All our workshops take place co-located to the European Identity & Cloud Conference 2012 in Munich, Germany. With its world class list of speakers, a unique mix of best practices presentations, panel discussions, thought leadership statements and analyst views, EIC has become an absolute must-attend event for enterprise IT leaders from all over Europe.

If you are interested in attending the Kantara Initiative Summit, you can easily register for this workshop.

Complimentary Workshop: Kantara Initiative Summit

17.04.2012 08:30-13:30

2012 brings new opportunities for identity services in the eGovernment and private markets.

Gain �state-of-identity� insights through a series of presentations of common scenarios from diverse market leaders. Join a host of industry experts for this pre-conference workshop to hear the latest on operational and technological approaches to Assurance compliance. This workshop will also touch on the developing NSTIC US strategy and its details with in context of a multi-national domain (EU Directives, etc).

This event will host 5 interactive session which will range from the highest level of overview, including a report from the Internet Society which will explain current ‘state of play’ and Mapping of the Identity Ecosystem, down to the technical detail of testing models to support Deployment Profile Interoperability verification and certification.  Our special guest from the New Zealand Government will focus on Assurance Operational and Technical compliance with special regard to eGovernment scenarios capturing feedback, which has been collected and analyzed from varying multi-national government representatives.  Finally the day will wrap up with a live demo from the very popular User Managed Access (UMA) project, which will show some UMA real-world implementations including: SMARTAM.org and Fraunhofer AISEC.

This event is positioned as a live and interactive discussion.  The presenters will report out and there will be plenty of time in each session for questions and feedback from the audience.  Our goal is to provide informative summaries from our experts.  But this is not only a ‘report out’ meeting.  We look forward to learning from the experiences and expertise in the audience as well.

Association Sponsor

Kantara Initiative Internet: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Home Shaping the Future of Digital Identity Kantara (kan-TAR-a): Swahili for "bridge"; Arabic roots in "harmony" Kantara Initiative: Bridging and harmonizing the identity community with actions that will help ensure secure, identity-based, online interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments

Speakers

John Bradley OpenID Foundation, Kantara John Bradley is an Identity Management subject matter expert and IT professional with a diverse background. Mr. Bradley has over 15 years experience in the information technology and identity management field. Mr. Bradley advises Government Agencies and commercial organizations on the policy and technical requirements of Identity Management, Federated Identity, PKI and smart card solutions. He is also Chair of the Leadership council and a Member of the Board at Kantara. He is treasurer of... Full bio

Joni Brennan Executive Director Kantara Initiative Joni Brennan is the Executive Director of Kantara Initiative. Before she served in her current role she was also the Director of Operations and Technology at Kantara Initiative and Liberty Alliance. Joni is one of many players working to move Identity Standards forward though community efforts. Joni's expertise is in Standards Development and Collaborative Virtual Organizations with specific focus on Identity, Privacy and Security. She also participates in communities including ITAC-OECD,... Full bio

Roland Hedberg Senior Researcher ICT Services and System Development (ITS), Ume� University Roland Hedberg has received one Master degree in Biology and Chemistry from Umeå University, Sweden and another in Mechanical Engineering from Luleå Technical University, Sweden. He is senior researcher at ICT Services and System Development (ITS), Umeå University, Sweden. His main research areas includes distribute authorisation and authentication service infrastructure and identity management. He is involved in three different subtasks within the GEANT3 project (Moonshot,... Full bio

Dr. Maciej Machulak Vice-Chair UMA WG Maciej Machulak is the Vice-Chair of the User-Managed Access Work Group (UMA WG). He has been actively involved in the group since July 2009 and plays an important role in the protocol specification as well as its implementation. Maciej originally comes from Poland where he finished his MSc in Computing Engineering. He was then an Erasmus Exchange Student at Newcastle University where he additionally completed the Advanced MSc degree in “System Design for Internet... Full bio

Christine Runnegar Senior Policy Advisor ISOC Christine Runnegar is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Internet Society, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Her current areas of interest include online IPR issues, privacy and data protection. Christine contributes to the OECD’s work on privacy through the Internet Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) and APEC’s Data Privacy Pathfinder Project through the APEC ECSG Data Privacy Sub-Group (DPS). She also participates in the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) Privacy Program, and works... Full bio

Colin Wallis Authentication Standards Manager, Government Technology Services New Zealand Government Colin Wallis has been involved in the New Zealand Government's online IAM Programme since 2004, for which it won the IDDY award in 2007. This follows five years in the UK, where he worked on the UK eGIF and private sector eBusiness initiatives. Today, Colin holds leadership positions across the consortium space in the area of online Identity. In OASIS, he sits on the Steering Committee of the eGov Member Section, and on the identity-related Technical Committees of Security Services, Customer... Full bio

Continuing Education Credits

After attending this workshop you will be able:

• List components of a Trust Framework (core and supplemental) as well as cite specific examples of Trust Frameworks in operation and developing.
• To recognize and understand current perceived and realistic barriers to application of the Trust Framework model.
• To understand the focus of the Kantara Initiative activities as a Trust Framework Provider with support of specific Work Groups including: Identity Assurance WG, eGovernment WG, Federation Interoperability WG and User Managed Access WG.
• To understand next steps and what actions individuals and organizations can take to become involved in the progressing Trust Framework activities within Kantara Initiative and beyond.

This Workshop qualifies for 5 Group Learning based CPEs

Learning level:  Overview
Pre-requisites: Participants should be familiar with Trust Framework and Interoperability basics (Identity Based Standards and practices including: NIST 800-63, SAML 2.0, Oauth and OpenID)
Preparation required: None

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