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ForgeRock IdentityLive London (2019)

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Last week, I was in London to attend the last ForgeRock IdentityLive summit of 2019. Once again, it was a great event, very well attended by over 250 customers and prospects, in locations close to London Bridge. The first day was packed with presentations from ForgeRock (keynote, roadmap, demos by the Product Management team…) and from 5 different customers: E-Trade, Hargreaves Lansdown, SwissCom, NHS Digital and BMW. I really enjoyed these customers’ testimony and I want to address special kudos to Anthony Wilson, Product Manager for Identity at NHS Digital, for running a live (and successful) demo of an iPad application specifically built for paramedics to allow them to access patients medical records, in a highly trusted yet password-less manner.

The second day is the usual unSummit, with more technical discussions and hands-on workshops. I ran a session about my favorite subject: Directory Services, and everyone else favorite subject: Containers and Kubernetes. I explained all the work we’re doing to automate the deployment of replicated DS instances and ran a live demonstration of deploying a 3 way replicated service on MiniKube on my laptop, in a couple of minutes; and also how to scale it up to 4 instances in just a click. Kudos to the Directory Services engineering team for reaching that milestone on the way to the 7.0 release of the ForgeRock Identity Platform.

During the event, we also showed our support for Women In Identity, a program I’m particularly fond of, as a father of 3 girls (although probably none of them will work in Identity or even IT).

Finally, here’s the obligatory link to my photo album of IdentityLive London.

ForgeRock Identity Live Berlin

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Last week, the IdentityLive tour stopped in Berlin for the first European event of 2019 (the second one will be in London on October 8th-9th).

It was a good opportunity to meet and discuss with our European customers (or the European teams of our global customers). For me, the main topic of discussion was Kubernetes and running Directory Services in Docker/K8S. It was also something that I’ve discussed a little bit during the Nashville Identity Live, but not as much as I did in Berlin. I also did a talk on that subject at the Identity Live Cloud Workshop (the second day of the event is focusing on the technical aspects of our products and solutions). I’ve started to write another article to detail my talk. I hope to publish it here in the next few days. Meanwhile, you can find all the photos from Identity Live Berlin on my Flickr page as usual.

ForgeRock IdentityLive Berlin 2019

Note that Identity Live Berlin took place at the “Classic Remise” which is a showroom for old and sports cars. An unusual place for a conference, but a good opportunity to admire some pretty old cars and try to take a different kind of photos.

Cars from Classic Remise Berlin

ForgeRock Identity Live Nashville, TN

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Two weeks ago debuted the ForgeRock Identity Live series of events. This year the USA based event moved to Nashville TN.

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This was my first visit to the city of Country Music and honky-tonks. It was fun listening to the live music everywhere, trying (and buying) boots, visiting the Country Music Hall of Fame, although we didn’t really have much time for leisure.

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The Identity Live event itself was really good and very well attended. The engagement of our Customers and Partners was great and we’ve had a myriad of discussions, feedbacks and questions about our products, our roadmap and our progress on our move to the Cloud.

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The videos of the sessions are already available on ForgeRock website. And you can also see the photos that I took during the event.

Next is Berlin Identity Live, on June 6-7. Registration is still open! I’m looking forward to seeing you in Berlin!