Corbado at Identiverse 2026: Passkey Mass Adoption

1. Meet Corbado at Identiverse 2026#

Corbado is speaking at Identiverse 2026 in Las Vegas on the part of a passkey rollout that nobody warns you about: the morning after you ship.

Most passkey content stops at the integration. But implementing a WebAuthn server is the easy part. A big chunk of the work starts once real users on real devices have to actually use passkeys, and that is where most rollouts quietly stall. Whether you are in banking, telco, government or a large consumer brand, and whether you run your own stack or sit on Ping or Okta, the hard part is the same: getting millions of users to switch.

Session details

• What: Debunking the "my users don't understand passkeys" myth
• When: Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 2:00-2:25 PM PDT
• Where: Mandalay Bay F, Las Vegas
• Session page: View the official session on Identiverse

2. Adoption is a Product Problem, not a Tech Problem#

The session walks through the operational playbook behind one of the largest public-sector passkey rollouts to date, where passkeys went live for more than 5 million users at a 70-90% activation rate. It is less a talk about the technology and more about the human and operational work that turns a passkey feature into a passkey default.

If you have already shipped passkeys but adoption is not moving, or you are about to roll out and want to avoid the common failure modes, this is the session for you.

3. 5-Phase Adoption Playbook#

The same five phases that take a passkey login from a ~5% baseline to 70-90% and beyond:

1. Integration & testing. Test against the full OS, browser and authenticator matrix. Edge cases are where users get stuck. See native app passkeys and password manager testing.
2. Gradual rollout. Roll out in staggered cohorts, OS by OS, rather than a big bang, with observability from day one, so issues stay contained instead of becoming company-wide incidents. See the passkey day 2 problems.
3. Adoption engineering. Treat the passkey prompt as a product surface. A/B-test wording, timing and placement. Small changes compound into large swings. See creation flows and login flows.
4. Omni-channel. Make the flow consistent across web and native, so a passkey works the same everywhere users do.
5. Enforce & mandate. Once adoption is healthy, flip passwords from the default path to the exception. Passkeys become the standard way to sign in.

4. Thread running through every Phase: Visibility#

Most of the playbook is invisible until you can measure it. You can only roll out gradually, fix the steps that lose users and prove adoption is healthy once you can actually see what is happening across devices, browsers and authenticators.

That is the job of Corbado Observe: it sits on top of your existing stack and shows where passkey logins break and where users drop off, so the playbook above becomes something you can steer rather than guess at. Your IDP and passkey server stay exactly where they are.

5. Let's meet in Vegas#

Going to be at Identiverse 2026? If you are running a passkey rollout, about to start one, or already live but stuck at low adoption, we would genuinely like to meet. Grab a coffee between talks or book a 30-minute walkthrough.

View the session on Identiverse