Middleware Announcements

[Renee Woodten Frost <>]

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IAM ONLINE
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IAM Online is a monthly series delivering interactive education on Identity and Access Management (IAM). This series is brought to you by the InCommon Federation in cooperation with Internet2 and the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group. www.incommon.org/iamonline.html

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TOPIC: Essentials of Federated Identity Management:
      Making Federated Identity Management Happen

This session will demonstrate how you can get started with
InCommon and federated identity management. Speakers John O’Keefe (Lafayette
College) and Joel Cooper (Carleton College) will identify the specific policy
and technical steps that lead to successfully joining InCommon and leveraging
your identity management system for use with resource providers.

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LOCATION: Online
WHEN:     Thursday, April 8, 2010
         1 p.m. EDT / Noon CDT / 11 a.m. MDT / 10 a.m. PDT

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GUEST SPEAKERS:
Joel Cooper, Director of Information Technology Services, Carleton College

John O’Keefe, Director of Academic Technology and Network Services, Lafayette College

Both speakers are also members of the InCommon Steering Committee

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HOST:

Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy and of Computer Policy and Law Program, Cornell University; and a member of the InCommon Steering Committee.

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HOW TO JOIN:

We will use Adobe Connect for slide sharing, audio and to pose questions via the chat function. A conference call bridge will be available for those not near a computer (listen-only mode).

Adobe Connect: http://internet2.acrobat.com/iam-online

Optional Dial-in numbers for those not joining through Adobe Connect:
+1-734-615-7474 preferred (if you don’t pay for long distance)
+1-866-411-0013 (US/Canada only, if you pay for long distance)

Access Code: 0157272#

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ABOUT IAM Online:
IAM Online includes the essentials of federated identity management, hot topics from the EDUCAUSE Identity and Access Management Working Group, and emerging topics in IAM. Experts will provide overviews, answer questions and lead discussions.

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NEXT MONTH:
Advanced Issues in Identity and Access Management: Toward Common Identity Services. Host: Tom Barton, Sr. Dir. of IT Architecture & Integration at the University of Chicago (Thursday, May 13, 1 p.m. EDT/Noon CDT/11 a.m. MDT/10 a.m. PDT).