Megan Shamas

Chief Marketing Officer, FIDO Alliance

Megan Shamas is the chief marketing officer for the FIDO Alliance, the multi-stakeholder organization standardizing simpler, stronger authentication to reduce global password usage and create a more secure web. In this role, she leads all global communications and market education initiatives around FIDO Authentication and passkeys. Megan has deep expertise in and passion around introducing and gaining broad adoption of new standards and technologies, having spent the last 20 years leading education, marketing and branding for several global multi-stakeholder standards organizations.

Megan Shamas's Events

Panel Discussion: Digital Identity - The Future of Payments

Date: Wednesday, September 11

Track Two

Moderated by: Sean Estrada, Head of Industry Advocacy, Stripe, Inc.

Panelists: Juliana Cafik, Principal; Program Manager, Microsoft; Atul Prasad, Director, Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies and Megan Shamas, Chief Marketing Officer, FIDO Alliance

Identity is a growing topic across government, regulations, and individual privacy. The payments industry needs to chart a path going forward. Consumer control over their data (and payments) is critical to enable trust in the ecosystem. Identity standards and Payment standards should work together.

Safeguarding Your “Boat” So you Don’t Get Hooked

Date: Thursday, September 12

Presented by: Tim Cappalli, Standards Architect, Okta; Andrew Jamieson, Vice President, Solutions, PCI Security Standards Council and Megan Shamas, Chief Marketing Officer, FIDO Alliance

Join PCI SSC, FIDO Alliance, and Okta on this “phishing adventure” as they delve into the best practices and requirements in securing your “boat” from potential catastrophic phishing incidents.