Do AI Agents Need KYC? Rethinking Identity, Behavior & Goals

Welcome to the 6th virtual event of the “Gen AI in FinTech & EdTech” meetup in 2025: “Do AI Agents Need KYC? Rethinking Identity, Behavior & Goals”.

Gen AI in FinTech & EdTech is dedicated to discussing and sharing the latest trends, best practices, use cases, and regulatory considerations for Gen AI applications in FinTech and EdTech industries in Australia and globally.

Key takeaways:

• What is identity for an autonomous agent? Who gives consent?
• Can KYC be portable across companies without sharing raw data?
• How do we make agents pay each other via existing rails (not a new PSP)?
• Hypotheses: signed intents + attestations, consented “KYC capsules,” policy hooks, full auditability.
• Why it may help you: lowers interop cost to pilot agentic features (KYC, data sharing, quick pay) with minimal vendor lock-in.

Featured Speakers:

Aaron Xie (guest speaker)

Aaron is the founder of OpenOnion, a startup redefining internet communication to balance AI training needs with privacy protection. With a diverse background spanning AI product engineering, NLP research, and international business development, he has worked across Australia, China, and Africa in roles ranging from AI engineer and product builder to marketing strategist and coach.

Currently, Aaron is also a Tech Coach at UNSW Founders and a Research Assistant at NeuRA, where he explores applications of LLMs, RAG, and NLP in real-world use cases.

If you are interested in checking out Aaron's creation ahead of our event, here it is: https://lnkd.in/gUQHVYx4.

Kurt Yang (host)

Kurt is an experienced product leader, passionate about leveraging innovative digital technologies and lean product management methodology to help organisations and customers solve their problems effectively. Over the years, Kurt accumulated solid product management experience from companies like CBA, VMware, and Cashrewards.

Kurt also provides lean product management consulting to startups and product coaching to individuals. For more info, please check out kurtyang.com.

Agenda:

• Introduction
• Presentation
• Learnings and tips sharing
• Q&A

When: 7pm-8pm AEST, Tuesday, 23rd September 2025

Where: Virtual (Google Meet link will be provided upon registration)