TEC 2009

Now that our pre-conference workshop on Taming the Chaos – Building a Practical Lifecycle Mgt. Application in the ILM “2” Portal is done

and our (Brad, Chris and me) sessions  done: Proper Care & Feeding of ILM, CLM and RMS , Designing an Object Expiration & Reconciliation process in ILM 2 , Rescue Your Identity Metasystem from Chaos (reporting against ILM 2), and ADFS Extensibility, we are all able to relax a little and enjoy everyone else's sessions.

I spent a fair amount of time looking at Quest's One Identity Management Solutions (thanks to Jonathan Sanders), and I also got to attend Felix Gaehtgens's (Kuppinger Cole) session on You've Authenticated the User, so Now What? wherein he discussed RBAC vs Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) and a standard that is new to me called XACML (Zack uh mel). I really enjoyed it despite it being a forward looking theoretical discussion.

Brad was telling me how much he enjoyed the ILM “2” Chalktalk by Andreas Kjellman and Mark Wahl

TEC 2009 -- Ensynch Identity Bus

Last night Fellow ILM MVP's Brad Turner, Chris Calderon, Carol Wapshere (pronounced Wap shear and well known as Miss MIIS) and I along with a number of other TEC 2009 attendees rode on the Ensynch Identity Bus to take us from the Green Valley Ranch Resort to the Las Vegas Strip. After a great steak dinner at Smith and Wollansky's (across from New York New York) a few us of walked the strip hoping to see the fountains at the Bellagio, but alas they shut off at midnight.

Our first run of the night was with a completely full bus!

The bus will also be running tonight

Departing Green Valley Ranch Resort 8:30pm, 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, 11pm, 11:30pm, 12am, 12:30am.
Drop-off / Pick-up at Mandalay Bay, 9pm, 9:30pm, 10pm, 10:30pm, 11pm, 11:30pm, 12am, 12:30am, 1:00am (last pick-up)
Drop-off / Pick-up at New York, New York, 9:10pm, 9:40pm, 10:10pm, 10:40pm, 11:10pm, 11:40pm, 12:10am, 12:40am, 1:10am (last pick-up)

At TEC get on the Ensynch Identity Bus

If you are coming to TEC 2009 at the Green Valley Ranch Resort outside of Las Vegas, and want to take a trip to the strip Monday or Tuesday night then you are in luck -- Ensynch is sponsoring the Identity Bus -- we'll have some buses that will be running from the Resort to one of the Monorail stops on the strip. Details will be provided at the conference in your handouts. I will riding on the Identity Bus some of the time and hope to see you there!

Thanks to Stuart Kwan for coining the term Identity Bus, and thanks to Christine McDermott for helping suggest a practical way to make it happen, and thanks to Tyeson Cluff our marketing consultant for making it happen!