Events

This conference provides access to leading, expert speakers and pioneering case studies. This year, our Agile Team Lead, Luke Taylor will be speaking.

The Google-generation’s access to academic content – An open forum: 11:50 am – 12:50 pm, Tuesday 9 October.

Venue: QEII Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom

This year the world’s largest trade fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair celebrates its 70th birthday.

Meet us in the International Library Centre, N75 in Hall 4.2 to find out how our leading federated access management solution can support your business aspirations.

‘Wayfinder – How to simplify access to your online content’
Phil Leahy, OpenAthens Service Relationship Manager.
Academic & business information stage (HALL 4.2 N 101)
10 October 2018
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Book a meeting with Kieran Prince, Phil Leahy and Jon Bentley in the International Library Centre, Hall 4.2 (N75) 10 – 12 October.

Venue: Messe Frankfurt, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Jon Bentley, Commercial Director, will be speaking at Internet Librarian this year. Heading there too? Come along to the presentations! 

Tuesday 16 Oct
11:30 am – 12:15 pm PT
Transforming Library Experiences With User-Centered Design

Tuesday 16 Oct
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm PT
Pharma Research: Insights & Challenges

Find out more about the presentations here!

Venue: Monterey Marriott, Monterey, California, United States

We’re heading to the Charleston Conference!
Visit table 13 in the vendor showcase to meet the team and discuss your identity and access management needs. We can provide a demo of our single sign-on software and answer any questions you have. We’re also speaking during the conference, come along!

Tuesday 6 Nov
Vendor Showcase
Table 13

Wednesday 7 Nov
3:40 pm – 4:20 pm ET
Why IP-based access is failing end users: How to give patrons a simple, seamless user experience in collaboration with InCommon.

Thursday 8 Nov
11:30 am – 12:10 pm ET
One login, one time; the way to easy and unlimited access in collaboration with GALILEO, NHTI and EBSCO.

Venue: Gaillard Center, 95 Calhoun Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, United States

We joined other ALPSP members at their annual conference this September.

Our International Sales Manager, Kieran Prince, met service providers and discussed how federated access management can support a wide range of scholarly publishers including those with Open Access or hybrid platforms.

This free one-day workshop facilitated discussion around the future of access to scholarly content. There was lots of shared learning around the challenges of and solutions to identity and access management with peers.

Our APAC Sales Manager, Dune, attended IFLA this year, alongside EBSCO. A great lunch and learn was held with lots of conversations around identity management.

OpenAthens and EBSCO held a lunch to discuss authentication in the modern environment and why we need to move away from IP recognition as an access mechanism. There were lots of discussions around why authentication has become an extremely important issue as libraries increase their digital content.

This event was the first European Association for Health Information and Libraries (EAHIL) Conference! Adam and Blake from the OpenAthens team had a great time in Cardiff, exhibiting and attending the conference sessions.

This year we had James and Blake manning our exhibition stand. They had two very busy, enjoyable days catching up with Librarians and other exhibitors, chatting about the latest developments happening in OpenAthens.

Kris, Kieran and Rob had a great time in New Orleans, with lots of exciting conversations and meetings around identity and access management.

‘How can user centred design transform the library experience?’

Our UX Designer, Vee Rogacheva, spoke about her recent UX research she has carried out in UK and US academic libraries.

The conference featured awards ceremonies/presentations and a choice of breakout sessions/workshops on a range of topics including; the transition from FE to HE and the importance of learning resource centres and library services in FE.

Jon Bentley, OpenAthens Commercial Director, took part in the RA21 focused discussion.

Jon presented: ‘Has federated single sign-on failed the end user?’

This event brought together the information community to discuss the means by which the community may be able to simplify the user experience while still preserving necessary privacy and security protections for all stakeholders.

Phil Leahy, OpenAthens Service Provider Relationship Manager, spoke in the Foundational Technologies Panel on ‘What can SAML / Shibboleth do for your institution?’.

MLA draws more than 2,400 participants including medical librarians and other health information professionals, international attendees, and exhibitors.

The Powers of Single Sign-On and the Benefits to All
Robert Scaysbrook spoke alongside EBSCO & Sentara Health about the benefits of single sign-on to clinical resources.

Top questions medical libraries ask OpenAthens
Kristina Botyriute discussed how different technologies work together to increase patron satisfaction.

The London Book Fair hosts over 2,000 exhibitors from the publishing industry in 56 countries, attracting around 25,000 visitors from 118 countries.

Jane and Kieran from the OpenAthens team had lots of exciting conversations with a wide variety of publishers over the two days.

The UKSG Annual Conference attracts almost 1,000 delegates from across the global knowledge community, including librarians, publishers, and intermediaries.

Our presentation on ‘User-focused authentication and resource access fit for the 21st Century’, had a great turn out on both days. Jon Bentley discussed the integral role that Federated Access plays in the success of RA21.

Our event, at the British Library was a chance for anyone working in the educational and research, healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical, corporate and publishing industries with an interest in identity and access management for access to digital content, to attend sessions where topics ranged from user-centred design and measuring user access and engagement to data protection, security and piracy.

View the audio recordings, slides and photos.

The goal of the ER&L Conference is to bring together information professionals from libraries and related industries.

Our session, ‘Moving Beyond IP Authentication: The New Frontier in Single Sign-On’, with EBSCO and Laredo Community College, discussed how libraries can move beyond IP authentication to one that is more secure, personalized and easy to setup and manage.

ALA Midwinter is a great mixture of in-depth learning, educational sessions, thought-provoking speakers, new publications, technologies and services from expert organizations in the exhibits.

We had some great conversations around Identity and Access Management. Our new travel coffee cups went down a treat on our exhibition stand!

American Association of School Librarians, which is the only National Conference & Exhibition, held every two years, is the leading professional development event for school library professionals.

Rob and Kieran from the OpenAthens team attended and had some great Identity and Access Management discussions with delegates of the event.

This October some of the OpenAthens team headed to the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Our launch presentation of OpenAthens Cloud was great, hosted by our Service Relationship Manager, Phil Leahy. The team also had the chance to meet with our customers and browse the exhibition.

Our customer conference bought together information professionals and technical experts from across the spectrum of healthcare, academia, corporates and publishing under the theme of Creating Connections to discuss the key challenges and opportunities facing organisations in the context of Identity and Access Management (IAM).