On 18 and 19 April the Authentication Summit 2007 takes place in Boston. It’s a two-day intensive program focused on online authentication, identity and reputation.  Summit 2007 builds upon the success of the past two Summits, with several enhancements including expanding the event to 2 full days, and three tracks, highlighting best practices in email, Web and domain authentication.

Here’s an overview of the general and breakout sessions:

General Sessions:

• Keynote – Establishing Trust to realize the full potential of computing and messaging in an interconnected world
• Internet Identity Crisis – What are we solving and the risks of indecision?
• Internet Battlefield – Where are the threat vectors and what is the best defense?
• Evolution & Future of Electronic Messaging and Communications – Thinking Outside of Today’s Inbox
• Impact to consumer trust and confidence; how authentication is defending against phishing
• State of the State – Authentication Scorecard and view of the Fortune 500, ecommerce and Financial Services Industries
• What it takes to authenticate inbound and outbound mail – Lessons Learned,
• Impact to email deliverability and false positives
• Trying Reputation to Authentication – Great You have A Drivers License but What is Your Driving Record?

Breakout Intensive Sessions:

• Deep
  Dive into DKIM and Sender ID – How combined they are better than alone.
  Use case scenarios, fringe cases and lessons learned.
• Integrating email authentication Inbound – How does it fit within a layered Enterprise Architecture?
• Beyond Authentication – Identity
• Online Banking ? Best practices and the future, will customers and their accounts be safe?
• Self
  Protection, Prevention & Compliance – What a domain holder can do
  to protect and prevent their domain from being compromised and what
  they should do when they have been compromised – Case Study
• Authentication Lessons Learned –  What email marketers must do and how can they best work with their IT departments?
• Email Deliverability Best Practices – The 360 Degree View
• emarketing – optimizing your brand for customer confidence
• Emerging Accreditation & Reputation Solutions – Industry Update & Roundtable
• Beating online criminals at their tricks ? An insiders perspective

If you’re interested, you can find out more here.