* Reader response to Gartner’s identity management conference
Still recovering from your New Year’s Eve celebration? Wondering which persona you may have been showing that night? Did you wake up wondering about your own identity – or that of someone else? In today’s newsletter, there is nothing too strenuous for your brain. Just some random news and notes for a cold winter’s day (at least here in the northern hemisphere. You netherworlders are probably reading this on the beach!).
There were lots of responses to my rant about the Gartner identity management conference (“Identity experts don’t think much of Gartner’s identity summit”), mostly agreeing with the sentiments expressed. One point that a number of people made, though, was that the attendees at this show weren’t the usual cast of characters you’d see at Catalyst, Digital ID World or an Internet Identity Workshop. Rather, these were CXO types with little exposure to identity management or identity and access management necessitating the “101 level” of most sessions. It may well have served a useful purpose if only to get those folks more familiar with the terms we use.
And speaking of conferences and education, the Liberty Alliance has a free all-day session on “Federation, Web Services, Open Source and Web 2.0 Convergence” coming up in Redwood City, Calif., Jan. 22. All the information is available online and a quick look at the speaker lineup shows a number of folks (Roger Sullivan, Eve Maler, Connor Cahill, Mary Ruddy) who have been favorably mentioned in this newsletter from time to time. It looks like an interesting day out. After all, last year I indicated that the big word for 2006 would be “convergence” and this event should sum it up nicely.
So what will 2007 hold in store for identity? Next week we’ll see what some others are predicting and I’ll share my thoughts on what might be the major points of emphasis for the coming year. You won’t want to miss those issues!
