This year’s conference theme is Identity at the Core, underscoring identity’s crucial role in business and cybersecurity mission success, as the technology landscape is disrupted with the advent of AI. IAM ensures secure access, while supporting zero trust and resilience. Explore our tracks all developed with this theme in mind.
Explore this year’s tracks
View tracks for IAM executives and dive into last year’s sessions while we work on the full 2026 agenda.
2026 Conference Tracks at a Glance
Track A. IAM Program Management and Leadership
Organizations should embrace an "identity-first business strategy" for operational efficiency and competitive edge. This track offers guidance on creating and maintaining a formal IAM program, vital for supporting business and cybersecurity goals.
Track B. Access Management and Authentication
Access management enables secure and resilient access for anyone or anything to anywhere. This track provides insights into identity verification, authentication, authorization, MFA, single sign-on, identity federation and API access.
Track C. Identity Governance and Administration (IGA)
This track provides insight into best practices and enhancement on ways to improve your IGA initiative to enable user access quickly while hardening security posture and access compliance.
Look back at 2025 Conference Sessions
Over a hundred conference sessions were presented at Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2025. While we work to develop this year's agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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Monday, 24 March, 2025
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM GMT
Executive Story: IAM at 2035 - A Future Guide to Identity Centric Security
Simon Moffatt,
Founder of the Cyber Hut, Advisor and Author, The Cyber Hut
This session will go on a journey to uncover where identity and access management is heading for the next decade - taking a look at how topics such as cloud, mobile and AI as well as a range of other incremental innovations in the cyber, threat intelligence and risk management spaces will influence how IAM is deployed and measured.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM GMT
Executive Story: Building a Trust Fabric With the OpenID Shared Signals Framework
Atul Tulshibagwale,
CTO, SGNL.ai INC and Co-Chair, OpenID SSWG, OpenID Foundation
Felix Gaehtgens,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Erik Wahlstrom,
VP Analyst, Gartner
OpenID SSF, CAEP and RISC are open standards that enable instantaneous event-based communication, enabling real-time ITDR. Leading companies have announced their support for this set of standards and some are demonstrating its interoperability in this conference. Join this session to learn about how this works and why it is critical to building a trust fabric for your organization.
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02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Executive Story: Passkeys - Foundations and State of Adoption
Andrew Shikiar,
CEO & Executive Director, FIDO Alliance
Megan Shamas,
Chief Marketing Officer, FIDO Alliance
Passkeys represent a new paradigm in user authentication; finally, there is a highly-secure and user-friendly way to replace the risks associated with passwords. But IAM teams continue to have questions around how passkeys can be most effectively utilized to address various use cases in their organization. Join this session for a deep dive on passkeys, including what they are, how they work, why the FIDO Alliance has introduced them, and how you should be thinking about them in your authentication strategy. Plus, learn about the state of passwordless authentication from the FIDO lens and how to get started towards your own passwordless adoption.
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Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM GMT
Executive Story: QUAD Inc - With a Little Help From mAI Friends
Diego Galletti,
Enterprise Architect, Quad Inc.
Quad Inc. is a U.S.-based company offering integrated services from creative production to data-driven media management. Serving over 2,700 clients, Quad has more than 13,000 people working in 14 countries around the world. With such a diversified population and hundreds of applications within our IGA perimeter, our Identity Governance processes significantly impact our user community; hence, drastically improving our IGA-related user experience process has been defined as a must-have.
This case study will detail our practical experience using Conversational IAM tools, moving to a natural language chatbot interface where users express their needs in their mother tongue rather than being lost in navigation/lost in translation. And prove that sometimes, all you need is a little help from "mAI friends"! ... Show More Show Less
This case study will detail our practical experience using Conversational IAM tools, moving to a natural language chatbot interface where users express their needs in their mother tongue rather than being lost in navigation/lost in translation. And prove that sometimes, all you need is a little help from "mAI friends"! ... Show More Show Less
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM GMT
Executive Story: AuthZEN - the “OpenID Connect” of Authorization
Omri Gazitt,
Co-founder/CEO, Aserto and co-chair, OpenID AuthZEN
Homan Farahmand,
VP Analyst, Gartner
David Brossard,
Chief Technology Officer, Axiomatics
Today, the authorization world is fractured - each vendor supports its own APIs & protocols. But this is about to change: OpenID AuthZEN was created in late 2023 to establish much-needed modern authorization standards. As of late 2024, AuthZEN has a stable Implementers Draft, and is expected to reach Final Specification in 2025.
With AuthZEN, IAM teams can confidently externalize and standardize authorization across their application estate without being locked in to a proprietary API.
This session will describe the state of modern authorization, review the AuthZEN API, and demo our 15 interoperable implementations. ... Show More Show Less
With AuthZEN, IAM teams can confidently externalize and standardize authorization across their application estate without being locked in to a proprietary API.
This session will describe the state of modern authorization, review the AuthZEN API, and demo our 15 interoperable implementations. ... Show More Show Less
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM GMT
Executive Story: Empowering Frontline Workers with Secure Identity and Access Management
Giriraj Balasubramanian,
Lead IAM Architect, Michelin Group
Empowering Frontline Workers with Secure Identity and Access Management
Session Description: Streamlining Identity and Access Management (IAM) for frontline workers focusing on efficient lifecycle management, ensuring seamless onboarding and offboarding and integrating passwordless authentication methods. This enhances security, simplifies access to essential tools and systems, and empowers frontline teams with user-friendly solutions, boosting productivity while reducing operational risks. Lessons learnt, pitfalls and the way it is steering Michelin's strategy toward a "Passwordless Journey for All” ... Show More Show Less
Session Description: Streamlining Identity and Access Management (IAM) for frontline workers focusing on efficient lifecycle management, ensuring seamless onboarding and offboarding and integrating passwordless authentication methods. This enhances security, simplifies access to essential tools and systems, and empowers frontline teams with user-friendly solutions, boosting productivity while reducing operational risks. Lessons learnt, pitfalls and the way it is steering Michelin's strategy toward a "Passwordless Journey for All” ... Show More Show Less
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM GMT
Executive Story: Securing Workforce Identities with Modern Phishing Resistant Authentication
Perraju Nadakuduty,
Director, Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
The FIDO Password less credentials authentication Open standards offers the most modern defence mechanisms that Enterprise can leverage. This creates opportunities for enterprises to provide secure authentication mechanisms against evolving threats. Large enterprises have complex technical infrastructures, networks and edge systems. Learn how to raise the bar for implementing phishing resistant credentials in such a complex regulatory environment.
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