Igor Zhdanko is a Solutions Architect at Regula, specializing in identity verification, biometrics, and forensic technologies. He works directly with government organizations, enterprise customers, and technology partners, helping them address complex identity and verification challenges in real-world environments.
Through his work with customers and partners, Igor has first-hand insight into the operational and technical challenges behind real-world identity projects, from choosing the right verification technologies for a specific use case to integrating them into existing systems and operational workflows.
His exposure to projects across different industries and environments also gives him a close view of how identity technologies and customer needs are evolving, and what it takes to make verification solutions effective in practice.
Every age verification method shares one silent assumption: the person who passed the check at sign-up is still the person using the account. They are not always. Verified accounts get shared, handed to younger siblings, or sold online — rendering even the most sophisticated one-time check meaningless.
This session argues that age verification is an architecture problem, not a technology problem. Drawing on recent enforcement cases Arif Mamedov maps why one-time gates fail and what continuous identity assurance looks like in practice: layered onboarding, trigger-based re-verification, and privacy-preserving behavioral signals.
The question is not "can we check age?" It is "can we keep that assurance meaningful after the check?"