How do we preserve trust when authenticity itself can no longer be taken for granted?
The Deepfake Summit agenda is built around answering this question.
8:00 AM (45 min)—NETWORKING BREAKFAST
Connect with senior leaders from government, financial services, technology, healthcare, standards organizations, and the digital identity ecosystem before the day's discussions begin.
8:45 AM (15 min) WELCOME & FRAMING THE CONVERSATION
C. Maxine Most
Chair, The Deepfake Summit
Founder & CEO, The Prism Project and Acuity Market Intelligence
The Summit begins by framing the day's central challenge—how organizations can build the trust infrastructure required for the AI economy—along with the collaborative format that defines the Deepfake Summit Experience and the shared objective that unites every conversation throughout the day.
9:00 AM (30 min) OPENING KEYNOTE
Forged: Deepfakes, Trust, and the Case for Getting Serious
Jennifer Ewbank
Founder, Andaman Strategic Advisors
Former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation
Strategic Question: Why has trust become the defining strategic challenge of the AI era?
Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the economics of deception. Deepfake-enabled fraud, synthetic identities, AI-generated impersonation, and autonomous AI are no longer emerging threats—they are rapidly becoming part of the operating environment for governments, enterprises, and critical infrastructure alike.
Drawing on three decades of intelligence and national security experience, Jennifer Ewbank examines how adversaries are exploiting AI to undermine trust at unprecedented speed and scale, why identity must become the foundation of trust, why trust must now be treated as critical infrastructure, and how organizations must rethink long-held assumptions about resilience, governance, digital commerce, and public trust.
Jennifer’s keynote establishes the strategic foundation for the Summit and frames the central challenge that runs throughout the day: How do we build trust infrastructure when authenticity itself can no longer be taken for granted?
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9:30 AM (30 min) FIRESIDE CONVERSATION
Overcoming Obsolete Threat Models
Can We REALLY Build Trusted and Resilient Identity Ecosystems?
Strategic Question: Why are organizations still preparing for yesterday's attacks?
Most organizations already know the threat environment has changed. The question is no longer whether AI has fundamentally altered identity and fraud. The question is whether institutions can adapt quickly enough.
Many organizations remain constrained by governance models, organizational structures, incentives, and operating assumptions developed before AI-driven impersonation became an operational reality. This candid, practitioner-grounded conversation moves from diagnosis to accountability. What does it actually take to replace obsolete threat models? Who owns the mandate to drive change across fraud, identity, cybersecurity, compliance, risk, and operations? Where have institutions made meaningful progress—and where are structural barriers still preventing action?
Steve Craig
Head of Platform Strategy, Prove
Arun Vemury
Sr. Advisor, Biometric & Identity Technologies, US DHS (Invited)
Amit Sharma
Managing Director Digital Identiy, Frogomen
10:00 AM (45 min) DEEPFAKE SUMMIT DIALOGUE
Proactive Fraud Detection Throughout The Identity Lifecycle
Breaking Down Organizational Silos to Achieve Enterprise-Wide Identity Assurance
Strategic Question: How do organizations move beyond one-time identity verification to enterprise-wide identity assurance?
One-and-done KYC at onboarding was never designed to withstand AI-era fraud. Synthetic identities pass verification with clean profiles and build trust inside digital ecosystems for months or years before the eventual extraction. The structural failure isn't the technology—it's that fraud teams, identity management, AML, cybersecurity, compliance, privacy, and audit are operating from different data sets, with different risk languages, asking different questions. The adversary sees the whole picture. Defenders only see their silo.
This Dialogue examines the organizational design challenge practitioners consistently identified as one of the greatest opportunities for strengthening resilience: building genuine cross-functional alignment around a continuous, lifecycle-wide identity assurance model. The discussion explores what it takes to move from sequential departmental handoffs to an enterprise-wide operating model that integrates behavioral biometrics, device intelligence, transaction monitoring, periodic re-verification, shared governance, and common operating practices. What governance structures actually work? How do organizations build the business case internally? And how are regulators increasingly expecting institutions to demonstrate enterprise-wide alignment? The discussion translates continuous identity assurance from an architectural concept into operational reality.
Raquel Schwarcz
Founder, SPE Advisory Fromer Head of Establisehed Stores Buyer Fraud Prevention, Payment Risk
Zohaib Ahmed
Founder & CEO, Resemble AI
Oxana Korzon, CFE
Fraud Intelligence, Upwork
Jordan Burris
Head of Publc Sector, Socure
Piyali Das
Founder and Principal,
Kinfolk, LLC
10:45 AM (45 min)—NETWORKING BREAK
Coffee, refreshments, and networking.
11:30 AM (45 min) DEEPFAKE SUMMIT DIALOGUE
The Agentic Enterprise: Building Trust Among Humans, Machines & AI Agents
Leveraging Rapidly Evolving Innovation to Build Trusted Identity-Centric Systems
Strategic Question: How do organizations establish and govern trust among humans, machines, and autonomous AI agents?
More than half of all online activity is already non-human. AI agents are executing transactions, managing accounts, writing software, making consequential decisions, and increasingly acting on behalf of individuals and organizations. Yet the governance and identity infrastructure required to verify that those agents are genuinely authorized by real humans—and remain accountable for their actions—does not yet exist. At the same time, the same capabilities enabling unprecedented gains in productivity are also enabling fraud automation, AI-driven impersonation, and entirely new attack surfaces.
This Dialogue rejects the false choice between optimism and fear. Both are justified—and neither is useful without governance. The discussion examines where autonomous AI introduces genuine new risks, including delegated authority, identity spoofing, credential misuse, agent-to-agent interactions, and rapidly scaling automated fraud operations. It also explores how agentic AI is strengthening defenses through signal orchestration, real-time decision support, behavioral analytics, and continuous monitoring at a speed no human team can match.
The central challenge is establishing the governance frameworks, identity models, authorization controls, and policy guardrails that allow organizations to harness the benefits of agentic AI while containing its risks—before regulation or the next major incident forces the issue.
Denny Prvu
Lead Identity Management Technical Coach,
Deloitte
Eric Goodman
Vice President, Acceptance Risk & Authentication Solutions
Frances Sanders, CCAS
Associate Manager, Coinbase
Andrew Austin
Head of Fraud, Sardine, Sardine
Heidi Hunter
Chief Product Officer Markaaz
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12:15 PM (45 min) DEEPFAKE SUMMIT DIALOGUE
Turning Controls on Their Head
Reimagining Governance as a Driver of Trust, Security, and Growth
Strategic Question: How must governance evolve when trust—not fraud detection—becomes the primary objective?
Governance designed to say “no” is becoming a liability. In an environment where synthetic identities are already embedded within institutional systems and fraud defenses are optimized to block rather than decide, traditional control frameworks are both missing risk and suppressing legitimate activity. The challenge is no longer simply detecting fraud—it is continuously establishing trust at scale.
This Dialogue explores how organizations can shift from reactive, probabilistic fraud detection to proactive, authenticity-driven governance built on verified identity. The discussion examines the role of cryptographic credentials, continuous identity assurance, adaptive authorization, and lifecycle governance, while also addressing the structural incentives that reward blocking overconfidence. It asks how governance must evolve across enrollment, authentication, authorization, and recovery to enable continuous, high-confidence decision-making. The goal is to reposition governance as a driver of operational performance, resilience, customer trust, and sustainable growth—not simply as a mechanism for reducing risk.
Designing trust infrastructure is only the beginning. The harder challenge is implementing it across complex organizations. Technology continues to advance rapidly. Institutions do not. The next section explores how organizations can accelerate adoption before crisis—or regulation—forces change.
Christina Rea
Founder & CEO,
RayCor Consulting
Daniel Bachenheimer
Digital Identity Innovations Technical Lead, Accentue
Linda Miller, OLY
Co-Fo Tracklight, Pres/Co-Fndr Program Integrity Alliance
Brandie Thacker
Executive DIrector, EPCOR
Brian Russell
Founder and CEO DaVinci Partners Consulting
1:00 PM (90 min)—LUNCHTIME INNOVATION SHOWCASE & NETWORKING
Leading impersonation fraud and identity innovators demonstrate their prevention, detection, and mitigation capabilities and identity platforms.
2:30 PM (30 min) LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE:
Moving at the Speed of Trust
Accelerating Identity Modernization Before Crisis—or Regulation—Demands It
Frances Zelazny
General Manager, New Market Innovations, Prove
Building trust infrastructure is one of the defining leadership challenges of the AI economy.
The technology required to build resilient, trusted digital identity ecosystems already exists. Biometrics, behavioral analytics, cryptographic credentials, device intelligence, verifiable credentials, mobile driver's licenses, and AI-powered identity orchestration are available, maturing, and increasingly being deployed at scale. The gap is no longer invention. The gap is institutional adoption
Closing that gap requires more than deploying new technology. It requires executive leadership, organizational alignment, investment prioritization, procurement modernization, regulatory engagement, and cross-sector collaboration. Identity can no longer be treated as either a compliance function or a collection of security technologies. It has become foundational trust infrastructure for the AI economy.
This interactive keynote examines how leading organizations can accelerate modernization before external events force change under less favorable conditions. The keynote explores what leadership looks like in practice, why early adopters are creating strategic advantage, and how institutions can move at the speed of trust rather than the speed of crisis.
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3:00 PM (30 min) FIRESIDE CONVERSATION
Identity-First Transformation
Cautionary Tales From Real World Deployments
Strategic Question: What separates successful identity transformation from another stalled technology initiative?
The strategic case for continuous, biometric-anchored, identity-first security has been made. The harder conversation is about what happens when organizations actually try to build it. Enterprise-wide identity transformation touches every system, every team, and every vendor relationship an organization has—and attempted implementations are littered with projects that stalled at organizational boundaries, technology choices that locked institutions into fragile architectures, and governance frameworks that looked comprehensive on paper and collapsed under operational load.
Identity transformation rarely fails because the technology doesn't work. More often, it stalls because organizations underestimate the complexity of integrating identity across business units, legacy systems, governance models, and competing institutional priorities. Success requires far more than deploying new platforms—it demands executive sponsorship, cross-functional alignment, and a long-term commitment to organizational change.
This conversation draws on real-world enterprise deployments to examine implementation challenges, organizational resistance, procurement realities, governance lessons, and practical strategies that have helped organizations modernize identity in highly regulated environments. The focus is not on perfect case studies, but on candid experience that others can adapt inside their own institutions. What does the path from siloed, reactive fraud detection to continuous, cross-functional identity assurance actually look like, and where are the traps? How do you sequence the transformation when everything feels urgent? What does a realistic timeline for hardening against injection attacks look like, and which interim controls matter most? And what do organizations that have done this well know that organizations attempting it for the first time typically don't? Practical, unvarnished, and grounded in operational reality.
Steve Lenderman
Head of Fraud Prevention, isolved
Andrea Valentin
Head of Risk & Compliance,
Maxwell State Bank
John Howard, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO, Sensus AI
3:30 PM (45 min) DEEPFAKE SUMMIT DIALOGUE
Privacy, Data Ownership, & User Control
Can Privacy Become a Competitive Advantage?
Strategic Question: How can evolving models of identity ownership, user control, and data governance strengthen security, improve customer experience, and create competitive advantage?ve?
Institutional transformation is not only about modernizing technology. It is also about redefining the relationship between organizations and the individuals whose identities they are trusted to protect. As AI increases both the value and vulnerability of digital identity, organizations are beginning to rethink not only how identity is verified, but how trusted identity should be managed once it has been established.
This is more than a privacy principle—it is a fraud defense. Rather than viewing centralized and decentralized identity as competing models, organizations are increasingly exploring hybrid trust ecosystems that combine trusted institutional identity with greater user control, digital identity wallets, verifiable credentials, modern consent frameworks, privacy-enhancing technologies, and evolving approaches to data ownership and governance.
This Dialogue examines what those hybrid trust ecosystems might look like in practice. How much trust can safely be decentralized once a trusted identity has been established? What role should digital identity wallets, verifiable credentials, privacy-enhancing technologies, and consent frameworks play? How will evolving models of identity ownership reshape customer relationships, profitability, and competitive advantage?
Rather than treating privacy as a compliance obligation or decentralization as an end state, the discussion explores how hybrid trust ecosystems can simultaneously strengthen security, reduce fraud, improve customer experience, and create lasting competitive advantage. Ultimately, hybrid identity ecosystems may become one of the foundational components of the trust infrastructure required for the AI economy
Jeff Reich
Executive Director, IDSA
Julie Saslow Schroeder
CEO and Chief Risk Officer, Data-Driven Operations
Christopher Lee
AI Policy Advisor
Former Chief Privacy Offfier, US Senate
Sarah Clarke
Chief Product Officer & GM North America, Hopae
Eve Maler
President & Founder, Venn Factory
4:15 PM (45 min)—NETWORKING BREAK
Coffee, refreshments, and networking.
5:00 PM (45 min) LEADERSHIP FORUM
Building the Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era
Strategic Question: If no single organization can solve this challenge alone, what must we build together?
No single organization can solve AI-driven impersonation fraud alone. Fraudsters collaborate across technologies, sectors, and borders. Defenders often do not. Building resilient trust at scale will require more than better products, stronger regulations, or new governance frameworks. It requires sustained collaboration among government, industry, standards bodies, academia, and technology providers. The Summit concludes by looking beyond today's conversations to identify the principles, priorities, and partnerships needed to continuously strengthen trust in a rapidly changing world.
Rather than attempting to reach universal agreement, the discussion seeks to identify areas of emerging consensus, unresolved challenges, and priorities for continued collaboration. Participants will consider the complementary roles of government, regulated industries, technology providers, standards organizations, academia, and the investment community in strengthening the global trust ecosystem. Where should collaboration begin? Which priorities require immediate action? And what responsibilities belong to each part of the ecosystem?
Kay Choppard
Executive Director Kantara Intiative
Women in Identity
Adam McBride
ICAM/IdAM Program Manager, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Cari E. Guittard, MPA
Srategist, San Mateo County Emergency Management
Justin Keene, Ph.D.
CEO, Moeris
Jay Meier
Chief Identity Technology Strategist, FaceTec
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5:45 PM (15 min) CLOSING REFLECTIONS
C. Maxine Most
Chair, The Deepfake Summit
Founder & CEO, The Prism Project and Acuity Market Intelligence
Strategic Question: Where do we go form here?
Building trust infrastructure is not a destination. It is an ongoing process of collaboration, innovation, governance, and leadership.
The Deepfake Summit was never intended to answer every question raised by AI-driven impersonation fraud. Its purpose is to bring together the people, organizations, and perspectives needed to challenge assumptions, exchange practical experience, accelerate collective learning, and strengthen the relationships required to continuously build resilient trust.
The day's conversations, insights, and emerging priorities will be synthesized into the Washington D.C. Deepfake Summit Event Intelligence Report, ensuring that the Summit's ideas, recommendations, and collaborative momentum continue well beyond the event itself.
6:00 to 7:00 PM—REALITY CHECK LOUNGE
Some of the Summit's most valuable conversations begin after the formal sessions conclude. Continue the dialogue in the Reality Check Lounge, an informal reception that provides an opportunity to deepen relationships, exchange perspectives, and explore new collaborations across government, industry, academia, standards organizations, and the technology ecosystem.
