Next week, the team from AuthZed will be attending the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) 2026 hosted by KuppingerCole in Berlin. In 2025, we were excited to learn that KuppingerCole named AuthZed a rising star for authorization management and fine-grained authorization.
This is our first year at EIC, but we are excited to have conversations around identity, security, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture. This year, one trend that has emerged is how enterprises safely operationalize AI.
As organizations move from AI prototypes to production systems, they’re discovering that the hardest problems are not just model quality or orchestration - they’re infrastructure problems. And one of the most important infrastructure challenges is authorization.
Traditional access control approaches struggle in environments where permissions must be evaluated dynamically across users, services, agents, tenants, documents, workflows, and infrastructure systems.
Authorization Is Becoming Infrastructure
For years, authorization was often embedded directly into applications as scattered business logic. But AI systems dramatically increase the scale and complexity of access decisions.
Infrastructure teams now need authorization systems that support:
- Fine-grained permissions
- Real-time authorization checks
- Multi-tenant architectures
- Cross-service consistency
- Auditable access decisions
- Enterprise-scale relationship graphs
This is exactly the type of problem SpiceDB was built to solve.
Inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system, SpiceDB provides a globally consistent authorization database designed for modern distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.
As enterprises build AI systems capable of reasoning and acting autonomously, centralized authorization infrastructure becomes critical for maintaining trust, security, and operational control.
We believe authorization infrastructure will become one of the foundational layers of enterprise AI systems, just as databases became foundational infrastructure for application state.
What We’re Looking Forward To at EIC
We’re excited to connect with identity architects, platform engineers, security leaders, and cloud infrastructure teams throughout the conference. If you’re attending EIC, we’d love to connect and talk about what it takes to build secure, scalable infrastructure for the next generation of AI systems. Swing by our booth, Booth #53, for a conversation with the AuthZed team.
Join Our Dinner with Axalon Partners on Tuesday, May 19th
In collaboration with Axalon Partners we are hosting a dinner, The Identity Layer for AI: Governing Agents at Scale.
We will be hosting a candid conversation on what it really takes to build AI systems that organizations can trust, and that scale.
Over dinner, we'll discuss:
- What it takes to govern AI agents without slowing down innovation
- Designing identity fabrics that extend naturally to non-human identities
- Managing fine-grained access and permissions for both humans and agents
- Enforcing boundaries in agentic systems without creating bottlenecks
- Lessons learned from enterprises scaling AI in regulated, high-stakes environments
Want to join us? RSVP to request a seat. #EIC2026
Hear Jake Moshenko, CEO of AuthZed, Speak on Thursday, May 21st
In addition Jake Moshenko, CEO of AuthZed is speaking on Thursday, May 21st at 12:45 pm at the conference in B 07-08 about Challenging The Notion: The Best Products Require Custom Authorization Code.
You’ll hear about:
Authorization feels inseparable from your product, so we keep rebuilding it in every service, framework, and rewrite. In this talk, I’ll challenge that assumption and show how treating authorization as shared infrastructure (without giving up product-specific logic) actually makes systems safer, more flexible, and easier to evolve.
The audience will learn how to assess inefficiencies in their applications and processes, decouple authorization and application logic, and consume authorization as a shared service without compromising their unique security and business needs.
We’re excited to see you in Berlin and attend our first ever EIC. If you want to take SpiceDB for a spin before we meet you, head over to the SpiceDB playground to play with SpiceDB in your browser. No install needed.