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Sponsored Keynote | Midships Global: You Don't Need a New Identity Platform for the AI Era - Yuxiang Lin, Midships Global
Enterprises are deploying AI agents at speed — systems that act autonomously, call APIs, access sensitive data, and make consequential decisions on behalf of users and organizations. With that shift comes an identity problem that
is not yet being discussed with the clarity it deserves: who authorized the agent, on whose behalf is it acting, what is it permitted to access, and how is that access revoked when something goes wrong?
The dominant response in the market is to reach for a new tool. A purpose-built AI identity vendor. Another platform, another dependency, another contract.
This keynote makes the case that the response is wrong — and expensive. The core primitives of agentic identity already exist in Keycloak: OAuth 2.0 token delegation and exchange, fine-grained scope enforcement, service account management, short-lived credentials, policy-based access control, and audit trails that trace machine actions back to human authorization. These are not features on a roadmap. They are in production today.
Drawing on real implementation experience building agentic identity architectures on Keycloak, this session argues that the enterprises that get the AI era right will be those that build on identity foundations they already own and control — not those that accumulated a new vendor dependency for every new architectural shift.
Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026) and Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at kubecon.io
Sponsored Keynote | Midships Global: You Don't Need a New Identity Platform for the AI Era - Yuxiang Lin, Midships Global
Enterprises are deploying AI agents at speed — systems that act autonomously, call APIs, access sensitive data, and make consequential decisions on behalf of users and organizations. With that shift comes an identity problem that
is not yet being discussed with the clarity it deserves: who authorized the agent, on whose behalf is it acting, what is it permitted to access, and how is that access revoked when something goes wrong?
The dominant response in the market is to reach for a new tool. A purpose-built AI identity vendor. Another platform, another dependency, another contract.
This keynote makes the case that the response is wrong — and expensive. The core primitives of agentic identity already exist in Keycloak: OAuth 2.0 token delegation and exchange, fine-grained scope enforcement, service account management, short-lived credentials, policy-based access control, and audit trails that trace machine actions back to human authorization. These are not features on a roadmap. They are in production today.
Drawing on real implementation experience building agentic identity architectures on Keycloak, this session argues that the enterprises that get the AI era right will be those that build on identity foundations they already own and control — not those that accumulated a new vendor dependency for every new architectural shift.
