Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026
Questions? Contact [email protected]
About Authenticate
Authenticate is the industry’s only conference dedicated to user authentication, with a focus on phishing-resistant authentication with passkeys. Authenticate brings together CISOs, business leaders, product managers, security strategists and identity architects to share insights and get the education, tools and best practices to roll out passkeys, while gaining a deeper understanding of the broader identity and access management landscape.
The FIDO Alliance-hosted Authenticate Conference has become renowned for its high-quality content and vibrant community of professionals committed to advancing passkeys and related technologies to create a more secure web. This is your opportunity to be part of it!
Authenticate 2026 Call for Speakers
The focus of the program for the Authenticate U.S. 2026 conference is “New Frontiers”:
Trust and simplicity have become the defining challenges of modern identity systems. Passkeys are now being adopted globally, proving that strong security and great usability do not have to be at odds. The next frontier is accelerating this momentum—eliminating remaining friction and edge cases—so phishing-susceptible passwords can finally be left behind.
But considering authentication alone is not enough. Trust must be established, maintained, and reinforced across the entire identity and account lifecycle. From onboarding and identity verification, to authentication, authorization, session security, and account recovery, each step plays a role in delivering secure yet seamless access. Verifiable digital credentials and identity wallets introduce new ways to present trusted claims with user consent. Shared Signals and risk intelligence enable adaptive decisions that respond to real-time context. Agents, APIs, and physical devices further extend the boundaries of who and what must be trusted.
In this evolving landscape, simplicity is a strategic imperative. Governance models, interoperability frameworks, and operational practices must scale without increasing complexity—for users, developers, or security teams.
Authenticate U.S. 2026 explores this new frontier, bringing together the community to examine how we enable trust and simplicity across identity and authentication—building systems that are not only secure by design, but intuitive, interoperable, and ready for what comes next.
- Choose what you want to share with the Authenticate community.
The committee seeks vendor-neutral, educational presentations on these topics. Please select the best fit for your talk:
- Passkeys in Practice
Leading practices, lessons learned—what went right, what didn’t!—and tips and tricks that help deliver safe and successful passkey deployments. - Commercial and Regulatory Imperatives
Business rationales and outcomes for passkeys; regulatory considerations including national, regional and sectoral requirements; fraud detection and prevention; testing and assurance programs; higher-assurance and regulated use-cases. - Security, Standards, and Architecture in Depth
Deeper dives into the technical underpinnings that deliver usably secure account lifecycles; threat detection and response; standards development; working group updates. - Non-human Authentication
Approaches for protecting the extended user landscape, including mobile and other connected hardware devices, workloads and robotic processes, API protection, and AI use-cases including agentic AI and MCP. - Mobile and Digital Identity
The role that digital identity wallets and verifiable credentials play in securing the account lifecycle; identity proofing and biometrics; and the intersection with the payments. - New Frontiers in Identity and Authentication
Perspectives on what’s coming next in the identity and authentication space, and how to prepare.
- Choose your session type
Authenticate U.S. 2026 will provide a variety of session types, including in-depth, detailed sessions with actionable takeaways and time for Q&A with speakers. Potential speakers should select the session type below that best fits their content and presentation style. Approximate durations are provided as a guideline only: exact time slots will be confirmed after proposals have been selected *:
- Track presentation—track sessions with visionary and/or actionable content; ~30 minutes (typically one speaker with a max of two speakers)
- Masterclass—interactive education sessions that gives attendees the opportunity to build and improve their skills and/or knowledge on a particular topic; ~45-60 minutes (up to three instructors)
- Viewpoint—interactive discussions featuring one moderator and two speakers, each presenting contrasting perspectives, and intended for audience participation (~30-45 minutes)
* Proposals on identity and authentication topics are welcome. Submissions that showcase innovation, are rooted in expertise, and incorporate diverse perspectives in speakers and content will be prioritized. Submissions with promotional or sales-driven content will not be considered.
Submit your presentation abstract by March 31, 2026.
Please note that you’ll be required to create an account to submit an abstract.
**Accounts must be created with the actual speaker’s details (not the submitter’s details) to avoid confusion in the review process.
Ready to Submit?
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2026
Questions? Contact [email protected]