Liberty 2.0 - Federation, Web Services, Open Source and Web 2.0 Converge January 22, 2007

Who: The Liberty Alliance Management Board invites you to attend “Liberty 2.0,” a free public, interactive and educational event for developers, enterprises and governments where the “whys” and “hows” of convergence in the identity sector will be addressed. Liberty 2.0 will demonstrate the business and consumer benefits of industry-wide convergence of identity standards and initiatives.

What: Liberty 2.0 brings together identity experts from Intel, Nokia, Oracle, Project Higgins and Sun Microsystems to examine where current identity management solutions such as federation, user-centric identity, Web services, SOAs, social networking, open source identity and Web 2.0 applications cross paths and the interoperability, security and privacy benefits of industry-wide convergence.

Where: The Sofitel Hotel in Redwood Shores, CA. A full lunch will be served.

When: January 22 in Redwood City, CA from 10:00am – 4:00pm. The current agenda and registration information is available at http://www.events.projectliberty.org/details.php?id=5

Why: Interoperability, Security and Privacy are critical to the wide scale acceptance and deployment of digital identity management solutions. Liberty 2.0 will demonstrate how convergence can addresses these issues in order to deliver more trusted identity solutions to businesses, government and users worldwide. Liberty 2.0 will provide developers with new tools and resources for building interoperable user-centric applications that incorporate security and privacy at their core. Enterprises and organizations will learn how Liberty’s proven interoperable identity specifications can be applied to a variety of Web 2.0 applications.

Official Website: http://www.events.projectliberty.org/details.php?id=5