Earl PerkinsAs I’m writing this, I’m somewhere over New Mexico on my way to Gartner’s annual Identity & Access Management Summit, this year in San Diego, California. This is our sixth annual summit in the USA, and I have been privileged to participate in 4 of them since returning to Gartner. What can I say to you about the Summit that won’t sound like just another commercial to get you to come?
The Summit, and others like it in the IAM industry, actually serve as an important peer forum, and we at Gartner like to think that we are part of that forum. It is an opportunity for people of like mission and mind to come together to discuss how they do it, what has worked, and not worked for them, and to ask the questions that we at Gartner most need to hear. By doing so, all of us gain a common sense of purpose. We begin to see a shape, a pattern to IAM, and what it means to peers in this particular and peculiar business. By pooling our knowlege together, we make the experience hopefully meet real expectations.
Ah, I forgot to mention the theme of the Summit, didn’t I? It is “IAM Reality Check: Solutions and Practices for Successful Business”. Or as it is known internally by some: “Get Real, IAM!”. Perhaps you sometimes feel that analysts at Gartner are chartered with a “crystal ball” to try and predict future trends and analyze leading-edge technology and process. I don’t blame you, sometimes we sound that way. But we have another charter as well to clients. It is the charter of bringing proven practices to light. Gartner must serve as a distiller of all of the hard work you have done and package it in ways that allow others to minimize the continual rediscovery of how NOT to plan, build, or operate IAM.
So you could consider our 6th Annual IAM Summit as a way for ALL of us to listen to one another, to learn from one another. Sure, I know that sounds a bit pretentious given you’re paying to be at the event, but it is my sincere hope that Gartner’s contribution to the discussion at a minimum is as much about how much we’ve learned and can learn from your experiences, and how much we can help your future IAM experience be as productive as possible.
I think that’s enough rambling for now. I’m beginning to sound too much like a commercial. I hope to see some of you here at the Summit. Safe travels.
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