Daniel is the Director of Product for Digital Assets at Proof. Prior to Proof, he headed Decentralized Identity at Block, founded the Entra Verified ID product division at Microsoft, and spent his early career at Mozilla leading its Developer Ecosystem product group.
From buying a home to onboarding a new hire to authorizing an AI agent to act on your behalf, the gap between digital convenience and identity certainty is widening fast. In this session, Daniel Buchner, Director of Product, Digital Assets at Proof, and Kurt Ernst, Principal Product Manager for Risk and Fraud at Proof, trace the rise of the Identity Authorization Network across industries and government, expose what AI-generated deepfakes and synthetic identity fraud look like in the wild, and make the case that Digital ID isn't a compliance feature — it's the trust infrastructure the entire digital economy is being built on top of, whether we've planned for it or not. Leave with a cross-sector framework you can apply immediately and a clearer view of where identity risk is headed next.