Inside Germany's EUDI Wallet Competition with Leif Johansson
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 Google and Samsung. He discusses the wallet's origins, the critical need for identity solutions to cover 100% of "edge cases" rather than just the majority, and why he believes the industry must draw a sharp distinction between true digital identity and the fungible world of cryptocurrency.
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Conversations on the Show Floor – Identity Week America 2025
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 control.Annemarie Mattheyse (Marketing Director, Idemia) on launching new FIPS-validated USB security keys for high-assurance authentication.Michael Zurek (Head of Digital Travel Strategy, SITA) on the "curb-to-gate" biometric journey that's transforming airports and seaports.Ajay Amlani (CEO, Aware) on "intelligent liveness" and how it's solving the challenge of secure remote identity proofing.
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A World of Over-Privileged Everything, with Serial Entrepreneur Tim Eades
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, which goes beyond traditional scanning to analyze behaviors and create bespoke treatment plans for security threats. The conversation also explores the looming threat of generative AI, with Tim warning that the technology is making "a good hacker great and a great hacker scale," while regulations struggle to keep pace. Drawing from his experience as a four-time CEO, Tim also shares fascinating insights on building a company, navigating the venture capital landscape, and the importance of aligning a product's "vocabulary to the budget".
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Live from Washington with FaceTec's Jay Meier
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 technology that embeds encrypted biometric data onto physical and digital credentials. He explains how this innovation moves beyond authenticating a document to verifying the live human presenting it, creating a new level of trust. Tune in to hear Meier discuss the wide-ranging applications for this technology, from securing government IDs and preventing healthcare fraud to transforming physical access control and protecting critical infrastructure.
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'An Existential Moment for the Internet', with Billions Network CEO Evin McMullen
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 and machine identity. Evan breaks down how technologies like zero-knowledge proofs can allow users to prove who they are without revealing sensitive data, the crucial difference between a bot and an agent, and how this technology is being used today to secure everything from crypto-launches to government social security systems.
ID Tech's Alex Perala,Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay are joined by a varied range of guest experts to discuss identity technology, biometrics, digital ID, artificial intelligence, and more.
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