Identity at the Core: Seamless, Secure Global Payments That Affirm Who You Are
The payments industry moves trillions in value each year from $2 quadrillion in value flows, yet most transactions still lack real‑time, identity‑anchored assurance. Embedding verified digital identity into payments delivers stronger security, smoother customer experiences, and modernization across traditional, fintech, and crypto rails. By combining verifiable credentials, PKI, and biometrics, banks can streamline authentication, processors […]
2026 Identity & Payments Summit IAF Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) Showcase
The 2026 Identity & Payments Summit IAF Mobile Driver’s License (mDL) Showcase is the ideal venue to elevate brand visibility and forge lasting connections and partnerships around your Organization’s mDL solutions. The Showcase offers opportunities for direct engagement with mDL Issuers, Technical Providers, and interested Relying Parties.
Beyond the Driver’s License: Verifiable Credentials, mDLs, and the Future of Payments
Hundreds of millions of W3C Verifiable Credentials are issued each year across global market verticals including education, retail, transportation, and financial services. In parallel, ISO mobile Driver’s Licenses (mDLs) are moving from pilots into production—often intersecting with, but not replacing, broader credential ecosystems. This panel breaks down the practical differences between W3C Verifiable Credentials and […]
Beyond Open Loop: Shaping the Future of Mobility Payments
The Transit Working Committee is pleased to announce a forward-looking session focused on shaping the future of mobility payments. As the industry moves beyond the initial implementation of open loop payments, the discussion is expanding to address the broader challenges and opportunities in regional mobility integration, including concessions, parking, and multi-modal journeys. This session will […]
How EMVCo is Exploring Advances in Digital Identity and Payments
As advances in digital identity and payments technology drive rapid change, EMVCo is collaborating with industry stakeholders across the world to support the continued development of EMV® Specifications and programmes that enable seamless and secure payments worldwide. This presentation will explore how the EMV Specifications are evolving to address: Industry developments in authentication – including […]
Unlocking Offline adoption of crypto-currency payment and agentic AI through biometric verification
As cryptocurrency payments—especially stablecoins—and Agentic AI continue to transform digital commerce, their offline potential remains largely untapped. With the convergence of online and offline experiences accelerating, the arrival of these innovations in retail is no longer a question of if—but when. In this transition, biometric verification will serve as the critical linchpin for a secure […]
Proof of Human: The Invisible Turing Test for the Internet
This presentation introduces the Process Turing Test, a new framework for distinguishing humans from AI that goes beyond linguistic output to analyze behavioral dynamics. As LLMs routinely pass text-based Turing Tests, we need methods that probe the underlying architecture of intelligence through perception, control, and decision-making patterns. Using process tracing data from canonical cognitive tasks […]
The Prism of Trust: Building Resilient Identity-Payments Ecosystems
Generative AI fraud and escalating privacy mandates are reshaping the foundation of identity and payments. This session introduces the 2025 Prism Framework—integrating Fraud & Deepfake Resilience, Privacy & Compliance Integration, and Customer Experience Differentiation—to reveal how convergence, not silos, defines future-ready trust ecosystems. Attendees will learn how resilience, privacy, and seamless experience can co-exist to […]
When Fraud Walks Through Your Front Door: AI frauds in Hiring
Fraudsters aren’t just targeting customers—they’re infiltrating companies themselves. This session reveals real-world cases where applicants used deepfakes and stolen identities during job interviews, based on Socure’s direct experience uncovering these attempts. We’ll unpack the red flags that gave them away, from inconsistent facial motion to mismatched PII, and explain how modern identity verification tools can […]
From KYC to KYA: Building trust in agent-driven commerce
As AI agents begin booking travel, negotiating prices, and making purchases autonomously, payments and identity ecosystems face a new trust challenge: Know Your Agent (KYA). This session explores the concept of KYA, to envision a trust and governance model for agent-driven transactions. Attendees will gain a forward-looking roadmap to prepare infrastructure, risk frameworks, and regulations […]