Katie Batten

Director, Strategic Event Marketing

Katie Batten is the Director of Strategic Event Marketing at Okta and has over a decade of experience in planning and executing events. Prior to Okta, Katie led the corporate and trade show event strategy at Jive and Achievers in the Bay Area and HRCI in Northern Virginia. She is originally from Portland, OR, and her passions include travel, sports (Go Blazers!), and all things Disney. She currently resides in the Bay Area and holds an MTA from The George Washington University.

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Scaling success: How the Oktane Ambassador Program unleashed the power of our people

If you’ve ever attended our customer conference, Oktane, you know it unites the Okta community to share what’s next in the world of identity security. But as the annual event has continued growing, we’ve faced a challenge that many scaling programs encounter: Our internal resources struggled to keep pace. Demand for information and on-site…

A Leading Identity Conference: What to Expect at Oktane20

Update: March 5 Every year at Oktane, we look forward to bringing together thousands of IT professionals, product leaders, and developers to discuss the importance of identity. As we’ve followed the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), it became clear that, this year, the best way to safely engage with our community is through a…

Oktane19 By the Numbers

Our seventh annual conference, Oktane19, took place during our 10-year anniversary and, appropriately, back in our hometown! As always, it was packed. We heard industry insights from Okta CEO & Co-Founder Todd McKinnon and Okta COO & Co-Founder Frederic Kerrest. Our customers and partners, small and enterprise scale, shared how they use…

What to Look Forward to at Oktane19

Attendees from 36 countries. 3.4K social media posts. 72 customer speakers. 7 product announcements. These are just some of the highlights from last year’s Oktane conference in Las Vegas. This year, we’ve brought Oktane home to San Francisco, where we will host thousands of industry leaders from April 1-4 at the Moscone Center. At Okta, we’re…

Oktane 101: Tips for Networking, Note-Taking, and Smart Agendas

Conferences can be intense, but that's what makes them so worthwhile. Instead of doing classes and modules over several months, a conference gives you tons of new insights, know-how, and networking opportunities with peers and professionals jam-packed into a few rewarding days. That’s what Oktane sets out to do each year — and Oktane18 is no…