Eric Kelleher
President & COO, Okta. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eric Kelleher has spent over 25 years in enterprise software, previously scaling revenue at Salesforce and leading customer success at LinkedIn before joining Okta in 2016. At Okta, he serves as President and COO, overseeing operations, go-to-market strategy, and enterprise initiatives around identity security and autonomous AI agents.
1shows
1appearances
11statements
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3supported
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75%fully supported
Everything Eric Kelleher said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Kelleher: MIT study found 95% of AI initiatives lack tangible ROI
“We have, there was a very famous study came out of MIT a couple months ago that said, 95% of AI initiatives have yet to demonstrate a tangible ROI.”
Kelleher: 90% of Surveyed Okta Clients Deploy Agents, 10% Secure Them
“So our customers that we spoke with told us over 90% of them today have agents that are deployed in production. Yet only 10% of them believe that the agents in production are currently being appropriately managed and secured.”
Kelleher: AI Feels Bigger Than the Internet and Cloud Shifts
“It feels bigger than the introduction of the internet. It feels bigger than the shift to cloud. It is, we expect it to fundamentally transform how businesses operate and how humans operate.”
Kelleher: Autonomous decision-making sets AI agents apart from past tech shifts
“I think the way that we think about agents that I think about agents is autonomous software that's capable of taking actions on a user's behalf, not synchronously, but asynchronously, and that's capable of applying its own judgment on which actions to execute …”
Kelleher: Autonomous action distinguishes AI agents from LLMs and brings security risks
“I think when we talk about the distinction between an artificial intelligence, the distinction between a large language model and an agent, I think the ability to take action is a very specific capability of an agent, and it's really the ability to take autono…”
Kelleher: Major Restaurant Chain's AI Concierge Was Breached, Leaking 60M Records
“Several weeks back, there was a very well publicized incident where one of the world's largest restaurant chains had deployed an agent to help job applicants on its recruiting website.
And this is a restaurant that interviews millions of peoples per year.
it …”
Kelleher: Breached Restaurant AI Agent Used Default Password '123456'
“In fact, they built that agent with a default password of one, two, three, four, five, six.”
Okta Mandates Agent Vendors Support Cross-App Access for Internal Use
“At Okta, for example one of the teams I manage is our internal IT organization. We have a policy that we will only support We will only allow agents for our employee use if the vendors of those agents have committed to implementing cross app access support, be…”
Kelleher: Key AI governance fear is data leaking across queries
“One of the latent concerns people have as they're deploying, deploying third-party agents, is they want to know if that data is going to be used anywhere else. So is it going to be used just for my query to help me do my work, which is usually fine? Or is that…”
Kelleher: Okta has secured and provisioned over 60 AI tools internally
“With Okta internally right now, we have over 60 AI tools that we have secured and provisioned within our enterprise.”
Kelleher: Would Only Use Brain AI If It Runs Locally and Privately
“I'd be very curious to have an augmented brain, an AI augmented brain, and the ability to have a co-pilot that can help me navigate my life. So the idea of that's very intriguing, but for me, for that to be something I would actually do, I would need to have c…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Eric's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 BIG TECHNOLOGYLEDGER | President & COO, Okta | 1 | 11 | 75% 3/4 | full record on Big Technology → |