Strata Identity VP of Product and Standards to Discuss Future of Authorization at Identiverse 2025

Gerry Gebel to join fellow AuthZEN co-chairs to discuss next-gen authorization interoperability and open standards

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Strata Identity, the Identity Orchestration company, today announced that Gerry Gebel, VP of Product and Standards, will speak on a panel at Identiverse 2025 focused on AuthZEN, a new working group of the OpenID Foundation aimed at standardizing authorization. The panel will explore the evolving state of modern authorization and preview progress on a new open standard modeled after OpenID Connect.

Strata will also demonstrate the Maverics Identity Orchestration Platform at Identiverse 2025 booth #422.

WHO: Gerry Gebel, VP of Product and Standards at Strata Identity, is a recognized expert in identity and access management, standards, and strategy. He has more than two decades of experience in senior management roles at Axiomatics, Burton Group, and Chase Manhattan Bank. Gerry also serves as a co-chair of the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group.

Other Panelists:

• Omri Gazitt, CEO, Aserto
  
  
• David Brossard, CTO, Axiomatics

WHAT: Today’s authorization ecosystem is fragmented, with each vendor offering their own proprietary APIs and protocols. To address this problem, the OpenID Foundation launched the AuthZEN Working Group in late 2023 with the goal of establishing open authorization standards—just as OpenID Connect did for authentication. In this session, identity architects, IAM practitioners, and application developers will learn how AuthZEN can be used to externalize and standardize authorization across their application estate.

The speakers will:

• Outline the current landscape of authorization, including policy-as-code and policy-as-data models
  
  
• Share milestones from the AuthZEN 1.0 development process, including insights from the first interoperability event held at Identiverse 2024
  
  
• Present a live demo featuring 15 interoperable implementations
  
  
• Discuss goals for the 2025 Final Specification
  
  
• Invite feedback from the identity community on future standardization priorities
  
  

WHEN: Tuesday, June 3, 2025 from 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM PT

WHERE: Panel: AuthZEN – The “OpenID Connect” for Authorization. Identiverse 2025, Mandalay Bay F, Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, NV

HOW: To attend the session, register at Identiverse.com. To request a meeting with Gerry Gebel, contact Marc Gendron at [e-mail] or +1 617.877.7480.

About Strata Identity

Strata Identity enables organizations to modernize identity providers without disrupting existing infrastructure while maintaining a frictionless user experience. By decoupling identity from applications, Strata's Maverics platform unifies SSO, supports multiple IDPs simultaneously, and ensures continuous access during outages via IDP failover. 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.