hot topic for identity and security in 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m even more fortunate to have a first-rate cast of speakers join me for this track:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>George Fletcher, Chief Architect at AOL<\/b>, will speak about AOL&#8217;s OpenID implementation that has provided OpenID identities to all of AOL&#8217;s users since last year.<\/li>\n<li><b>Helmer Wieringa, Technology Officer at Reed Business<\/b> (the largest division in Reed-Elsevier, a major media and conference company), will make the case why publishers such as Reed only have to gain from migrating old username\/password schemes to universal usernames and no passwords.<\/li>\n<li><b>Kim Cameron, Chief Architect for Identity at Microsoft<\/b> (responsible for Windows CardSpace), <b>Ariel Gordon, Director of Identity Management at France Telecom \/ Orange<\/b> (responsible for Orange&#8217;s offering of OpenIDs to all of their broadband subscribers), <b>Dale Olds, Novell Distinguished Engineer<\/b> (developing the Digital Me identity selector on Linux and the Mac through the Higgins and Bandit open-source projects), <b>Thomas Huhn<\/b> (OpenID entrepreneur in Germany) and <b>Snorri Giorgetti<\/b> (OpenID Foundation&#8217;s representative in Europe) will join George, Helmer and me on an interactive panel to discuss the business case for user-centric identity and the unfolding competitive dynamics of adopters and their competitors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will start the track with an introduction into the technologies, projects and business cases for user-centric identity to give attendees a solid footing in what user-centric identity is all about, who is who, and why it matters to individuals and businesses alike.<\/p>\n<p>My goal with the track is not only to educate identity and security professionals on the rapidly changing identity landscape by providing a representative set of views from leaders in the movement, but also to give you the ammunition with which you can make the case in your companies that user-centricity is here to stay, and that companies that get ahead of the curve have a number of unique business opportunities in front of them.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about the conference here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.id-conf.com\/eic2008\">www.id-conf.com\/eic2008<\/a>. Hope to see you there! If it is like last year&#8217;s, it will very likely be worth your while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nice folks at Kuppinger &amp; Cole, organizers of the highly successful European Identity Conference, have graciously invited me to put together the track on user-centric identity at their second conference next week. 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