Q1 2025 IAM User Group Meetup

January 2025 Meetup Details
Join us Monday, January 27th for our first meetup of 2025. Come celebrate and enjoy networking with your twin cities peers, and of course enjoy some snacks. Be ready for some interesting discussions with our first time sponsor IDMWORKS.
Agenda
MeetUp Starts at 3:30 @ Rojo Mexican Grill, The Shops at West End, St. Louis Park
· Welcome and Registration – 3:30-3:45pm
· Grab refreshments and/or appetizers provided by IDMWorks – 3:45-4pm
· Presentation – IDMWorks – 4pm – 4:45pm
· Discussion and Questions – 4:45pm – 5:15pm
· Open Discussion – 5:15pm – 5:30pm
· Social
IDMWorks: How to Future Proof Your Identity Program
Overview: Identity leaders are challenged to innovate and deliver on digital transformation initiatives balanced with the mindset that security is a business limiter/inhibitor. To succeed at any digital transformation, you must begin with Identity.
Your Identity Ecosystem must be agile and adaptable enough to support new business initiatives while safeguarding against constant threats and attacks. Digital business demands seamless, frictionless user experiences, interoperability among a diverse set of platforms, and near instant access to the right resources, Just-In-Time. Identity is the lynchpin that allows us to satisfy these needs and deliver business growth.
Identity transformation requires a proven approach to defining a long-term strategy and roadmap that enables Identity Data and Signals, Automates Manual Processes, and removes blockers from Institutional Knowledge. The result is an orchestrated, resilient, self-healing and well protected Identity Ecosystem.

Presenter: Bill Willis – CTO at IDMWORKS
Bill is a leading thinker in the areas of Security, Compliance, Cryptography, Biometrics, Credentialing, and Identity. He’s a founder and Inventor of IBM’s Flagship Identity Management System, Tivoli Identity and served as IBM’s Global Subject Matter Expert for Security and Identity. He’s the inventor of the Biometric Engine™, a Next Generation AFIS which provided support for biometrics such as:
Palm, Face, Iris, Voice and DNA
Bill has designed and implemented global identity and compliance solutions for government, banking, aviation/travel, healthcare, insurance, sporting and retail. He is an active member of ISSA, ISACA and a past member of the SIA, Board of Advisors of the EMA and is on the Board of Advisors for the Master of Technology program at the University of California Fullerton