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#414 - Sponsor Spotlight - Evolveum
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- Identity at the Center
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- Apr 8, 2026
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Summary
This sponsored episode is made possible by Evolveum, the company behind midPoint, an open source IGA platform made and owned in the EU that is in use worldwide. Jeff Steadman and Jim McDonald welcome Pavol Mederly, interim CPO at Evolveum. Pavol shares how IAM found him in 1991 while building an identity solution at a university before the term even existed. The conversation covers two core reasons IGA projects fail: data quality and slow application onboarding. Pavol explains how midPoint addresses these challenges with built-in simulations for testing and improving data quality, and midPilot, an AI assistant for faster application onboarding. MidPilot is supported in part by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Jim and Jeff explore midPoint's architecture, the real benefits of open source including transparency and no vendor lock-in, and advantages of being part of midPoint’s global community. Connect with Pavol: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavol-mederly/ More about Evolveum: https://evolveum.com/idac Connect with us on LinkedIn: Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/ Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/ Visit the show on the web at idacpodcast.com TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intro and sponsor acknowledgment 01:30 How IAM chose Pavol: a university identity story 03:30 What is Evolveum and midPoint 06:30 How Evolveum got its name 08:30 Why IGA projects fail: data quality 10:30 Slow app onboarding and AI-assisted connector generation 16:30 The midPoint simulation feature explained 21:30 midPoint architecture: Java, cloud, Kubernetes, and beyond 23:30 Maintaining a large open source codebase 25:30 Open source benefits: transparency and no vendor lock-in 28:00 Community, meetups, and midPoint in the wild 32:30 Mountains or ocean: a…