A little while back Britannic Technologies held their 5th Annual Convergence Summit. The wonderful surroundings of Mercedes-Benz World, in Surrey, provided a high tech back drop to a very high tech day. There were a number of guest speakers and I’ll call out some noteworthy points they made:

Last Thursday night saw the second CloudCamp in London. The first one spawned: Nailing down the Cloud – A Definition for Cloud Computing? and this one was a sell-out gig, with the venue packed to capacity.
The fact that a few hundred people came out on a cold wet London night to discuss Cloud Computing is a testimony [...]

Yesterday was spent huddled up in a Dockland’s hotel in London, discussing issues of identity management. The Whitehall Media IDM2008 event brought together public and private sector experts to talk about the big, and little, challenges of identity assurance in today’s IT infrastructures. 
From document management to remote access, compliance to shiny web 2.0 style portals, identity [...]