The Annual Identity and Access Management Show 2026
CorpAcq Stadium, Greater Manchester 14 July 2026, 9:00am - 4:00pm
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8:30am
Registration
9:30am
Chair's Welcome Address
Dr. Toyosi Oyinloye, Deputy Head of School, School of Computer and Engineering Sciences Faculty of Science, Business and Engineering, University of Chester
9:40am
Opening Keynote: Building a Trusted Digital Identity Ecosystem for the UK
- Why digital identity has become central to cyber resilience and trust
- The evolving threat landscape facing organisations and citizens
- The growing importance of collaboration across government, industry and academia
- What organisations must prioritise to build resilient digital ecosystems
Dr Ismini Vasileiou, Founder & Director, East Midlands Cyber Security Cluster (EMCSC)
10:00am
From Vision to Reality: Why Identity Ecosystems Fail at the Implementation Layer
- Why identity strategies stall in practice
- Fragmentation across IAM tools, policies, and business units
- The governance vs. execution gap
- Common implementation challenges
- What good operational IAM maturity looks like
Anthony Mornet, Founder & CEO, IAM Experts
10:20am
From Constraint to Capability: How AI, Identity and Trust Are Transforming Organisations
- Organisations are facing a perfect storm of increasing digital demand, growing cyber risk and relentless pressure to do more with less. As AI adoption accelerates, success increasingly depends on the ability to establish trusted identities, govern access effectively and build confidence in automated decision-making
- This session explores how AI, identity and trust are converging to transform modern organisations. From traditional workforce identities to non-human identities, we examine how a strong identity foundation enables Zero Trust, reduces complexity and strengthens resilience
- Attendees will leave with practical insights into turning identity from a technical control into a strategic capability that supports innovation, security and trusted digital transformation
Mark Cockbill, Cyber Security Solution Engineering Leader, One Identity
10:40am
Questions and Answers Panel
10:50am
Break and Networking
11:20am
Securing Access Without Breaking the User Experience
- Debate why organisations are still dependent on passwords, and what is holding back mass adoption of alternatives?
- Discuss whether passkeys and biometrics are finally the breakthrough authentication model, or just another layer of ecosystem complexity?
- Find out what happens when people must authenticate dozens of times per day across devices, apps, and services, and how does this impact productivity and security?
- How do we design authentication that works for everyone — including users with disabilities, low digital confidence, or limited device access?
- What does “transparent” and continuous authentication really look like, and how close are we to making it a reality?
Steve Furnell, Professor of Cyber Security, University of Nottingham
11:40am
Digital Identity as The Enabler of Secure, Smart and Personalised Digital Services
- Understand why identity is now essential infrastructure for secure digital transactions and trust at scale
- Discuss how strong authentication and verification protect consumers and businesses while reducing friction
- Explore the role of reusable digital identity, consent and data portability
Andy Thornley, Head of Regulatory Policy, Innovate Finance
12:00pm
Sponsor Session
- Identity is the new attack surface — Entra ID and Okta are now the primary target and central dependency for access, with the vast majority of breaches involving stolen or misused credentials and identity-based intrusions rising sharply.
- Access is usually lost quietly, not dramatically — through accidental deletion, malicious changes, or silent misconfiguration of users, roles, MFA settings, and Conditional Access policies, often with no record of the last known-good state.
- Native provider recovery falls short — many objects are hard-deleted immediately, recovery windows are days rather than months, and providers don't back up your tenant for you, meaning an identity outage can halt the entire business.
- Independent backup builds identity resilience — Keepit provides immutable, vendor-neutral backup of Entra ID and Okta with version comparison, granular restore in minutes, cross-tenant recovery, and long tamper-proof history for compliance.
- Questions and answers
Neil Rawlins, SE Manager, EMEA, Keepit
12:20pm
Lunch and Networking
1:20pm
Governing Identity at the Speed of AI
- Examine how security leaders can improve visibility, strengthen understanding of identity activity, and automate core governance principles to reduce risk and improve operational resilience at scale
- Questions and answers
Jacob Prime, CEO & Co-founder, Ploy
1:40pm
Designing Seamless and Secure Digital Experiences
- Treating identity as part of the digital product, not just security
- Embedding identity into customer journeys
- Aligning identity with product and business goals
- Reducing friction while maintaining trust
- Questions and answers
Richard Shepherd, Former Global Senior Digital Product Manager - International Wealth and Personal Banking, HSBC
2:00pm
Trust, Safety and Digital Identity: Balancing Protection, Privacy and User Experience
- How digital platforms are embedding trust, safety and identity verification
- Balancing user protection with privacy, accessibility and user experience
- Key lessons from age assurance and age verification implementation
- What the future of digital identity and platform trust could look like
- Questions and answers
Simon Newman, CEO, Online Dating and Discovery Association (ODDA)
2:20pm
Questions and Answers
- Questions and answers
2:30pm
Break and Networking
3:00pm
Managing Digital Identity in Public Services
- Balancing security, usability and inclusion in citizen identity journeys
- Delivering identity at scale across fragmented government systems and legacy infrastructure
- Building and maintaining trust in national digital identity systems through standards, assurance and continuous improvement
- Questions and answers
Ian Norton, Digital Identity Advisor – Gov.Uk. One Login | GDS, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
3:20pm
Identity and Access Management in Government: Overcoming the Challenges of Modern Public Services
- Modernising identity and access management across legacy systems and evolving digital services
- Embedding identity into secure-by-design architecture while balancing usability, governance and cyber resilience
- Lessons learned from delivering scalable IdAM in government and preparing for the future of digital public services
- Questions and answers
Lucas Frosdick, Lead Cyber Security Architect | Digital Data & Technology (DDT) Directorate, Department for Business and Trade
3:40pm
Strengthening Cyber Resilience in Government
- Embedding identity into cyber resilience strategies to strengthen security across government services
- Detecting and responding to identity-based threats through continuous monitoring, governance and privileged access management
- Lessons learned from protecting complex digital environments while balancing security, operational resilience and user experience
- Questions and answers
Jonathan Silvester, Digital Defence Lead, HM Revenue & Customs
4:00pm
Chair's Closing Remark
Dr. Toyosi Oyinloye, Deputy Head of School, School of Computer and Engineering Sciences Faculty of Science, Business and Engineering, University of Chester
4:05pm
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