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Todd Mckinnon

Chief Executive Officer, Chairperson & Co-Founder, Okta

Search every verified Todd Mckinnon interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder of Okta, has been focused on positioning the company around securing AI agents, which he describes as a new identity type requiring visibility and control. At Okta's Oktane conference in September 2026, he introduced Agent SSO, based on the open standard cross-app access, and highlighted the company's "Blueprint Alliance" with partners including AWS, CrowdStrike, and Salesforce. McKinnon stated that Okta's "biggest competition is confusion" in the AI security market, arguing that no single vendor can secure AI agents alone and that the industry needs shared standards for agent identity, permissions, and monitoring. He also discussed Okta's internal AI agent "Dex," which he said would save 250,000 employee hours this year. In media appearances and earnings calls, McKinnon addressed competitive dynamics and market positioning. He said on CNBC that Okta's approach differs from other security vendors by focusing on identity rather than a broad security suite, and he described the company's strategy as building a "one-stop shop for identity" while maintaining neutrality. On Okta's Q2 fiscal 2027 earnings call, he commented that Microsoft is "copying" Okta's agent registry concept, while noting that Microsoft may struggle to be neutral across competing cloud platforms. McKinnon also attributed recent business strength to sales productivity improvements and specialization in areas like public sector and commercial segments, and he cited a large U.S. federal deal as a notable win.

Recent appearances

  • Okta Breaks Down Industry Dynamics and Competitive Positioning in Governance and Orchestration

    October 04, 2026 · 📺 i101

    Okta Breaks Down Industry Dynamics and Competitive Positioning in Governance and Orchestration | Sep 23, 2026. Twitter - https://x.com/i101yt If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing a Super Thanks— it truly helps us a lot. #earningscall #StockMarketNews #conferenceCall Earnings Call | Earnings Conference Call | Earnings concall | concall | quarterly results | Stock News | Full Year results | Fiscal Year results | investment news | stock latest news | Annual Meeting of Shareholders | Annual Meeting of Unitholders | Special and Annual Meeting of Shareholders | AGM | Ann…

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  • The 4 Questions Every CISO Must Answer About AI Agents | Blueprint Alliance

    October 02, 2026 · 📺 Okta

    Download the Blueprint Alliance Whitepaper: https://blueprintalliance.ai/ In this address from Oktane, Okta CEO & Co-Founder Todd McKinnon confronts the single biggest challenge facing AI adoption in the enterprise: confusion. Every vendor claims to offer a single proprietary fix, but the reality is that artificial intelligence is transforming every layer of the technology stack—from infrastructure and data to applications and AI agents. Because no single company can secure AI agents alone, Okta has partnered with industry leaders including AWS, CrowdStrike, and Salesforce to launch the B…

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  • Okta secures AI: Setting the Standard for the Secure Agentic Future

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 Okta

    Welcome to the Oktane Keynote featuring Okta CEO Todd McKinnon, along with guest leaders from AWS, Anthropic, Dell Technologies, and the PGA of America. As AI agents transform modern enterprise workflows, organizations face a critical trade-off: balancing rapid innovation with robust security. Expanding an AI agent's access to enterprise data, systems, and tools drives massive business value—moving from productivity automation ("talent") to transformative breakthroughs ("genius"). However, greater access inherently increases security risks. In this keynote, Todd McKinnon outlines Okta’s comp…

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  • Oktane Opening Keynote: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on Agent SSO, Cross App Access, and AI Agent Security

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 Okta

    At the biggest Oktane ever, Okta CEO & Co-Founder Todd McKinnon addresses the defining technical challenge of the agentic age: balancing rapid AI innovation with enterprise security. Today, organizations face a false choice—either lock down AI agents and sacrifice innovation, or give them full access and assume immense risk. The solution is achieving total visibility and control. In this keynote highlight, Todd outlines Okta’s strategic roadmap to secure every AI agent across three core pillars: The Blueprint Alliance, Agent SSO, and Okta for AI Agents. 5 Key Takeaways: • The Blueprin…

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  • Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on new tools for managing AI agents: We want innovation and security

    September 23, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Todd McKinnon, Okta co-founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss new tools for managing AI agents and a new Blueprint Alliance coalition aiming to help companies address AI security concerns.

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  • Okta CEO Todd McKinnon goes one-on-one with Jim Cramer

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Okta Co-Founder and CEO Todd McKinnon joins 'Mad Money' host Jim Cramer to talk AI agents, quarterly results, the future of cybersecurity and more.

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  • Okta Q2 2027 Earnings Call | Identity Cloud Platform ARR Growth & Margins Expand Net

    August 28, 2026 · 📺 i101

    Okta Q2 2027 Earnings Conference Call. Twitter - https://x.com/i101yt If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing a Super Thanks— it truly helps us a lot. #earningscall #StockMarketNews #conferenceCall Earnings Call | Earnings Conference Call | Earnings concall | concall | quarterly results | Stock News | Full Year results | Fiscal Year results | investment news | stock latest news | Annual Meeting of Shareholders | Annual Meeting of Unitholders | Special and Annual Meeting of Shareholders | AGM | Annual General Meeting If you want us to remove your company's earnings ca…

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  • How to Discover, Connect & Govern AI Agents | Okta CEO Todd McKinnon & SVP AI Security Harish Peri

    June 18, 2026 · 📺 Okta

    An AI agent just deleted your data. Do you know why, who authorized it, what path it took—and how to stop it before it does more damage? As AI agents move into engineering workflows, employee experiences, and enterprise operations, they can no longer be treated like standard service accounts or API keys. Agents need to be treated as first-class identities with owners, lineage, authorization, and a kill switch when risks escalate. In this special edition of the Okta Streamcast, Okta CEO and Co-Founder Todd McKinnon joins Harish Peri (SVP and GM for AI Security) to reveal the blueprint for the…

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  • Okta Q1 2027 Earnings Call | Identity Cloud Subscription Inflows Fuel Solid Annual ARR Growth

    May 30, 2026 · 📺 i101

    Okta Q1 2027 Earnings Conference Call. If you find our work useful, please support us by purchasing a Super Thanks— it truly helps us a lot. #earningscall #StockMarketNews #conferenceCall Earnings Call | Earnings Conference Call | Earnings concall | concall | quarterly results | Stock News | Full Year results | Fiscal Year results | investment news | stock latest news | Annual Meeting of Shareholders | Annual Meeting of Unitholders | Special and Annual Meeting of Shareholders | AGM | Annual General Meeting If you want us to remove your company's earnings call or any other conference cal…

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  • Okta CEO Todd McKinnon talks earnings beat ahead of investors call

    May 28, 2026 · 📺 CNBC Television

    Okta CEO Todd McKinnon joins 'Closing Bell Overtime' ahead of the earnings call to talk how it is utilizing AI agents in ...

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  • Securing AI Agents at Scale | Okta CEO Todd McKinnon & Dell’s John Roese

    May 18, 2026 · 📺 Okta

    AI agents are the fastest-growing identity in the enterprise. At Okta Showcase in New York City, Okta CEO Todd McKinnon joins Dell Technologies Global Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer John Roese to discuss how organizations can securely adopt and scale AI agents in the agentic enterprise. This conversation explores the three critical questions every enterprise must answer to secure AI: 🔍 Where are my agents? 🔗 What can they connect to? ⚖️ What can they do? Topics covered include: 🔐 Identity security for AI agents and autonomous systems ⚙️ The rise of the secure agentic en…

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  • Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity | Decoder

    March 30, 2026 · 📺 Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Verge

    Okta's a platform that big companies use to manage security and identity across all the many apps and platforms their employees use. SaaS companies like Okta are under a lot of pressure in the age of AI, which Todd even said on an earnings call he's "paranoid" about. But Todd says for Okta specifically, there's also a world of opportunity as the very concept of a digital "identity" has to expand into things that aren't really people. Follow Decoder on TikTok: @decoderpod Follow Decoder on Instagram: @decoderpod Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl…

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Verified interview transcripts

Notable quotes

“I think data security and data governance is a big opportunity. I think it's pretty nascent and immature right now. I think a lot of enterprises don't have a good handle around it and it is a pretty identity centric problem. So our strategy is like you know again repeating myself a little bit but we're trying to build the one-stop shop for identity. We're not trying to branch off into bunch of other security categori”

“I think the momentum, the durability of our whole business is really strong. It's a really big part of the success we've had this half. A large part of that is the improvements and the accelerated benefits of sales productivity. For 18 months we've had a very stable operating model in go to market. We've benefited from specialization like I said in several forms. We specialized around our public sector opportunity. W”

“We think the key is visibility and control. So open AI and Hugging Face. Everyone's heard about this problem that happened where an AI model jumped containment and went after this company. Hugging Face. Now, OpenAI said that their model was not connected to the internet. Now turns out that it was connected to the internet. So by bringing visibility and control with something like Okta, you actually know what your AI ”

“AI agents, they're a powerful new identity type. So it used to just be you would have some software and you would integrate it together. And now these AI agents can make decisions on their own. And to make them more powerful, you have to do one key important thing. And that's give them access to more data, more tools, more actions that they can take. And that means that you have to give them an identity so that you c”

“The way I think about it is there are 1.1 billion knowledge workers in the world. There we spend about 30 trillion dollars, and they produce about 65, 70 trillion of wealth. So, how about we cut the cost by 10% and produce twice the wealth?”

“There's only one thing. It's it's customers. I mean customers have to have the the customers will have the leverage eventually and if the customers in a in like a market mechanism don't have the leverage the government will step in and do antitrust I mean the reason we have the reason we have a software industry because customers finally got fed up with IBM and said you have to sell software operating systems and app”

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