The ID Talk Podcast

How do you know an ID is genuine, and that the person presenting it is its rightful holder? In this episode of ID Talk, hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala welcome Geoff Slagle, Executive Vice President of Digital Identity at FaceTec, to examine the challenges of detecting fake IDs and verifying the people using them. Drawing on nearly three decades in identity security and driver’s license standards, Slagle discusses increa...

What does document security look like in an identity landscape that is rapidly moving toward digital technologies? In this episode of the ID Talk Podcast, hosts Tony Bitzionis and Alex Perala speak with Troy Group’s Jean Cavalier, Sales Engineer, and Mark Bond, Director of Sales, EMEA & APAC, about the often-overlooked physical side of identity security and the challenge of protecting critical documents from fraud.

The con...

Evie Kim Sing, editor of IdentityWeek.net, joins ID Talk for a preview of Identity Week USA 2026, taking place in Washington, D.C. She walks through some of the biggest themes shaping this year’s event, including agentic AI, mobile driver’s licenses, digital wallets, fraud prevention, transportation security, and the growing role of identity in national security.

The conversation also looks at how Identity Week is evolvi...

Maxine Most, founder and CEO of Acuity Market Intelligence and creator of the Deepfake Summit, returns to ID Talk for a preview of the upcoming September 1 event in Arlington, Virginia. She joins hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis to discuss the thinking behind the Summit, its collaborative format, and an agenda bringing together experts from government, technology, fraud, privacy, policy, and other fields to examine the rapidly ...

In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Cameron D’Ambrosi about the growing impact of AI agents on digital identity, security, and online trust.

Cameron is FaceTec’s Head of Strategic Partnerships for North America and the European Union. His career has spanned financial regulation, KYC and AML consulting, and digital identity strategy, including his time as a founding member of ...

Mobile driver's licenses are gaining momentum across the US, but turning digital credentials into something people can actually use in everyday life remains a major challenge. In this episode of the ID Talk podcast, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Jillian Kossman, COO of IDScan.net, about the fragmented mobile ID landscape, the barriers facing businesses that want to accept digital credentials, and why Louisiana has...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe, Entrust CEO Tony Ball joins ID Talk to discuss why the rise of AI agents is creating a new identity challenge for enterprises. Ball argues that organizations must think beyond authenticating people and begin establishing identities, permissions, governance and human oversight for autonomous agents. 

He also explains why biometrics will become increasingly important as a trust layer, why...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, this episode of ID Talk features Aware Chief Revenue Officer Brian Krause for a wide-ranging conversation on how AI is reshaping the identity security landscape. As generative AI enables fraudsters to operate at unprecedented speed and scale, Krause argues that the industry's focus must shift beyond one-time identity verification toward continuous trust, agile defences, an...

Recorded on-site at Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam, ID Talk sits down with iProov founder and CEO Andrew Bud to discuss the evolving role of digital identity in an era increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. Bud explains why he believes proof of human presence will become foundational to the future of online trust, as AI agents take on greater responsibility for accessing services, acting on behalf of users, and making d...

On this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis sit down with Eva Velasquez to discuss the rapidly evolving world of identity theft, scams, cybercrime, and digital identity. Drawing on decades of experience investigating economic crime and supporting victims, Velasquez explains why identity fraud has become more personal, more scalable, and more difficult to contain in the digital era.

The conversation explores how...

 
This week on ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Chris Kelly, president of Delinea, about the company’s latest research into AI-driven identity security risks. The conversation explores how enterprises are struggling to govern the growing number of nonhuman identities created by AI agents, automation pipelines, service accounts and machine credentials, even as organizations express confidence in their...

On the latest episode of ID Talk, DeliverFund Director of Technology Ian Caltabiano joins the podcast alongside Sam Cilento of Lakota Software Solutions to discuss how identity technology and AI tools are being used to support investigations into human trafficking and online exploitation. 

Caltabiano explains how DeliverFund works with law enforcement agencies to analyze massive volumes of publicly available online advertising ...

In this episode of ID Talk, hosts Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Gary Jones about the evolution of biometric access control and the growing role of AI in physical security systems.

Jones discusses ROC’s rapid rise in the biometrics market, the company’s emphasis on independently validated performance benchmarks, and the thinking behind its new ROC Access Face 1 platform, which combines facial recognition, watc...

On this episode of the ID Talk podcast, Wicket COO Jeff Boehm joins Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay to talk about how facial authentication is transforming the fan experience at stadiums and live events across the country. Jeff traces Wicket’s origins back to an early partnership with the Cleveland Browns during the height of COVID, when the team needed a safer, faster way to get fans back through the gates, and...

On this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis speak with Geoffrey Mattson, CEO of SecureAuth, about the growing security risks surrounding agentic AI. As enterprises rush to deploy AI agents for coding, workflow automation, and decision-making, Mattson argues that identity security has gone from being an “NPC” in cybersecurity to having “main character energy.” 

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In this episode of ID Talk, Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis, and Dave Barclay are joined by Evie Kim Sing of Identity Week to preview Identity Week Europe in Amsterdam. 

The conversation explores what makes the event one of the identity industry's leading gatherings, the major themes expected this year including AI, digital identity adoption, fraud prevention, and biometric innovation, and why the show has become a key forum for co...

In this episode of ID Talk, we speak with Lorenz Flechtenmacher, CEO and co-founder of dewa, about the rapid deployment of digital identity infrastructure in Denmark and what it means for Europe’s eIDAS 2.0 rollout.

dewa recently helped launch a digital identity feature within the widely used e-Boks platform, reaching 5.3 million users and issuing more than 160 million verifiable credentials. The deployment introduced privacy-...

This week, FaceTec Chief Identity Technology Strategist Jay Meier joins the ID Talk podcast to discuss one of the most pressing challenges in digital identity today: bringing biometric verification to the industries that need it most. Fresh off a trip to the ViVE 2026 healthcare IT conference in Boston, Jay breaks down the response to FaceTec's new white paper on curing healthcare's $30 billion-plus identity fraud problem, and expl...

FaceTec’s Jay Meier returns to ID Talk to discuss the company’s new white paper on UR Codes and how digitally signed biometric barcodes could reshape healthcare identity workflows. The discussion explores how biometric barcodes could reduce fraud, strengthen patient matching, and support auditable verification workflows, as Meier prepares to speak at ViVE 2026, one of the industry’s major healthcare IT gatherings....