Future Identity Festival North America 2026
8 December 2026 – 9 December 2026
JW Marriott Austin, Austin, United States
The Future Identity Festival explores how digital identity can be used to reduce fraud and financial crime, streamline and strengthen onboarding and KYC, and build customer trust. The two-day event takes place on December 8–9, 2026 at the JW Marriott Austin in Austin, Texas, with content across two stages and a technology expo, and is co-located with the FTT Fintech Festival.
18 sessions · 43 speakers
Organiser (1)
Media Partners (10)
The Paypers · Financial IT · Finopotamus · CIOReview · FF News · Coinpedia · IDAC (Identity at the Center) · Treasury & Risk · Biometric Update · Credit Union Times
Sponsors (6)
Telesign · Strivacity · Fingerprint · Jumio · Aduna · Resistant AI
Association Partners (2)
Innovative Payments Association · Women in Identity
Agenda
- Building the trust layer for the agentic era 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Case study by eBay: Scaling biometric trust: Modernizing account recovery and mitigating fraud at enterprise scale 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Onboarding that builds trust, not drop-off. 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Panel hosted by Aduna Global 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Smart friction: Risk based authentication done right 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- KYC at a crossroads: Faster onboarding, stronger controls and the future of reusable identity 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Who is real now? Defending identity in the age of AI, deepfakes & machine actors 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Fireside chat: Guarding digital identity at scale. Anti scraping, fraud and preserving privacy. 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Who builds the kill switch? least-agency controls for AI agents 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- Why digital identity wallets matter now 8 December 2026 · Future Identity Festival Stage
- What’s in store for FinCrime teams in 2027? 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- From social engineering to APP fraud: Protecting customers in the instant economy 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- AML without borders – re wiring controls for a platform economy 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- Understanding and disrupting cross-ecosystem economic crime networks 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- When ‘good’ customers go bad. Credit abuse, first party fraud and points theft 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- Defending against account takeover 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- Crypto crime and digital asset deception 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage
- Drowning in alerts – Cutting through AI-driven noise in FinCrime ops 9 December 2026 · FID Fraud & FinCrime Stage