Identity Fabrics were designed to connect and govern identities across increasingly complex enterprise environments. As autonomous identities - including AI agents, machine identities and delegated services - become part of that ecosystem, the underlying architecture must evolve beyond authentication and lifecycle management towards continuous governance and runtime decision-making.
This session explores the architectural capabilities required to extend an Identity Fabric to support autonomous identities while maintaining accountability, trust and control. It examines how organizations can establish ownership, govern delegated authority, preserve provenance across on-behalf-of chains, and enforce runtime authorization policies that remain effective as identities interact across systems and organizational boundaries.
Rather than focusing solely on AI agents, the session presents a broader architectural perspective on how Identity Fabrics can evolve to govern emerging identity types without sacrificing visibility, auditability or business agility.
Attendees will learn:
- How Identity Fabrics can evolve to support autonomous identities alongside human and machine identities
- Architectural approaches for delegation, provenance and accountable ownership
- Why runtime authorization becomes a core capability of the modern Identity Fabric
- Design principles for revocation, policy enforcement and governance across distributed identity ecosystems
- Practical considerations for evolving today's IAM architectures into future-ready Identity Fabrics
