IAM has a reasoning problem. For decades, the industry has operated on hard-coded policies, manual system mapping, and access reviews that exist mainly to satisfy auditors. The identity population has also grown beyond employees to include service accounts, machine identities, and AI agents, and most governance programs have no answer for them. This session explores how AI changes that equation.

This session brings together two perspectives that rarely share a stage. Barak Perelman, CEO of Opti, walks through what it actually takes to build AI that understands entitlements, risk context, lifecycle decisions, and integrations with precision, and where general-purpose models consistently fall short for identity work. Jon Raper, CISO at Chevron, speaks to what governing identity at Fortune 50 scale actually looks like, and where the operating model needs to evolve.

Together they address the decision every security leader is now facing, extend the legacy operating model or rebuild for the new one. Attendees will learn what's making leading enterprises move now, leave with a clearer picture of what AI-native actually requires, and take away three principles for what good governance looks like in practice.

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