Alyssa Smrekar

VP, Corporate Marketing

As Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Alyssa Smrekar leads Okta's customer marketing, corporate events, web and global advertising teams. She's passionate about highlighting our customer journeys and effusively telling the Okta story across our web properties, via worldwide advertising campaigns and through our event portfolio including Okta's annual customer conference, Oktane.

Prior to Okta, Alyssa managed demand generation and field marketing programs at VMware, SpringSource, VerticalResponse and BlueBird Marketing. Alyssa graduated from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!) and currently lives in San Francisco.

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Get Out of “The Office” and Go To Oktane16!

In case you weren’t already eager to join us at Oktane16, we guarantee you will be now. As previously announced, everyone’s favorite comedian, actor and employee of “The Office”, Rainn Wilson, will join us as a special guest keynote speaker and share everything he knows about life. Rainn Wilson is the co-founder of SoulPancake, a media and…

Perfect Harmony: How School of Rock Hit the High Note With Okta

Learning to play a new instrument or finally nailing that expert guitar riff takes time and patience. And along the way, it doesn’t hurt to have a great teacher or mentor to help you reach your goals. With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the global leader in music education helping to turn musical…

Join Us In Vegas: Oktane16 Call For Speakers + Registration Now Open

Okta’s customers are doing amazing things. From rearchitecting internal IT strategies to connecting to distributor and supplier identities, you are transforming business for the cloud and mobile centric world we live in today — and we want to share your story at our upcoming customer conference, Oktane16. I invite you to submit your speaking…

Double Down: Why MGM Resorts International Bets Big on Okta

If you’ve been to Las Vegas, you probably experienced MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) whether you knew it or not. As one of the world’s largest gaming, hospitality and entertainment companies, they’re the folks behind destination resort brands like Bellagio, The Mirage and ARIA, home to our very own customer conference. With over 20…

Looking Back: Okta’s 2015 Year in Review by the Numbers

We’ve watched the ball drop and toasted the new year with family and friends (and maybe a glass of bubbly). While we’re putting together our list of goals and intentions for 2016, it’s also helpful to take a look back at our accomplishments and growth over the last 365 days. As CEO Todd McKinnon recently wrote, Okta had a tremendous 2015…

Okta's 12 Days of Customers

'Tis the season for holiday cheer, and at Okta we're brimming with it. Whether you're decking the halls, spinning the dreidel, lighting the kinara or setting up the Festivus pole, we love all the holiday cheer this time of year brings. Plus, it's a reason to raise our glass of eggnog to another year of spectacular enterprise customers who've…

1045 Attendees, 478 Event App Posts, 38 Customer Speakers: Oktane15 by the Numbers

335 Expert Bar questions answered. 116 pairs of "sOktas" sold. And according to FitBit data from our CTO and SVP of Engineering, Hector Aguilar, a record setting 147 minutes of breaking it down on the dance floor during our customer party at the Marquee Night Club. Exactly one month ago today, we welcomed our largest audience yet to our third…

Subscribing to the Right Solution: How Zuora® Found Security With Okta

The rapid growth of technology has changed the way companies conduct business. With the rise of the Subscription Economy ®, companies are more often looking for external solutions and services to help accomplish day-to-day tasks. And that's where Zuora enters the scene. The enterprise software company is a Relationship Business Management (RBM) …

Oktane15 Insider’s Guide – Mobility Edition

As Oktane15 quickly approaches, we’re highlighting must-see sessions and activities categorized by theme so you can rock our annual user conference like a pro – whether you’re an Oktane veteran or joining us for the first time. In the first installment of this blog series, here’s your Oktane15 Insider’s Guide to the Mobility + Devices track. Don…

#Oktane15 Insider’s Guide – Security Edition

Oktane15 is just a few days away! In preparation for the event, we're highlighting must-see sessions and activities categorized by theme so you can rock our annual user conference like a pro – whether you're an Oktane veteran or joining us for the first time. In the third and final edition of our blog series, here's your Oktane15 Insider's Guide…