Privileged Access Management (PAM) is no longer just about human users. As organisations scale automation, APIs, service accounts, and machine identities, the attack surface expands. In this session, Satya Nagaram, Head of PAM at Standard Chartered, will explore the next phase of PAM transformation, including how to secure non-interactive IDs, reduce risk across sprawling environments, and the critical role IAM plays in strengthening AI security and trust.

• Why non-interactive IDs are today’s biggest PAM blind spot
• Approaches to modernising PAM for automation and scale
• How identity frameworks underpin safe and trustworthy AI adoption
• Where PAM and IAM must evolve to keep pace with AI-driven enterprises

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Identity-based threats are still the most common cause of breaches but in 2025, they’re harder to spot and faster to spread. It’s not just about stopping bad logins anymore; attackers are hijacking sessions, abusing tokens, and blending in with legitimate users. In this panel, security and IAM leaders share how they’re spotting identity misuse early, what behaviours and signals actually help, and how they’re speeding up response without burning out their teams.

• The signals, behaviours, and patterns helping catch identity misuse early
• What’s working for fast containment, smarter investigation, and reducing manual effort
• How to ensure identity systems and security teams work together, not in silos

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

Deepfakes are rapidly becoming one of the most sophisticated identity threats, capable of bypassing traditional authentication and eroding digital trust. This live demo session shows how deepfake detection works in practice, from spotting subtle inconsistencies to integrating detection into identity workflows. Attendees will see real-world attack scenarios, the tools used to identify manipulated media, and strategies to safeguard authentication processes in an AI-driven threat landscape.

Demo Flow

• A look at how deepfakes are crafted and deployed in fraud and social engineering
• Demonstration of detection techniques: visual, audio, and behavioural analysis
• Showcasing how detection integrates into IAM and fraud prevention systems
• What organisations need to prepare for as deepfakes evolve

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Practical insights into deploying MFA effectively to protect against unauthorised access.

AI agents, synthetic users, and machine identities are becoming part of daily operations but most IAM strategies weren’t built to handle them. In this panel, security and identity leaders will explore what happens when your users aren’t human, your workflows are autonomous, and your policies can’t keep up.We’ll unpack the new risks AI introduces, how teams are adapting identity controls, and what needs to change in how we govern access and identity going forward.

• How to handle machine and agent identities: What’s working to manage authentication, permissions, and lifecycle for non-human actors
• Where current IAM approaches break down: Firsthand challenges teams are facing as AI scales across infrastructure
• What to change now: Tools, policies, and cross-team strategies that help you stay in control as AI reshapes the identity landscape

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.

Insights into how artificial intelligence is reshaping access management through behavioral analytics and adaptive authentication.

Some IAM challenges just don’t have clean answers but the choices your team makes can define your entire security posture.

In this interactive session, we’ll vote, debate, and challenge five of the most divisive identity decisions facing organisations in 2025. Each one will be explored through live multiple-choice questions designed to split the room and surface the real trade-offs teams are making today.

You’ll leave with a sharper view of where others stand and what strategies are actually working.

We’ll explore questions like:

• Who should really own IAM — security, IT, or the business?
• How much friction is acceptable in customer identity before it hurts the business?
• Should IAM be centralised, or is federated identity the only way to scale?
• Where are modern identity architectures failing silently?
• Should identity systems block risky behaviour or just alert and log it?