DIDW show gets a helping hand

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON IDENTITY MANAGEMENT
09/26/05
Today's focus: DIDW show gets a helping hand

Dear security.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* IDG World Expo now handling the logistics of Digital ID World
* Links related to Identity Management
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Today's focus: DIDW show gets a helping hand

By Dave Kearns

There's big news on the trade show front. Now that's a sentence
I never thought I'd write in the Identity Management newsletter,
but evidently identity managed to finally have a "breakout" year
last year and be prominent on everybody's radar this year.

Digital ID World (DIDW), held annually since 2002, has grown so
big so fast that the original organizing team can no longer
handle the logistics of bringing the audience and vendors
together. Frequently when that happens, the organizers will sell
out, pocket the cash and watch as the show loses focus only to
trail off into oblivion (Comdex comes to mind). Phil Becker
didn't want that to happen to his "baby." After all, Becker had
come out of retirement (he retired early. Really!) to start DIDW
and had made commitments to people that he was in it for the
long term. Becker is a man of strong convictions, so selling out
now was simply not something he could do and still face himself
in the morning.

The problem was that Becker and his wife Kathi were spending 360
days a year getting ready for a three-day conference. (He did
take a day off for emergency surgery last June, but was working
away in his hospital bed the next day.) In chats I had with
Becker at this summer's Catalyst conference, he admitted that
the logistical work was taking too much time and energy and he
needed to find some way to offload it - either to hire more
people to do it (expensive) or to sell off the show
(heart-wrenching). But in true Becker-esque fashion, he found a
third way.

The third way was to make an agreement with an organization that
has made a business out of handling the logistics for
interesting trade events, IDG World Expo
<http://www.idgworldexpo.com/>. (Disclaimer: IDG World Expo is a
business unit of IDG, which publishes - among more than 300
magazines and newspapers - Network World which, in turn,
publishes this newsletter.)

IDG World Expo will handle the DIDW logistics: the bringing
together of the audience and vendors. Becker and his advisors
will then be able to concentrate on organizing the strategy,
developing the conference content and communicating with the
identity industry leaders about the direction of the event. It
sounds like a win-win situation to me. I'm excited about next
spring's event, which will be the first fruit of this agreement.

If you've never been to a Digital ID World event, by the way,
you don't have to wait until next spring. This fall will be the
first Digital ID World
<http://conference.digitalidworld.com/2005nyc/> "Identity in
Financial Services Summit" to be held Nov. 9-10 at the
Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City. This isn't a show
just for bean counters, by the way, as topics will include:
* How identity technology can help fight ID fraud and phishing.

* Provisioning, acquisitions and retaining agility.
* How federated identity works in practice.
* The considerations of deploying strong authentication.
* Preserving flexibility when using roles.
* Achieving directory agility across administrative domains.

There's a little something for everybody in the ID business.
I'll be there, and perhaps you should be also. If you do go,
find Phil Becker and tell him he did the right thing by
outsourcing the logistics while staying involved with the
content.

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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
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audit risk, establish a strong privacy compliance management
system and centrally track transactions with HP's
identity management solution. Learn how -- download a
whitepaper now.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=115809
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