14
Nov
2024

From Baltimore to Boston, We’re Off to the Races!

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Reflecting on Futures2, Looking Forward to TechEX24 SUMMARY: Get leadership insight into the InCommon 2023 strategic planning process and what it means for the future of identity and access management in research and education. Join your colleagues at…

10
Oct
2024

20-Year Milestone: Making an Impact on Research with Kevin Thompson

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes We continue to celebrate InCommon’s 20th birthday with a series of forward-facing conversations featuring prominent leaders in the research and higher education (R&E) community. For this installment, I chatted with Kevin Thompson, a program director for the Directorate…

01
Mar
2024

Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future

InCommon 2023 Year in Review Available Now The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both. —Matshona Dhliwayo Zimbabwean-born and Canadian-based philosopher Matshona Dhliwayo’s keen observation about the interrelationship between the past,…

20
Feb
2024

Happy Birthday to Us! InCommon Turns 20 in May

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes By Kevin Morooney, vice president of Trust and Identity and NET+, Internet2 For most of us, our perspective on birthdays changes over time and with life experiences. When I was a boy, say 10 years old or so,…

27
Nov
2023

Keeping the Music Playing: IAM Today and Tomorrow

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Friedrich Nietzsche: “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Ka’ala, @alohakaala: “Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do.” Ernest Hemingway: “You expected to be…

21
Jul
2023

InCommon for All Seasons, But Especially Christmas in July

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes I am fortunate to live in a place where I experience all four seasons. It is summer where I live. I’ve come to enjoy anticipating the changes in the upcoming season and reflecting on the opportunities the past…

13
Apr
2023

Our Year of Getting on the Road Again

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 2022 InCommon Accomplishments Report Available Now “On the road again/Just can’t wait to get on the road again/The life I love is making music with my friends.”—Willie Nelson This iconic musical refrain aptly sums up our 2022. When…

22
Mar
2023

Paper Airplanes and TechEX23

The Call for Proposals for CAMP is open until April 7. Please consider submitting a proposal for a talk, tutorial, or working meeting!  I love music. Everything about it. Listening to it, making it (I’m infinitely better at listening than making – infinitely), listening and making it together, watching…

24
Oct
2022

Getting the Band Back Together at TechEX

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As I’ve navigated the fall of 2022, I’m struck that it has an exciting familiarity to it. “Exciting” and “familiarity” don’t often go together, so I got to wondering why I was feeling excited about something that wasn’t new…