#447 - Authenticate 2026 Preview with Andi Hindle

<p>Jeff Steadman sits down with Andi Hindle, conference chair for Authenticate 2026, for a preview of this year&#39;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.</p><p><br></p><p>Connect with Andi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahindle/</p><p><br></p><p>Impact of GDPR on Identity and Access Management by Andi Hindle: https://bok.idpro.org/article/id/24/</p><p><br></p><p>Learn more about FIDO Authenticate 2026: https://authenticatecon.com/event/authenticate-u-s-2026/</p><p>Non-FIDO members can use the code IDAC15 to save 15% on their in-person conference pass.</p><p><br></p><p>Connect with us on LinkedIn:</p><p><br></p><p>Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/</p><p><br></p><p>Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/</p><p><br></p><p>Visit the show on the web at http://idacpodcast.com</p><p><br></p><p>00:10 - Introduction and discount code rundown for upcoming conferences</p><p>01:10 - Andi Hindle returns for his seventh appearance</p><p>01:29 - Favorite episode banter and the running Andrew Shikiar joke</p><p>03:08 - Origins of Authenticate and its relationship with Identiverse</p><p>09:01 - Passkeys are solved, so what comes next</p><p>09:53 - Lessons learned building the Authenticate agenda</p><p>12:59 - The scale of effort behind running Authenticate</p><p>15:29 - Adjacent topics expanding beyond the core passkeys mission</p><p>16:09 - Six major topic areas planned for Authenticate 2026</p><p>22:13 - Identity as the foundation for everything digital</p><p>23:14 - Hardware identity and non-huma