On Thursday, May 21, Eduserve is holding a free symposium on the Future of Identity and Access Management for Research in London. There will be a free video stream of this symposium available for those who can't be there in person. I've reproduced the detailed information from Andy Powell at Eduserve below. This is a great opportunity to get a better understanding of some of the ways identity and access management will interact with cyberinfrastructure and e-research developments.Those in the United States will need to get up early, however!

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Eduserv Symposium 2009 - Evolution or revolution: The future of identity and access management for research

The Eduserv Symposium 2009 will be held on Thursday 21st May 2009 at the Royal College of Physicians, London. More details about the event are available from:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09

This symposium will be of value to people with an interest in the impact that the social Web is having on research practice and scholarly communication and the resulting implications for identity and access management. Attendees will gain an insight into the way the research landscape is evolving and will be better informed when making future decisions about policy or practice in this area.

Confirmed speakers include:

James Farnhill, Joint Information Systems Committee; Nate Klingenstein, Internet2; Cameron Neylon, Science and Technology Facilities Council; Mike Roch, University of Reading; David Smith, CABI; John Watt, National e-Science Centre (Glasgow).

Registration is free and the event is followed by a drinks reception.

For anyone that is not registered to attend the event in person, there will be a live video-stream of all the presentations and discussion on the day so we hope that you will join the event remotely:

http://www.eduserv.org.uk/events/esym09/streaming

If you want to do this, please sign up for the event's social network so that we (and others) know who you are. The social network has an option to indicate whether you are attending the symposium in person or remotely:

http://esym09.ning.com/

Also, for anyone tweeting, blogging or sharing other material about the event, remember that the event tag is 'esym09' ('#esym09' on Twitter). If you want to follow the event on Twitter, you can do so here:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23esym09

Andy

Andy Powell Research Programme Director Eduserv

andy.powell@eduserv.org.ukandy.powell@eduserv.org.uk 01225 474319 / 07989 476710/mailto:andy.powell@eduserv.org.uk