Join us next week in Munich for the Kantara Spring Workshop, April 13-14, 2012.  The event is kindly hosted by Fraunhofer AISEC in Garching, just outside Munich, Germany.

The focus for the workshop is; strategic planning, Interoperability, eGovernment, NSTIC and more. Kantara’s Board of Trustees and Working/Discussion Groups will meet to focus on forward planning and future goals.

We hope you can join us in Munich. Contact dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org if any questions.

Registration: http://kantaramunichmtg.eventbrite.com/

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Conferences

Please Note: Non-member Independents/Contributors/Students who register by the early-bird deadline are entitled to credit their meeting registration towards an Individual Contributor level membership.

Early bird registration ends March 16 for the Kantara Initiative meeting April 13-14, 2012. Many thanks to Fraunhofer SIT who will facilitate us at their meeting offices in Garching, just outside Munich, Germany.

We invite you to join us at our 2-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene.

With our pricing structure, you can sign up for 1 day or the full 2-day event.

Please Note: Non-member Independents/Contributors/Students who register by the early-bird deadline are entitled to credit their meeting registration towards an Individual Contributor level membership.

Review the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space.

Registration: http://kantaramunichmtg.eventbrite.com

We look forward to seeing you in Germany.

What: Kantara Initiative Summit
When: Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 8:00am-1:30pm, Room location TBD
Where: Dolce Ballhaus Forum, Andreas-Danzer-Weg, 85716 Unterschleißheim, Munich, Germany
(at the European Identity Conference 2012)

Description: 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.

We will focus on Trust Framework Model, deployment interoperability, and what your organization can do to get involved. We also look forward some open-time Q&A as well as learning more about the experiences the attendees would like to share.

The User Managed Access (UMA) Interop will show some UMA real-world implementations including: SMARTAM.org and Fraunhofer AISEC.

We are also looking forward to hearing feedback and questions from the audience as input to the discussions.

Registration: Register for the Kantara Summit via EIC Conference.  40 persons max. capacity.

Agenda:

We invite you to join us for the second ID Collaboration Day, February 27,2012 in San Francisco, prior to the RSA Conference.

Regular registration at $175 ends on February 20, the fee thereafter is $225.

Registration: http://idcollab2.eventbrite.com/

Breakfast/Registration begins at 8am.   Agenda creation begins at 9am and the event closes at 5pm.

Last year’s event was a successful collaboration between IIW/IDCommons and Kantara Initiative. This year IDTrust & OASIS are additional collaborating organization.

We are excited about the opportunity that RSA brings with the wide range of security professionals in town that week.

Managed and organized by and like IIW – the agenda will be created live and in real time the morning of the event.  This provides the opportunity for a range of real work to be done in real time about key emerging topics and issues.

You can see topics from previous events on the IIW wiki - http://iiw.idcommons.net

The venue is the same location as last year – close to downtown and a short cab, subway or taxi ride from Moscone Center.

Draft Agenda:

8:00 Registration & Breakfast
9-10 Agenda Creation
10-11 Session 1
11-12 Session 2
12-1 Lunch
1-2 Session 3
2-3 Session 4
3-4 Session 5
4-5 Closing

Kantara Initiative’s User-Managed Access (UMA) WG will hold their first-ever UMA Twitter chat on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, at 9-10am Pacific time (time chart). If there’s interest, the group will turn this into a regular event.

The chat hashtag is #UMAchat. If you write in, be sure to use it! An easy way to follow along is to use TweetChat.com.

Your hosts will be:

• Eve Maler, UMA group chair (@xmlgrrl)
• Maciej Machulak, UMA group vice-chair (@mmachulak)

The focus of this chat is:

• The UMA spec
• UMA implementations, development advice, best practices, and interoperability testing

…or whatever UMA-related topics you want to float!

If you have any comments or suggestions ahead of time, feel free to tweet directly to the hosts, and/or include the hashtag #UMAchat or #UMAWG to get our attention.

UMA Chat details: bit.ly/ymAKIZ

“What is UMA and why do we need it?”

In a nutshell, User-Managed Access (UMA) is…

UMA is needed by…

• Individuals, to give them a “personal data concierge” that handles requests for access to their online data, content, and services
• Websites, to enable them to offer sophisticated data-sharing features to their users without having to implement those features natively
• Online identity providers, to offer their users the ability to set access policies from a single place even if those users engage with dozens or hundreds of sites and apps on a regular basis

This webinar will…

• Discuss real-life use cases for UMA
• Demonstrate UMA implementations
• Review UMA’s architecture and its relationship to the OAuth and OpenID Connect specifications

Register now!
UMA WG details

Join us for our one-day Identity Summit at the Smart Card Alliance Conference. This Summit will contain presentations, panels and discussion from diverse market leaders discussing industry efforts focused on governance, assurance, certification and in particular how this relates to NSTIC. Learn about current progress and new community efforts underway.

What: Kantara Initiative Identity Summit
When: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 8:00am-4:00pm
Where: Ronald Reagan Center, Washington D.C., USA (at the Smart Card Alliance Conference 2011)
Complimentary Registration: http://www.cvent.com/d/7dqh6r – please use the code “KW24″ to attendance to the Kantara Summit only. Please select the “One-Day Pre-Conference Workshop” option when registering.

Agenda: http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/GI/Kantara+Initiative+Summit+2011+11+01

Contact Dervla O’Reilly, dervla[at]kantarainitiative[dot]org with questions.

Trust and usability are prerequisites for the development of commercial, administrative, social media and other e-services. To enable trust and usability today, secure and easy-to-use e-identification is in the users, service providers and the public interest. Identity federation is a solution that is now beginning to spread and gain in importance.

An identity federation is an association of organizations that have agreed to rely on each others’ electronic identities to facilitate user access and protect personal privacy when using electronic services.

During this workshop, participants will review practical experience in developing and establishing identity federation. Target groups for the workshop are the organizations which operate or plan to establish identity federation, email service providers, credential service providers/identity providers.

Agenda
09:00 Introduction – Presentation of participants: Kantara Initiative – The Bridge to Communities Assurance, Governance and Technical Interoperability
Joni Brennan, Executive Director of Kantara Initiative

10:00 SWAMID – Swedish Academic Identity
Leif Johansson, SUNET

10:30 Coffee

11:00 Kalmar2 and eduGAIN, international collaborations in the Federation area
Valter Nordh, SUNET / GU

11:30 Local Authorities in England (KSL)
Karin Bengtsson, Head of IT Forum (KSL), Stefan Svensson, IT Strategist, City of Stockholm, and Björn Söderlund, IT strategist Lidingö City

12:00 Case Study – Pharmacy Services Ltd
Speakers from the Pharmacy Service AB

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Swedish e-identification
Nils Fjelkegård, E-ID Board

14:00 Market – users and email service providers’ preferences
Staffan Hagnell,. SE
Summary – Is it time to add the next gear in our identity federation?
Thomas Nilsson, Certezza

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Common discussion – Identity federation for what and whom?
The discussion is led by Rolf Lysell, Innotiimi AB
- For which services and users?
- What are the opportunities for cooperation and how we continue the work?

17:00 End

Event details: http://bit.ly/nwzIC9
Complimentary Registration
Location: Finlandshuset Konferens, Snickarbacken 4, Stockholm

Registration is open for the Kantara Initiative meeting Oct 20-21, 2011. Much thanks to CA who will host us at their training office in Redwood City, CA, USA.

We invite you to join us at our 2-day event where Kantara’s Board of Trustees (BoT), Leadership Council (LC), Discussion Groups (DGs) and Working Groups (WGs) will convene.

Take advantage of the early bird registration which is available until September 23, 2011. With our pricing structure, you can sign up for 1 day or the full event. See the current agenda and specific event logistics in detail at our events wiki space.

We look forward to seeing you in the Bay Area.

Registration: http://kantararedwoodcitymtg.eventbrite.com