The ID Talk Podcast

It’s time for today’s edition of ID Tech’s Daily Digest. Today, we bring you news on new research into face attack detection, Lissi’s push to bring EU identity wallets into banking apps, ID.me’s move into hiring verification, growing problems with Europe’s biometric Entry/Exit System, and new developments from 1Kosmos, Nigeria’s national ID program, and the TSA. For questions or feedback, please r...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe, Entrust CEO Tony Ball joins ID Talk to discuss why the rise of AI agents is creating a new identity challenge for enterprises. Ball argues that organizations must think beyond authenticating people and begin establishing identities, permissions, governance and human oversight for autonomous agents.  He also explains why biometrics will become increasingly...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of ID Talk features Aware Chief Revenue Officer Brian Krause for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping the identity security landscape. As generative AI enables fraudsters to operate at unprecedented speed and scale, Krause argues that the industry's focus must shift beyond one-time identity verification toward c...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam, ID Talk sits down with iProov founder and CEO Andrew Bud to discuss the evolving role of digital identity in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Bud explains why he believes proof of human presence will become foundational to the future of online trust, as AI agents take on greater responsibility for accessing services, acti...

On this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis sit down with Eva Velasquez to discuss the rapidly evolving world of identity theft, scams, cybercrime, and digital identity. Drawing on decades of experience investigating economic crime and supporting victims, Velasquez explains why identity fraud has become more personal, more scalable, and more difficult to contain in the digital...

  This week on ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Chris Kelly, president of Delinea, about the company’s latest research into AI-driven identity security risks. The conversation explores how enterprises are struggling to govern the growing number of nonhuman identities created by AI agents, automation pipelines, service accounts and machine credentials, even as organizations expres...

On the latest episode of ID Talk, DeliverFund Director of Technology Ian Caltabiano joins the podcast alongside Sam Cilento of Lakota Software Solutions to discuss how identity technology and AI tools are being used to support investigations into human trafficking and online exploitation.  Caltabiano explains how DeliverFund works with law enforcement agencies to analyze massive volumes of publicl...

In this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Gary Jones about the evolution of biometric access control and the growing role of AI in physical security systems. Jones discusses ROC’s rapid rise in the biometrics market, the company’s emphasis on independently validated performance benchmarks, and the thinking behind its new ROC Access Face 1 platform, which combines...

On this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Wicket COO Jeff Boehm joins Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay to talk about how facial authentication is transforming the fan experience at stadiums and live events across the country. Jeff traces Wicket’s origins back to an early partnership with the Cleveland Browns during the height of COVID, when the team needed a safer, faster way to get fan...

On this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth, about the growing security risks surrounding agentic AI. As enterprises rush to deploy AI agents for coding, workflow automation, and decision-making, Mattson argues that identity security has gone from being an “NPC” in cybersecurity to having “main character energy.”  From executives accide...

In this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay are joined by Evie Kim Sing of Identity Week to preview Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam.  The conversation explores what makes the event one of the identity industry's leading gatherings, the major themes expected this year including AI, digital identity adoption, fraud prevention, and biometric innovation, and why the sho...

In this episode of ID Talk, we speak with Lorenz Flechtenmacher, CEO and co-founder of dewa, about the rapid deployment of digital identity infrastructure in Denmark and what it means for Europe’s eIDAS 2.0 rollout. dewa recently helped launch a digital identity feature within the widely used e-Boks platform, reaching 5.3 million users and issuing more than 160 million verifiable credentials. The...

This week, FaceTec Chief Identity Technology Strategist Jay Meier joins the ID Talk podcast to discuss one of the most pressing challenges in digital identity today: bringing biometric verification to the industries that need it most. Fresh off a trip to the ViVE 2026 healthcare IT conference in Boston, Jay breaks down the response to FaceTec's new white paper on curing healthcare's $30 billion-pl...

FaceTec’s Jay Meier returns to ID Talk to discuss the company’s new white paper on UR Codes and how digitally signed biometric barcodes could reshape healthcare identity workflows. The discussion explores how biometric barcodes could reduce fraud, strengthen patient matching, and support auditable verification workflows, as Meier prepares to speak at ViVE 2026, one of the industry’s major healthca...

Deepfakes are no longer a future threat. They are already fueling credit card fraud, mortgage scams, job infiltration schemes and synthetic identity attacks at scale. In this episode of ID Talk, we’re joined by Maxine Most, Principal at Acuity Market Intelligence and founder of the Deepfake Summit. We discuss why AI-driven fraud has escalated into a systemic risk to financial services, enterprises...

In this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala and Dave Barclay are joined by Nate Soffio , head of reusable and agentic identity products at Prove . The conversation explores what “reusable identity” actually means in practice, how verifiable credentials and decentralized identifiers can reduce repeated KYC friction, and why these technologies are becoming increasingly relevant as AI agents begin to act...

Is your document security as strong as a $100 bill? Ty McCelleis, Product Manager at Troy Group, joins the pod to explain why physical security is still the bedrock of identity. From his "previous life" securing casino promotions to his current work protecting the most sensitive documents in everyday transactions, Ty shares how layering invisible inks and UV-reflective print can deter even the mos...

Healthcare has been called “the next frontier” for identity security for nearly a decade, but why hasn’t the industry moved? Jay Meier of FaceTec explains the structural, regulatory, and technical reasons behind the delay, and outlines how modern liveness and identity binding can finally close long-standing gaps.  Listen to the latest episode of ID Talk for a clear, candid conversation about the f...

This week on ID Talk, hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala are joined by Leif Johansson, Director of Technology for the Siros Foundation, for a deep dive into the EUDI wallet and the future of passkeys. Johansson details his work on the "WW wallet," a passkey-powered solution that emerged as one of the winners of Germany's official digital identity wallet competition, notably beating entries from...

After an enormously successful Identity Week America in Washington, D.C., ID Talk is bringing listeners conversations recorded live on the show floor! Join hosts Tony Bitzionis, Alex Perala, and Dave Barclay as they chat with industry leaders in digital identity. Hear directly from: Tina D'Agostin (CEO, Alcatraz) on using 3D facial biometrics and edge processing for privacy-first physical access c...

This week on ID Talk, hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala are joined by Tim Eades, the co-founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Anetac. Tim discusses the pervasive and "ugly" problem of identity vulnerabilities, explaining how his company was founded to tackle a world where everything from service accounts to applications is "ridiculously over-privileged". He details Anetac's unique approach,...

This week, we're bringing ID Talk listeners an in-person interview from last month's Identity Week America conference in Washington, D.C., where ID Talk's Alex Perala had the opportunity to chat with FaceTec's Jay Meier on the show floor. The conversation explores the critical challenge of proving identity in a world of increasingly sophisticated fraud. Meier introduces UR Codes, a powerful techno...

What happens when half of all internet traffic is generated by unaccountable bots and AI? This week, the pod welcomes Evan McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Billions Network, to discuss what she calls an "existential moment for the internet". Tune in to explore the rise of the "agentic economy," where autonomous AIs act on our behalf, and the urgent need for a new trust layer to verify both human an...

In an internet increasingly filled with AI and bots, how do you prove you're human? This week, ID Talk welcomes Ajay Patel, Head of World ID at Tools for Humanity, to talk about solving one of the internet's biggest challenges. Ajay explains the mission to create a global "human network" to accelerate humans in the age of AI, how the Orb creates a private proof of humanity without compromising ano...

In observance of International Identity Day, the ID Talk team welcomes Guillaume Lefebvre, VP of Civil Identity at Thales, to tackle the biggest questions in our industry. For example, how can enabling legal identity for all by 2030 help to reach the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16:9?  What does a “trusted identity” actually mean? And how do we secure that identity against the threats of tomorr...