The conference has been photographed, blogged and filmed a lot. Here is a list of links to some of the stuff giving an overall impression on EIC 2009. 

• Photos from the event in our gallery
• Kuppinger Cole channel on YouTube, containing interviews and keynote videos
• Podcasts section on our website with hi-resolution videos
• hundreds of tweets at twitter.com
• European Identity Award official press release

This was EIC 2009

European Identity Conference (EIC) is the place to meet with enterprise technologists, thought leaders and experts to learn about, discuss and shape the market in most significant technology topics such as Identity Management, Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). With its world class list of speakers, a unique mix of best practices presentations, panel discussions, thought leadership statements and analyst views, EIC has become an absolute must-attend event for enterprise IT leaders from all over Europe.

Hot Topics 2009

• Integrated Enterprise / IT Risk Management
• Enterprise Role Management
• GRC Platforms & Strategies
• Authorization Strategies & Management
• Cloud Computing Security
• Enterprise SOA, Identities & Security
• Strong & Versatile Authentication
• Identity Metasystem & Claims
• User Centric Identity & Identity Federation
• Achieving Privacy Compliance
• User Provisioning & Deprovisioning Trends

Best Practices

Learning through experience - like in previous years, EIC offers a great choice of valuable end user case studies, delivering practical advice on how to create business value through IAM and GRC programs, that enhance effectiveness and efficiency.

Reaching out for maturity, refining and optimizing your strategical and tactical approaches - learn from your peers: at
Bayer HealthCare, Blanco, BMW, Citigroup, City of Munich, CZ Actief in Gezondheit, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Dexia Banque Internationale, Dutch Government, eBay, ENBW, ENEL, Gesellschaft für Versicherungsinformatik (GaVI) , The Hartford Financial Services Group, Komercijalna Banka, Ministry of the Interior Austria, Nokia, Oslo University, PayPal, Schott AG, Scotiabank, Siemens, SURFfederatie, University of Basel, Unive Verzerkering ...  

Thought Leadership

Matching tomorrow´s promise with today´s reality - the European Identity Conference has become the place, where thought leaders from all over the world meet with enterprise users and discuss innovations and their impact on enterprise infrastructures.

Agenda Tracks

TRACK I: Increasing Businsess Value through an integrated Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (GRC) Strategy

GRC (Governance, Risk Management, Compliance) very often is seen as kind of a business-centric layer on top of IAM infrastructures. But it is much more. GRC has to go well beyond IAM – for example Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM), Business Service Management (with aspects like business continuity), and other areas have to be covered as well.

At European Identity Conference (EIC) 2009, we will focus the Strategy Track on a simple question: What are the controls that business requires from IT?

Within these controls, risk controls are amongst the most important ones. Risk controls cover many aspects, including the fulfillment of compliance regulations and business continuity. Key topics within the Strategy Track will include:

• Business & IT Strategy Alignment
• Enterprise/IT Risk Management
• Authorization Management
• Enterprise Role Management
• GRC Platforms & Strategies

TRACK II: Reducing Complexity and Cutting Costs through an Effective Identity Management Infrastructure

Identity management as a fundamental IT infrastructure element is touching every part of the business. It therefore is key to controlling costs, reducing complexity and shaping a future proof enterprise IT in line with your company´s business objectives. EIC 2009 track II will focus on the key Identity Management technologies, such as

• Enterprise & Web Single Sign-On, Identity Federation
• Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) + Identity Audits
• Business Service Management (BSM)
• Identities in the Context of IT Service Management (ITSM) and ITIL
• Strong and Versatile Authentication
• Authorization Strategies
• Application Security

TRACK III: Increasing Value through Identity Management Innovation

To remain innovative and agile is a great success factor even while the economy is on a downturn. EIC 2009 will leave away "rocket science" and focus on those trends and innovations, which create real business value in meeting pressing needs more timely and optimize Identity Management processes. Some of the topics within track III will include:

• Identity Management – the Baseline for Cloud Computing Securtiy
• User Centric Identity Trends and Business Models
• Mobile Identity Trends

TRACK IV: Best Practices

Building on experiences we gained from our previous European Identity Conferences, best practices presentations play a key role in our 2009 agenda. EIC is the only place where you can discuss issues and decisions affecting your Identity Management and GRC projects with such a large number of your peers from European companies. Besides the topics already described, best practices key topics will include

• User Provisioning & Deprovisioning, Identity Lifecycle Management
• Information Lifecycle Management
• Strong Authentication & Physical/Logical Convergence
• Identity Management and GRC in SAP Environments

Conference Chairs

Like in the last two years, Jörg Resch and Martin Kuppinger have been in charge of building an agenda which perfectly combines best practices and thought leadership. The presentations and panels of the EIC 2009 will provide the information for your currently running projects, give you checklists and advice for vendor and technology selections, and will give you as well insight into the chances and risks of decisions you make today in the mid- and long-term timeframe. EIC 2009 again provides the broadest range of topics around GRC and IAM available in the market.