News and information about InCommon Academy offerings

[Dean Woodbeck <>]

REGISTRATION is open for two different meetings under the CAMP banner:

• Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit III
• InCommon CAMP: Hot Topics in Identity and Federated Identity Management

ADVANCE CAMP, May 25-27 in Westminster, Colorado, will feature discussions of identity-related implementations and alignment across open-source projects. Topics will include standard APIs for identity services, identity for virtual organizations, provisioning initiatives, and others.

CAMP, June 21-23 in Columbus, Ohio, will focus on identity management solutions being implemented across higher education and partner organizations. CAMP features two tracks: Hot Topics in Identity Management and Hot Topics in Federated Identity Management.

Read on for details (first Advance CAMP, then CAMP) to help you decide which to attend.

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Advance CAMP: Identity Services Summit III 

Westminster, Colorado * May 25-27, 2011 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPIdSummit2011/Home 

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REGISTRATION LINK: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPIdSummit2011/Home 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Architects, developers, and deployers of open-source and commercial-sponsored software, services, and frameworks to: 

• Engage in solving identity-related challenges of importance to you 
• Hear about who's doing what and how to participate in or leverage their activities 
• Develop your take-aways for using technologies such as Facebook, OAuth, OpenID, SAML, Kuali KIM, OpenSocial, Spring, and Django among others 

Proposed sessions include: 

• Standard APIs for Identity Services 
• Identity for Research and Virtual Organizations
• Provisioning Initiatives 
• General-purpose Authorization Libraries 
• Federation, Inter-federation, Federated SSH, Identity Assurance Profiles 
• Invitation-based Identity Providers 

Guide the program topics by adding your ideas now to 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/ACAMPIdSummit2011/Participants+and+Requested+Topics 

REGISTER BY APRIL 22 to save money with low early-bird rates and ensure you get a room in the hotel block. 

COME EARLY and attend Jasig's Spotlight on Open Source Conference held just prior to Advance CAMP at the same location. Information can be found at http://www.jasig.org/jasigs-spotlight-open-source. 

SPECIAL RECIPROCAL PROMOTION for Jasig and Advance CAMP attendees! Jasig registrants can attend Advance CAMP Wednesday afternoon sessions as our guest! Advance CAMPers can come early and attend the Jasig sessions for free on Wednesday morning. 

ADVANCE CAMP is sponsored by the InCommon Federation in cooperation with Internet2, Jasig, and the Kuali Foundation. 

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InCommon CAMP: Hot Topics in Identity and Federated Identity Management

Columbus, Ohio * June 21-23, 2011 * www.incommon.org/camp

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REGISTRATION LINK: https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/CAMPJune2011

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: : IT management, identity and service architects and implementers, project managers, security professionals, corporate and service partners, and IT policy administrators.

Looking for concrete solutions to your most pressing identity-related challenges? Want to know more about the hot topics in federated identity today? Come to CAMP: Hot Topics in Identity and Federated Identity Management and learn more about solutions being implemented across higher education and partner organizations.

LEARN about management and technical practices and tips on:

• Community Practices with Affiliate and Guest Systems
• Governance and Policy for Identity and Access Management
• Update to InCommon's Identity Assurance Profiles
• Recommended Practices for Federating in InCommon
• Service Providers: Bringing New Customers on Board

FOR THOSE NEW TO FEDERATED IDENTITY, consider attending the pre-meeting seminar, “The Big Picture: Introduction to Federated Identity Management,” to learn what it is and how it fits with your identity and access management infrastructure.

RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES for learning more about federated identity can be found on the InCommon Federation site: www.incommon.org

CAMP SPONSORS

This CAMP is sponsored by the InCommon Federation in cooperation with Internet2, EDUCAUSE and OARnet.