Identiverse 2026
Below you'll find the keynote and session recordings, along with presentation files for the sessions we’re permitted to share.
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Continuous Identity in Practice Workshop |
Andrew Cameron & Sean O'Dell |
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MCP Hackathon: Master Your AI’s Identity |
Nick Steele & Jonathan Sander |
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Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials Workshop |
Matthew Miller, Megan Shamas & Tim Cappalli |
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The Non-Human & Agentic AI Identity Summit |
Lalit Choda |
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Beyond Authentication: Updates from the Authorization Frontier |
Atul Tulshibagwale & Mark Berg |
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Innovation Workshop - Kantara Initiative Offers Window of Opportunity |
Kay Chopard |
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Introduction to Identity |
Espen Bago & Lance Peterman |
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NIST Update on its Mobile Driver's License (mDL) Industry Partnership |
Jeremy Grant, Stefan Schubert, William Fisher, Cisa Kurian & Amir Reavis-Bey |
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The Identity Cartographer: Developing an Atlas of Identity Specifications |
Alex Chalmers |
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Toward a Zero Trust Architecture for Agent Identities |
Tarek Dawoud |
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An OpenID Perspective on the Identity Landscape |
Gail Hodges, Aaron Parecki, Pamela Dingle, Nancy Cam-Widget & Naveen CM |
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AuthZEN Deep Dive: Mastering the OpenID Authorization Standard |
Alex Olivier, Mark Berg & Atul Tulshibagwale |
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Clinical Enterprise Authentication Simplified and Enhanced |
Joe Neuman & Paul Smith |
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Debugging Passkeys for Professionals |
Shane Weeden |
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From IAM to Identity Security: Understand the Architecture, Build a Roadmap, Win the Business Case |
Andre Priebe |
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Introduction to Privacy |
Jamie Danker & Zack Martin |
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Proving You're Real |
Filip Verley, Ajay Patel & Hemani Shringi |
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Same Job. Different World. |
Andi Hindle |
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Guest Keynote Noelle Russell |
Noelle Russell |
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Actions, Not Access: The Shift to Runtime Identity |
Andre Durand |
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Navigating the Identity Revolution in Real-time |
Cedric Leighton, Derek Dahlen, Patricia Voight & Vince Aimutis |
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Navigating Identiverse: A Newcomer's Guide |
Heather Flanagan |
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The Three Identity Problem: Surviving the Chaotic Era |
John Pritchard |
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Leading a Mission-Driven Identity Culture |
Vikas Mahajan |
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Get the Most out of Passkeys |
Ricky Mondello |
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Authenticity for a Brave New World: Using C2PA in Media, Documents, and AI / ML |
Mike Kiser |
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From Access to Advantage: Modernizing IAM to Drive Measurable Impact |
Dan Newhart and Steve Shoaff |
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How We Got Here: The Story Behind Your Identity Stack and the Assumptions We Must Leave Behind |
Sar Haidar |
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Identity for AI Agents: Passkeys, Delegation and Human Authorization |
Bojan Simic |
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Privacy |
Elizabeth Garber |
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The Agentic AI Arms Race: Separating Synthetic Allies from Automated Adversaries - A Deep-Dive into Evolution, Detection, and Defense Architecture |
Kevin Gosschalk |
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When AI Acts With Purpose, Control Must Follow Intent |
Gal Helemski |
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Agentic AI Is Here: Industry Analyst Insights, FIDO Standards & What’s Next |
David Mahdi, Karen Larson, and Andras Cser |
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Crossing Boundaries: The Missing Piece in Federated AI Agent Trust |
Deepika Chauhaun |
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Cursor for IAM: Reimagining Identity Governance Through AI-Driven Design |
Sanjay Nadimpalli |
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Harvest Now, Break Later: The Quantum Threat to Digital Identity |
Jesse Minor |
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IAM for AI: From "Eh, I?" to "I am." |
Brian Campbell |
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"I Have a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore": What Makes Agentic AI Identity So Different? |
John Kemp |
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The Identity Gap: Proof of Humanity in an Agentic World |
Andrew Bud |
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Architecting the Agentic AI Identity Security Platform |
Vinit Shah and Vibhuti Sinha |
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Giving AI Models a Verifiable Digital Identity: Detecting Lineage, Impersonation, and Tampering at Scale |
Ankit Garg |
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Identity Always Tattles: Detecting Attacks in Real Time Through the Lens of Identity Observability |
Anders Askasen and |
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Identity Basics: The Foundation of Secure Access |
Angie Klein |
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OAuth for the Model Context Protocol |
Aaron Parecki |
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OMG PQC is Gonna Impact IAM - and it Might be AOK |
Jeremy Grant, Brian Campbell, Teresa Wu and Andrew Regenscheid |
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The Fatal Silo: Why Separating Identity and Data Security Is Your Next Breach Waiting to Happen |
Ammar Faheem, Joseph Miceli, Jason Keenaghan and John Tolbert |
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Unifying Proactive and Reactive Privacy, IAM, and Cybersecurity: Autonomous Identity‑Centric Defense in the Age of AI |
Heidi Wachs, Gaurav Sheth and Michael Borgia |
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Debunking ‘My Users Don’t Understand Passkeys’: How VicRoads Went Passkey-First for 5 Million Users |
Vincent Delitz |
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Identity Security Moves at the Speed of App Onboarding |
Prithvi Poreddy |
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Man, Machine, and Malice: Securing the Full AI-Powered Development Lifecycle |
Huy Ly and Gaurav Singodia |
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PAM: Security Savior or Operational Nightmare? |
Ruchin Gupta |
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Securing the AI Era: The Critical Need for Strong Authentication of workloads, AI Agents, and the Promise of OAuth 2.0 with SPIFFE IDs |
Nancy Cam-Winget and Pieter Kasselman |
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The Identity Playbook for the Agentic Enterprise |
Adam Ochayon |
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Turn Rich Data into Your Identity Super Power with Continuous Identity |
Faraz Jamal and Mat Hamlin |
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Verifiable Information: A Global Opportunity to Increase Trust and Reduce Cost |
Niels Flensted-Jensen |
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Auth Without Us: Protocols for Autonomous Agents |
Garrett Galow |
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Bias Is a Bug: Identity AI, Accuracy, and Harm |
David Lee |
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From Humans to Agents: Rethinking Identity for Your Next Wave of Growth |
Abhishek Hingnikar and Micah Spieler |
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Identity at OpenAI |
Nick Steele |
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Passkeys at PayPal - Learnings, Best Practices and Beyond! |
Mahendar Madhavan, Walmik Deshpande and Mohit Ganotra |
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Scaling Dual-Sided Trust: Identity Strategy for Marketplaces and Fintech |
Raul Liive |
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The Continuous Identity Maturity Model: A Roadmap to Zero Standing Privilege |
Mat Hamlin |
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The Ghost in the Machine (Securing Non-Human Identities) |
Morey Haber |
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Eliminating Standing Privilege: How to Make ZSP Work in the Real World |
Frank Vukovits and John Martinez |
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From Fear to Trust: Getting Your Org to Accept Continuous Access Revocation |
Charlie Cetin |
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From Roles to Reasoning: What It Takes to Govern Identity at Scale |
Barak Perelman and Jon Raper |
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Stop Giving AI Agents API Keys: Intent‑Scoped, Just‑in‑Time Access |
Adane Tetemke and Anoop Gopi |
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The Reality of Phishing-Resistant Accounts |
Tatsuya Karino and Danny August Ramaputra |
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Unifying Identity and Network Access for the AI Era |
Kaitlin Murphy |
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Unleashing Digital Identity at Scale |
Andrew Shikiar |
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When AI Becomes the User: Rethinking CIAM for Agentic Clients |
Sonal Srivastava and Eugert Jani |
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The Identity Problem Nobody's Talking About: AI Agents That Deceive |
Shimon Modi and Vamseedhar Reddy M |
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Breaking the IAM Silos: A Time to Join Forces |
Rogério Rondini |
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Building Agentic Identity at Scale: IBM Verify as Client Zero |
Jose Rodriguez and Grant Miller |
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Identity Infrastructure as Critical Infrastructure: Building Operational Risk Maturity |
Matt Topper |
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Inside Identity @ PlayStation: Strategies for Modern Consumer Threats |
Grant Walthall and Cam Champeau |
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Operating in the Gaps: Why the “Edge Case” is My Mission-Critical Use Case |
Shannon Roddy |
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The Governance Fabric |
Aman Rustagi |
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The Identity Security AI Metamorphosis |
Nupur Goyal and Gnana Thanikachalam |
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Access Reviews Are Dead. Long Live Decision Governance. |
Alex Olivier and Vatsal Gupta |
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Agentic AI Identity Governance — Governing the inheritance chain: human, agent, and machine identity |
Akshay Srinivas Rajanbabu and Jason Joe |
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Closing Identity Gaps at Scale |
Matt Chiodi |
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From IAM to ITDR: Building Identity Threat Detection and Response for Real-World Resilience |
Stephen Hutchinson |
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How Security Teams and Digital Teams Can Collaborate Instead of Collide |
Robert Block |
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JIT Happens - Just Not for Your Agents - Why Identity's Perimeter Moved From the Login to the Action |
Or Vaknin |
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More Than Who You Are: The Role of Intent in Digital Identity |
David Bailey |
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Why You’ll Start Building Agents for Identity Security - But End Up Buying… |
Nadav Erez |
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2026: When Identity Becomes Workflow |
Nic Chavez |
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Beyond Passwords: Building a Modern Identity Security Strategy for the Passkey and AI Era |
Rima Pawar |
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Hiring in the Age of AI: Protecting Workforce Integrity from Deepfakes and Identity Fraud |
Harsha Balakrishnan |
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Identity Security in an Agentic World: Strengthening Posture, Unlocking Value |
Dor Renert, Niv Goldenberg and Lior Zagury |
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Passwordless in the AI Era |
Kishore Kandalai and Sheryl Chamberlain |
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Portable Trust and the Age of Sharing: Evolving CIAM for Advanced Digital Business |
Gal Helemski and Marco Venuti |
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Shadow AI Agents And Local LLMs: How Unmanaged AI Multiplies Identity Risk |
Erez Schwartz |
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When Identity Becomes the Experience: Higher Education’s Shift from Accounts to Relationships |
Robert Mackin |
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The New Frontier of Identity Security for AI |
Sachin Nayyar and Jamil Farshchi |
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Why the Identity Industry Needs More Bicyclists |
Jeremy Grant |
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Advancing Digital ID Solutions in Congress |
Congressman Bill Foster and Heather Flanagan |
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A Vendor, Two Practitioners, and an AI Agent Walk Into a Bar — The Agent Got In. Nobody Knows How. Because "We'll Figure Out Trust Later" Is Not an Architecture |
Stephen Hutchinson, Sean O'Dell and Pieter Kasselman |
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End-to-End Implementation Guidance for High Assurance Passkey Use Cases |
Nick Charpentier |
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From Accidental Admin to Strategic Leader: Building a Career in Digital Identity |
Elizabeth Garber, Jen Schreiber, Ann Jones, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Paul Templeman and Ian Glazer |
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Hacking Agentic AI: Live Attack, Exploit and Identity-Driven Defense |
Mohit Vaish and Mak Tomar |
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Identity Tips to Secure AI Agents and MCP Servers for the Enterprise |
Rishi Bhargava |
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Inside the Fight Against Scattered Spider: Securing Workforce Identity at Global Scale |
Liz Revelas, Jay Heffernan and Darrell Geusz |
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When IAM Goes Dark: Rethinking Identity Security in a 15-Hour AWS Outage |
Chandra Lingam and Gopi Ramamoorthy |
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Who's Watching the Agents? Identity Security in the Age of Autonomous AI |
Matt Fangman |
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Beyond RBAC: Why Your Access Model Cannot Stop AI Data Leaks |
Christopher Hunt |
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Engineering Trust at Scale: Combating Identity Fraud with Adaptive, Intelligence-driven Identity Capabilities |
Alex Bolante |
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Hands-On Agentic Authorization: Building Identity-Aware Tool Control with Cisco |
Dros Adamson and Colin Medfisch |
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Modern Authentication in AI World |
Sergei Akulich and Molly Zhang |
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Operationalizing Verified Trust: Architecting Continuous Confidence Across Identity |
Tarun Madiraju and Ranjan Jain |
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The Identity Paradigm Shift: Enabling the Identity Ecosystem to Do It’s Job |
Bill Willis |
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The Invisible Workforce: Agentic AI from Risk to Results |
Jody Hunt, Grace Sands, Katie Boswell, Baber Amin, and Jake Pszonowsky. |
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US DOJ Data Security Program (DSP) and You: Is this Identity's SOX moment? |
Paul Lanzi |
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Accelerate Incident Response: Why Identity is the Missing Link in Your SOC |
Jonas Outlaw |
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Beyond Borders: How Internet Fragmentation Is Redrawing the Future of Digital Identity |
Heather Flanagan |
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From Pilot to Scale: Best Practices for Enterprise Passkey Deployment Beyond Authentication |
Chitwan Arora |
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Identity Verification When Impersonation Is Guaranteed |
Richard Mallam and Micahel Richards |
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Maintaining Identity Security on a Breaking Internet |
Jon Lehtinen |
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The Odyssey – A Journey through the Verifiable Digital Credential Ecosystem |
William Fisher and |
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Your Identity Program Needs Therapy: Why AI and Non-Human Identities Are Stressing IAM Leaders |
Jessica Sebastian |
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Zero-License IAM: Replacing Bloatware with Agentic AI (Live Build & Demo) |
Eugert Jani and Mak Tomar |
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Deepfakes, Synthetic IDs, and “Invisible” Takeovers: A Layered Identity Defense for Onboarding, Account Recovery, and Payments |
Conor White |
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From League to Team: Delivering Seamless, Branded Fan Identity at Scale |
Darryl Jones and Michael Wachell |
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From Teens to Terriers & Try Lines: How Australian banks are confirming customer identity via the ConnectID Network |
Linden Dawson |
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Identity Tips to Improve User Onboarding and Conversion |
Rishi Bhargava |
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Reimagining IAM: Identity Data as the Engine of Zero Trust |
David Moosavifazel and Andrew Pagels |
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Signing in on the Internet: the Past, Present, and the Exciting Near-Future |
Sam Srinivas and Sriram Karra |
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The Passkey Reality Check: Addressing 2025’s Biggest Misconceptions |
Nishant Kaushik, Matthew Miller and Tim Cappalli |
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Trust Me |
Justin Richer |
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Biometric Injection Attacks |
Chris Allgrove and Alastair Treharne |
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Rethinking Identity Security — For Innovation, Confidence, and AI |
Vibhuti Sinha and Ajitha Choudar |
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Signal Overload: Reconciling High-Velocity Identity with API-Based Management |
Danny Zollner |
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The End of SSO? Rethinking One Trust Fits All |
Alexander Weinert |
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Vanguard's Path to Zero Trust: Strong Users, Strong Enterprise |
Mohan Patel, David Olsen, and Andrew Szajlai |
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When a Nation Opens Its Biometrics: Inside Argentina's 250,000 Daily Third-Party Verifications |
Sebastian Fernandez Quezada and Flavio Ramon |
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Why Active Directory Is Still Your Biggest Identity Risk |
Lars Urbaniak |
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Why Your IAM Program Is Losing Customers Without Knowing It |
Jason Keenaghan |
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If You're Not at the Table, You're on the Menu: The Importance of Engagement to the Identity Technologies Industry in the Lawmaking Process |
Brian Krause, Robert Tappan, Arielle Thomas and Hadley Sosnoff |
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Doing More With Less: A Business-Driven 3R Framework for IAM Prioritization |
Tracey Hughes |
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From AI Chaos to Control: Securing Your New Agentic Workforce |
Levent Besik and Vinay Bhonde |
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Humans & Now Agents: The NHI Internal Threat Amplified |
Lalit Choda |
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Let’s Argue About AI Agent Identities |
Jonathan Sander |
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Not Just Passkeys: Rethinking the Scope of Phishing-Resistant MFA |
Chris Anderson |
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The Foundation for Secure AI Agent Deployment: Governance and Control at Scale |
Morgan Reed and Karan Gondara |
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The Hard Part of Policy Based Access Control Nobody Talks About |
Vatsal Gupta |
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Where Are Our Words |
Pamela Dingle |
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Accelerate your Identity Security for Modern Identity Defense |
Jared Ross |
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Guarding the Front Door - Why Identity Threat Protection is Foundational to Enabling Fraudless Money Movement |
Tzvika Barenholz |
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Taming the Wild West of Non-Human Identities; Bringing Governance and Oversight to the Untamed Digital Frontier |
Ben Wise |
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The Last Mile: Hard-Won Lessons from Netflix's Enterprise Passkey Evolution |
Anisha Gupta and Sarah Handler |
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The OS Has Won: Identity Is No Longer a Browser Problem |
Yariv Levavi |
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The Road to Authorization at Scale with Continuous Identity ? |
Jeremy Erickson and Andrew Cameron |
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Tips to Simplify B2B2X Identity Complexity |
Rishi Bhargava |
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Innovation Workshop: Empowering Innovators to Advance Identity in the Age of AI |
Pamela Dingle and Tina Srivastava |
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Biometrics at the Worst Possible Moment: Identity Controls in High-Risk Bank Transfers |
Lionel Cymerman |
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Continuous Authorization – Wrangling the Rule Spaghetti |
Paul Heaney and Darren Scragg |
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Generational Change: Building Modern IAM Today |
Ian Glazer |
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Identity Verification: The Missing Catalyst for Modern IAM Realization |
Sean O'Dell |
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Outcomes, Not Features: How to Buy an Identity Solution Without Regretting It |
Jennifer Cox |
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Runtime Identity: Trust at the Speed of AI |
Tanu Kaushik and Brian Yoon |
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Secure the Agent, Not Just the App: The New Identity Stack |
Mira Sharma |
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Who Bought the Bread? Identity and Authentication for AI Agents |
Levgeniia Zhovtobriukh and Nafis Zebarjadi |
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Beyond “Are You Done?” - Building the Internal Market for Identity |
Lance Peterman |
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Bridging the Divide: Closing the Skills Gap Between Identity & Access Management and Cybersecurity Teams |
Matt Connors |
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Conditional Access in Practice in a Luxury Company: Hard Lessons from the Field |
David Martinache |
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Unified Digital Identity for Healthcare: Scaling Secure B2B/B2C Access with Adaptive MFA and Behavioral Biometrics |
Srikanth Boddireddy & Sivaprasad Thanneru |
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When Identity Fails: Building Resilience and Recovery into Your Identity Infrastructure |
Shahan Karim |
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Building AI You Can’t See: Practical Patterns for Privacy-Preserving AI |
Frederic Rivain & Kaouther Ouenniche |
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Delegated Authorization for Relationships |
George Fletcher |
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Every IAM Project Is a Migration: Here’s How to Automate the IdP Switch |
Steve Giovannetti |
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Infusing Product Thinking into Identity Teams |
Hannah Sutor |
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Is It Cake? The Crisis of Hidden Crypto and the Path to Agility |
Jahan Moreh & Jen Schreiber |
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The Unpopular Truth: Your “Strong Auth” Is Fragile Without a Fallback |
Gil Amsellem |
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Intuit’s Journey: Unifying Workload Identity Across Heterogeneous Cloud Environments |
Dmitry Izumskiy |
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Re-bottling the Genie: Who Is Accountable When AI Acts for Us? |
Janelle Allen & Eve Maler |
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The Hidden Cost of Unexamined IAM Decisions: Detecting Cascading Complexity Before It Breaks Your Program |
Kai Mindermann |
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Welcome to the Identity Tribe: Tips & Tricks for Designing your Own Customer‑First Career in Digital Identity |
Linden Dawson |
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When Identity AI Learns the Wrong Lessons |
David Lee |
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Why Britain Hates Digital ID: A Psycho-Historical Tour |
Jaye Hackett |
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Bidirectional OAuth 2.0 / Open ID Connect |
Dhandapany Venkatasubramanian |
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From Logs to Leverage: What Identity Data (Telemetry) Really Tells Us About Trust |
Nandini V |
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From Monthly to Daily: Restoring Trust in Workforce Identity Data When Applications Won’t Integrate |
Chris Power |
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Governing Non‑Human Identity for AI Agents in CIAM: Zero Standing Privilege in Practice |
Manikandan Rajaram & Anji Yalla |
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Navigating the Hidden Complexities of Identity |
Hannah Sutor |
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Turning Signals into Trust: The Future of Continuous Identity |
Atul Tulshibagwale, Mike Kiser & Sean O'Dell |
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100 Years of Identity... You’d Think We’d Be Better at This |
Eve Maler, Pamela Dingle, Andrew Cameron & Ian Glazer |
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Identiverse 2026 Closing |
Andi Hindle |
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