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Connecting beyond silos. Japan’s first identity summit bringing together industry, government, and academia, the “Japan Identity & Cloud Summit 2013”, will be held on 3/4 and 3/5 at the National Center of Sciences in Hitotsubashi, Tokyo. As one of the program committee members, I have been involved in developing the program over the past several months.

The JICS 2013 program features an impressive lineup. Looking only at the speakers from overseas, the following people will visit Japan:

  • The father of XML and an advocate for Google’s Android Platform, Tim Bray
  • Senior Advisor responsible for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), James B. Sheire
  • Chair of both the IETF SCIM and ABFAB WGs, Leif Johansson
  • Author of the IETF OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Profile, Dr. Michael B. Jones
  • New Zealand identity guru Colin Wallice

Speakers from Japan include:

  • Deputy Director-General, Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Yasuhiko Taniwaki
  • Corporate Officer and Head of the R&D Division, Yahoo Japan Corporation, Tomoaki Tanida
  • Architect, Platform Systems Department, Global Platform Division, DeNA Co., Ltd., Toru Yamaguchi 
  • Evangelist, KDDI Corporation, Katsunobu Okazawa
  • Manager, Web Services Group, Open Services Platform Section, Rakuten, Inc., Naoki Koshikawa
  • Evangelist, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd., Junichi Anno 

Despite this remarkable lineup, admission is amazingly free!

If you are interested in identity, cloud, or mobile technologies, this is an event you should definitely attend.

I encourage everyone to join us.

Register here → https://jics.nii.ac.jp/entry/

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