Granville Schmidt to join panel of technology founders and experts discussing the future of secure AI adoption
BOULDER, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CloudIAM—Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that its Chief Architect, Granville Schmidt, will speak on a panel at the Moonfire Technical Founder Summit, a gathering of leading entrepreneurs and technologists shaping the next wave of innovation.
Granville will share his insights on the key infrastructure challenges emerging in the age of AI, particularly regarding the management of agentic identities at scale. He’ll explore how organizations must evolve their security architectures as AI agents increasingly work alongside humans in critical business environments, with particular focus on identity verification for non-human actors, auditability of autonomous actions, and the expansion of zero-trust principles. Granville will address the practical realities of enforcing least privilege at machine speed and maintaining compliance visibility across dynamic, agent-driven workflows.
WHO: Granville Schmidt, Chief Architect, Strata Identity, leads the technical and strategic direction of the company’s products, focusing on building the future of identity and access management (IAM) for humans and AI agents. He previously served in the Office of the CTO at F5 and as the Chair of the JavaScript/ECMAScript – Security Task Group (TC39-TG3). Granville is an active open-source contributor and has spent nearly two decades leading engineering and security teams for startups and enterprises.
WHAT: Panel: Infrastructure in the Age of AI
Moderator: Mike Arpaia, Managing Partner, Moonfire
Other Panelists:
Kelsey Hightower, Bearer of Wisdom
Jiameng Gao, Co-founder & CTO, Neuphonic
Zoe von Pentz, Co-founder & Head of Engineering, Ziggiz
Dinesh Majrekar, CTO, Civo
WHEN: October 1, 2025, 5:00pm – 5:30pm
WHERE: Moonfire Technical Founder Summit, Civo Tech Junction, First Floor, 32-37 Cowper St., London
HOW: To learn more about the Moonfire Technical Founder Summit, visit https://bit.ly/46ByC2A. To speak with Granville Schmidt, contact Marc Gendron at [email protected] or +1 617.877.7480.
About Strata Identity
Strata Identity enables organizations to orchestrate and modernize human and agent identities without disrupting existing infrastructure while maintaining a frictionless user experience. By decoupling identity from applications, Strata’s Maverics platform unifies SSO, can rationalize redundant IdPs, and ensures continuous access during outages via IdP failover. It enables organizations to extend Zero Trust controls across human, machine, and autonomous AI identities.
Led by CEO Eric Olden, co-author of the SAML standard, Strata also created the Identity Query Language (IDQL) and open-source Hexa project to help standardize multi-cloud identity management. Learn more at Strata.io and follow us on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Contacts
Media Contact:
Marc Gendron
Marc Gendron PR for Strata
+1-617-877-7480
[email protected]
