[OpenID] OpenID Retail and Security Summits

[Kick Willemse]

Don, thank you for the update, this is helpful for the (international)
OpenID community not able to participate.

 

Would be nice to have presentations at the OpenID summit wiki, any of the
organizers following up on this?

 

Kick

 

Van: openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net
[mailto:openid-general-bounces at lists.openid.net] Namens Don Thibeau
Verzonden: dinsdag 15 maart 2011 13:06
Aan: general @ OpenID.com
Onderwerp: [OpenID] OpenID Retail and Security Summits

 

This is to thank the PayPal team for hosting last week's OpenID Retail
Summit. 

Andrew Nash and Ashish Jain, together with Brian Kissel organized and led
the discussions. This was the second in a series of OpenID Summits, each
focusing on a theme or use cases important to OpenID adoption.  In his
presentation, Mike Jones noted that the OpenID AB/Connnect Working Group
will be using each OpenID Summit to update the community and engage all in
the how OpenID technology is evolving.

 

My highlights included: Mike Repass's critique of OpenID and its place in
Linkedin technology strategy was detailed, honest and instructive. Farang
Kassaei in a similarly straightforward way walked through the risk
management best practices associated with identity in eBay's environment.
Among the newcomers were Jon Nordmark of  <http://Usingmiles.com/>
Usingmiles.com and eBags and Gary Rush, CTO of Angie's List. Their
assessment of OpenID from the perspective of new market entrants and new use
cases reminded us about the growing diversity of OpenID applications.
Several attendees pointed out the benefits of the new perspectives offered
by new players. Andrew Yap, one of Safeway's team, was positive about the
usefulness of the technical discussions and the experience of others like
Kodak and Sears as Safeway sorts through their customer engagement
strategies.  Many new attendees pointed out how helpful the updates were
from Aol, Eric Sachs's
<http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ajkhp5hpp3tt_87ds3v38fk&skipauth=true>
presentation deck and offers to login to Google services with a Yahoo or AOL
OpenID, here is the link with instructions   <http://goo.gl/TiBXN>
goo.gl/TiBXN

 

The Retail Summit was the latest in a series of outreach activities by the
OpenID Foundation to solicit input and feedback from retailers utilizing
online channels (web, mobile, interactive TV, etc.) to better serve their
customers and prospects.  This group is similar to the Content Provider
Advisory Committee which was formed in 2009 to serve news, media, and
entertainment organizations providing content to their users, members, and
customers via online channels.  It focuses on outbound communication from
the OpenID Foundation (OIDF), Identity Providers (IDPs), and Social Network
Providers (SNPs) to Retailers on progress and plans for OpenID and related
technologies (OAuth, Portable Contacts, Activity Streams, etc.) that may be
of interest to Retailers.  The Retail Summit organized input and feedback
from Retailers to the OIDF, IDPs, and SNPs on the needs and expectations of
Retails and their customers and set the stage for future collaboration with
the National Association of Retailers to leverage OpenID and related
technologies to serve their customers better and achieve improved business
results.

 

The next OpenID Summit is on the afternoon May 2 at the Symantec
Headquarters, 350 Ellis Street Mountain View CA.  Google and Symantec are co
hosting and have chosen security as the theme for the Summit.  We will be
sending out a draft agenda soon but invite your input on topics, speakers
and key questions to address. 

 

The last word belongs a Summit invitee Richard E. Last of JCPenney Digital
Ventures who noted; "Let us think more of the opportunity before us than we
do of the accomplishment behind us."                

 - James Cash Penney,  1927

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