{"podcast":{"title":"Identity at the Center","slug":"identity-at-the-center-344918","podcast_index_feed_id":344918,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c5fefcc/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://idacpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/1976139/1976139-1687984222617-91fa1466c536c.jpg","author":"Identity at the Center","episode_count":433,"summary":"Identity at the Center is a weekly podcast all about identity security in the context of identity and access management (IAM). With decades of real-world IAM experience, hosts Jim McDonald and Jeff Steadman bring you conversations with news, topics, and guests from the identity management industry. Do you know who has access to what?","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T18:19:10.496727+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918"},"episode":{"title":"#413 - Standards, AI Agents, and the Digital Estate with Heather Flanagan","slug":"413-standards-ai-agents-and-the-digital-estate-with-heather-flanagan","published_at":"2026-04-06T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918/413-standards-ai-agents-and-the-digital-estate-with-heather-flanagan","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/identity-at-the-center/episodes/413---Standards--AI-Agents--and-the-Digital-Estate-with-Heather-Flanagan-e3h72bo","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c5fefcc/podcast/play/117720888/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-31%2Feebdbae5-e8ed-7a08-c4a6-9e7957740869.mp3","summary":"Jeff and Jim welcome back Heather Flanagan for her fifth appearance on the show. Heather shares updates across a wide range of current work including her new role as content chair for the Identiverse conference, an appointment to the W3C Technical Architecture Group, ongoing support for NIST and NCCOE, advising the SIROS Foundation open source wallet project, and the continued growth of the Identity Salon. The conversation explores who is actually building identity standards for AI agents and whether traditional standards bodies can keep pace with AI development. Heather breaks down the authentication challenges posed by agentic AI, the problem of continuous identity and delegation, and why posting a spec on your website does not make it a standard. The discussion shifts to national digital identity programs in the US and Europe, the underserved relying party problem in credential frameworks, and why financial services may be the next major proving ground for mobile driver's licenses. The episode closes with a look at digital estate planning as the identity community's most uncomfortable but increasingly unavoidable problem. Connect with Heather: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hlflanagan/ A Digital Identity (Heather's Podcast): https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/digital-identity-digest/ Death and the Digital Estate Community Group: https://openid.net/cg/death-and-the-digital-estate/ Death and the Digital Estate Planning Guide: https://openid.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Digital-Estate-Planning-Guide-1.pdf Connect with us on LinkedIn: Jim McDonald: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmcdonaldpmp/ Jeff Steadman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsteadman/ Visit the show on the web at http://idacpodcast.com TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction and Heather's Conference Knitting Story 6:00…","meta_description":"Jeff and Jim welcome back Heather Flanagan for her fifth appearance on the show. Heather shares updates across a wide range of current work including her…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3156,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/identity-at-the-center-344918/episodes/413-standards-ai-agents-and-the-digital-estate-with-heather-flanagan/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/identity-at-the-center-344918/413-standards-ai-agents-and-the-digital-estate-with-heather-flanagan.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}