Identity Mashup Conference at Harvard June 19-21

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society will host “Identity Mashup” June 19-21 at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. <http://www.identitymash-up.org/>

Identity Mashup will explore the role of identity systems (tools that let users and merchants know whom to trust on the web) in furthering or inhibiting privacy, civil liberties and new forms of online civic participation and commerce.

A variety of parties—governments, technology companies, health organizations, financial institutions, international agencies, and merchants among them—are clamoring for identity systems to address a spectrum of issues from terrorism and child pornography to
identity theft and spam. The proposals vary dramatically from national ID cards with centralized data store and a single universal identifier to highly-distributed “user-centric” models with distributed data stores and authenticated anonymity. The goal of this conference is to examine the problems these organizations are trying to address and assess which solutions might offer the greatest benefit.

During the conference there will be demonstrations of open, use centric identity systems and applications. On the third, there will be an “open mashup” whereby conference participants and developers can collaborate to develop new identity, social networking, social commerce and
collaborative applications.

Conference registration: <http://www.identitymash-up.org/?page_id=6>
***We offer a nonprofit rate.
Conference schedule: <http://www.identitymash-up.org/?page_id=5>

Identity Mashup offers a unique opportunity to discuss important issues with industry players and Harvard legal scholars --- we hope you can join us. Conference panelists are listed below. Microsoft Corporation has been a sponsor of the Identity Metasystem and the Law Project and, along with Best Buy, is a sponsor of the conference.

If you have any questions about the conference, please call the Berkman Center at (617) 495-7547.

Best,
The Berkman Team

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Conference Speakers:

Kim Cameron, Identity Architect, Microsoft Corporation
Tony Nadalin, Identity Architect, IBM
Robert Sutor, Vice President of Standard and Open Source, IBM
Dick Hardt, CEO Sxip
Dale Olds, Distinguished Engineer, Novell
Roger Sullivan, Vice President, Oracle
Stephan Brands, Ceo, Credentica,
Doc Searls, Editor, Linux Journal
David Berlind, Editor, CNET
Jamie Lewis, CEO, Burton Group
Marc Rotenberg, Founder EPIC
Judith Donath, Associate Professor MIT Media Lab.
Walter Bender, Director for OLPC(One Laptop Per Child), former
Co-Director Media Lab, MIT
Hal Abelson, Professor, Computer Science, MIT
Dave Winner, Inventor of RSS
Derrick Ashong, Founder, Soulfege
Christine Varney, Former FTC Commissioner on Privacy, Hogan Harsten
Philip Evans, Sr. Vice President, Boston Consulting Group, author
John Palfrey, Executive Director, Berkman Center
Kevin McCabe, Professor, Neuroeconomics, George Mason, Mercatus
Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman and Oxford
Robert Stephens, Founder, Geek Squad, Best Buy
Brigadier General, (retired), U.S. Marine Corp., Keith Holcomb,
Louise Guay, CEO, Founder, My Virtual Model
Greg Steltenphol, founder Odwalla Juices, Adina Juices and Interra
Larry Weber, CEO, Founder, W2
Ann Carblanc, OECD
Glenn Fogel, Vice President, Priceline
John Sviokla, Co-Chairman, DiamondCluster International
Karim Lakhani, Professor, Harvard Business School