European Identity Conference

Being a speaker presenting the (comparatively small) SAP IDM implementation at my employer I have been staying at the EIC 2009 for two days.
Very interesting tracks and talks! Some buzzwords: SAML 2, Identity bus (I am going to write a comprehensive post about this one soon), strong authentication, GRC (wich one could say to be "strong authorization").
The main problem is still to make authorization simple for the user. There are a lot of possibilities now but they are still not used at a large scale.
SAML seems to become the standard protocol for cross-domain authN/authZ.

The SWITCHaai federation has been mentioned several times so it definitely has to be presented next year in more detail.