Open Standards Meet Industry-Wide Needs

In today’s episode of The Tech Trek, host Amir Bormand talks with Atul Tulshibagwale, the Chief Technology Officer at SGNL. Amir and Atul discuss Open Standards and the various factors that contribute to the creation of new standards. Highlights 03:39 - Atul explains what Open Standards are. 06:56 - How to determine if a phenomenon could be an Open Standard 11:35 - How can you encourage more people to support your ideas? 15:49 - What are some of the best ways to join in on a project, even if you have little experience? 20:17 - Atul shares his best practices for finding the right Standards body to contribute to. Guest: Atul Tulshibagwale is a federated identity pioneer and the inventor of CAEP. He provides technical leadership at SGNL. He conceptualized the Continuous Access Evaluation Protocol (CAEP), which forms the basis of the Shared Signals and Events working group in the OpenID Foundation. Prior to joining SGNL, he was a technical leader at Google where he focussed on access security. He was a co-founder and the CEO of Trustgenix (acquired by Hewlett Packard), where he defined the federation server, a concept that was later adopted by almost all identity vendors. He helped define open standards such as the Liberty Alliance and SAML 2.0. He continued with HP as the Director of the Federation. Prior to joining Google, Atul was at MobileIron as an Identity Architect. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tulshi/ ___ Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek, and we would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)