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Kevin Akermanis

Kevin Akermanis

Solutions Architect at Okta

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Kevin Akermanis is a Solutions Architect at Okta, the digital identity and security company behind Auth0, where he works across the Asia Pacific region on identity, security and agentic AI. Before Okta he spent roughly 15 years at Salesforce across pre-sales and an internal CTO role, giving him a rare view from both the selling and buying sides of enterprise tech.

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Career

  1. Now Solutions Architect · Okta
  2. Earlier · Scale-up Pre-sales / internal CTO office · Salesforce

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Key moments

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  1. 0:00 The business says "we need to AI now"
  2. 2:53 The real tension: speed vs protecting company IP
  3. 7:22 Security budgets shrink while AI gets the money
  4. 11:28 When breaches become the cost of doing business
  5. 13:42 New attack surfaces and the hiring-bot breach
  6. 18:14 Experience still matters: who backfills the seniors?
  7. 46:39 Agents as non-human identities: scope and guardrails
  8. 55:03 Where to start with AI safely
  9. 57:37 Why the Australian market cares about MCP

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