Oktane 2024 is set to prove to be, once again, the biggest Identity event of the year, based on Okta’s standing as the world’s leading identity and access management company, and their industry-leading solutions and thought leadership, along with the participation of strategic partners such as OLOID, a leading provider of physical identity and access technology committed to enabling converged cyber and physical security for the modern workplace.
What is Oktane?
Oktane is an annual conference hosted by Okta, the leading company in identity and access management. The event focuses on the latest advancements in identity solutions, security, and technology. This year’s Oktane conference will take place from October 15-17, 2024, at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States.
This year Okta is also bringing back Oktane Online with exclusive online-only content, deep-dive sessions, live moments from Oktane in Las Vegas, and opportunities to connect with experts in real time.
What are the Benefits of Attending Oktane in Person?
The main benefit is an opportunity to engage and network with thousands of industry thought-leaders, IT executives, application architects, IT directors and managers, admins, developers, product leaders, security professionals, service providers, leading SaaS application providers, and Okta product experts. Oktane is the Identity conference of the year, bringing together thousands of Okta’s customers, partners, prospects, analysts, investors, employees in IT, security, product, and developers, and the press.
Focus of Oktane 2024
The upcoming Oktane 2024 will be the 12th edition of the conference, and will again focus on:
- Innovation: Hear about new ideas, new solutions, and discover new opportunities for your organization to improve security.
- Inspiration: Learn new approaches that have been successfully implemented by other organizations and become inspired to transition to better solutions for your business or agency.
- Immersion: Be surrounded by everything related to identity and access management.
- Connection: Endless opportunity to network with industry leaders, peers, existing and potential clients. Bring a team of diverse talents and personalities to maximize your interactions.
- Forming New Customer Relationships and Deepening Existing Ones: From conversations at your booth, on the floor of the Expo Hall, after sessions, or at the many social events and spaces throughout the three days of the conference.
What Attendees Will Learn
- Okta Product Innovations: Every prior Oktane has included new product announcements and outlined the vision and roadmap for coming solutions.
- Success Stories: Learn about how others organizations have overcome challenges you thought were unique to yours.
- Expert Wisdom: Okta has 16 years of identity and access management experience and expertise to draw on, and that’s not counting the combined decades (centuries?) of knowledge and hands-on experience of its many strategic partners in attendance.
- Valuable Networks: Connect and form relationships with the biggest names at Okta, along with industry experts, industry peers, and potential vendors and clients.
- Interactive Learning Environment: Whether you just want to pick up some tricks and insights, or take up to three Okta certification exams during your three days at the event, Oktane is more interesting and hands-on than any classroom.
Why Oktane is a Must-Attend Event?
Whether you are looking to enhance your company’s security posture or immerse yourself in the future of Identity, Oktane 2024 is a must-attend event. Just some of benefits of attending include:
- Interact with Okta Product Leaders: Gain invaluable insight right from the horse’s mouth.
- Learn Latest Industry Trends: Get a leg up on competitors about how to operate more securely, efficiently, and profitably.
- Engage with Subject Matter Experts: About a host of security topics, such as OLOID’s SMEs regarding passwordless, touchless, unspoofable, lightning-fast biometric authentication.
- Numerous Networking Opportunities: More networking in three days than in a year outside of this event, for a fraction of the cost in time and effort.
- Hear Customer Success Stories: Use-cases that you never imagined, or that are based on challenges that you thought were unique to your organization, or that were unsolvable.
- Have Fun and Celebrate: There will be parties galore, great food and drink available, and lots of fun in store! There will be an opening reception to kick everything off, various happy hours, a blowout party at Drai’s Nightclub, games, immersive experiences, and more.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Companies have a chance to do more than just set up a booth staffed with Sales & Marketing folk. Sponsorship at the conference has a variety of other benefits which have the potential to significantly increase brand reach, impact and revenue:
- Increase Visibility: Get your name and logo in front of media attending the event, as well as thousands of interested attendees, many of which could be potential clients, and create relationships that could evolve into profitable partnerships.
- Demonstrate Commitment: Show industry experts, your peers, and potential clients the how much money, time and effort you’ve invested into your company, and the resulting value of your brand, ideas, and solutions.
- Showcase Products and Initiatives: Whether it’s a tried-and-true solution that’s been the backbone of your portfolio over the years, your latest innovation, or ideas planned for the next few years on your product roadmap, ensure attendees leave understanding the value you bring to their company and their clients.
- Receive Discounts and Benefits: There are a wide variety of sponsorship packages for every ambition and budget, including some discounted offerings. And sponsors get different levels of access to attendees during the event and their information after the event.
Sponsorship is not merely an expense, it’s an invaluable investment. Discover the diverse tiers of sponsorship and select the one that aligns with your objectives by reaching out through the Prospectus Request Form or the dedicated email, sponsorships@okta.com.
Will there be a Partner Summit at Oktane?
Will there be a Partner Summit at Oktane?
Yes, and Okta is excited to connect with their partners at Partner Summit during Oktane. If you’re a member of the Okta Elevate Partner Program, you can join Okta free of charge at the Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, on October 15, 2024, for a day of partner-dedicated sessions to kick off your Oktane experience. If you have any questions, please reach out to partners@okta.com.
Topics Covered in the Conference
- Identity and Access Management: The best and brightest delve deep into every essential and topical aspect of IAM technology.
- Trends Reshaping Security: Current and emerging trends such as:
- Revamping identity management to include machine identities
- Implementing identity-first security
- Moving toward IAM convergence
- Supporting centralized decentralized security
- Thinking through Just in Time access brokering
- Establishing a machine identity working group
- Biometric authentication
- Customer Success Stories: What challenges clients faced and how Okta solutions overcame them while meeting and exceeding requirements and expectations.
- Groundbreaking Innovations: Identity Security technologies from Okta with Okta AI, like Guide, the Identity Flow Optimizer, Expert Assist, Actions Navigator, Policy Recommender, and Governance Analyzer.
Also, workforce identity technologies from partners like OLOID such as Passwordless Authenticator, Time Clock, Workflow Automation, Smart Reader, Cloud Key, and M-Tag. - Keynotes and Product Announcements: A treasure trove of insights, foresight, and vision, delivered by the superstars of Identity. The biggest names at Okta, along with fellow industry experts, will take center stage to discuss the future of Identity and why it’s not just your first line of defense — it should be the backbone of your holistic security strategy.
- Collaboration: IT leaders, security gurus, developers, and passionate advocates among Okta’s customers and partners come together to exchange ideas, forge networks, and influence the direction the industry goes in the future.
Future of Identity
Key Highlights of Identity’s Future
The 2023 Oktane conference defined a path toward a cohesive identity experience, and Okta is furthering that vision by integrating solutions for identity, governance, and privileged access tools.
- Privileged Access Management (PAM): Okta Privileged Access puts Okta at the forefront of pioneering a unified Identity system that empowers administrators with exceptional visibility and streamlined access workflows.
- Fragmentation to Integration: Unifying identity access, privileged access, and governance.
- Role-Based Control: PAM ensures sensitive resources are safeguarded with precision.
- Enhanced MFA: Multi-Factor Authentication becomes more nuanced, meeting nuanced security needs.
- Auditing Simplified: Streamlined processes for compliance monitoring and reporting.
- Security and Experience: Advancements in workforce identity that balance protection with convenience.
These advances are more than just Identity technology, they are the promise of a safer, more efficient workplace. Oktane 2024 is where Okta and its partners will continue to redefine the nature of secure connectivity in the digital world.
Access to Valuable Content
Once Oktane opens its doors, it allows attendees from all over the world to partake in this content-rich experience firsthand, promoting professional growth and empowering long-overdue fixes to what had seemed previously like intractable problems. This invaluable content comes from a diverse variety of sources at Oktane 2024, a combination of storytelling intertwined with expertise.
- Knowledge, Industry Insights, Transformative Ideas, and Success Stories
- Networking opportunities with Okta’s product leaders, peers, and sponsoring partners
Positive Experiences of Previous attendees
Not just a conference, Oktane can be an eye-opening experience that has frequently led to epiphanies for previous attendees.
- Customer Success Stories: Engrossing tales of successful workplace transformations have been a source of inspiration, driving change and spurring innovation in countless businesses.
- Interactive Sessions with Industry Experts and Peers: Every handshake, every shared story, every collaborative eureka moment moves your organization closer to becoming more secure, efficient, profitable, and dominant in your market.
Meet OLOID at Oktane 2024
Are you attending Oktane 24? We’d love to connect and discuss how OLOID can enhance your Okta strategy. Our team will be available to showcase new features to our Passwordless Authentication – Presence Detection and Continuous Authentication and answer any questions you might have. Meet our team on booth EM10.
