European Identity Conference 2008

Thanks to 450+ attendees, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and press members, EIC 2008 has met its role as a major platform to create, support and foster the dialog between thought leaders and users, but as well between thought leaders themselves, between Europeans and Americans, vendors, vendor partners and users, between open source initiatives and the market. Intensive discussions inside the sessions and outside, exchange of experiences and ideas - We think, Ariel Gordon's statement above represents an opinion shared by most of us. Thank you for attending and contributing. See you again next year on May 5 - 8, 2009. Until then, please visit the European Identity Conference Blog regularly for news and updates.

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 2008.

• 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
• Everything tagged "European Identity Conference" at flickr, especially this one (Martin Kuppinger - Top Trends), this one (Dave Kearns - Context in Identity) as an impression from the IMAX keynote sessions, and this one with Doc Searls taking part in the VRM 2008 un-conference, which was a pre-event to EIC 2008, remotely due to health reasons
• Kim Cameron's blog entry about Virtual Corporate Business Cards discussed at EIC 2008
• Jackson Shaw took a bunch of pictures on the European Award Ceremony
• European Identity Award official press release
• Martin Kuppinger's post conference notes
• Great Article at silicon.de. Sorry, only available in German

Please tell us, if we missed something.

Some of the attending companies and organizations (not including sponsors and exhibitors):

Adidas, Allianz, Amadeus, AMB Generali, Ansmann, AOL, Audi, Axa Tech, AxiCom, BASF, Bayerische Landesbank, BMW, Bombardier, bos, BT, BRZ, BSH Bosch Siemens, Budapest Bank GE Money, Bundesdruckerei, Bundeskanzleramt Austria, Burgenld. Elektrizitätswerke, bwin, C2C, Cetrel, Connecta, Crypto-Pro, CSI Piemonte, Daimler, Dataport, Datev, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Rentenversicherung, Deutsche Telekom, Dexia Banque, DHL, E.ON, EDS, Eduserv, Electrabel, EnBW, Ernst & Young, ESMM, FIDUCIA; Fraunhofer Institute, GAD, GaVI, GEHE, Generali Switzerland, GKI, Giesecke & Devrient, Grabowski, Gruner + Jahr, H. Lundbeck, Helmholtz Zentrum, Henkel, HUK Coburg, HVB, ICTU, IDM Partners, ING Group, Innenministrerium der Republik Österreich, Intel, IT Quality, iteratec, IZB, Kyorn, Landesbank Hessen Thüringen, Landschaftsverband Rheinland, LC Systems-Engineering, LGT Bank, Liverpool Women´s Foundation Trust Hospital, Logica Suomi, LogicaCMG, Lufthansa Systems, MAN, Max Planck Society, MGI Metro, mii, Ministry van Verkeer Netherlands, MODCOMP, MSG Systems, Multivac, MXI, CNIPA, Netamia, Netmesh, Nexus, Nokia Siemens Networks, OMV Solutions, open4business, Orange France Telecom, Österreichische Post, Paul Hartmann, PayPal, Petrom, Philips, Premiere, Pulsen, PwC, Reed Elsevier, RM5, Rohde & Schwarz, RWE Systems, Shell, Sigmeta, SITA, SMALS, Spellpoint, Statistisches Bundesamt, Steria Mummert, Stover, Swisscom, SwissSign, Switchbook, Syntlogo, Telekom Austria, Telindus, T-Mobile, Traxion, Trumpf, T-Systems, TTS; Tubitak Uekae, ULD Kiel, UNDP, Voestalpine, W&W Informatik, Weber Shandwick, Wiener Krankenanstaltenverbund...

Best Practices from Ansmann AG; AOL; BASF; BMW; BT; bwin, Bombardier Transportation; City College Coventry; CSI Piemonte; Deutsche Bank; DigiNotar; eGovernment Austria, Germany, Italy; E.ON; France Telecom / Orange; GENERALI Holding; HypoVereinsbank; ING Group; Liverpool Women´s NHS Trust Hospital; IZB; Max Planck Society; Philips; Premiere TV; Reed Elsevier; RWE; SMALS; Star Alliance; Siemens AG; University Hospital Hamburg; United Nations; University Hospital Heidelberg; Volkswagen Group...

For hundreds of Identity Management professionals, the European Identity Conference provides an unbiased source of new insights and ideas on a broad scale from business-oriented briefings to hands-on like workshop sessions, with a great number of best practices presentations from real world deployments. With its community-like social networking and knowledge sharing opportunities, the European Identity Conference has become an annual must-attend event.

Key Topics

• Governance, compliance & risk
• Scaling identity, provisioning and roles: lessons learned, vendor comparisons and trend analysis
• Business-driven identity & enterprise information management
• Role management is today. Business role management is tomorrow
• SOA & identity management - identity as a service
• CardSpace & OpenID: understanding user centric identity management
• Information rights management: how to control privacy and security of business information
• eGovernment best practices and trends in Europe
• Network access control & mobile identity
• Authentication strategies

The second European Identity Conference will again be the center of the Identity Management and Digital ID community in Europe. With hundreds of attendees, over 100 speakers from all around the world and a large exhibition area, the conference will be the place to be. New developments and trends, best practices from dozens of companies and organizations, top speakers from end users to the thought leaders, brand new analysis from Kuppinger Cole + Partner