USA // West Coast
Identity World West Coast
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Moscone Center West
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San Francisco
IDENTITY PRACTITIONERS EXPECTED
PRACTITIONER-LED SESSIONS
SOLUTION PARTNERS IN THE ROOM
THE COMPANY WE KEEP
Teams already in the room
YOUR PEERS, NOT VENDORS
A room built on practitioners, not pitches.
of the room works in-house, running identity inside an end-user organisation.
average delegate rating across the most recent editions of the series.
of delegates return for the following year’s edition in their region.
WHAT TO EXPECT
A full day of practitioner-led identity programming for the teams securing the West Coast’s largest technology, finance and healthcare estates.
Built for the people running identity at scale
The West Coast edition brings together the architects, engineers and security leaders responsible for identity across the region’s largest technology, financial services and healthcare organisations. One day, one room, and an agenda shaped entirely by the people doing the work.
Sessions run as working conversations rather than keynotes. Expect candid detail on migrations that went sideways, the economics of privileged access, machine identity at volume, and what agentic systems mean for authorisation models that were designed for people.
No vendor pitching
Every session is led by a practitioner from an end-user organisation. Partners are in the room and part of the conversation, but the agenda is never for sale — which is why the same people come back each year.
ON STAGE
Practitioners leading the sessions
Madhuri Nandi
Head of Security
Galo Vaca
CISO
Harsh Rasik Busa
Chief Information Security Officer
Dr. Nader Nassar
Director Engineering: Cybersecurity and IAM
Abhi Banerjee
VP IAM Security Platforms and Operations
James Kay
Assistant Director-General, Standards, Technical Advice and Research
Hemangini Tandel
Head of Identity
Vanessa Gale
Head of Identity & Access Management
THE PROGRAMME
A day designed for momentum.
Break
Registration, coffee and introductions
Arrive early — the first hour is where most of the useful conversations start.
Keynote
Opening keynote: identity as critical infrastructure
Why identity has become the control plane every other security investment now depends on.
Dr. Nader Nassar, Capital One
Case Study
Case study: consolidating four IdPs into one
A candid account of an eighteen-month consolidation programme, including what was underestimated.
Tharaka Perera, Estia Health
Break
Morning break and partner floor
Panel
Panel: machine identity at volume
Service accounts, workloads and secrets now outnumber human identities. The panel debates who should own them.
Abhi Banerjee, Nomura · Galo Vaca, Northfield Bancorp
Roundtable
Roundtables: pick your problem
Facilitated tables on PAM economics, joiner-mover-leaver, CIAM, and audit readiness.
Break
Lunch and one-to-one meetings
Keynote
Authorisation for agentic systems
What happens to entitlement models designed for humans when the requester is an autonomous agent.
Sanchita Bajaj, Verizon
Case Study
Case study: privileged access without the friction
Reducing standing privilege across a distributed engineering organisation without slowing delivery.
Harsh Rasik Busa, Avant
Panel
Closing panel: what we would do differently
Speakers return to the stage to answer the question everyone actually wants answered.
Break
Close, drinks and networking
Why teams travel for this one
Sessions with real detail
Every talk is delivered by someone who ran the programme, including the parts that did not work.
The right room, not the biggest
Capped attendance keeps conversations useful and makes introductions actually happen.
Free to attend, never pitched
Partners join the discussion, but the agenda is set by practitioners and is not for sale.
WHY THEY COME BACK
Why identity leaders return year after year.
The only event where I have heard people talk honestly about migrations that failed. I took three things straight back to my roadmap.
Vanessa Gale
Latitude Financial Services
No pitching, no theatre. A room of people solving the same problems I am, which is rarer than it should be.
Igor Aleksenitser
Toll Group
I came for the agenda and stayed for the roundtables. The peer conversations were worth the day on their own.
Hemangini Tandel
Ramsay Health Care
Partners supporting this edition
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Full-day access to keynotes, panels and case studies
Facilitated roundtables and optional one-to-one meetings
Breakfast, lunch, refreshments and closing drinks
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GETTING THERE
Moscone Center West
Moscone Center West, 800 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Powell Street and Montgomery BART stations are both a short walk. Valet and paid parking are available beneath the venue on Third Street.
Contact the event team
Priya Raman
Programme Director
priya@identityworld.com
Daniel Okafor
Delegate Relations
daniel@identityworld.com
Sophie Lehmann
Partnerships Lead
sophie@identityworld.com
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