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As organisations adopt more AI agents and automated workflows, identity is becoming a critical area of risk. Traditional identity systems were built for people, not AI agents that can access data, make decisions, and take actions autonomously.

In this session, Edna Randiki will explore how organisations can adapt identity management for AI, maintain clear accountability, and put controls in place that stand up to board and regulatory scrutiny.

Key takeaways:

• Why AI agents and other non-human identities need to be managed differently.
• How to maintain accountability when AI acts on behalf of people or organisations.
• Why identity management is becoming a key part of AI risk and governance.

As organisations scale across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, identity has become dangerously fragmented across employees, contractors, machine workloads, and an exploding ecosystem of non-human identities (NHIs) like API integrations and service accounts. Disconnected tools and siloed policies leave critical blind spots, unmanaged credentials, and bloated compliance processes that traditional, human-centric architectures cannot support.

In this joint keynote, Okta and Deloitte present a practical blueprint for unifying identity across the full enterprise landscape. Discover how combining Deloitte’s identity modernisation practice with Okta’s identity security platform creates a single governed fabric that closes security gaps, automates lifecycles, and accelerates business agility without compromise.

Key Takeaways:

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• Why fragmented governance over non-human identity sprawl has become the enterprise's most exploitable blind spot.
• How Okta unifies workforce, contractor, and machine identities under one consistent policy engine to replace point tools.
• Practical methods to automate lifecycle workflows and access management for both human teams and automated workloads.
• How a unified governance model simplifies compliance reporting and builds an audit-ready posture for ANZ and Asia-Pacific regulatory standards. 

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As hybrid environments expand and automation increases, privileged access has become the most exploited pathway in breaches. Identities, human and machine, now hold powerful permissions across cloud, APIs, SaaS, and operational systems, making traditional PAM models too slow and siloed.This panel will explore how organisations are unifying Identity and PAM strategies to gain visibility, enforce least privilege, and detect misuse in real time. Hear how leaders are reducing privileged sprawl, managing machine credentials, and aligning PAM with Zero Trust without slowing operations.

• Why converging IAM and PAM is critical for controlling high-risk access across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Practical approaches to reducing privileged sprawl and managing machine identities at scale.
• How to automate least privilege and real-time monitoring without disrupting productivity.

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As AI agents move from experimentation into real-world environments, they are increasingly being used by frontline workers — healthcare professionals, government officials, farmers, developers and entrepreneurs.

We are building AI so that all of us can do our work at the next level and in a more fulfilling way. As these systems become more capable, they can make decisions, access data and act on our behalf.

But with greater autonomy comes greater risk. We need to ensure these agents have the right identity, the right access and the right guardrails so they can do their job without going beyond what they are authorised to do.

Key Takeaways

• Discover the agents
• Trust, but govern the agent
• When AI can act, we need to control the action

An interactive session where attendees participate in handling a simulated breach due to compromised credentials, focusing on containment and remediation strategies.

As age assurance requirements grow across digital services, organisations need trusted ways to confirm eligibility without collecting unnecessary personal information. In this session, Linden Dawson from NAB will discuss why NAB participates in the ConnectID network and how the bank is helping enable privacy-preserving age verification that gives customers greater control over their personal information. The session will explore how trusted digital identity networks can help balance privacy, security and regulatory compliance while reducing the need to overshare sensitive data.

Key takeaways:

• Why NAB participates in the ConnectID network and the customer and industry benefits it enables.
• How privacy-preserving age verification can help organisations meet age assurance requirements while minimising data sharing.
• What identity and security teams can learn from trusted digital identity networks and reusable digital credentials.

AI is evolving from a tool that assists people to an actor that makes decisions and takes actions across enterprise systems. Yet most identity programs still govern AI as software rather than as an identity.

This session explores three emerging IAM tensions introduced by AI actors, balancing autonomy with control, access with least privilege, and speed with governance. Through practical examples, learn how established IAM principles can evolve to govern AI actors without rethinking their entire identity architecture.

Key Takeaways

• Recognise why AI actors should be governed as identities, not just software.
• Understand the three new governance tensions introduced by autonomous AI.
• Apply practical IAM patterns to balance AI autonomy with security and accountability.

Every wave of AI hype brings sweeping claims that "everything is different now." But trust, between people, institutions, and the systems we rely on has rules that don't bend easily. This panel separates real shifts from noise, exploring how verification, authenticity, and accountability must adapt without abandoning the principles that make trust possible in the first place.

Key takeaways:

• The trust fundamentals AI doesn't change and why ignoring them creates real risk
• Where verification, provenance, and identity genuinely need to be reinvented for AI-generated content and agentic systems
• What leaders, regulators, and builders must do now to keep trust intact as the stakes climb

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Delegates will chose from a list of pertinent peer-to-peer discussion topics focussing on evolving and emerging trends, techniques and technologies.

Put your knowledge to the test in this fast-paced quiz covering real-world identity trivia, key concepts, and emerging trends. Compete for bragging rights—and a travel voucher—as the top scorer takes the crown.

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Discover how Extranet Systems uses conversational AI and automation to resolve common IAM requests in seconds, reduce analyst workload, and transform identity operations into a scalable self-service model. Perfect for teams looking to do more with less.

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Lessons from Transforming Workforce Identity for 60,000+ Healthcare Professionals

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In healthcare, identity is critical to both security and patient care. Join Hemangini Tandel as she shares Ramsay Health Care’s identity transformation journey, delivering automated identity lifecycle management and provisioning for more than 60,000 identities in just 12 months.

This practitioner-led session explores how Ramsay combined strong change management, trusted data foundations and practical enablement strategies to drive adoption and deliver identity transformation at scale. Attendees will gain real-world insights into balancing security, governance and workforce experience in one of Australia’s largest healthcare environments.

Key Takeaways

• Why change management is critical to identity transformation success
• How trusted data enables automation and stronger governance
• Practical strategies for driving adoption at enterprise scale

In this session we will take a live pulse of the room with a series of multiple questions discussing Interoperability, digital wallets, and citizen identity and where Australia fits in the global identity landscape and have our panel of leaders discuss in this open forum think tank.

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This interactive session puts these questions directly to the audience. Participants vote live on a series of real-world scenarios, explore the results together, and vote again as perspectives shift through the discussion.

• How close do you think Australia is to making digital wallets part of everyday life?
• In your view, what’s the hardest challenge to overcome for digital identity adoption?
• Which sector is best placed to push digital identity forward in Australia?
• When thinking about interoperability, where should Australia focus its first big step?
• By 2030, what form of citizen identity do you think Australians will rely on most?
• How do you see Australia’s position in the global identity landscape by the end of the decade?

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