As AI agents become increasingly involved in business processes, secure API access is becoming a critical foundation for adopting AI safely at scale. Strong identity and access controls can help organizations expose valuable APIs and data to AI systems without sacrificing security, governance, or compliance. This session explores how modern identity approaches can reduce risk while enabling organizations to move faster with new AI-driven use cases. We’ll examine why treating identity as a business enabler, rather than simply a security requirement, is essential in the age of AI.