The Business of Identity

From InternetIdentityWorkshop

Organized by: Johannes Ernst, NetMesh Time: Wednesday, May 16, 10am - 12am (tentative)

Blog post with invitation. This session is focused on marketing, product management and/or business issues. It is not about technology, standards or interoperability. Bring your marketers!

Possible subjects: (feel free to edit this page and add your own items)

• what are the business benefits for enterprises adopting user-centric identity using technologies such as OpenID and CardSpace? Are there any pitfalls?
• are there any differences for on-line businesses vs. other organizations?
• what are the benefits for identity interoperability across vendor boundaries? Which customers/users will first experience those, and which won't?
• what are the adoption patterns for user-centric identity, and what we can do to remove obstacles?
• what does the "identity" whole product look like?
• Driving the Identity Industry forward. What does this future vehical look like? Events, Markets, Industries and convergence into third party usercentric identity management platforms