Ping Identity at Identiverse 2026

June 15, 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Oceanside

For decades, identity followed a simple rule: verify at login, then trust the session. That worked when systems were predictable, users were human, and risk moved slowly.

None of that is true anymore.

AI agents act autonomously, interactions are continuous, and attackers don’t break in, they log in. Trust is no longer a moment. It must be continuously proven.

Join Andre Durand as he reframes identity as the trust broker of the agentic enterprise.  Trust must be explicit, continuously verified, and enforced at the moment of action, which means identity can no longer rely on a one-time login. It must operate where actions happen and evaluate every decision in real time. This is Runtime Identity.

In the agentic era, this isn’t optional—it’s the foundation for controlling risk and unlocking growth.

June 16, 11:05 am - 11:30 am | Mandalay Bay H

Comparable only to seismic shifts like the Industrial Revolution or the rise of the Internet, the emergence of artificial intelligence is unquestionably transformative. But does it really demand an equally radical upheaval in IAM standards and technology? With the seemingly endless parade of prophets and profiteers declaring the revolution imminent and assuring us that they alone can lead it, you might think so. The reality might be less dramatic and more practical. Many of the core challenges of 'IAM for AI' look pretty familiar. Regular old OAuth is already well suited to a surprising amount of AI systems' needs, and emerging efforts like CIMD and ID-JAG seem poised to fill in some of the gaps. It may be that our existing IAM foundation can rise to the occasion, or that our expectations can be tempered to meet the moment. Join a curmudgeonly pragmatist and occasional Identiverse contributor on a journey from 'Eh, I?' to 'I am.' without inciting revolution.

June 17, 10:30 am - 11:20 am | Mandalay Bay H

In an era where sophisticated social engineering and credential-based attacks from groups like Scattered Spider target large enterprises, securing workforce access is paramount. Join Jay Heffernan, General Manager of Authentication Services at Delta Air Lines, and Darrell Geusz, Director, Strategic Products from Ping Identity for an informative fireside chat. This discussion will delve into how Delta and Ping Identity collaborated to safeguard one of the world's largest airline workforces.

June 17, 11:30 am - 12:20 pm | Mandalay Bay D

Trust is no longer just about authentication. It’s about verified, contextual, and continuous confidence across every digital interaction.

In this masterclass, we will share real world examples of how companies are operationalizing “Verified Trust” across both workforce and customer environments. From protecting high-value transactions to enabling secure employee access and fraud-resistant customer journeys, this session will explore how modern identity strategies reduce risk while improving user experience.

June 17, 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Mandalay Bay D

Professional sports leagues face a unique identity challenge: how do you centralize identity infrastructure across dozens of franchises while preserving each team’s distinct brand, digital experience, and fan loyalty? In this session, leaders from Ping Identity will share how they architected a multi-brand customer identity strategy that balances centralized governance with decentralized brand autonomy. This session offers practical lessons for any organization managing multiple brands, subsidiaries, or digital properties under a shared identity strategy.

June 17, 4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Mandalay Bay D

AI agents are new actors in our systems and workflows. They make decisions and interact on behalf of customers, employees, and the enterprise itself. But who governs these agents? Who authorizes them? Who limits their actions at run-time? In this session, Ping Identity will explore why identity must become the control plane for your agents, governing their access at run-time to ensure the right agents have access to the right things, right now. This unified approach to your human and agentic users will help you get ahead of the agentic era that will make or break your business.

June 17, 4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Breakers H

Traditional fraud prevention in fintech has centered on checkpoints at the moment of a financial transaction. Whether it’s issuing a refund, authorizing a payment or loan, or approving an e-commerce purchase, business units have built checkpoints that take a single point-in-time view of a given transaction and, based on factors such as the reputation of the financial instrument, approve or decline it.

With the rise of increasingly sophisticated, AI-enabled fraud rings, this traditional approach is no longer sufficient to achieve the dual goals of minimizing fraud losses and delivering a truly frictionless user experience.

In this session, we will explore how deploying real-time identity threat protection at the front doors of applications- such as registration, sign-in, and account recovery- is key to reducing fraud pressure. This approach works in concert with, and enhances, downstream fintech checkpoints.

June 17, 4:30 pm - 4:55 pm | Mandalay Bay H

For years, workforce identity has been designed around the browser: redirect users to a login page, add MFA, and call it secure. But that model is quietly breaking.

In 2026, identity no longer begins in the browser—it begins at the operating system. With technologies like Windows Hello, Entra ID, macOS Platform SSO, and hardware-backed credentials, the OS now authenticates users before applications ever load. Passwordless has moved from a feature to a foundation.

This session explores how OS-level identity is reshaping workforce authentication and what that shift means for enterprises, CISOs, and identity architects. We’ll examine why browser-centric MFA struggles to keep up, where most passwordless deployments fail (hint: recovery and exceptions), and how identity providers must evolve from challenge engines into trust orchestrators.

Attendees will leave with a new mental model for workforce passwordless—one that treats the OS as the anchor of identity, device trust as a first-class signal, and recovery as a core design requirement, not an afterthought.

June 15, 7:25 pm - 7:40 pm | Tech Theater 2

This session will explore how Zero-Knowledge Biometric technology enables server-side facial authentication without ever storing biometric templates in retrievable or reconstructable form. We’ll unpack architecture, liveness and anti-injection controls, and how to integrate privacy-preserving biometrics into real-world customer and workforce identity flows.

3 Takeaways:

• How to get biometric‑level assurance without storing biometric templates, using device, network, and behavioral risk signals from zero-knowledge biometrics.
• A reference implementation you can copy, showing how to wire Recognize into your existing sign-on and step‑up flows in minutes.
• A practical path to lower fraud and liability, by removing stored biometric data from your environment while improving user experience.