#447 - Authenticate 2026 Preview with Andi Hindle

Jeff Steadman sits down with Andi Hindle, conference chair for Authenticate 2026, for a preview of this year's event. Making his seventh appearance on the show, Andi walks through how Authenticate has evolved since its founding alongside Identiverse and outlines six major topic areas shaping the 2026 agenda, including passkeys in practice, regulatory pressures, security and standards architecture, digital identity wallets, and non-human authentication. The conversation moves into hardware-based identity for retail and industrial settings, age verification challenges, and a detour into 3D printing and supply chain assurance. Jeff and Andi dig into continuous identity and zero standing privilege, the shift toward non-human traffic dominating infrastructure requests, and how agentic AI is forcing organizations to rethink authorization and human-in-the-loop decisions. They close with privacy and consent questions for non-human identities, thoughts on where authentication and authorization standards are headed, and a lighter look at Authenticate team traditions and sci-fi recommendations.

Connect with Andi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahindle/

Impact of GDPR on Identity and Access Management by Andi Hindle: https://bok.idpro.org/article/id/24/

Learn more about FIDO Authenticate 2026: https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-u-s-2026/

Non-FIDO members can use the code IDAC15 to save 15% on their in-person conference pass.

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/

Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/

Visit the show on the web at http://idacpodcast.com

00:10 - Introduction and discount code rundown for upcoming conferences

01:10 - Andi Hindle returns for his seventh appearance

01:29 - Favorite episode banter and the running Andrew Shikiar joke

03:08 - Origins of Authenticate and its relationship with Identiverse

09:01 - Passkeys are solved, so what comes next

09:53 - Lessons learned building the Authenticate agenda

12:59 - The scale of effort behind running Authenticate

15:29 - Adjacent topics expanding beyond the core passkeys mission

16:09 - Six major topic areas planned for Authenticate 2026

22:13 - Identity as the foundation for everything digital

23:14 - Hardware identity and non-human authentication

24:53 - Retail tokens, badges, and age verification use cases

28:36 - Replacing things only when the replacement is actually better

29:41 - A detour into 3D printing and personal satisfaction

31:39 - 3D printing, supply chain assurance, and identity problems

36:38 - Introducing continuous identity

37:28 - Zero standing privilege and why it matters now

40:46 - The human user as the infrastructure edge case

45:16 - Speed, scale, and the limits of human in the loop

46:11 - Setting red lines for agentic risk

50:56 - Privacy and consent questions for non-human identities

56:51 - Anonymization, data logging, and GDPR parallels

59:51 - A GDPR and IAM resource from the IDPro Body of Knowledge

1:00:26 - What Authenticate topics might look like three years out

1:04:59 - Why accounts may not make sense for agents

1:06:49 - Authorization as the next hard problem to solve

1:08:20 - Inside jokes from the Authenticate organizing team

1:09:30 - The story behind Andi's favorite Britishism

1:10:38 - Book and media recommendations

1:14:39 - Closing thoughts and sign-off

IDAC, Identity at the Center, Jeff Steadman, Jim McDonald, Andi Hindle, Authenticate 2026, FIDO Alliance, passkeys, identity verification, identity wallets, continuous identity, zero standing privilege, agentic identity, non-human identity, authorization, shared signals, GDPR, IDPro, Identiverse, age verification, hardware authentication