Pieter Kasselman

Pieter Kasselman is an Identity Enthusiast, focused on standards based identity products. Pieter has over 25 years' experience as a technologist and engineer, working on bringing new technologies and business models to market. Pieter's first encounter with identity was his final year project which used neural networks to identify users based on typing patterns. Since then he worked in a number of roles as an information security analyst, software engineer and program manager in industries that include finance, software, silicon and cloud. His diverse background gives him a unique perspective of the importance of identity and the role of identity standards as both a business enabler and the first line of defence for.


Sessions

05-27
10:00
30min
Scaling Workload Identity Lifecycle Management with Standards
Dag Sneeggen, Pieter Kasselman

This session shares real world lessons learnt and gaps identified from using SPIFFE, OAuth 2.0, and mTLS to automate identity lifecycle management, OAuth client registration, sender-constrain tokens and eradicate secrets.

Arena
05-28
10:00
30min
Human and Workload Identities: Bridging the Gap with Transaction Tokens
Pieter Kasselman, Dmitry Telegin

In this talk, we will introduce the two emerging OAuth technologies related to workload identity, namely Transaction Tokens and SPIFFE Client Authentication, and demonstrate them working together.

Work Lab II
05-29
11:00
30min
AI Agent Authentication and Authorization
Pieter Kasselman, Yaroslav Rosomakho, Brian Campbell

This talk explains why AI agents should be treated as workloads, not magical new identity subjects. It shows how existing standards such as SPIFFE, WIMSE, OAuth 2.0, and SSF applies to agent systems, while also identifying gaps.

Arena