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Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit 2026 dives deep into key topics for IT leaders around program management, agentic AI, optimizing resources and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2026 Conference Theme

Identity at the Core

In the face of geopolitical volatility and economic uncertainties, IAM is at the core of business operations and cybersecurity, ensuring resilience through secure interactions among people, machines and organizations. Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit provides guidance on building scalable and efficient IAM infrastructures in today’s complex environment.

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Monday, 09 March, 2026

09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT

Gartner Opening Keynote: Identity at the Core
Akif Khan, VP Analyst, Gartner
Michael Kelley, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Amid geopolitical volatility and economic uncertainties, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is crucial for business operations and cybersecurity, ensuring resilience through secure interactions among people, machines, and organizations. As digital innovations like cloud computing and AI evolve, IAM adapts to counter emerging cyber threats. The Identity and Access Management Summit offers leaders guidance on building scalable, efficient IAM infrastructures in today's complex environment. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Ask the Expert: How to Use Privacy-Enhancing Technologies to Reduce AI Risks
Bernard Woo, VP Analyst, Gartner
The risks of exposing personal data must be mitigated in order to gain the trust of customers and employees over the deployment of AI, particularly tools like GenAI. Participate in this session to ask questions about how privacy-enhancing technologies represent a fundamental set of tools for reducing privacy risks when using or developing AI solutions. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT

Workshop: Finding Your Identity Stamp of Approval for Enterprise Applications
Mehmet Yaliman, Director Analyst, Gartner
In the evolving landscape of enterprise applications, ensuring that these are capable of integrating with your identity and access management environment becomes crucial. Identity professionals are tasked with setting IAM-related requirements for an identity stamp of approval in the procurement process. This workshop will help you define IAM requirements for enterprise applications and explore compensating controls. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT

Ask the Expert: How to Modernize Machine IAM?
Steve Wessels, Director Analyst, Gartner
Current machine identity and access management (IAM) practices are fragmented and insufficient, leading to potential security and compliance risks. To address these challenges, IAM leaders should enhance and unify their existing approaches to better secure machine identities. Additionally, it is essential to modernize machine IAM practices in collaboration with all stakeholders, emphasizing just-in-time credentialing, proactive management of technology debt, and continuous monitoring to safeguard critical assets. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

High-Value AI Use Cases for IAM
Nathan Harris, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
While AI holds the promise for automation and efficiency, not all IAM use cases are equally suited for AI enablement. This session will walk through Gartner research related to AI for IAM use cases, including agentic AI, and help IAM leaders focus AI adoption plans on the most beneficial use cases. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Technical Insights: Workload Access Management and API Access Control Architectures
Erik Wahlstrom, VP Analyst, Gartner
Platform engineering teams need your guidance on how to add managed workload identities to all new workloads and architect modern API access control standards that provide strong identity issuance, authentication, authorization, and federation. In this session, we will chart the path for modern workload IAM with capabilities that do not rely on legacy practices and help developers get to a security-by-designed, "hello, world" as quickly as possible. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Guidance for Successful Privileged Access Management Deployment
Homan Farahmand, VP Analyst, Gartner
In this breakout session, we'll explore the critical importance of privileged access management (PAM), its essential objectives and how to reap out the right benefits from a PAM implementation . We'll discuss how to adapt your internal processes and operating model to effectively support PAM tools and provide strategies to enhance your PAM maturity. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT

Workshop: How to Build and Execute an Effective RFP for IGA
Brian Guthrie, Director Analyst, Gartner
This workshop will help you by practically taking you through the stages of preparing the RFP for an identity governance and administration product. Attendees will leave with a practical approach to a successful RFP. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT

Technical Insights: Essential Skills for IAM Architects
Nat Krishnan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital business and the cloud are driving IT architecture to become more agile and intelligent. In this session, we will review the essential technical, business and interpersonal skills required for identity architects to be effective in this environment. ... Show More Show Less

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“The conference wasn’t just about theory — it offered actionable take-aways that we could immediately implement. Whether you’re modernizing your IAM approach, navigating compliance or strengthening cloud security, this conference delivers practical, cutting-edge insights.” 

Dominik Beier
Architekt, Munich Re 

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