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November was less intense for your Executive Director, but nonetheless, busy and exciting as the 2020 strategic and tactical plans for your Kantara take real shape and form. While 2019 saw us celebrate Kantara's 10 years of accomplishments in program expansion and specification development & 3rd party conformity assessed assurance - 'ethics and conformance Trust Marked' is how strapline our presentations - Kantara 2020 portends to be a game-changing year, as your organization breaks new ground in our industry delivering a value proposition second to none. Of course it's only going to be that for organizations and individual contributors that seize the opportunities and ride the waves. Pay attention if you are in 'passive monitoring Kantara mode' on a working group or in a holding pattern for maybe, might be, could be membership and program participation. 2020 is the year to get off the fence, join your industry association and 'just do it'.
The first week of November saw Kantara double dating conferences in Europe - Whitehall Media's IDM conference in London tangling with Day 1 of EEMA's legendary ISSE 2 day conference in Brussels. In London I thought it appropriate to speak on the controversial topic of contrasting government IDM programmes, given Kantara's significant exposure to them and the challenges that Gov.UK Verify is currently facing. Edgy in some places I was happy to get good post-presentation feedback and interest to joining Kantara. After a video and a quick bite of of lunch I was heading to St Pancras and Eurostar to Brussels to pick up the tail end of Day 1 networking hour. I was joined by @NixuTigerTeam 's @MartinSandren and @KantarNews staff Ruth Puente presenting the 2nd call for NGI_Trust grant funding. @Ubisecure 's @osantolalla had prepared a new video of the Consent Receipt which dovetailed beautifully into Martin's presentation on external identities in the enterprise, looking at the IS06 professional certification attribute exchange service in Sweden and Finland, and using a crane driver as an example showed how the attributes of the lift-weight of the crane can be connected to the professional certification attributes of the crane driver. How did Consent Receipts come into the picture you ask? Dave Birch initiated an interesting discussion from the floor, on the notion of extending the Consent Receipt to IoT use cases. ISSE raminas one of my favourite conferences for the sheer brilliance of the speakers.
After a week off the road and rail, I was in the air and heading to DC, the first stop of my 2 city tour in the US Northeast. It was great to catch up with @Experian_US, @KUMA_LLC, @CapitalOne, @EasyDynamics, flying had to cut short my attendance at IIW 29 to attend the Board's F2F meeting in Board Member ForgeRock's offices in downtown San Francisco with a near full attendance in person and remote. It was an intense but fulfilling meeting where key decisions were taken on Kantara's 2020 strategic direction. You'll see some structural changes coming in the form of all-member ballots that will pave the way for this next exciting phase of Kantara's development as it reinforces our mantra 'nurture, develop, operate' in its open and inclusive community participation format. Thank you all for supporting our mission, ethics, ethos and values.
The following weeks see me in Blackpool, DC and Montpelier Vermont.
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