The Future of Identity
Trinsic CEO Riley Hughes interviews the people launching identity products: wallets, mobile IDs, verification, and verifiable organisation identity.
- Host
- Riley Hughes
- Publisher
- Trinsic · Vendor
- Pillar
- Emerging & Foundational, Customer Identity (CIAM)
- Level
- Executive
- Format
- Interview
- Cadence
- Roughly monthly, 30 to 45 min
- Status
- Active, last episode 2026-08-05
- Since
- 2023
- Episodes
- 46
What it is
The Future of Identity "talks to the people building the IDtech products of tomorrow". In each episode Riley Hughes, CEO of Trinsic, interviews founders and product leaders about how identity products are built and taken to market. Recent guests came from GLEIF, Trulioo, Samsung Wallet, IDEMIA Public Security, and Glide Identity.
Who it suits
Founders, product managers, and strategists working on digital wallets, verifiable credentials, mobile IDs, and identity verification.
Editor note
Unusually focused on the business side: adoption, go-to-market, and why some identity products stall. That makes it a good complement to the standards-heavy shows. It is vendor-produced, and the host's company competes in this market, though the guests are mostly from other organisations. Releases are roughly monthly.
Where to start
- Ajay Gupta - Shaping California’s mDL Program and the Future of Digital Identity2024-12-04 · 44 min · Practitioner · Verifiable credentials and digital wallets
Walks through California's mobile driver's license rollout, including adoption data, where mDLs are accepted today, remote verification, and lessons for other DMVs.
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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