The Shift from Workforce IAM to Autonomous Identities
Combined Session
Tuesday, October 06, 2026 11:30—12:30
Location: Ballroom
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Tuesday, October 06, 2026 11:30—12:30
Location: Ballroom
Imagine a near-future enterprise where AI agents seamlessly negotiate vendor contracts, optimize global supply chains, and resolve complex customer issues in real-time, all while operating within a verifiable, cryptographic boundary. This isn't just a pilot project; these autonomous systems are driving production workflows today. As Anthropic notes in their Zero Trust for AI Agents framework, organizations must shift to a model that assumes breach and requires continuous verification, replacing vulnerable static credentials with dynamic, just-in-time access. The conversation has definitively moved beyond whether to adopt agentic AI - it is now about how to securely scale this new digital workforce without compromising enterprise integrity.
This session addresses how to mitigate the accountability gap in current enterprise Agentic adoption. You will get a perspective of what is needed to securely enable your workforce to utilize the benefits of AI and why your existing Identity Fabric may need new components.
You will walk away with:
- An overview of the architectural requirements to enable secure use of AI
- Good understanding of how to retain accountability in the agentic era
Moving an AI agent into production means deciding what it can access, whose authority it uses and how that access ends. Using a worked enterprise scenario, Michael Lang explores how to connect discovery, accountable ownership, least-privilege access and lifecycle governance across AI agents and the non-human identities they depend on. The session follows an agent from onboarding through a change in responsibilities to retirement, highlighting where controls must adapt. Attendees will leave with a practical checklist for identifying governance gaps and prioritising the controls needed to scale AI with confidence.
Every business runs on a model that evolved out of necessity over time, and that model runs on trust.
Trust has been engineered deliberately for centuries: seals, registers, standing instructions, correspondent houses, trade associations and today through digital assertions.
This session illustrates how the Identity layer is the mechanism that carries trust to enable modern business in the agentic era, and how orchestration plays a pivotal role in this.
