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Sponsored Keynote: Anchoring Trust in the Age of AI — Identities Across Humans, Machines, and Models#

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 digest Program Wildcard pick 10–13 November 2025

Recording

Yuan Tang & Anjali Telang, Red Hat — Wildcard

Play the recording: Sponsored Keynote: Anchoring Trust in the Age of AI — Identities Across Humans, Machines, and Models

  • Why: A sponsored keynote (so discount the pitch), but it stakes out a thesis the PM's agentic-identity interest should track: extending SPIFFE/SPIRE workload identity into the AI serving path so every model and pipeline step carries a verifiable identity. The "identity for models, not just services" framing is where the field is heading.
  • What: A proposed trust fabric where workloads, users, and AI models all carry verifiable identity for an auditable chain of trust. (from abstract only)
  • How: SPIFFE/SPIRE issue cryptographic workload identities, Keycloak adds a user identity/access layer, and KServe extends identity into AI model serving so each model, explainer, and pipeline step runs with attested identity. (from abstract only)
  • Where applicable: AI serving on Kubernetes; conceptual/directional. Keynote-level, vendor-framed — value is the thesis, not implementation detail.