Gartner IAM Summit London 2024

Gartner IAM Summit London

March 5, 2024

“London calling, yes, I was there too…And you know what they said – well, some of it was true“!

So it was the 14th of December 1979 when the now classic rock album London Calling was released by the Clash. A mind blowing 44 years, three months and 28 days later, London is calling me, once again. 

I’m back here in town attending what I think it is my 20th Gartner Identity Management event. Back then it was called Catalyst, and it was the domain of the Burton Group. If you were there too, well some of it was true – right? Identity has become a huge thing and that’s what has drawn us all back here to London. 

But you know it really is déjà vu. Walking around the event showcase floor, I see so many familiar faces, familiar companies and old friends, it’s like going to a class reunion. It’s fascinating to see how everything changes, but yet everything remains the same. I guess I can, with hand on heart, claim some degree of source and origin for the creation of this space. With many of the folks at this event, we created an industry, a marketplace and a lot of vendors.

Today I sit on the investor and advisory side of the equation, working with entrepreneurs, investors, and customers to bring to market the next generation of IAM solutions. I gave a presentation called “Evolution of Identity Infrastructure” and an introduction to the new ServiceIAM product that CyberIAM is bringing to market. In this session I gave an introduction to how I seen this space evolving, and to why I think the focus needs to move from new infrastructure to new tools that help manage it.

Check out the recording of the session here, and listen to that track by the Clash. As Mick Jones said in the classic last line of the song, “and after all this, won’t you give me a smile”.

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