Sean "O'Dentity" O'Dell is a Distinguished Engineer at CVS Health, setting vision and execution for Identity and Security. With 15+ years shaping enterprise IAM, he's a trusted advisor to practitioners and executives alike, and a driving force behind modern event-driven IAM architectures, Continuous Identity, and Agentic Trust. His current focus is securing the next identity frontier: agentic AI. He is designing and implementing the authorization models, identity frameworks, and access control patterns that let autonomous agents authenticate, act, and be trusted for enterprise ecosystems. A recognized thought leader, he co-chairs the Shared Signals Working Group in the OpenID Foundation, participates in the AI in IAM Community Group, and is active in IDPro.

He writes on identity security at Identity Underground, where his work on Agentic Trust, including the use of SPIFFE as a foundation for Agentic ID and authentication, has been adopted by teams at major AI and Cloud providers. On Identity Underground, he's also leading the next initiative, "Identity in Depth." He's a frequent speaker and author on identity standards, event-driven security, the realities of securing both IAM and Agentic systems at scale. Through conferences, keynotes, podcasts, and publications, he shares insights on Continuous Identity, Zero Trust, and Agentic Trust...ensuring that when identity evolves, he's at the forefront driving innovation.