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This is the running update from the Executive Director. Have questions or comments? Suggest some added information or edits? Contact ED colin at kantarainitiative dot org.
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I'm in my garden office in Dorset on this lovely warm day as I begin September's round-up, thankful for the last of summer's sun and the peaceful rhythm of life going on around me.
I kicked off September's conference round in Seattle, where Kantara leads were participating in a two-day industry event added onto the little known International Identity Summit (IIS) - an invitation-only event for governments to discuss digital identity challenges and opportunities behind closed doors. With several agencies from governments around the world as members of Kantara, and most of them attending both the IIS and the industry days, it was a great opportunity to catch up. The first day saw us split into groups to brainstorm various challenges around counter-fraud and anomaly detection, while on the second day we were treated to updates from both government and industry, with Kantara members Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada, SecureKey Technologies, 1Kosmos, and KIPI grant fund recipient Lockstep Technologies Australa take to the podium and present their latest and greatest. It was a pleasure to support them, and to catch up with sponsors for Industry Day 1 and our KIPI grant funders, DHS Science & Technology Directorate, as well as sponsors for Industry Day 2, Liaison partner DIACC and the University of Washington.
Next up for us was the Consumer Identity World series kick off its 2018 Tour in Seattle 2 weeks later featuring Kantarians Eve Maler, David Turner and Andrew Hughes on Friday September 21st with Kantara's showcase update and demonstrating the interoperability use case for the Kantara Consent Receipt shown in Helsinki in August and to be shown again in Amsterdam at the end of this month.
Lastly keynoted at Ubisecure's opening ceremony for its London office on the state of the industry in the UK in the last week of September. With that in mind, watch out for some straight talking from me on this topic in the UK computer press and an associated blog in the next few days.
October gets pretty busy with the IBM Tech-jam in the UK mid month before many of us converge on Mountain View for IIW followed by Kantara's F2F plenary on Friday October 26th. Please join us as we forward plan 2019!
And November is even busier, but that's another story for another day.. 
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For members reading this, stand by for a couple of All Member Ballots coming your way in the next couple of weeks. Your comments and support in timely voting of these works maintains the flow of work and process in Kantara.
September saw several new members and renewals: Thank you globally acknlowledged subject matter expert Christopher Olsen for joining, thank you (Andi) Hindle Consulting for stepping up from individual to SME membership and last but most certainly not least, thank you Ian Glazer for your individual membership renewal. Altogether we grow the community and play our parts to make the digital experience better, safer and privacy respecting.
Kind Regards,
Colin
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