Lauren Sheppard

A job shouldn’t be reserved for the hours of 9-5. Success requires focus, continual learning and no limit to hard work. Whether it’s on the slopes or in the office, that’s sales-development-representative-turned-sales-engineer Akin Edwards’ philosophy. We were excited to sit down with Akin to hear more about his unique career path and passion for…

Before we head off to pop some bubbly and ring in 2017, we’re taking a few moments to celebrate the past year. #LifeatOkta means different things to all of us. From being a part of the 35 hackathon-inspired projects to running a collective 164 miles in the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge, it added up to quite a year. Thank you for being part of it…

Thanksgiving is just around the corner so the holiday season has officially begun! Here at Okta we’re thankful for many things, like our employees, partners and customers. This year, we wanted to give extra thanks to one of our most favorite groups: IT admins. In the connected world, IT is the glue holding businesses together and much of what they…

We recently held our latest Okta Community Ask Me Anything with Okta Group Product Manager, George Kwon. George tackled questions on provisioning approaches and best practices for customers. We’ve highlighted a few select questions and topics from the AMA below, ranging from how to best provision applications to how to add apps to the Okta…

Last quarter we hosted our first-ever Ask Me Anything with our Senior Product Marketing Manager and mobile guru, Arturo Hinojosa. Now, back by popular demand, we are excited to announce our second Community Ask Me Anything! This time, George Kwon, Group Product Manager will join us in the Community to talk all things Provisioning. Here’s a quick…

It’s almost Valentine’s Day, so everyone is talking about love — us included. Here at Okta, while we’re certainly swooning over roses, wine, and chocolates, what we really hold near and dear are our relationships with customers and the experiences they have with our technology. We obsess over uniting two seemingly divorced characteristics —…

2015 was a year of milestones at Okta. To name a few, we grew significantly, updated our look and feel and celebrated our customers at our most successful customer conference to date, Oktane15. We also rolled out the new Okta Community, the one-stop shop for users around the globe. COO Frederic Kerrest put it best when he described our Community…

Las Vegas and the Aria weren't the only places powered up by Oktane15 last week – social media was also abuzz with observations, insight and energy from our third annual user conference. In case you didn't catch it, here are the highlights, told in tweets: To kick off, CEO Todd McKinnon took the stage, where he unveiled a series of upgrades to our…

Last week we held the Okta Community's first-ever Ask Me Anything with Okta Senior Product Marketing Manager, Arturo Hinojosa. We were thrilled by the response and it was great to see so many active members both in the Community and on Twitter join the conversation! Here we've highlighted a few specific topics and answers from the AMA. Given our…

Last month, we unveiled the new Okta Community, a central location for our customers to engage in peer-to-peer interaction, and this Thursday we’re kicking off a new series, Ask Me Anything (AMA). Similar to the popular Reddit conversations with celebrities and public figures, this series will be a set of virtual events where our very own Okta…