Each year around this time, Identiverse attendees start digging into the agenda to plan out the sessions they want to attend. With such a strong list of high-caliber speakers and intriguing topics, it’s not an easy task—especially considering that Identiverse offers a year’s worth of learning in four short days.

To help make it a little easier, we want to highlight some of the must-attend keynotes, sessions and master classes that the Ping Identity crew will be presenting. Of course, this is just a sampling, but hopefully it’ll help you identify topics you find most compelling, while opening up some flexibility in the rest of your schedule.

Grab your calendar. Here you go:

Ping Keynotes at Identiverse

Identity’s Cambrian Moment: The State of Identity in 2018

Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity

Identity is in the midst of a Cambrian moment, on the verge of rapid and unprecedented diversification fueled by levels of investment not yet seen in our industry. Come explore the future of our digital identity ecosystem.

The Unforeseen Forces Shaping Identity

Andre Durand, CEO, Ping Identity

Five unforeseen forces are shaping the future of identity. Join us to learn about how these forces are driving Ping’s strategic vision, and hear from special guests leveraging them to prepare for the future.

The CISO Conversation

Panel with Robb Reck, CISO, Ping Identity

There’s no better way to stay ahead of how information security is affecting today’s digital business landscape than to hear it straight from a panel of industry-leading experts.

Ping Sessions at Identiverse

Identity and Access Management Overview
Take a look at the past, present and future of IAM, and review industry standards like SAML, OAuth, FIDO, OIDC (and other fun acronyms).

Token Binding
Bad jokes will take the edge off this otherwise very nerdy topic of how token binding works and its application to session cookies and higher level protocols like OpenID Connect and OAuth.

IoT and Identity Standards: Advanced Identity for IoT
Today, IoT deployments prefer a hierarchical infrastructure, which leads to simplified trust requirements for devices. We’ll explore what happens when you add more complex trust and identity to the mix with thing-to-thing relationships and peer-to-peer communication.

I’m Sorry Dave, I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That; a Harm-reduction Plan for Cloud Applications
Cloud applications are easier to compromise than traditional local network applications. Come see how emerging technologies and standards are focused on allowing applications to access only what they need, and only when they need it.

Extend Microsoft Azure AD to Everything On-prem with Ping Identity
Learn how to extend SSO and Access Security from Azure AD to on-premises applications using PingAccess for Azure AD, and more recently PingFederate as a Microsoft supported alternative to ADFS.

Going Beyond SSO to Global Authentication Authority
A long-time leader in federated SSO and adaptive authentication, PingFederate has expanded to support workforce, customer and partner identities across new use cases like social account linking, self-service profile management and much more.

Faster Application Development with Identity and Developer Self-Service  
Learn how Ping can help you give engineering teams the convenience of self-service and IT teams a platform that can provide centralized security and control, all while speeding up the process for engineers to onboard and maintain applications.

Enabling the "Open Business" Movement with API Security, Customer Consent and MFA
Beyond the Open Banking/PSD2 movement, see how Ping is creating "Open Business" opportunities by enabling secure access to APIs, customer consent management, strong authentication enforcement, data access governance and improved customer engagement.

From SSO to PingAccess: Journey to the Center of the Identiverse
Rob Davis, Director of Digital Identity Services at TIAA
Join us to learn all about TIAA's migration from a legacy WAM system to PingAccess, including a discussion around the merits of modernizing vs. simply co-existing with a legacy WAM.

Automate and Simplify PingAccess Deployments to AWS
Learn how to provide federated SSO with PingFederate and control access to your hybrid IT environment with PingAccess in AWS.

Ping Master Classes at Identiverse

What’s New in PingFederate?
Hear all about the latest enhancements to the industry’s most powerful federation server, from account registration and self-service profile management to IaaS compatibility improvements and lower deployment costs.

PingID Demo: Offline MFA and SDK Enhancements
Get a close look at the newest features and SDK capabilities of our cutting-edge multi-factor authentication service, from both the user’s and administrator’s perspective.

PSD2 & Open Banking with Ping Identity: A Live Demo
See how the Ping Identity Platform uses OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect token services to support financial institutions and third parties to complete a direct payment transaction and account information aggregation.

Directory Migration: A Use Case
Daniel Ricke, Cyber Security Solutions Architect – Team Lead and Tim Skinner, Information Security Manager at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

Learn how BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee overcame the challenges of migrating to PingDirectory, and you’ll see how you can minimize business disruption by successfully migrating identity information without requiring a force reset of user passwords.

Scalable Identity: Deep Dive into Ping AWS Deployments
Dig into the details of the process, tools and scripts needed to enable automated deployment and elastic scalability of your PingAccess cluster in AWS.

Use PingOne for Enterprise to Federate Partners to Your SaaS Applications
As a SaaS provider, see how you can help your partners and customers federate into your SaaS offering through a hands-on single sign-on configuration.

The Architecture of Identity Automation – To Deliver Brilliant Customer Experiences
Melinda Buxton, Program Director at Telstra; Thor Essman, CEO & Founder at Versent and Eddie Smith, CISO and Founder at Versent

Learn how Telstra, Australia’s largest telecommunications and technology company leveraged full-stack automation to enable rapid, iterative, customer-driven transformation of their identity and access management capabilities.

Ping Partner Sessions at Identiverse

Continuous Identity Verification – Closing the Trust Gap Between Registration & Login
Matt Cochran, VP of Product and Operations at ID Dataweb and Ping Identity will demonstrate how to proof a user’s identity before and during authentication.

Master Class: Verify EMM Status of Mobile Device During Authentication
Vikas Jain, Product Management Director at VMWare and Ping Identity will demonstrate the workflow to verify the validity of a user’s device during authentication.

Master Class: Access Management Checks for Cloud Access Security Broker
Matt Clark, Solutions Architect of Technology Alliances at Netskope and Ping Identity will demonstrate how to enforce SaaS policies during authentication.

How does your Identiverse calendar look now? Quite a bit fuller we hope! Make sure to check out the full agenda to fill in your Identiverse “syllabus” with everything you want to learn.

All of us at Ping are getting excited to kick off this momentous event. And we’re looking forward to seeing you there. It’s gonna be big!