The Future of Identity
Episodes
Robin Tombs – Building Reusable Identity at Scale and Driving Real-World Adoption with Yoti
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Robin Tombs, co-founder and CEO of Yoti, one of the earliest and most widely adopte...
Ross Freiman-Mendel – Networked Identity, Reusable Personas, and the Future of KYC
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Ross Freiman-Mendel, Head of Product Growth at Persona, to explore the shift from o...
Chris Goh – Scaling Mobile IDs in Australia with ISO mDocs
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Chris Goh, former National Harmonisation Lead for Australia’s mobile driver’s ...
Thomas Mayfield – Building Interoperable Web3 Identity with the Veridian Platform
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Thomas Mayfield, Head of Decentralized Trust & Identity Solutions at the Cardan...
Teresa Wu - Driving Mobile ID Adoption at IDEMIA
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode we spoke with Teresa Wu, Vice President of Smart Credentials and Access at IDEMIA. IDEMIA has been involved with many U.S. states for ...
Rebekah Johnson - Building a Business Identity Ecosystem at Numeracle
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode we spoke to Rebekah Johnson, Founder & CEO of Numeracle. This was a fascinating conversation about Rebekah’s journey starti...
Jonas Brännvall - How BankID Became Ubiquitous in Sweden
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Jonas Branvall, Head of International Expansion at BankID Sweden, one of the most widely-adopted reusable ID systems in...
Diego Fernández - Driving Decentralized Identity in Buenos Aires with QuarkID
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Diego Fernández, co-founder of QuarkID and Sovra, to discuss the innovative decent...
Jeffrey Schwartz - Acquiring Trinsic Ecosystems & Accelerating the Future of Decentralized Identity
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Future of Identity podcast, I’m joined by Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Dentity, to discuss the recent acquisition of ...
Ajay Gupta - Shaping California’s mDL Program and the Future of Digital Identity
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Ajay Gupta, Chief Digital Transformation Officer of the California Department of Mo...
David Kelts - From Idemia to Decipher Identity and the Evolution of Mobile IDs
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by David Kelts, a leader in digital identity and mobile ID initiatives, with a career ...
Rohan Pinto - 1Kosmos's Journey from Blockchain to Passwordless Authentication
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Future of Identity Podcast, I’m joined by Rohan Pinto, Co-founder and CTO of 1Kosmos, a company at the forefront of decentral...
Calvin Fabre - Envoc's Role in Pioneering Mobile Driver’s Licenses in Louisiana
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I’m joined by Calvin Fabre, President and Founder of Envoc, a company that has been at the heart of mobile driver's license (m...
Karyl Fowler - From Transmute to Global Trade and the Power of Digital Identity
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I sit down with Karyl Fowler, co-founder and CEO of Transmute, a company at the forefront of integrating modern identity technology i...
Kim Hamilton Duffy - From Learning Machine to DIF and the Evolution of Decentralized Identity
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk with Kim Hamilton Duffy, the Executive Director of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF). Before her work at DIF, Kim se...
Special Episode - Trinsic Update
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most frequent requests that we get is to record an episode about Trinsic. So this week we’re doing just that because we recently announce...
Adrian Field - OneID’s Approach to Driving BankID Adoption in the UK
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Adrian Field, the Director of Market Development at OneID, which is a bank-based identity verification product focused on...
Taylor Liggett - ID.me’s Strategy for Adoption, Monetization, and Brand for 100 Million Wallets and Beyond
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode we spoke with Taylor Liggett, Chief Growth Officer of ID.me, which is the largest reusable ID network in the United States and ma...
Eric Scouten - Adobe’s Leading Role in the Content Authenticity Boom
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode we talked with Eric Scouten, Senior Engineering Manager at Adobe, who has been working for the last four years on solving content...
Adam Gunther - Tactical Insights from Equifax and IBM on Driving Reusable Identity Adoption
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On today’s episode we spoke to Adam Gunther, SVP and General Manager of Digital Solutions at Equifax. This was a fascinating conversation about Adam...
Phil Windley - Identity Metasystems and Lessons from Building the Sovrin Foundation
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk with Phil Windley, Sr. Software Development Manager at AWS, Cofounder of IIW, former Chair of Sovrin Foundation. We talked abo...
Nick Thomas: Finicity’s Journey from Personal Finance App to $985M Acquisition for their Open Banking Platform
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talked with Nick Thomas, cofounder of Finicity, which was acquired by Mastercard, where Nick went on to be the EVP of Global Open Finance Inn...
Jacques von Benecke: Launching National-Scale Self Sovereign Identity in Bhutan
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Jacques von Benecke, CTO of DHI, the commercial and investment arm of the government of Bhutan. If you haven’t heard, ...
Jon Gelsey: Identity Product GTM Insight from Auth0’s Early Days
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Jon Gelsey, founding CEO of Auth0 Inc, which sold to Okta for $6.5B, as well as the CEO of Xnor.ai which he sold to Appl...
Harrison Tang: Spokeo’s Vision of a “People Search Engine” Powered by Verifiable Credentials
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Harrison Tang, Co-founder and & CEO of Spokeo, which is a “people search engine”. Spokeo aggregates many sou...
Carlos Korten: Lessons Learned From Bindle’s Health Pass
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we chat with Carlos Korten, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer of Bindle Systems. Bindle built one of the largest private-sector ...
Nate Soffio: Reusable Identity in Financial Services
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Nate Soffio, Co-founder and & CEO of Portabl. Nate is applying decentralized identity to fintech and open bankin...
Andrew Black: Building Bank-Backed Digital ID in Australia
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we speak with Andrew Black, Managing Director of ConnectID, which is part of Australian Payments Plus. Andrew, who is an expert in th...
Sarah Clark: Mastercard’s ID Network
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Sarah Clark, SVP of Digital Identity at Mastercard, to discuss Mastercard’s ID network.As one of the world’s lar...
Keith Uber: Organizational Identity and vLEIs
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we sit down with Keith Uber, VP of Sales Engineering at Ubisecure, to discuss the role of verifiable credentials in identity and acce...
Ankur Patel: Microsoft’s Decentralized Identity Product—Entra Verified ID
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Ankur Patel, Head of Product at Entra Verified ID which is Microsoft’s decentralized identity product. We begin the conversation ...
Eric Starr: Verifiable Credential Adoption in Government
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Eric Starr, Co-founder & CEO of UltraPass ID—an IDtech product for governments.Eric shares his story trying to solve civic pr...
Timothy Ruff: The Difference Between a Use Case and a Business Case
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Timothy Ruff, General Partner at Digital Trust Ventures. Timothy is an early pioneer of self-sovereign identity as a co-founder of ...
Manny Nijjar: Lessons Learned From the NHS Staff Passport
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Manny Nijjar, co-founder and CEO of Truu, which is a healthcare-focused IDtech product that’s been involved in one of the most im...
Evin McMullen: Verifiable Credentials in the Metaverse
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Evin McMullen, co-founder and CEO of Disco.xyz.We start and end this episode with Evin framing identity as the coolest, most intere...
Paul Ashley: Will Consumers Pay for an Identity Product?
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Paul Ashley, CTO and co-CEO of Anonyome Labs. Paul starts by talking about how the erosion of privacy online and the rise of data b...
Sebastian Mellen: The Power of Verified Data in Non-Obvious Industries
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Sebastian Mellen, Co-founder and CEO of Cerebrum. His team is building an IDtech product called vID, tackling data and compliance p...
Chris Ingrao: Bringing Decentralized Identity to Healthcare
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Chris Ingrao, a co-founder of Lumedic—a company whose mission it was to transform the patient experience in the US healthcare mar...
Katrie Lowe: Stop Selling SSI, Sell Answers to Problems
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Katrie Lowe, Co-founder and CEO of Domi Labs. We start the conversation talking about how Berlin’s hyper-competitive rental marke...
Jeffrey Schwartz: Build More, Talk Less — Solving Real Problems with Verifiable Credentials
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest is Jeffrey Schwartz, Founder & CEO of Dentity whose mission is to make the internet a safer place for people everywhere. Jeffrey’...
Introducing: The Future of Identity
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to The Future of Identity. Normally, show host Riley Hughes (Co-founder & CEO of Trinsic) talks to the people building IDtech products, bu...