Shall we apply for Category 5? <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">KuppingerCole</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:service@kuppingercole.com">service@kuppingercole.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:38 AM<br>Subject: European Identity & Cloud Awards 2012<br>To: <a href="mailto:sakimura@gmail.com">sakimura@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
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<p>Kuppinger Cole will once again
honor outstanding identity management and cloud computing projects and
initiatives at the European Identity Conference 2012, which will take
place on April 17-20, 2012, in Munich. The European Identity &
Cloud Awards will be presented on April 18, 2012 at the evening event
of the conference. </p>
<p>It is now up to you to propose
until February 29th projects, standards or people for
nomination in one of the following categories: </p>
1. Best Identity and Access Management
Project<br>
2. Best Access Governance and Intelligence Project<br>
3. Best Cloud Security Project<br>
4. Best Approach on improving Governance and
mitigating Risks<br>
5. Best Innovation/New Standard in Information
Security<br>
6. Lifetime Achievement Award<br>
<p>In Cat. 1-4 proposed projects
should be finalized within 12 months before the EIC conference. Cat. 5
(Standards) and Cat. 6 (Persons) do not have such a restriction.
Visiting our online proposal form, you will find a proposed structure
with a number of questions to describe a project (Cat. 1-4). If you
would like to propose a Standard (Cat. 5) or a person (Cat. 6), you may
want to find your own structure to make us understand the reason for
your proposal.</p>
<p><a style="font-weight:bold" href="https://www.kuppingercole.com/submit-award" target="_blank">Please
follow this link to the online proposal form...</a></p>
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<strong>EUROPEAN IDENTITY & CLOUD CONFERENCE</strong> <br>
April 17-20, 2012, Munich<br><br>
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<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/" target="_blank"><strong>EIC 2012 Website</strong></a>
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<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/agenda" target="_blank"><strong>Agenda</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/speakers" target="_blank"><strong>Speakers</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/partners" target="_blank"><strong>Partners</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/exhibitors" target="_blank"><strong>Exhibitors</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/callforspeakers" target="_blank"><strong>Call for Speakers</strong></a>
</li><li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/sponsorinfo" target="_blank"><strong>Information for Exhibitors and Sponsors</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/registration" target="_blank"><strong>Registration Dates and Fees</strong></a>
</li><li><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/locations" target="_blank"><strong>Hotels</strong></a></li>
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<p><a href="http://www.id-conf.com/events/eic2012/registration" target="_blank">Early Bird registration fees up to February 29th, 2012</a>. Save another 10% or even more, if 2 or more persons from the same company register at the same time.
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</div></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<div>Chairman, OpenID Foundation<br><a href="http://nat.sakimura.org/" target="_blank">http://nat.sakimura.org/</a><br>@_nat_en</div><br>