At my time in life, you sort of become settled into old, comfortable habits, and that’s okay. However, moving from Munich to Boston to set up our new US office has shaken a few things up. And as if that wasn’t enough, I flew out to the Bay Area a couple of days later to attend IIW ’11, which the organizers, Kaliya Hamling (a.k.a. “identitywoman”), Phil Windley and Doc Searls put on at the Museum of Computer History righ around from NASA’s Ames Research Lab at Moffet Field  in Mountain View – and boy did that give me a dose of culture shock. I mean, we at KuppingerCole have quite some experience putting on an event like the European Identity Conference, and so I know how much backbreaking labor and painstaking detail needs to go into creating, among other things, a three-day conference program.

Only it doesn’t.

It took the assembled hundred or so hard-core members of the Identity Gang about 20 minutes to assemble a complete, gilt-edged program covering just about all the really hot topics in the identity space today, and they did so by simply standing up, saying what they wanted to discuss, and going over and hanging a sign on an “agenda wall” telling people when and where to meet.

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