Invitation

IIW X (IIW #10) is May 17-19, 2010 at the Computer History Museum!

Please note to avoid conflict with Google I/O we have changed the date to the 17-19th Monday to Wednesday.

Registration is open!!! Early Bird Rates in effect.

Monday Day 1 will begin at 9am sharp with an hour of introduction/orientation.There will be 5 working sessions with Agenda Creation beginning at 10am.

Tuesday Day 2 will have agenda creation beginning at 8:30. There will be 5 working sessions and a demo hour after lunch.

Wednsday Day 3 will have agenda creation begin at 8:45. There will be 5 working sessions and we will end by 5pm.

The Internet Identity Workshop focuses on “user-centric identity” and trying to solve the technical challenge of how people can manage their own identity across the range of websites, services, companies and organizations that they belong to, purchase from and participate with.

This is where everyone from a diverse range of projects doing the real-work of making this vision happen gather and work intensively for three days.  It is the best place to meet and participate with all the key people and projects.

The event complies a book of proceedings with all the notes from the conference here are the ones from IIW7, IIW8 & IIW9. BTW these three documents are your secret weapon to convince your employer that this event will be valuable.

For this conference you can see who is coming on our registration page IIW10 (IIW9 attendees can be seen here) and the list of proposed topics for IIW10 gleaned as participants register and will grow in time. (IIW9 proposed topics)

Providing identity services between people, websites, and organizations that don’t necessarily have a formalized relationship is a different problem than providing authentication and authorization services within one or a few organizations (enterprise provisioning/termination or federation between 2 companies).

As a community we have been exploring these kinds of questions:

• How are social networking sites and social media tools applying user-centric identity?
• What are the open standards to make it work? (identity and semantic)
• What are technical implementations of those standards?
• How do different standards and technical implementations interoperate?
• What are the new social norms and legal constructs needed to make it work?
• What tools are needed to make it usably secure for end-users?
• What are the businesses cases / models that drive all this?

How does it work?

After the brief introduction on the first day there are no formal presentations, no keynotes, no panels. We 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.