Date | 09-10 November 2026
Location | The Brewery, London
The Future Identity Festival returns to The Brewery, London, on 9th – 10th November 2026, bringing together 2,500+ leaders from financial services, retail, healthcare, government and other sectors.
Across two days, the Festival will explore digital identity and its role in security, customer experience and compliance, with sessions covering identity wallets, onboarding, verification, KYC, privacy, interoperability and inclusion. The 2026 programme also includes dedicated FID Fraud & FinCrime and FID IAM stages, connecting identity with the wider challenges around fraud prevention, financial crime and access management.
Who will you meet?
A dedicated community of identity, security, and customer experience innovators from financial services, retail, healthcare, government, information technology and other key sectors.
What you can expect
- 2,500+ Festival Goers
- 80+ Digital Identity Speakers
- 8 Stages of Festival content
- 70% Technology Buyers
Expand your industry knowledge
The Festival will inspire you to aim higher, design better and work together, to build an identity ecosystem for tomorrow. Our agenda will revolve around six key themes.
Non-human & machine identities | Non-human and machine identities are a growing governance challenge as organisations manage expanding fleets of service accounts, APIs, bots, and AI agents that require clear ownership and lifecycle controls. Without robust identity governance, these machine identities create blind spots, widen the attack surface, and undermine efforts to enforce least privilege and maintain auditability.
Bringing ID Wallets From Pilot to Reality | European digital identity wallet pilots depend on verifying passports, national IDs, and other credentials across borders without introducing legal or technical friction. Scaling these pilots requires interoperable standards, shared trust frameworks, and clear rules to ensure onboarding works smoothly across finance, travel, and remote work use cases.
Customer Experience | Today’s consumers expect instant access and seamless experiences, making identity verification a defining part of the customer journey. How can organisations deliver journeys that are as frictionless as possible while remaining secure, and apply the right level of friction dynamically based on risk level?
Onboarding & KYC | Knowing the identity of every customer, employee, business, and autonomous agent is increasingly critical as cyber and fraud risks grow more dynamic and sophisticated. How can innovation in onboarding and KYC strike the right balance between compliance, operational efficiency, user experience, and fraud reduction?
AI-‘Powered’ Fraud & Synthetic Identities | AI-powered fraud and synthetic identities are making it harder for organisations to distinguish genuine customers from manipulated or fabricated ones, particularly during onboarding and account recovery. Staying ahead requires stronger detection, layered verification, and continuous monitoring without adding unnecessary friction for legitimate users.
Digital identity wallets | Data privacy and consumer trust are now central to digital identity, with users expecting organisations to collect only what is necessary and give them meaningful control over how their data is shared. Delivering on that expectation means designing identity journeys around transparency, consent, and secure data handling from onboarding through to ongoing verification.
