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#111 - Authenticate 2021 Conference Preview with Andrew Shikiar · Identity at the Center

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  You're listening to the identity of the sender podcast.
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  This is a show that talks about identity and access management
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  and making sure you know who has access to what let's get
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  started. Welcome to a special episode of
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  the identity at the center podcast.
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  I'm Jeff and that's Jim. Hey Jim hey, Jeff, how are you?
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  Oh, and that's a bad going to cut right to it today.
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  We don't do commercials but since this is a special episode
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  we will help get the word out for identity conferences that we
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  like we're going to take a few extra minutes today to get a
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  preview of the ascetic eight 2021 conference happening,
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  October 18th, the 20th, in Seattle, Washington, and it's
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  hosted by our friends at the Fido Alliance joining us today.
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  A again is and Russia are. He's the executive director of
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  the fight Alliance to tell us what that is all about.
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  Welcome back Andrew Chef Jim great to be here.
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  Thank you. Yeah, thanks so much for joining
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  us and it's been a while since we talked.
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  The last time we talked was August, 20th of actually August
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  in 2020. What's new with Fido since then?
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  First of all, that feels like two years ago.
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  So it's a quite a bit has happened.
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  I'll try to be succinct. You know, in general, in a photo
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  continues to make progress on advancing, our specifications
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  and related outputs our goals again to have a robust robust
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  set of standards that anyone could deploy to enable simpler
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  stronger, user authentication, helping move the market place in
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  the world from being dependent on dependent on passwords to a
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  world. That's more decentralized nature
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  that leverages user-friendly public key cryptography.
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  So basically I'm from knowledge-based authentication
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  to possession based authentication a couple key
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  things. We've done one, big release that
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  we had was an update to the Fido to Specs that introduced a lot
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  of Enterprise features which are very important and also some
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  some added functionality for payments and things like that.
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  Another key thing that got completed where ux guidelines so
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  user experience guidelines. At the end the day you know
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  going to a password this world will be easier but getting
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  people to go pass for this turns out to be more nuanced and one
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  would think so answering questions, like, well, how do I
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  get my customers to enroll a desktop platform, authenticator
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  like a Touch ID on a MacBook, or Windows low on Windows machine.
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  There's a lot of subtle things that go into that.
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  So we with the help of, you know, ux leads from companies,
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  such as Microsoft, P Morgan Chase into it Wells, Fargo and
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  many many more Visa ran, a study that had three rounds of user
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  testing to understand. Exactly what makes consumers,
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  most likely to enroll for Fido authentication.
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  And we took these learnings and built a set of guidelines around
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  it, which any relying party or service writer can use to most
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  effectively Implement Fido on their websites.
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  So we're super excited. Excited about that.
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  We release those couple months ago, I've had some positive
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  feedback so far and we think it's going to really help
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  accelerate adoption fight off an occasion.
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  And beyond that you were seeing broader commitment to fighting
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  the marketplace more and more big Brands, deploying Fido added
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  government endorsements including here in the US.
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  You know, just the other week, AWS, or Amazon announced that
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  any delay has customer will be provided with Fido security
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  keys, to make sure that those Network administrators are
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  securely accessing those resources.
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  So, we're seeing a more and more major, you know, kind of
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  Milestones like that. That as we all collectively work
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  to create a safer internet. Andrew, Jeff mentioned that the
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  authenticate 2021 conference is in Seattle Washington.
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  It's starting on October 18th. My question for you is, who's
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  this conference for who should attend?
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  Yeah, you know we introduced authenticate last year actually
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  as a means to just really engage with it.
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  That the broader Community, we traditionally have had member
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  meetings in 34 member meetings a year and would hold the public.
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  Seminar the day before. And those are so popular both
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  from attendees. And from our members, that we
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  decided to expand upon this format and aim to provide
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  educational resources, to anyone interested in phyto.
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  But in particular, you know, product leads and strategists
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  60's. And those in the Cisco office,
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  technology leads developers. Really anyone is interested in
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  learning how to improve the way that they're authenticating.
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  Deploying authentication inside the Enterprise and also
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  externally to Consumers. And so, last year, we held a
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  virtual event because last November had really strong
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  attendance and thousands of people are registered over a
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  two-week period. So a lot of great content and
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  we're super happy to build upon that by moving towards his
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  physical conference, this year in Seattle.
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  I love that tagline. Moving from knowledge-based
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  authentication to position based authentication on The
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  conference, in terms of the agenda, can you give us an
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  overview and talk about some of the Keynotes?
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  Yeah, absolutely. So our featured keynote is Bob
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  Lord and for those of you don't know, Bob, he's a former Chief
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  security officer at the DNC is the Democratic National
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  Committee. And before that he was a Yahoo
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  and Cisco. And we could probably have Bob
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  talked for three days. So he, yes, he has were stories
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  and perspectives. Security and authentication that
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  that are so engaging. And so Ranch, really honored to
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  have him come up, Seattle, to give that keynote.
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  Additionally, our signature sponsors from the event are
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  Google, Microsoft visa and yubico.
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  So we have Executives from each of those companies as key notes.
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  As well, each room has a different perspective.
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  Google is going to talk about Android in Microsoft.
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  Of course, is deeply committed to Fido and Jesus has to my
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  Dandy products rolling out and yubico of course, is the, you
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  know, the originator if I do security keys and has a lot of
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  learnings to share as well. So those are the six.
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  Those are the key notes. We have some others as well,
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  some kind of industry luminary, speaking on the main stage and
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  then the format of the event itself, is you part main stage
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  /, keynote presentations, and then multitrack and will
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  generally have one track dedicated to kind of deeper,
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  technical insights. One track focused on case
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  studies kind of market adoption type Trends and both to are
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  chock-full of interesting content that I think people will
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  learn a lot from when they attend Jeff and I will be in
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  attendance as well. Were presenting a presentation
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  called smart. I am to help prevent ransomware
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  risk, it's just looking over the agenda, I think there's a ton of
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  great information out there, you know, obviously I wanted you to
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  help, keep it high level and focus on the Keynotes.
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  But if people want to understand more about what they could learn
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  and what the different presentations are going to be
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  during the conference, where can they go to get that information?
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  Do you have a website? Yeah, absolutely.
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  We have the full agenda on our website, authentic authenticate
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  com.com authenticate conference authenticate com.com I can see
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  the full agenda, just a couple more highlights if I could, you
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  know, case studies were always quite popular and it will
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  anecdote on this We did call for papers you have two.
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  Three, two, two and a half three day conference are two tracks.
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  I'll told they had around 35 open spots and we had many fold
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  that in submitted applications including your own.
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  And so we have a program Committee of Industry,
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  luminaries who helped me narrow it down to the selected selected
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  sessions that we do have. But the case studies are always
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  one of my favorite. Things to see coming in there,
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  unsolicited, we have Case studies from groups like Morgan.
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  Stanley, Capital One, Target, eBay.
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  Verizon Wayfarer the US National Guard, Facebook, and many more.
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  So I've always heard from our community that they like
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  learning from others who have already done the same.
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  And, you know, this case to case studies are an excellent
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  foundation for them. Yeah, I'm looking forward to
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  catching those as well, you know, wouldn't be a conference
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  conversation in 2021 without talking about covid.
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  It's clearly had an impact on things like in person,
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  attendance for things. This, how are you preparing for
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  that? And what about things like you
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  know vaccinations and statuses and things like that?
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  You know, I think all of us who in the past have attended
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  conferences, miss that human interaction, and is very
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  important to Fido Alliance. So to execute on this
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  conference, I personally attended identifiers back in
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  June and that's always my favorite identity, show to go
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  to, and it was wonderful as a smaller subset of people than
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  usually attend that conference. But being able to chat with
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  people in the hallways, He's after my talks after booze, you
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  know, you find so much hidden value through those
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  conversations that frankly just wouldn't happen over resume.
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  So with that in mind, with our commitment to having this event,
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  we absolutely are also committed to having it be perfectly safe
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  as safe as possible. That's perfect.
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  Um and so requiring vaccination, right?
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  So your to attend, you must be vaccinated, we have the policy
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  detail on the website but in short now we're going to be
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  using the clear out I was just also been used for other events
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  and attendees will be asked to upload their proof of
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  vaccination into the app. There's a simple health
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  screening on the app is done, the day of registration to test
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  the fact that you have been healthy addition to your
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  vaccination. In addition to that it will be
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  adhering to all federal and local Health guidelines.
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  So you know, I'm very confident that we're going to have a very
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  Safe and healthy event. I've had very positive feedback
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  on the vaccination requirement. I've been told by several people
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  that's helped them internally tell their management that not
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  only do I want to go to, this is safe for me to attend and I hope
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  that many people find that to be the case or able to come have a
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  very robust event. You, most of stuff will happen
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  on site at the hotel, which also has her own hygiene regimen, but
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  I also want to plug and we have a great social event.
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  Night at the mo pop Museum. This is the Museum of pop
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  culture used to be the Jimi Hendrix Museum, awesome, venue,
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  and Seattle, the, so, we have a really good event to cap things
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  off on Wednesday evening. It sounds like a lot of fun and
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  I'm glad that, you know, the precautions being taken, I can
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  certainly attest to the Clear app and the digital vaccine
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  card. I've done it, it's easy.
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  Yeah, you take a picture youth indicate, so I'm happy to see
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  that a senate conference is using good authentication.
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  Yeah, for that sort of thing. A heater on dog food.
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  Exactly. So I'm going to go ahead and
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  wrap up this conversation. We get someone in to kind of
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  keep it brief and kind of get the word out for folks, who
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  might be interested again, it's the authentic 8 2021 conference,
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  it's October 18th to the 20th in Seattle.
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  Washington, it's in person or virtual.
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  You can visit a Theta, Kate con.com for more info and if
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  you're interested in learning more about the fight Alliance,
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  you can visit Fido Alliance dot-org.
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  It can also go into the Wayback machine and listen to episode 56
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  of this podcast where we first met with Andrew and kind of
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  learn more about what Fido does Jim mentioned.
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  He and I are going to be are planning on being on site there
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  and delivering our presentation. So we hope to see everyone there
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  either in person or virtually and with that we're going to go
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  ahead and close out this brief conversation.
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  Thank you so much. Andrew looking forward to
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  getting a fist bump in. Finally, in person at a
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  conference, it'll be my first since this kind of all started
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  but I will go ahead and leave it there.
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  Thanks for listening and we hope to see you in a few weeks.
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  Thanks so much. Thanks for listening to the
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