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Missed the IRM Summit Europe ? We’ve got it recorded !

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All the sessions from the European IRMSummit that took place early this month in Dublin were recorded, and the videos are now available.

To make it even easier for everyone, our Marketing team has produced playlists according to the agenda :

Enjoy and I hope this will give you envy to be with us next year !

The new ForgeRock Community site

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Earlier this week, a new major version of ForgeRock Community site was pushed to production.

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Beside a cleaner look and feel and a long awaited reorganisation of content, the new version enables better collaboration around the open source projects and initiatives. You will find Forums, for general discussions or project specific ones, new Groups around specific topics like UMA or IoT. We’ve also added a calendar with different views, so that you can find or suggest events, conferences, webinars touching the projects and IRM at large.
Great work Aron and Marius for the new ForgeRock.org site ! Thank you.

Venn Of Authorization with UMAAnd we’ve also announced a new project OpenUMA. If you haven’t paid attention to it yet, I suggest you do now. User-Managed Access (UMA) is an OAuth-based protocol that enables an individual to control the authorization of data sharing and service access made by others. The OpenUMA community shares an interest in informing, improving, and extending the development of UMA-compatible open-source software as part of ForgeRock’s Open Identity Stack.

 

2014 European IRM Summit in only a few days away !

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Starting Monday next week, at the Powerscourt Estate near Dublin, the European IRM Summit is just a few days away.

I’m polishing the content and demos for the 2 sessions that I’m presenting, one for each product that I’m managing: OpenDJ and OpenIG. Both take place on the Wednesday afternoon in the Technology Overview track.

If you’re still contemplating whether you should attend the event, check the finalised agenda. And hurry up to the Registration site ! I’m told there are a few remaining seats available, but they might not last for long!

I looking forward to seeing everyone next week in Ireland.

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4 years !

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ForgeRock logoFour years ago, exactly I was free from all obligations with my previous employer and started to work for ForgeRock.

My first goal was to setup the French subsidiary and start thinking of building a team to take on development of what we named a coming later OpenDJ.

4 years later, I look at where we are with ForgeRock and I feel amazed and really proud of what we’ve built. vertical-logo_webForgeRock is now well established global business with several hundreds of customers across the globe, and plenty of opportunities for growth. The company has grown to more than 200 employees worldwide and still expanding. The ForgeRock Grenoble Engineering Center has moved to new offices end of May and counts 13, soon 14 employees and we’re still hiring.

Thanks to the ForgeRock founders for the opportunity and let’s keep rocking !!!
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Forgerock’s startup journey

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Great article about ForgeRock and its CTO and founder, that tells a lot about the culture of the company: Forgerock’s startup journey.

 

We’ve moved !

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As ForgeRock is growing fast and we have a number of new hires joining us in the Grenoble Engineering Center, we’ve moved office for a larger space, still in the same building.

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The new office has a large open space area where all engineers (dev, QA and doc) can work and exchange.
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It also has a couple of smaller office for managers , and a decent meeting room, that has already been hacked 🙂

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ForgeRock engineering center meeting room Engineers in action !

 

And the good news is that the new office will allow us to hire even more, in the next months and years.

Save the date for the 2014 ForgeRock Identity Relationship Management Summit

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The date has been set, the 2014 ForgeRock summit in United States will take place on the week of June 2nd, in Phoenix AZ.

Make sure you block the date in your calendar ! I hope to see you there.

And if you’re in Europe, don’t panic ! We are also planning an EMEA summit in the fall. The date and location will be announced later.

Happy New Year 2014 !

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Another year is gone, and 2014 is already well started… But it’s still time for me to send you all my best wishes for 2014.

Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2014

2013 was an amazing year from a professional point of view. Let’s make sure 2014 will be even greater ! Even Mother Nature seems to want to wave a magic wand !

Movember at ForgeRock

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I heard of the Movember movement last year when my friend Pat aka @Metadaddy filled my twitter stream with his moustachy face. I quickly noticed other people growing a moustache, including the Grenoble hockey team : Les Bruleurs de Loups.

So this year, when Andrew Forrest suggested that we create a ForgeRock team for Movember, I didn’t hesitate much, joined, and recruited other coworkers for the French team. I told my wife beforehand and she was not really enthusiastic about the idea of a moustache on my face. But my middle daughter was encouraging me to participate and help improve men’s health research and awareness.

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We’re reaching the end of Movember, and the moustache has grown. My wife hates it… So help me proving her that it was worth suffering and make a donation to our team.

What a great ForgeRock European Open Identity Summit !

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Chateau BehoustLast week, ForgeRock hosted its first european Open Identity Summit, in the “Chateau de Béhoust” just outside Paris. For two and half days, our 110+ visitors, a mix of customers, prospect customers, partners and consultants, could attend presentations, meet and greet with ForgeRock employees, have lengthy discussions with peers, exchanging experience or use case scenarios around the ForgeRock Open Identity Stack. All of this in a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

All of the presentations have been filmed and will be available shortly through our web site and the summit page. If you missed the event and want to get a feel of the content, please check Simon Moffat’s review.

As usual, I’ve taken a few pictures of the event.

Thanks to all attendees and sponsors of the event. And see you next year for the second edition of our ForgeRock summits.

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ForgeRock Open Identity Summit comes to Europe…

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Join us for the Open Identity Stack Summit Europe, on 14-16 October 2013 at the Domaine de Béhoust, France.

We will be gathering at ForgeRock’s luxe Chateau, Domaine de Béhoust (just outside Paris), where our Open Identity Stack community will delve into OpenAM, OpenIDM, and OpenDJ best practices, use cases, how-tos, and more.

We’ve been saying for a long time that identity & access management (IAM) must be reconstructed to adapt to today’s problems. Modern APIs, standards, scale, speed, and modular architecture are all needed for successful modern IAM deployments. The agenda will include dynamic working sessions addressing the latest IAM developments, including mobility, identity bridge, and customer case studies.

A call for papers is open. If you are doing something interesting with the Open Identity Stack and you would like to share the experience by presenting a session at the summit, send your proposal by September 4.

ForgeRock’s chateau is large, but registration is limited. Therefore, I encourage you to reserve your spot and register quickly !

If you want to get a feel of the atmosphere of the conference, check the photo album from the first ForgeRock Open Identity Summit or get a glimpse at the skills of one of our keynote speakers :
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Thanks to all participants of the 1st ForgeRock Open Identity Summit !

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ForgeRock Open Identity Summit opening

I hope all attendees enjoyed the summit as much as I have. It’s been a real pleasure to meet face to face some of the project members, customers and partners I’ve interacted with, over emails and phone for the last 3 years, and to see again colleagues, ex-coworkers…

All the photos that I’ve captured during the summit are now publicly available on Flickr.

See you at the next summit !

[Update on June 19] The presentations from the summit are now online. Goto the Summit page and click on the Agenda.

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See you next week at the ForgeRock Open Identity Summit…

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Pacific Grove, CA, photo by Jack FrenchTime is running fast and the ForgeRock Open Identity Summit is just around the corner.

For those who haven’t registered yet, I believe that there are still a few spots available : http://forgerock.com/summit/.

For the other ones, I’m looking forward to see you next week, in sunny and beautiful Pacific Grove.

Meeting the Open Identity Stack Community

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We’ve been thinking about this since the begining of ForgeRock, and we’ve finally set a date, a great location and even lined up Keynote speakers.

Join us on June 12th to 14th, 2013, in Pacific Grove, California for the first ForgeRock Open Identity Summit, an event for and with the community of the OpenAM, OpenDJ and OpenIDM projects. The agenda is still work in progress and will be previewed soon. But you can be part of it. A call for paper is opened, but not for long. You have up to May 6th to submit your proposals for presentations. Don’t wait for the last minutes !

A note on logistics, please make sure to book your hotel, registration is not complete until you’ve booked your room!  Space at Asilomar is filling up, so we encourage you to register ASAP to reserve your spot.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the event!

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Busy engineering center at ForgeRock.

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Today is a very busy day at ForgeRock Grenoble engineering center, with the visit of Jamie, our VP of engineering, engineers for UK and our partner ProfiQ.

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