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All,

Good afternoon. Finally some time to give you all a recap on VRM2008/EIC2008. Plus, off course some proof … ;)

Joe Andrieu and myself took it upon ourself to organize the first VRM un-conference at the 2nd European Identity Conference.

The first day (monday morning early) started with a group of people of about 7-10 people all incredible dedicated.
They main ones were:

Charles Andres
Hendrik Biering
Phil Whitehouse
Paul Downey
David Brown
Joerg Resch and Martin Kuppinger
Joe Andrieu
Bart Stevens

As this was the first true VRM conference in Europe we had a limited set of topics. Have a look below at our Butcher Paper … ;) (Joe brought it all the way from the US … ;)

Lots of us were looking forward to the presentation of the “BT” guys, with the provocative title Phil and Paul get married. It turned out to be a very good demonstration of their OpenSource piece of software TiddyWikki.
Have a look at their movie.

We all in the room are seeing possible applications being built on top off this software. Ideas which surfaced: Part of/scaled down Personal Data Store and a PersonalRFP application. The part which needs some work is around the ID layer. But we managed … ;) to convice Phil and Paul to join ProjectVRM (as you might have seen in the last couple of emails) to join, so Im convinced they will tackle this problem.

One more interesting presention/talk came from Dave Brown on VRM and advertising; on how VRM can help turn the model upside down.

Joe talked further on the PAM (all known to everybody) and the RelButton. For me this was an eye opener and this clearly has some huge potential. Initialy I see this for the US (especially like radiostation like NPR) For this side of the pond, we need to do some thinking on how to apply this to, maybe the Music Promotor industry (I will post an idea later)

My talk was on the business value of VRM for the industry (yes, I did it again, but I think this an extremly important question)
We had some “walk ins”, more from a more enterprise ID management aspect. Coincidently this talk was after Joe’s PAM, and these folks came with a remark from one of their customers; That they (the enterprise) needed to have a 110% guarantee that the adress given, is 110% the correct one. If not PAM will note make it …

Doc had been on a Skype Video call for almost 10 hours the first day and as much the second day. (During the second day he presented a partitualy successful Keynote … ;

(plus an intereseting interview with a journalsit from Der Spiegel. This guy did a resonable good job, but his take was very much focussed on OpenID and how VRM was different from initiatives like Letsbuyit.com

Then the award …
When I asked Joe who we were up against, he mentioned he didn’t know realy, but most probably is was against The Wheel and Fire. So we did a fairly good job to beat this 2 “guys” …


(And you know what the funny thing was? The guy AFTER us picking up his prize was Kim Cameron (Mister CIA, Microsoft) …)
(Pls have a look at the KPC blog as well)

Conclusion and next steps

-ProjectVRM has taken off in Europe (next to the UK)
-Need to keep momentum (Doc needs to spend more time in Europe?)
-European “IIW VRM-ish” appraoch? With this I mean to use KuppingerCole as a sort of IIW on which we can piggyback.. We (iChoosr) will see if we can organise a VRM conference in Sept/Oct.
-Work on EU Relbutton use case; how can we “translate” the US work/ideas and apply it to something which is usable here? – (Joe, what can you add?)

All, it was a pleasure to be there, be part of it and I’m excited to see what the future will bring.
Hope to see you all in Boston during VRM2008 – The US Chapter

Cheers

—Bart