I'm at Cisco Live 2026 (May 31 – June 4, San Diego) primarily to co-present WOSPAR-1039 on Tuesday at 3 PM and to work the FEITIAN booth in Solutions Village 3. The 9 sessions below are the ones I'm planning to attend between booth shifts and presenter duties.
Because I'm speaking. Co-presenting with Johnathan on how organizations are strengthening identity security through phishing-resistant authentication, hardware-backed credentials, and Zero Trust in the AI era.
Capture audience Q&A. Same-day recap published to /blog. Deck and notes posted to /speaking/cisco-live-2026 within 24 hours.
Monday, June 15
Date
Mon, Jun 15
Time
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Room
Workshop Room A
Passkeys and Verifiable Digital Credentials Workshop
Tim Cappalli, Matthew Miller, Megan Shamas · Okta / Cisco Duo / FIDO Alliance
Why I'm prioritizing this
Full-day deep dive with the architects behind FIDO2 and passkey standards. Directly applicable to every identity sales conversation — I need to be able to go deeper than the prospect's own engineers.
passkeysFIDO2enterprise IAM
Priority
Must Attend
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Connect with Tim Cappalli and Matthew Miller on LinkedIn. Grab workshop slides.
Date
Mon, Jun 15
Time
8:30 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Room
Summit Room B
The Non-Human & Agentic AI Identity Summit
Lalit Choda + 16 speakers · Non-Human Identity Management Group
Why I'm prioritizing this
NHI is the fastest-growing unsolved problem in enterprise identity. Every CISO I talk to is asking how to govern service accounts and AI agents — this summit is the market map.
non-human identityagentic AIenterprise IAM
Priority
High Priority
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Note the top vendors and use cases emerging for NHI governance.
Date
Mon, Jun 15
Time
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM PDT
Room
Main Stage
Toward a Zero Trust Architecture for Agent Identities
Tarek Dawoud · Microsoft
Why I'm prioritizing this
Microsoft's architectural take on agent identity governance — useful for positioning against Entra ID when selling to Microsoft-heavy shops.
zero-trustagentic AInon-human identity
Priority
High Priority
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Note Microsoft's proposed framework and compare to how Cisco Duo / ISE approaches agent workloads.
Tuesday, June 16
Date
Tue, Jun 16
Time
7:15 AM – 8:15 AM PDT
Room
Power Breakfast — Mandalay Bay Ballroom
Securing Access in an Agentic World: Extending Access Controls to AI Agents
Microsoft Identity Team · Microsoft
Why I'm prioritizing this
Power Breakfasts draw senior buyers. Microsoft's framing of agentic access controls will influence how CISOs write RFPs for the next 18 months — I need to know this story cold.
agentic AIenterprise IAMAI identityzero-trust
Priority
Must Attend
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Identify CISOs in the room. Follow up on how their orgs are thinking about agentic access policies.
Date
Tue, Jun 16
Time
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM PDT
Room
Power Lunch — Mandalay Bay Ballroom
Stopping Identity Attacks in the AI Era: Real-World Lessons from CrowdStrike, MGM Resorts, and Penske Automotive
The MGM breach is the most referenced identity attack in enterprise sales. Hearing how they rebuilt post-incident — with CrowdStrike identity protection — is directly competitive intel and proof-point material.
AI identityenterprise IAMcustomer storycompetitive intel
Priority
Must Attend
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Extract the specific controls MGM implemented. Use in AE objection handling: "we're not at risk like MGM was."
Date
Tue, Jun 16
Time
2:00 PM – 2:25 PM PDT
Room
Main Stage
Debunking 'My Users Don't Understand Passkeys': How VicRoads Went Passkey-First for 5 Million Users
Vincent Delitz · Corbado
Why I'm prioritizing this
5M consumer passkey deployment is the most compelling proof point I can bring into enterprise conversations. Real objection-busting data from a government-scale rollout.
passkeysFIDO2customer storypasswordless
Priority
Must Attend
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Get the adoption metrics and UX data. Build into the passkey objection-handling slide deck.
Date
Tue, Jun 16
Time
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM PDT
Room
Power Lunch — Mandalay Bay Ballroom (alt)
Identity Security for the AI Era: Shifting from Identity Debt to Continuous Control
Veza Team · Veza from ServiceNow
Why I'm prioritizing this
Veza's "identity debt" framing is gaining traction in analyst reports. Understanding their positioning helps me know when they're in a deal and how to counter or partner.
enterprise IAMcompetitive intelAI identity
Priority
High Priority
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Note their messaging around "continuous control" and compare to how Cisco ISE + Duo positions ongoing authorization.
Date
Tue, Jun 16
Time
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
Room
Main Stage
Identity at OpenAI
Nick Steele · OpenAI
Why I'm prioritizing this
Rarely do you hear how a frontier AI company actually governs its own identity stack internally. Useful for both product storytelling and for enterprise prospects asking "how do AI vendors handle this?"
AI identitynon-human identityenterprise IAM
Priority
Medium
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Share session notes with product team — OpenAI's internal IAM choices signal where the market is heading.
Wednesday, June 17
Date
Wed, Jun 17
Time
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
Room
Main Stage
The New Frontier of Identity Security for AI
Sachin Nayyar · Saviynt
Why I'm prioritizing this
Saviynt CEO keynote-level session. Saviynt shows up in large IGA deals — understanding their AI identity narrative helps me know where to compete vs. integrate.
AI identityenterprise IAMcompetitive intel
Priority
High Priority
Status
Planned
Follow-up
Flag for the SE team: Saviynt is leaning into AI governance for IGA. Note any customer logos they surface.
What I'm Watching For
Predictions made May 28 — to be evaluated June 4.
1.
Cisco's FY27 partner roadmap will include a FIDO2 / phishing-resistant MFA co-sell motion.
2.
Cisco Duo will announce a native passkey flow for consumer-facing auth use cases.
3.
At least one major identity vendor will demo a post-Splunk-acquisition integration on the main stage.
4.
Splunk's security operations story will be positioned as an ITDR wedge into Duo accounts.
5.
Cisco XDR will announce a direct integration with a hardware security key / FIDO2 authenticator vendor.