As fraud grows more sophisticated and AI erodes traditional trust signals, the way we identify ourselves has never mattered more. Yet the basic act of proving who we are, or details about ourselves, hasn't kept pace, relying on physical documents and manual checks that fraudsters have learned to exploit. Verifiable digital credentials offer a solution, and isolated success stories have offered a glimpse at its potential - but technology alone hasn't been enough to drive adoption at scale.

FIDO Alliance CEO Andrew Shikiar draws a direct parallel to passkeys, which scaled from concept to over 5 billion in use in under five years. This was not achieved through technology alone, but through standardization, ecosystem alignment, usability guidance, and regulatory momentum working in concert. He will discuss how that same playbook is now being applied to digital credentials and what it will take to create an ecosystem the market can trust.