European Identity Conference 2008 Summary

Dave Kearns has a summary of the European Identity Conference that I just came back from. Take a look at it when you get a chance. I have a bunch of things to blog about regarding the conference but the one thing I wanted to get out right now was to echo Dave's comments:

Go to this conference - if you can - next year.

I have to say that this was an awesome conference. What I really liked about it was there was a really good mix of end-user/company, analyst and vendor participation.

Thanks for putting on a great show, Martin (and team). My only feedback is that as an exhibitor, I sure hope we don't go back to that facility as it leaves a lot to be desired.

I did an interview with Anika Kehrer from Linux Magazine while I was over there. The article is in German but the video is all English (Canadian version).

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identity management, Quest Software, Linux, Active Directory

European Identity Conference 2008

I took a bunch of pictures of the awards ceremony tonight. Just click on any picture in the slideshow above to see the complete album. Kim Cameron from Microsoft won two awards! I'll add to this album as the conference progresses. My apologies to those folks who I didn't get company or personal names to go with their pictures.

Tomorrow is the panel session on "Virtual Directories and Beyond" which I'll be participating along with Martin Kuppinger (Kuppinger Cole + Partner), Dale Olds (Novell), Sampo Kellomäki (Symlabs), Michel Prompt (Radiant Logic) and Dave Kearns (Network World). It should be fun!

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identity management, Microsoft, Novell, Kim Cameron

Spongebob Schwammkopf and Identity Management

I arrived in Munich last night and all that was on was 29 channels of Deutsche TV. The only thing I could follow was Spongebob Schwammkopf (Spongebob Squarepants). Anyway, all that's behind me now that the 2nd European Identity Management conference kicked off this morning. The keynotes are still to come (in about 20 minutes) but I did sit through Martin Kuppinger's pre-conference session "Identity Management - The Next Step".

Good session, Martin! I'm looking forward to the rest of the conference and meeting lots of customers over the next few days. Big turnout for the exposition hall, too. Quest Software is represented but so are all of the other "usual suspects" and a number of companies I've never heard of before - I'll be checking them out, too.


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Context in Identity

Dave Kearns mentions one of the panel sessions that I'm participating in at the 2nd European Identity Management conference in Munich. It's called "Context in Identity". I'm looking forward to it!!!

If you are here in Munich, be sure to come by our three hour long session Wednesday afternoon on Context in Identity, as well as my opening “Putting Identity in Context” talk that morning. But just in the last couple of weeks the “aha” guy of this conference, Kuppinger-Cole’s Joerg Resch, has put together a dynamite panel for Thursday morning – I’ll be moderating while host Martin Kuppinger, Quest VP Jackson Shaw (ex-Microsoft), Symlabs co-founder Sampo Kellomaki, Radiant Logic CEO Michel Prompt and the Bandit Project’s (and Novell’s) Dale Olds talk about “Virtual Directories and Beyond.” Each of the participants have been deeply involved in virtual directory technology – Sampo and Michel created their companies’ virtual directory products, Jackson was formerly VP at Zoomit who’s VIA product became the Microsoft Metadirectory Service, and Dale has worked on both Novell’s virtual directory as well as the Bandit Project. Martin and I simply like to talk about virtual directories!

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Quest Software, identity management