The ID Talk Podcast
Trade-press interviews on biometrics, digital ID, identity documents, and deepfakes from the ID Tech newsroom. More than 200 episodes since 2019.
- Hosts
- Alex Perala, Tony Bitzionis
- Publisher
- ID Tech (Verse Media) · Media
- Pillar
- Customer Identity (CIAM), Emerging & Foundational
- Level
- Practitioner
- Format
- Interview
- Cadence
- Weekly to monthly, 25 to 40 min
- Status
- Active, last episode 2026-09-30
- Since
- 2019
- Episodes
- 217
What it is
The ID Talk Podcast comes from ID Tech, an identity technology trade publication owned by Verse Media, and is hosted by its editorial staff, Alex Perala and Tony Bitzionis. Since February 2019 it has run more than 200 interviews on biometrics, digital ID, mobile driver's licenses, identity documents, deepfakes, and AI. The feed also carries a short daily news digest.
Who it suits
People working in identity verification, government ID, and biometrics, and anyone tracking the supplier side of the digital ID market.
Editor note
Journalists asking the questions keeps it more neutral than a vendor show, but guests are mostly vendor executives and analysts, and the topics follow the trade-show calendar (Identity Week previews, deepfake summits). Strong for market awareness; for enterprise IAM, look elsewhere in this directory.
Last verified 2026-09-30 against the show's feed, recent episode notes, and the publisher's own pages. Status and last-episode date update weekly from the feed.
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