The Identity team at Salesforce.com has put together a wonderful list of sessions that will enable you to understand concepts of identity management, single sign on principles, OpenID Connect protocol, SAML and how we can mix & mashups of all this concepts.

Identity has mostly been a fearful term because we all care about our identity. We never want to be in trouble by introducing new concepts and complicating the existing systems. With the identity sessions at Dreamforce 2014, you will have a strong confidence to embrace new identity concepts and technologies and it will make you understand that as technology transforms every second, our identity needs to be more safe and secure. Thus, it is very important to protect and safeguard our identity.

Listed below are the identity sessions which will help you to easily catch up with the identity evangelists and experts at Dreamforce 2014. Make sure to add the interesting sessions in your agenda builder.

Monday, Oct. 13th

Implementing Single Sign On (SSO) to Improve User Experience and Drive Adoption

Single Sign On is a fairly simple concept. Yet implementing it within your organization can have its challenges and complexities. Join us as we discuss common business challenges and the solutions that leverage Salesforce capabilities, such as SAML, OAuth, and Authentication Providers. You’ll hear about the best practices and common solution approaches that customers utilized in order to implement SSO within their own environments.

InterContinental Ballroom C: 1:00 p.m. – 1:40 p.m.

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Integrating Active Directory with Salesforce: Keep User Identities in Sync

With Active Directory being the system of record for user identities at many organizations, keeping users in sync with Salesforce is a challenge. Salesforce Identity Connect allows you to sync users from Active Directory into Salesforce, authenticate users into Salesforce using Active Directory credentials, and provide seamless Single Sign-on using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). Join us to learn about the product, and case studies on how customers are using it to simplify their architecture.

Grand Ballroom AB: 4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.

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Customizing User Authentication with Login Flows

The Winter 15 release introduces a powerful new feature called Login Flows. Join us to learn how to use Login Flows to completely customize your login experience, integrate with different two-factor authentication methods, leverage identity verification services and more. We’ll get hands on, building a custom process from scratch, demonstrate YubiKey and Twillio integrations and you’ll walk away ready to bring this power to your own deployment.

Room 2007, Moscone West: 4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m.

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Tuesday, Oct. 14th

Implementing Single Sign-On in Mobile Applications with Salesforce Identity

Want to learn how to integrate single sign-on and policy management into mobile applications? Custom applications that use secure SAML single sign-on and OAuth allow you to seamlessly deliver an integrated experience for your users. Come learn how Salesforce Identity makes this possible directly from your Salesforce org. We’ll get hands-on and build an app!

Room 2008, Moscone West: 11:00 a.m. – 11:40 a.m.

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Delivering Single Sign-On and Identity for Employees, Customers, and Partners

With the proliferation of cloud applications, mobile devices, and industry trends like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), IT organizations are increasingly challenged with how to manage and gain transparency into user access to systems and applications. Salesforce Identity helps address these issues by providing identity and access management (IAM) for web and mobile applications, built on the trusted Salesforce1 Platform. Join us to make sense of things like federation, OAuth, and social sign-on in order to connect you with your employees, customers, and partners.

Grand Ballroom AB: 12:00 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.

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Wednesday, Oct. 15th

Deploying Single Sign-on and Provisioning for Active Directory

Join us to learn about Salesforce Identity Connect, and how it integrates Salesforce and Force.com apps with Active Directory for data synchronization and seamless single sign-on using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). We’ll walk through a full deployment of Identity Connect, customizing it using JavaScript, and you’ll learn how salesforce.com IT is implementing it to solve their use case.

Room 2011, Moscone West: 9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.

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Deploying Single Sign-On and Identity for Employees, Customers, and Partners

Salesforce Identity helps address challenges around identity and access management for employees, customers, and partners using identity capabilities built directly into the Salesforce1 Platform. In this session, you’ll learn how to deploy Salesforce Identity to solve major use-cases like single sign-on and provisioning with hands-on demonstrations of setting this all up from scratch. You’ll leave empowered to put this to use in your own org.

Room 2008, Moscone West: 3:15 p.m. – 3:55 p.m.

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OpenID Connect and Single Sign-On for Beginners

Websites and applications are implementing social single sign-on to allow users to login using trusted authentication providers such as Google, Facebook, and even Salesforce. Join us to learn how to configure the OpenID Connect authentication provider to allow users to authenticate at Google to access a Salesforce environment. We’ll also look at how you can relieve yourself of the burden of password management by having your web app login users via Salesforce.

Room 2009, Moscone West: 4:15 p.m. – 4:55 p.m.

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Thursday, Oct. 16th

Social Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect

Get hands-on with the new Salesforce Identity feature OpenID Connect to link your Salesforce or Community Identity with a Social Identity such as Google+. Once connected, you can enable single sign-on and even share data between services. See how you can update a Chatter Profile based on a Social Identity and share actions in your Community on social networks. Enable employees to access and synchronize their Google Apps hosted data from within Salesforce. By the end of this session you will have the confidence to go and use OpenID Connect in your own projects.

Room 2008, Moscone West: 9:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

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Seamless Authentication with Force.com Canvas

Join us to learn how to leverage SSO technologies (such as SAML) with Force.com Canvas. We’ll show examples of using Canvas with your existing SSO application to provide a seamless user experience, how you can use Canvas and Salesforce Identity to demo cross-org Visualforce pages, and we’ll show this behaving in Salesforce.

Room 2007, Moscone West: 9:30 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.

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