Gartner, the global leader in research and advisory services for businesses worldwide, has held many identity and access management (IAM) summits—but never quite like this. In 2021, the virtual gathering carried a unique sense of momentum. That’s because, after a year of unprecedented digital transformation, IT and security decision-makers understand that modernizing identity has become critical. They no longer need convincing. Now, they’re doing the work to find the solutions that will best serve their business and implementing them—immediately. Okta has already been having these conversations with our customers, and we were delighted to discover like minds at the Gartner summit. During the event, we hosted a virtual booth and roundtable, where the discussion focused on the need for unification in identity and access management. In fact, unification came up everywhere: it’s relevant enterprise- and customer-focused solutions, and across identity technologies—particularly identity governance and administration (IGA) and privileged access management.