in 20 words each, can someone summarize the recent face to face meetings?

20 words on what happened at the US gatethering of the great and the good in the (national)  identity scene?
 
20 on what happened in webid work in Berlin, with perhaps another 20 for stuff about federated social networking?
 
what were the 3 big takeaways, each reduced to a two sentence elevator pitch?
 
remember, in an elevator, folks eyes roll if you use more than 20 words to answer a "social question" such: as so how did the meeting go?