Many thanks to all who attended the Kantara Initiative Workshop at RSA this year. The room was packed (with standing room only at one point), and I heard a number of fantastic comments from attendees about the presentations… many who wanted more detail on some presentations.
Along those lines, many thanks to the many energetic and informative presenters and panelists we had on stage. Of course, PayPal’s Andrew “Rock Star” Nash was a crowd favorite, as was Google’s Eric Sachs (too bad Chris Messina was wrestled to the ground by the RSA registration system… ask him that story, it’s hilarious). Add Patrick Harding (Ping Identity) into the mix talking about securely federating clouds, and you’ve got an appetizer to his company’s all-out party the following night.
Rounding out our party was Matthew Gardiner from CA (who earns the dubious distinction of being the first person to utter the term “cloud” during the conference), as well as Chris Sharp from MEDecision who offered up a peek into how the real world deals with cloud identity.
We were also able to dive deeper into cloud services with Oracle’s Uppili Srinivasan and his panelists Gail Coury (Oracle), John Donovan (NetApp), and Archie Reed (HP). Adding to the panel party was Matthew Gardiner’s cross-cutting Identity Services Roadmap with Mark Coderre (Aetna), Debbie Bucci (NIH), and Todd Inskeep (Bank of America).
… and who could resist the Prezi(c) by Paul Madsen (NTT), representing his gold-hording country on stage (despite the fact he actually missed the final hockey game while in the air). Besides, who else would include in a presentation about the state of OpenID, SAML, InfoCard, and OAuth a slide depicting the dangers of incorrectly checking for dirty diapers?
Finally… much and many thanks to Dervla and Joni for rolling in early on Sunday to set up, and staying late on Monday to break down. Not to mention all the lead-up work they did (including hounding folks like me to get in our presentations). Thanks!
And in case you wanted to see the presentations:
- Kantara Initiative Overview (Trent Adams, Internet Society)
- Kantara Initiative Groups (Trent Adams, Internet Society)
- PayPal KI 2010 RSA 2010 IA and Real World (Andrew Nash, PayPal)
- CA KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference (Matthew Gardiner, CA; Chris Sharp, MEDecision)
- NTT KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference (via prezi.com) (Paul Madsen, NTT)
- Ping ID KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference (Patrick Harding, Ping Identity)
- Oracle KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference Customer Panel (Uppili Srinivasan, Oracle; Gail Coury, Oracle; John Donovan, NetApp; Archie Reed, HP)
- Google KI Workshop 2010 RSA Conference (Eric Sachs, Google)
It was at the last RSA where we announced the formation of the Kantara Initiative. One very strong (and busy) year down… and here’s to many more to come (hoping they get easier). Cheers!
March 3rd, 2010 | 
