East Coast · May 6, 2027 · New York Marriott Marquis
Short, sharp and interactive: keynotes and case studies from practitioners, live panels you vote in, peer roundtables on the problems you name, and two hours of structured networking by design.
Confirmed so far for East Coast Identity World on May 6, 2027. More speakers will be announced as the program is finalized.
All times EDT. Speaker lineup and agenda announcement coming November 2026. Sign up for the full lineup drop announcement below!
Beat the rush and join us early for complimentary barista-made coffee and breakfast.
Kick off the day with a welcome from your MC and a look at what's ahead.
Customers are starting to use AI agents to compare products, make purchases and manage accounts on their behalf. But most identity and fraud systems were designed for people, not AI agents acting for them.
This keynote explores how businesses can prepare for this shift, from verifying AI agents and managing their access to keeping customer accounts secure and knowing who's responsible when something goes wrong.
Key takeaways:
Government-backed and industry digital identity schemes are moving into mainstream private-sector use. This keynote unpacks where adoption really stands, the practical requirements of taking part, and how verified digital identity reshapes onboarding and fraud reduction, and the trade-offs on the way.
Once an attacker gets into a system, resetting passwords isn't always enough to remove them. They may still have access through stolen sessions, connected apps or service accounts.
This panel walks through a real incident, exploring how security teams identify and shut down an attacker's access without disrupting critical business operations.
Key takeaways:
With passkeys crossing into the mainstream and a large majority of enterprises now deploying them, passwordless is no longer aspirational. In this case study, a practitioner walks through a real phishing-resistant authentication rollout: the pilot, the pushback, the edge cases (shared devices, legacy apps, deskless workers), and the measurable impact on help-desk load and account takeover.
Recharge with refreshments and structured networking with your peers.
A hands-on, interactive session working through a real identity and access scenario as a room. Details announced soon.
Deepfakes are getting good enough to fool both people and the systems designed to verify identity. From opening fraudulent accounts and bypassing facial recognition to convincing help desks to reset passwords, attackers are finding new ways to exploit the identity checks organisations rely on.
Join Siwei Lyu (Director, Media Forensics Lab, University at Buffalo) for an interactive session where the audience will test their ability to spot deepfakes, see how AI-generated faces, voices and videos are being used to bypass identity controls, and explore what organisations can do to protect themselves.
Having identity controls in place is one thing. Proving they actually work is another. Many organisations run access reviews, manage privileged accounts and use sign-in checks, but struggle to show whether these controls are reducing risk.
This keynote explores how organisations can test their identity controls, identify gaps and provide clear evidence to auditors, regulators and business leaders that access is being properly managed.
Key takeaways:
AI and automation are starting to make decisions about who gets access to systems and data. But how much control should we give them, and when should a human step in?
This panel explores which access decisions can safely be automated, where IAM teams and application owners still need to be involved, and who is accountable when AI makes the wrong call.
Key takeaways:
Small-group, discussion-based sessions where you'll work through real identity and access challenges with peers in similar roles. Roundtable topics will be announced soon.
Enjoy a complimentary lunch while connecting with fellow attendees.
Put your knowledge to the test in this fast-paced quiz covering real-world trivia, key concepts, and emerging trends. Compete for bragging rights (and a travel voucher) as the top scorer takes the crown.
Most organizations don't have one IAM problem. They have a decade of them stitched together: legacy directories, M&A leftovers, siloed cloud IAM, and a team too stretched to fix it properly. This case study follows a practitioner who consolidated a genuinely fragmented identity estate without a green-field budget or headcount, showing what got prioritized, what got cut, and how they built internal buy-in to sustain it.
AI agents are accessing systems, moving data and taking actions on behalf of employees. But many have too much access, use shared accounts and have no clear owner.
This keynote explores how to control what AI agents can access, monitor what they do and decide who is responsible when something goes wrong.
Key takeaways:
AI-generated CVs, deepfakes and fake identities are making it harder to know who organisations are actually hiring. Even after someone starts, how can businesses be sure the person doing the work is the person they hired?
This think tank explores how organisations can spot fake candidates, verify identities during recruitment and onboarding, and make sure the right person is accessing company systems once employed.
Discussion Questions:
Wrap-up of the day's key takeaways, and your chance to win some epic prizes.
Unwind with your peers for a couple of drinks on us!
See you at Identity World London on June 16, 2027.
Short, sharp and interactive by design. No slide-after-slide days.
Solo stage time from a practitioner or an invited expert, framing where the discipline is heading.
Three or four leaders comparing programmes directly, moderated to stay concrete rather than abstract.
Small-group peer discussion on a single named problem, with no audience and no slides.
Curated, opted-in meetings between practitioners and the partners they choose to meet, scheduled around the programme so nobody misses a session.
Two hours of the day given to breakfast, lunch and drinks by design, so the conversations started in the room carry on outside it.
Global perspectives on identity and digital trust featuring localized experts and region-specific, tailored agendas curated by IAM leaders facing the same challenges as you.
Machine identity management explained for IAM leaders: what non-human identities are, why they now outnumber people, and a 90-day plan to govern them.
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