{"id":1631,"date":"2016-07-04T09:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2016-07-04T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:03:49","slug":"keynote-on-laws-of-identity-at-iiw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"Keynote on Laws of Identity at IIW"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u00a0Phil Windley<\/a>\u00a0asked me to give\u00a0“the opening\u00a0keynote” at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)<\/a> conference in Mountain View CA.\u00a0\u00a0I was a little skeptical…<\/p>\n

If you haven’t attended,\u00a0the IIW is\u00a0the perfect “un-conference.\u00a0 It has no keynotes<\/em> or panels, it’s about getting stuff done.”\u00a0\u00a0Besides that,\u00a0everyone doing anything leading edge\u00a0in digital identity\u00a0attends as often as they can – it’s a place to collaborate and a Who’s Who of experts.\u00a0 Why keynote them?<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Phil explained there were many attending the conference who were\u00a0new to\u00a0Identity and didn’t\u00a0have any context\u00a0or way to grasp what people working in the area had already been through.\u00a0 So he asked me to talk about “The Laws of Identity <\/a>10 years later”.<\/p>\n

The “later” was intriguing.\u00a0 It gave me the opportunity to\u00a0share what we had learned 10 years ago, and then\u00a0begin to discuss what we have learned since.\u00a0 I’ve been wanting\u00a0the chance to get a conversation going about that, so I agreed to take the risk of breaking the no-keynote taboo.<\/p>\n

As the day of the\u00a0conference approached, I saw there was no mention of\u00a0a keynote\u00a0in the conference materials, and\u00a0began to\u00a0dread\u00a0being booed out of Mountain View for\u00a0doing a\u00a0keynote in a sacred place…\u00a0\u00a0Anyway I forsook\u00a0slides\u00a0(what a liberating experience!) and just jotted down a few notes in case the keynote (an un-keynote?) actually took place.\u00a0 Which it did – and those in the audience were more than gracious.\u00a0 It led to\u00a0great conversations with people approaching identity in new ways,\u00a0including conversations about one\u00a0of my big new interests:\u00a0 blockchain.<\/p>\n

I thought the best way to share the experience is by sharing\u00a0the Kim Cameron IIW twitter feed.\u00a0 So here goes:<\/p>\n