Executives and practitioners are asking the same question in different vocabularies. One asks why the spend is not producing safety. The other asks why the tooling never fixes the thing. Same question.
Keynotes worldwide, booked direct: the reply comes from me, not an agency. Tell me the date, the room, and what you want it to walk out believing. Fee range on request.
25 venues, 41 engagements
Boards, executives, regulators
Three decades of rising spend and rising losses is not a technology failure. It is a measurement failure that everyone in the system was paid to leave in place. What a board should be asking instead, and what an honest answer sounds like.
Practitioners, architects, CISOs
The controls exist. They operate. They do not change the outcome they were deployed to influence. Why identity became the mechanism through which trust gets assigned, and why AI is now assigning it faster than anyone can review.
Practitioners, communities, early-career rooms
You have something important to say. How micro-fame actually works, how you can become a powerful voice in your community, and why influencers have been an important part of human culture for centuries.
Every one of these can be cut to twenty minutes or run as a workshop. Tell me what the room is.
Myth of the Sophisticated Hacker
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) & Cyber Security · firesideIt Was Already Broken Before AI Showed Up
Taste of IT Conference · Dayton · United States · keynoteGuest speaker: AI risk and governance roundtable
AI Security Leadership Dinner Roundtable — HALOCK Security Labs & Singulr AI · Chicago · firesidePotential Damages: Let's Talk Kids and AI Exposure with A Father and a Son
RSA Conference 2026 · San Francisco · keynoteA Glorious Mess: AI, Identity and The Inevitable Privacy Crisis
Identiverse 2025 · Las Vegas · sessionDamages: A Father And Son Discuss How the Digital Is Impacting Self-Image
RSA Conference 2025 · San Francisco · keynoteIs Security for AI Different - And What Should We Be Considering If It Is?
RSA Conference 2025 · San Francisco · panelAutocracy or Democracy: Which is Better at AI
RSA Conference 2025 · San Francisco · panelFear, Uncertainty and AI: Why Is Operationalizing So Scary?
Charlotte ISSA Cyber March Madness · Charlotte · sessionFear, Uncertainty and AI: Why Is Operationalizing So Scary?
FutureCon Cybersecurity St. Louis · St. Louis · sessionResponding to Cyber Incidents and Major IT Events in FSI
GovWare 2024 FSI Forum — Singapore International Cyber Week · Singapore, Singapore · panelEvent materialMental Health vs. Mental Wellbeing: How to Cultivate Resilient Security Teams
SecureWorld Denver 2024 · Denver · panelAPIs and Contextual Security: The Devil Is In the Details
Black Hat USA 2024 · Las Vegas · sessionSoftware Not Built Secure, Will Not Run Secure: How To Build Secure by Design Software
Lineaje Software Supply Chain Security Summit · Las Vegas · panelPanel: Human Risk Management Needs a Zero Trust Strategy
CyberEd.io / ISMG Get Smarter Summit · panelYou Can't Have Zero Trust Without API Security
Digital Trust World 2023 · sessionA Hole In The Boat — How APIs Threaten Everything
CypherCon 6.0 · Milwaukee · sessionAISA Australian Cyber Conference — Canberra 2023
AISA Australian Cyber Conference — Canberra 2023 · Canberra, Australia · sessionOne Ring to Rule Them All: Digital Identity, Number Identifiers and the Future
Somos Summit 2022 · Denver · keynoteTop Five Strategies to Get Executive Support, Stakeholder Buy-In, and Funding for Your IAM Program
Identiverse 2022 · Denver · keynotePanel: 2022 Trends in Securing Digital Identities
Identiverse 2022 · Denver · panelWho the #$&* is That? All the Other Identities You Better Be Worrying About
Identiverse 2022 · Denver · keynoteAll Other Identities - The Risk That Is Hiding in Plain Sight
KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud Conference · Berlin, Germany · keynoteThe Privacy Paradox: All I Have To Do Is Be You
Identiverse 2021 · Aurora · keynoteTaking a Zero Trust Approach to Secure the Enterprise
Ping YOUniverse 2021 · sessionKeynote Panel: Identity at Scale
Identiverse Virtual 2020 · panelOff the Record with Henry Rollins & Richard Bird
Identiverse Virtual 2020 · firesideHearts, Minds and Wallets: The War Over Digital Identity
Identiverse Virtual 2020 · keynoteWhat if we are doing cybersecurity all wrong?
AISA Australian Cyber Conference — Melbourne 2019 · Melbourne, Australia · sessionDigital Identity for the People
Identiverse 2019 · Washington, DC · keynotePanel: Placing Identity at the Center of Security Designs & Models
KuppingerCole European Identity and Cloud Conference 2019 · Munich, Germany · panelOut Gunned, Out Manned, Out Maneuvered: Why Identity-Centric Security Is The Only Way to Win
Identiverse 2018 · Boston · keynoteMost engagements link to a public agenda, session page or recording, and that link is the evidence. The hardest rooms to get into leave no public trace, so where there is no link the entry says what it rests on instead: Event material for the event’s own promotional copy, held privately, and Attested for Richard’s own record.