US Department of Homeland Security Joins
European e-Identity Conference 2009

eema’s 22nd Annual Conference, 25th – 26th June, Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London, UK

eema, the European association for e-identity and security, in collaboration with OASIS (Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), and the BCS (British Computer Society) today announced the full programme for the European e-Identity conference. The two-day event takes place in London on 25th and 26th June 2009, bringing together global experts in privacy, security and e-identity and including a keynote address from the US Department of Homeland Security.

Chief Privacy Officer at the US Department of Homeland Security, Mary Ellen Callahan will present: ‘Identity and Privacy:  Policy, Governance, Barriers and Compliance’. The session will explore the protection and privacy of citizen and non-citizen data during the increasing trend for information sharing between governments. Callahan will also demonstrate the importance of building privacy policy upon a foundation of transparency, in order to achieve trust. Callahan comments: “Accountability for data privacy is achievable where there is a democratic exchange of ideas that includes the data subjects and the data users.”

The Chairman of eema, David Goodman and Chair of the OASIS IDTrust Member Section Steering Committee, June Leung, will open the conference on 25th June, followed by an e-identity market overview provided by the Architect of Identity and Access in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft, Kim Cameron.

Enterprises are facing more complex, higher scale, and more regulated identity environments; they are dealing with not only employees, but also federated partner environments and customers, reaching their limit of knowledge, time, and resources. This will be the topic of Chief Architect for Security Management at CA, Inc, Tim Brown’s keynote, who will question whether identity services in the cloud provide a route to e-identity adoption. Brown comments: “The cloud can be the enabling architecture needed for managing the explosive growth of federated identities within existing applications, while supporting the authentication of unpredictable numbers of e-Identities and information cards that are introduced with new applications.” 

The conference will run across two concurrent tracks with more than 40 sessions hosted by organisations including the UK Passport Office, ENISA, Danish Ministry of Science, OpenTrust, SECURENET, IBM and Networks AG. Delegates will be encouraged to actively participate in a broad programme of panel discussions, roundtable sessions and focused workshops on the challenges and strategies for effectively managing government, employee, citizen and private identities.

The event has also been chosen by STORK - a pilot scheme co-funded by the EU that aims to implement EU-wide interoperability of electronic identities (eIDs) – as the forum in which to host its second industry group meeting, to progress a pan-European eID interoperability system.

The European e-Identity Conference takes place on 25th and 26th June at Cardinal Place, 100 Victoria Street, London. For registration, delegate fees and further details on the conference, please visit the conference website at: www.eema.org/eema2009, or contact Tel: +44 (0) 1892 820930 or email: eema@revolution-events.com.

Members of the press are invited to register and attend the conference as a guest of eema. To register please contact Tel: +44 (0) 1962 888100 or Email: e-identity@revolution-events.com.

About eema –www.eema.org

For 22 years, eema has been Europe’s leading independent, non-profit e-Identity & Security association, working with its European members, governmental bodies, standards organisations and interoperability initiatives throughout Europe to further e-Business and legislation.

eema’s remit is to educate and inform around 160 Member organisations (and over 1,500 Member contacts) on the latest developments and technologies, at the same time enabling Members of the association to compare views and ideas.  The work produced by the association with its Members (projects, papers, seminars, tutorials and reports etc) is funded by both membership subscriptions and revenue generated through fee-paying events.  All of the information generated by eema and its members is available to other members free of charge. 

Examples of papers produced recently are:- Towards Understanding Identity, Spam and e-mail Abuse Management, Role based Access Control – A User Guide, Password Synchronisation,  Secure messaging within and between User Organisations. eema members, based on a requirement from the rest of the Membership, contributed all of these papers.  Some are the result of many months’ work, and form part of a larger project on the subject.

Any organisation involved in e-Identity or Security (usually of a global or European nature) can become a Member of eema, and any employee of that organisation is then able to participate in eema activities.  Examples of organisations taking advantage of eema membership are Unilever, Volvo, Shell, Hoffman la Roche, KPMG, Magyar Telecom Rt, National Communications Authority, Hungary, Microsoft, HP, and the Norwegian Government Administration Services to name but a few.

Visit www.eema.org for more information or contact the association on +44 1386 793028 or at info@eema.org

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