Authenticate Conference
- When
- Mid-October
- Where
- Carlsbad, CA
- Format
- Hybrid
- Organizer
- FIDO Alliance
- Attendance
- 1,000+
- Cost
- $1,200-1,800
What this conference is for
Authenticate is the FIDO Alliance's dedicated conference for passkeys, FIDO2, and passwordless authentication. It is the single best event for going deep on phishing-resistant authentication: the standards (WebAuthn), the deployment realities, and the case studies from organizations that have rolled passkeys out at scale.
Who should attend
Anyone running or planning a passwordless or phishing-resistant MFA program, identity engineers implementing WebAuthn, and product teams adding passkeys to consumer apps. The content is practical and implementation-focused.
What to expect
Deep technical sessions, real deployment data, and the latest on passkey portability and credential exchange. Because it is FIDO-run, it is the authoritative source on where the standards are going.
Coverage
We cover Authenticate in full, given how central passwordless is to where identity is heading. Pair it with our MFA rollout playbook.
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