Securing every identity. IAM for the employee, customer, non-human agents & machines
FID IAM
Save the date: 9th - 10th November 2026 | The Brewery, London
Redefining IAM: Secure. Seamless. Scalable
FID IAM
Save the date: 9th - 10th November 2026 | The Brewery, London
Identity is under attack.
67% of all security incidents are now rooted in identity-related attacks. Organisations across the UK and Europe are facing nearly 2,000 cyberattacks per week, and with third-party breaches predicted to account for 30% of all cyber incidents in 2026, the pressure on identity and access management teams has never been greater.
FID IAM is the event for CISOs, Heads of IAM, identity engineers, digital transformation leads, product managers and security and compliance professionals across financial services, healthcare, retail, telco, the public sector and beyond. If identity and access sits anywhere in your remit, this event is built for you.
From workforce and customer identity to the explosive growth of non-human identities, the challenges facing IAM professionals in 2026 are broader and more complex than ever. AI agents are already being granted access to databases, business systems, and live code, yet only 29% of organisations say they are prepared to secure agentic AI deployments. Meanwhile, the EU Digital Identity Wallet must be available to citizens by the end of 2026, reshaping customer onboarding and authentication across both public and private services.
FID IAM brings together the sharpest minds in identity and access management, cybersecurity, and digital identity to tackle these challenges head on. Whether you’re managing workforce access, securing customer identity journeys, or grappling with machine identity governance, this is the event where practical answers meet real-world expertise.
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Two days, endless opportunities
What you can expect
Festival attendees
Technology buyers
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Discover how to secure every identity at the right level, streamline every login, manage data, and stay ahead in a world of evolving threats. Our agenda will revolve around six key themes.
As organisations dissolve traditional network boundaries through cloud adoption, hybrid working, and third-party ecosystems, identity has become the primary control point for security. Yet many IAM programmes are struggling to keep pace, built on legacy architectures that were never designed for the scale, dynamism, or diversity of modern access patterns. With regulators on both sides of the Channel raising expectations, identity leaders must balance strategic transformation with the immediate pressure to reduce risk across an increasingly complex estate.
Privileged accounts remain among the most targeted attack vectors, yet many organisations still rely on standing access, shared credentials, and manual controls that are hard to audit and easy to abuse. Just-in-time provisioning, ephemeral credentials, and session recording are raising the bar but adoption is uneven. How are security teams making PAM operationally sustainable without slowing down the engineers and administrators who depend on privileged access daily?
MFA fatigue attacks have exposed the limits of push notification-based authentication, and passkeys built on FIDO2 standards are emerging as the most credible path to phishing-resistant login at scale. Consumer adoption is accelerating, but enterprise deployment brings complexity around device management, recovery flows, and legacy system support. With eIDAS 2.0 shaping EU authentication assurance levels, how are organisations planning their transition and managing the co-existence period?
Service accounts, API keys, bots, and AI agents now outnumber human identities in most large organisations, yet they frequently lack the ownership, lifecycle controls, and monitoring that human accounts receive. These blind spots increase attack surface and make least privilege enforcement difficult. As AI agents proliferate and inter-system trust chains grow more complex, how do identity programmes extend governance to the full population of machine identities across the estate?
Zero trust has moved from framework to expectation, but translating the principle into practice across hybrid environments remains difficult. Enforcing continuous verification, shrinking implicit trust zones, and maintaining a coherent policy model across cloud, on-premise, and partner systems requires more than tooling, it demands architectural discipline. How are mature organisations operationalising zero trust at scale, and where do identity teams most commonly hit friction?
Attackers increasingly target identity infrastructure directly, compromising credential stores, abusing federated trust, and moving laterally through SSO connections long before detection. Identity threat detection and response is emerging as a discipline in its own right, combining signals from identity providers, endpoints, and SaaS applications to catch anomalous access in real time. How are security operations teams integrating ITDR into existing SOC workflows, and what does good detection coverage actually look like in practice?
Who will you meet?
A dedicated community of identity, access management, cybersec, infosec and IT innovators from financial services, retail, healthcare, government, information technology and other key sectors.
C-Level Professionals
Directors & Department Heads
Product Managers & Leads
Architects & Engineers
Experts & Advocates
Rockstar speakers 2025
Agenda 2025
Are you ready for...
Two days of show-stopping speakers, live entertainment, and impactful conversations.
Navigate your way through 8 stages of world-class content, including the FID Fraud & FinCrime, Future Identity, FTT Fintech Festival, FTT Embedded Finance, FTT Payments, FTT Mutuals, and FTT AI Transformation Stages.
Fast-track access to the industry leaders and technology providers you want to meet with efficiency and ease. Look no further to strengthen existing partnerships and build new connections.
Energise your event experience at our barista stations, where exceptional coffee fuels every moment.
A great event starts with a great cup of coffee.
What better way to wind down from a day of inspiring content and smart networking than an evening of fine wines, beers, and canapés. Continue to connect, discuss, and debate or simply kickback and relax.
Join our craft beer sessions to taste the UK’s finest brews and network with key strategic partners.
Enjoy great beer and even better connections!
Look forward to great music, throwback favourites, and a drinks reception to match – all powered by Marqeta.
Join our partner sessions with the Fintech Marketing Hub for expert insights into the latest fintech marketing trends. Explore how GTM Hive is shaping partnerships between tech providers and financial institutions. Plus, don’t miss media training for women, led by the award-winning PR agency WITH.
Explore cutting-edge digital identity solutions, connect with industry leaders, and forge valuable partnerships on the bustling expo floor.
VIP Hosted Meetings Programme
The expanded VIP Hosted Meetings Programme puts the power in your hands.
Fast-track access to the key players you want to meet with ease and efficiency, whilst engaging in an exchange of ideas and solutions.
We have a brand new opportunity available for you to get involved – get in touch with us at marketing@vcinnovations.co.uk to view our Meetings Package as part of the VIP Hosted Meetings Programme.
Co-located with:
Two days, five events and an interconnected community.
Future Identity will explore the latest initiatives, technologies and concepts shaping the global ecosystem of identity and trust.
FID Fraud & FinCrime will bridge the gap between innovative identity solutions and the critical need for fraud and financial crime prevention.
Featuring over 2,000 festival goers including global financial institutions, merchants, brands, marketplaces, digital platforms, technology enablers, innovators and fintechs from across the UK and Europe.
AI will transform almost every aspect of our lives. Understand how the technologies and components that comprise AI are already starting to shape the future.
Hear how fintechs and technology providers are increasingly partnering with mutuals to deliver full-scale innovation projects.
Sponsorship & exhibition opportunities
Discover the unique sponsorship and exhibition opportunities available at FID IAM. Click on the button below to find out more and how you can get involved.
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What does our community think?
The festival is full of opportunities to learn, build and connect. But don't just take our word for it...
"I attended the event both virtually and in-person in 2021. You could really feel the momentum and it was great to be able to meet and network with so many different people."
Ravneet Shah
CTO, Allica Bank
"Being here today enables us to connect with the best providers and to hear what new and evolving technologies there are, to help us in our mission to be the safest digital media platform in the world."
Keily Blair
CEO, OnlyFans
"So many representatives from different organisations, regulators, providers, all sorts of organisations come together at this event for such an important topic."
Felipe Peñacoba Martinez
CIO, Revolut
"I've come along to the Future Identity Festival today, really to network with as many colleagues as possible. I truly believe that for identity, as an emerging technology to be successful and to get the UK digital economy moving, we need collaboration."
Elinor Hull
Commercial Product Portfolio Director, Post Office
"The Future Identity Festival is definitely one of the better conferences in London. I think when it comes to identity, it's probably the best one I've ever attended. They gather really good industry leaders from the space. It's always a rich network of people and connections and a chance to think about what we envision the future of the industry to be."
Manuela Sedvartaite
Product Manager, PagoNxt - Santander
Want to speak to the team?
Reach out to the Future Identity team with queries on how to get involved with the event through our sponsorship, exhibition, speaking, or media partnership opportunities
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