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
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 - 11:30 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 - 11:30 AM GMT
Technical Insights: Top Generative AI Adoption Security Risks and Mitigations
Kevin Schmidt,
Director Analyst, Gartner
Is that SaaS-delivered generative AI (GenAI) app secure to use? Are you building GenAI apps securely using cloud-hosted large language models? Join this session to hear about the top security risks of GenAI, including resilience, data loss, prompt injection, output risk, data poisoning, retrieval risk, and how you should mitigate these risks to ensure a safe and secure GenAI adoption journey.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Market Insights for Access Management 2024 to 2025
Brian Guthrie,
Director Analyst, Gartner
This session will present the Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities for the access management market.
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11:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT
Technical Insights: Implementing Effective Certificate Management to Prevent Business Interruptions
Paul Rabinovich,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Organizations routinely experience outages stemming from unmanaged certificates. In this session, we will discuss how organizations can manage their certificate estate using discovery, automation and crypto-agility.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM GMT
Guidance for Communicating the Value of IAM to the C-Suite
You can't deliver digital transformation or protect the organization without a strong identity foundation. This session will help IAM leaders better communicate their value to security posture and how identity enables the business, using outcome-driven metrics. Defensibility with key stakeholders like customers, shareholders and regulators will be the key to success.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM GMT
Guidance for Continuous Adaptive Trust to Enhance Your Identity Fabric
Ant Allan,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Even when adaptive access approaches exploit increasingly sophisticated analytics, authentication decisions still rely on the binary outcomes of orthodox authentication methods. In this session, we will strip authentication back to its first principles to understand the need for and benefits of an analytics-centric approach that dynamically evaluates a range of evidence supporting identity claims.
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM GMT
Demystifying Identity-First and Zero-Trust Strategies
Nathan Harris,
Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Identity-first security is foundational to zero-trust strategies; without it, zero-trust strategies will fail. This session dives into the gap zero-trust implementations leave when attackers target identities, how identity underpins all trust access policies, the role of identity threat detection and response in filling gaps in a zero-trust implementation, and provides real-world advice on identity starting points and priorities.
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02:30 PM - 03:00 PM GMT
Guidance for Building Quantum Resiliency
Sarah Almond,
Director Analyst, Gartner
We are rapidly entering the age of usable quantum computing and its increasing threat to the existing methods of encryption, privacy and data security. In this session, we will examine reliable methods for building resiliency into your data security program to protect against the existing and future developments of quantum computing and some of the many benefits of using quantum-safe encryption.
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