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October was a hugely busy month of travel for me personally as your Exec Director with more to come in November, tho' not quite so intense as October.
The exciting news that I was portending in recent months was emailed to Kantara members and then released into the public domain. It is nothing short of fantastic news (here's the announcement again if you haven't seen it) that FDX is collaborating with Kantara on the Consent Receipt to deliver an industry game-changer for Financial Services. The agreement resonated well with Twittersphere and LinkedIn too, because it pairs Kantara’s Consent Receipt specification with FDX’s open banking use cases and API standards to support enhanced financial data traceability along a similar path that delivered the Financial API (FAPI) for authentication.
It was a massive week all up, with many Kantara members and non member participants gathering in Helsinki to speak at and participate in the MyData2019 conference - @digime @Meeco_me @Datafund @OpenConsent @IDIMAndrew @Dativa4Data Janlindq @Iainh1 @PrivacyCDN and @ruthpuente Staff supporting Kantara on and off the podium. In the US, there were two other conferences last week. Consumer Identity World in Seattle saw both Kantara President @GuruAllan @ForgeRock and @Airsideout member Peter Davis include Consent Receipt and UMA in their presentations while in Tampa at FedID, I presented Trust Marks and Ratings, and helped out @IdemiaGroup on a panel talking about identity programs and their requisite standards in jurisdictions globally supported the whole week by @jharkema82, Kantara Educational Foundation Board Director Angela Rey with Staff Chris Healy. Kantara participated in a further meeting further developing the work on mDL co-ordinated by STA's Tom Lockwood where it was great to catch up with Kantara member Exponent. Exponent is in the final phase of its KIPI R&D project facilitated by Kantara and where the technical guidance and test plan for mDL was created. Also at the show was @IDme which displayed the 'proud member of Kantara' table plaque on its booth! Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
Moving onto later this week towards the end of IIW October continued the good news that September and October delivered Kantara. It's more the norm in recent months. Is it that our 10th anniversary awareness galvanized longstanding intent into definitive action? Maybe. Is it that the OMB's M-19-17 circular to US federal agencies in which conformance to NIST 800-63-3 is reinforced? Quite possibly. It's well known in federal circles that self attestation is not given much credence, and Kantara being well known as the only 3rd party assessor and approver of a transparent community developed 63-3 scheme and class of approval. Whatever it is, it is seeing Kantara staff very very busy with prospective member enquiries and proposals and requests for Kantara engagement from industry - both federal and state in the public sector along with private sector too. I do hope it won't be too long before we can share those with you.
The month began with IIW in Mountain View with great demos of UMA and Consent Receipt from Kantara members Gluu and Transmute Industries respectively. we gather in San Francisco for Kantara's North American member's plenary on Thursday morning followed by the Board's F2F meeting setting out the plans for the coming year with new and exciting developments at Board level pending. .
Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
The following week it's IDENTITY WEEK ASIA, October 8-9th 2019 at Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore where I have a huge few days as the conference organisers have made the very most of my offer to help out/fill gaps. 
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Two weeks later it's the first week of November and EEMA's legendary ISSE conference in Brussels, @Ubisecure 's @osantolalla will demo the Consent Receipt and Ruth Puente who will present the 2nd call for NGI_Trust grant funding. If you haven't attended before, you won't get a better chance than this; From Sept 30th Kantara members enter code MEFSE for 35% off full ticket price €400 (nett €250 + VAT).
And that's not all. There is the emerging premier government focussed identity conference coming up in December but I will leave those till next month to treat you with.
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