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.
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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
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM GMT
Gartner Opening Keynote: Identity Amplified: Toward Identity-First Business
Felix Gaehtgens,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Rebecca Archambault,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Ant Allan,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Business leaders acknowledge IAM's significance for mission success. More people outside the IAM team are getting involved in IAM, and are taking some authority and management of IAM assets. IAM and security leaders must understand and navigate implementing and operating a scalable IAM infrastructure. This is challenging due to complexity, diverse expectations, and evolving requirements. The goal is to elevate the importance of identity as a key discipline, like applications, data and infrastructure.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM GMT
Silverfort: PAM Without Pain - A New Way to Secure Privileged Users & Service Accounts
Ron Rasin,
CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER, Silverfort
Kev Smith,
EMEA PRINCIPAL SALES ENGINEER, Silverfort
Protecting privileged access of both human and non-human identities (NHIs) is critical for enterprise security. Yet, the complex architecture of PAM, its endless onboarding efforts, and the ease by which attackers bypass it, leave many accounts unprotected. In this session, we will present a new technology that overcomes these limitations, and enables discovery and protection for privileged users and service accounts instantly—and with less operational impact.
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM GMT
Identity Threat Protection: Okta's AI Revolution in Identity Security
Stephen Bennett,
SR. SOLUTIONS ENGINEER, Okta
The identity landscape is under siege. AI-powered threats are evolving faster than traditional security measures can adapt, leaving organizations vulnerable to unprecedented risks. Okta's AI-powered Identity Threat Protection represents a paradigm shift in cybersecurity defense.
In this session, we'll unveil how artificial intelligence is transforming identity security from a reactive to a predictive discipline. Join Okta's Senior Solution Engineer, Stephen Bennett, to reimagine identity security in the age of artificial intelligence. ... Show More Show Less
In this session, we'll unveil how artificial intelligence is transforming identity security from a reactive to a predictive discipline. Join Okta's Senior Solution Engineer, Stephen Bennett, to reimagine identity security in the age of artificial intelligence. ... Show More Show Less
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT
Workshop: How to Evaluate CIAM Vendors?
Nat Krishnan,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Mehmet Yaliman,
Director Analyst, Gartner
CIAM is not limited to Security. It also enables business teams achieve growth by improving user experience. Selecting the right CIAM tool is challenging though as the vendor tools vary widely in B2B support, developer tools, and external integrations. During this session, participants will review the solution criteria for CIAM to evaluate and compare different vendor tools.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Technical Insights: Generative AI and IAM
Homan Farahmand,
VP Analyst, Gartner
We are in the early days of generative AI (GenAI) deployment in enterprise and its application in identity and access management (IAM), this fast-moving technology can quickly evolve and change the IAM threat landscape and how we implement and operate IAM controls. Join this session to learn the initial steps companies can take to use GenAI as part of their IAM systems and how to build access control for GenAI assistants.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT
Ask the Expert: IGA Integration With PAM, Access Management and IaaS
Gautham Mudra,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Identity governance and administration (IGA) is one of the core pillars of identity and access management (IAM). Implementing IGA in a silo leads to inefficient identity governance. This session will discuss the architecture for IGA integration with other critical IAM tools, such as privileged access management (PAM), access management and integration as a service (IaaS).
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Technical Insights: Machine (Workload) IAM
Erik Wahlstrom,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations often have more workloads than humans. This session provides the best practice to manage these, focusing on discovery, management, authentication, authorization and federation.
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM GMT
Workshop: How to Build and Execute the Best RFP for a PAM Product
Nayara Sangiorgio,
Principal Analyst, Gartner
This workshop will help you by practically walking you through the stages of preparing the RFP for an privileged access management product. Attendees will leave with a practical approach to a successful RFP.
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11:00 AM - 11:45 AM GMT
Ask the Expert: How to Implement Multifactor Authentication
David Chase,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will explain a step-by-step process to examine the requirements for MFA and strategies for mitigating the inevitable issues which will occur.
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