Dinner for Seattle IT Leaders

Tackling Newly-Emerging Cyber Threats with Zero Trust and a Unified Identity Strategy

Venue

Coming Soon

Date

Thu, July 17, 2025

Time

5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT

As cyber threats evolve in scale and sophistication, identity has become the new perimeter, and the foundation of a resilient security strategy.

This VIP executive dinner and fireside chat brings together security leaders for an in-depth conversation on how Zero Trust and unified identity can help defend against today’s most pressing threats. This is more than a discussion, it’s a chance to ask tough questions, and walk away with actionable insights for your security roadmap from industry leader Matt Hansen, Okta’s Field CSO & AWS executives.

DINNER AGENDA

5:00 PM PT Welcome Reception and Arrivals with Refreshments

6:00 PM PT Leadership Discussion

  • Introduction (5 mins)
    The peer executive will engage the audience for brief introductions and discuss the format and key takeaways from the guided interaction conversation and dinner discussions.
  • Guided Interactive Conversation (25 mins) Topics Include:
    • A look at the current threat landscaping, including emerging threats from AI agents and non-human identities
    • Real-world applications of Zero Trust in modern environments
    • How identity-first security reduces risk and improves agility
    • Practical strategies for unifying access across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid systems
  • Open Forum Discussion (30 mins) – This discussion will be based on the list of challenges discussed already and will take the format of group brainstorming and open discussion to come up with suggestions and solutions to common challenges at the executive level.

7:15 PM PT Dinner Service

9:00 PM PT Conclusion

Matt Hansen

Speaker

Matt Hansen

Field CSO

Okta

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About Amazon Web Services

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

About Okta

Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than 7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue, Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers.