Greetings folks
This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact the ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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Greetings folks
I finished off my last Director's Corner as we were making final preparations for our mult-faceted engagements at the Cloud Identity Summit in Chicago. Suffice to say, and I'm sure supported by the Kantarians in attendance, 'we slammed' it.
For the small organization that we are, we punched well above our weight as we have at most events this year, using our scarce resources thoughtfully and innovatively to give organizations much bigger than us a serious run for their money. That is certainly helped by the many members who supported us in speaking at our pre-conference workshop, mentioning us in their own presentations, pointing folks to our booth and proudly wearing our buttons, stickers and badge banners to stand out from the crowd. And that we did! I had numerous (envious) comments from other consortia and observers, just how much of an impact on the event we made.
We just want to see all that interest translate into paying members and corporate directed funds for our Working Groups' projects. Whether you are able to direct, cajole, influence or just 'nudge' please be in no doubt - your help is appreciated.
I want to finish this month's Director's corner with a shout-out to the new members joining Kantara over the past few months: from the UK, Adunity (on the side of 'good' wrt the UK digital advertising community), Meeco from the Personal Data community, Identity.com seeking approval under Kantara's Identity Assurance Program and TrustMark, European identity solution providers UbiSecure (welcome back guys!), and Janelle Allen & William Lowe as individual contributors.
Recognition of new members should be given in the context of grateful thanks for renewing members, without whose support I would not be writing this today on this platform; Deutsche Telekom AG, Government of Canada, Internet2, Neustar,
Scott Perry Associates, Symantec, Synchronoss/Zentry and a whole bunch of committed individual contributors.
Kind Regards
Colin
Around the Houses:
Marketing:
We had good press and social network coverage May.
- Follow https://twitter.com/KantaraNews and https://twitter.com/UMAWG and https://twitter.com/KantaraCISWG.
- KIPI - the Kantara Identity, Privacy Incubator, featured strongly 'in the news' .
Program, Work Group and Discussion Group Updates:
- Keep a look out for a new Report - "Refining the Design Principles of Identity Relationship Management v2.0f from the Identity Relationship Management Work Group, hitting the Reports and Recommendations page later this month.
- You can keep up with all the latest directly off the Leadership Council's Blog here or come to see our Working Group Chairs in action at CIS '17 in Chicago June 19-22nd.
- As always if you have a query or question, staff are only too willing to assist. Email them here https://kantarainitiative.org/contact-us/
Events: See them here! https://kantarainitiative.org/calendars/
- And still stay tuned for extra special events September and beyond.
Kind Regards
Colin