Cisco Duo Identity Summit: Making Sense of Identity in 2026 and Beyond
Agentic AI is rapidly changing the world, creating opportunities for growth and innovation we couldn’t even have imagined just a few years ago. And threat actors are taking notice, using these same advanced AI models to penetrate an expanding threat surface, take over systems, steal sensitive information, and create chaos in their wake.
It’s clear we’re at a tipping point in the industry where fast-moving, AI-led innovation on both sides of the fence is putting immense pressure on people like us who are tasked with securing this brave new world. Trust in identity has never been more critical.
A New Must-Attend Event Brings Clarity to Identity
The Cisco Duo Identity Summit brings together industry experts to bring clarity and trust to identity into your organization in 2026 and beyond. We will unpack the exact trends shaping the current threat landscape, while learning how to secure the new agentic workforce, defeat advanced social engineering attacks, achieve true phishing resistance and how to, ultimately, create trust across your organization. If you are responsible for identity and access management at your organization, you’ll want to be there.
The event promises more than great speakers and content. The virtual experience will be filled with interactive features, peer-to-peer networking opportunities, and an extensive resource library to keep you engaged during and after the event. We’ll even be rolling out a new identity-focused, Space Invaders inspired 8-bit video game that attendees will be able to play between sessions. The person with the highest score at the end of the day will earn bragging rights and win one of our signature green Duo shirts.
Don’t miss out on these incredible sessions:
Keynote: Identity Security for the Agentic Era I’ll be kicking it off in the keynote. The identity threat surface is outpacing traditional access controls as automation, identities, devices and applications continue to multiply. The rise of Agentic AI is changing how work gets done, and it is also changing how attackers operate. My keynote frames identity not as a checkpoint, but as a foundational and living trust layer across the enterprise. I’ll explore where identity is headed, why trust must be continuously earned and how to prepare for AI-driven risk.
Identity Security at Work: How Box Balances Security and Productivity including Akhila Nama, Global Head of Enterprise Security at Box.
Securing Identity at Scale: The School District of Philadelphia’s Path Forward with Andrew Speese, Deputy CISO at the School District of Philadelphia.
Outsmarting AI-Driven Social Engineering Tactics with Cisco Talos’s Joe Marshall, and experts from Persona. Learn about the current top social engineering tactics and how to stop them in their tracks.
Technical Masterclass: Deployable End-to-End Phishing Resistance with Danny Paul, Cisco – We all know we need end-to-end phishing resistance, but complexities and high costs prevent many organizations from doing everything they can to stop this common threat. Danny Paul walks us through the process of making enrollment easier and more seamless so we can improve adoption.
Is Active Directory still your Weak Link? With Joe Duggan. As agentic AI expands the identity threat surface, trust has to be continuously earned across every user, device, application, and agent, making Active Directory protection even more urgent.
A Zero Trust Playbook for the Agentic Workforce with Chris Anderson, Cisco – Agentic AI has moved artificial intelligence from the sandbox to the real world. But what does this mean for identity in this brave new world? Cisco’s Chris Anderson walks us through how identity is changing and why trust is becoming your greatest asset in the age of AI.
Reserve Your Seat Today
Duo is a mainstay in the identity world and we're happy that we can pull so many awesome speakers and attendees together for a day of honest and enlightening conversation and presentations. Genuinely looking forward to this event and kicking it off on Wednesday, June 24 with all of you. Please join us.