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The Interenet Identity Workshop is about moving user-centric identity ideas and technologies forward. Come to this event to learn more, participate and shape the future of the web.
User-centric identity starts with the individual, and his or her needs. It is about working relationships and services between individuals and retailers, employers, membership bodies, and organizations of any kind. It is not about a centralized solution, or anybody's silo. As such it solves different problems than the familiar ones of providing authentication and authorization services within a single organization, or federation between different organizations.
User-centric identity is an extremely active and growing conversation involving many converging development efforts -- by open source communities, by vendors large and small, and by customers of all sizes. Internet Identity Workshops are where Sun, Mozilla, Microsoft, IBM, Novell, Liberty Alliance, WS*, Verisign, Red Hat, SixApart, Kintera, Planetwork, Sxip, Cordance, NetMesh, JanRain and many other projects and companies meet to work toward common goals and real solutions. They are joined by customers of all sizes as well.
You won't find a higher ratio anywhere of real productivity to idle chat and marketing BS that are typical to many conferences. I are informal and purpose-driven. In every IIW so far, a high degree of progress has been made, within and between separate development efforts.
The workshops are organized by a working group within Identity Commons, and are run on Open Space practices and principles*. There are no formal presentations, no keynotes, no panels. Instead, topics are vetted and chosen by participants when the workshop convenes, and open meetings are organized and scheduled for the day that follows.
Still wondering if it will be good or not? Read what folks said about the May 2006 conference.The workshop will take place May 14-16, 2007 at the Computer History Museum.
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Like the last IIW, we plan to organize this event using open space principles. We will make the schedule when we are face to face the first day of the conference. We do this in part because the field is moving so rapidly that we your organizing team are in no position to know what needs to be talked about. We do know great people who will be there and it is the attendees who have a passion to learn and contribute to the event that will make it.
Also like the previous two workshops, we will hold IIW2007a at the Computer History Museum. The space there is perfect for this kind of event. We expect a large and energized community to attend and are counting on plenty of participation. Don't be put off by that, however, if you're just getting into this. Come and learn--the first day is designed to get everyone up to speed. You won't be disappointed.
We are committed to keeping this conference open and accessible. Having a venue that will support our doubling in size also means that it costs a bit more.
We decided to have a tiered cost structure to support accessibility as well as inviting those who are more able to pay to contribute. If you want to come we want you there. If cost is an issue please contact us and we can discuss how to make it work.
The fees are used to cover the cost of the venue, organization, snacks and lunch both days. We encourage you to pre-register since we will limit attendance at the event to 200 people. The previous IIW workshops were strongly attended and we expect strong interest in this one as well.
Our goal is to keep the workshop vendor neutral, but we will be accepting limited sponsorships for the following:
If you or your company would like to sponsor one of these workshop activities, or have ideas about other activities contact me. You will not get any extra speaking time for sponsoring but you will get HUGE "thank-yous" and community 'love.' In the past sponsorships have been a huge contribution to the overall event by making the breaks and meals a great networking activity.
IIW2007 is being organized by: