The Trends and Innovation stream is dedicated to exploring the future of digital identity. It highlights pioneering ideas, practical experiments, and visionary thinking shaping the next generation of identity systems, from authentication and governance to ecosystem interoperability and inclusive design.
As identity use cases grow more complex, this stream addresses emerging challenges through key topics like non-human identity management, modern authorization, open banking, SAP IAM evolution, digital inclusion, and global governance. Sessions highlight real-world innovation and research shaping identity systems across industries and geographies.
Innovation drives the identity field forward—enabling more secure, interoperable, and equitable systems. This stream benefits practitioners by revealing where the industry is headed, which technologies are gaining traction, and how to design identity programs that are adaptable, future-ready, and resilient in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Join this block in the stream to explore the future of access and authorization. Gain practical insights into AI-powered access control, token-based AuthZ, next-gen PAM, and zero-trust authentication strategies—plus join a lively panel on what the post-password era means for securing digital identities.