"Identity in the Age of AI" Panel
Join us during NYC Fintech Week for a breakfast and panel discussion on Identity in the Age of AI.
Rapid advancements in AI are fundamentally reshaping our understanding of identity, prompting us to reconsider the core concepts of authenticity, privacy, and trust.
As agentic AI systems become increasingly capable, the line distinguishing human identities from agentic entities blurs, raising crucial questions about accountability, security, and governance. In an AI forward world, the existing identity and fraud stack will need to be fundamentally re-written for when AI agents become a bigger part of everyday workflows. Join us for a conversation about what identity will look like in the coming years.
What We'll Discuss
Impact of Agentic workflows on existing identity & fraud stack
The digital identity infrastructure needed for Know-Your-Agent and autonomous transactions
Breaking down technology, data and organizational siloes to fight fraud
Panelists:
🚀 Jelena Hoffart | Director of Identity Value Chain Expansion @ Mastercard
Jelena is an advisor, strategist and writer focusing on identity and fraud in financial services. Jelena currently leads identity strategy and growth for Mastercard. She also helps incubate and advise companies building new identity and fraud technologies and is an investor in many of the leading technologies.
🚀 Vamsi Varanasi | Product Strategy Lead @ CLEAR & Co-Founder of Sora ID (acq. by CLEAR)
Vamsi leads strategic partnerships at CLEAR, working with household brands across sectors to fight fraud and drive unique value to users by leveraging CLEAR's connected identity platform. This technology came by way of CLEAR's acquisition of Sora, a startup backed by Greylock, General Catalyst, and Abstract where Vamsi was cofounder and COO. Vamsi actively advises and invests in startups and holds a BS in Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
🚀 Amelia Ahlgren Lurie | Chief Strategy Officer @ BioCatch
Amelia Ahlgren is Chief Strategy Officer at BioCatch, where she is responsible for corporate strategy, corporate development, and the BioCatch Customer Innovation Board, helping to devise the company vision. Prior to joining BioCatch, Amelia was Vice President at Broadhaven Capital Partners, where she managed the firm’s venture portfolio. Earlier, Amelia held operating roles at Movo, a fitness tracking startup, and Pivit, a sports gaming app. She began her career as a writer for the Bleacher Report. Amelia holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
🚀 Bojan Simic | Co-founder and CEO @ HYPR
Bojan Simic is the Chief Executive Officer of HYPR. Bojan’s vision for the elimination of shared secrets and his experience in authentication and cryptography serves as the underlying foundation for HYPR technology and company strategy. Previously, he served as an information security consultant for Fortune 500 enterprises in the financial and insurance verticals conducting security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing. Bojan has a passion for deploying applied cryptography implementation across security-critical software in both the public and private sectors. HYPR has raised over $120m from the likes of Silver Lake Waterman, Advent International, Comcast Ventures and RRE Ventures.
Bojan also serves as HYPR’s delegate to the FIDO Alliance board of directors, empowering the alliance’s mission to rid the world of passwords.
🎤 Moderator: Mat Kaliski | Principal at Acronym Venture Capital
AGENDA
9:00-9:30am, Registration & Breakfast
9:30-10:30am, Panel Discussion & Q&A
10:30-11:00am, Networking
Registration and approval is required and space is limited, so please RSVP soon.
About Our Hosts + Sponsors
Acronym is an early-stage venture firm investing in founders building real and sustainable businesses. We specialize in late seed and early A financings for B2B software, tech-enabled, and omnichannel consumer brands generating at least $1M in revenue. As a hands-on fund, Acronym leads, co-leads, or participates in rounds, investing only when it can leverage its network for significant post-investment value add.
MoFo has over 1,000 attorneys in 18 offices around the world. Our Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group has more than 170 lawyers located in key global business centers advising more than 2,000 startups, emerging and growth companies, and venture capital funds, corporate venture capital clients, and other clients in the technology space. We combine a deep understanding of market conditions with a tailored legal strategy to assist emerging companies and their investors. We assist companies with a full range of services, including but not limited to initial formation and financings, late-stage financings, secondary transactions and investments, mergers & acquisitions and public offerings. MoFo has helped our clients raise more than $110 billion and $575 billion in exits in the last five years.
We understand the complex technologies and business needs of our clients, leveraging numerous practitioners with advanced degrees in relevant disciplines. We have vast expertise across many industry segments, including technology, healthcare, life sciences, consumer, health, AI, FinTech, Cleantech, impact investing, robotics, media, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and more.