Identity has moved through three eras in fifteen years — the Active Directory era, the cloud era, and now the AI and agent era — and each one expanded the scope of the work instead of replacing it. The field has never been more challenging, and that is exactly the reason to build a career in it. This session walks through the three eras from the perspective of someone who used identity from the outside before joining the field from the inside and offers a practical frame for reading the next era before it arrives so you can position your own career for what is coming.