{"id":43576,"date":"2024-01-13T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com?p=556444"},"modified":"2024-01-13T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:46:07","slug":"dan-kagan-country-manager-at-okta-my-guest-on-hashtag-trending-weekend-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/dan-kagan-country-manager-at-okta-my-guest-on-hashtag-trending-weekend-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Kagan, Country Manager at Okta \u2013 my guest on Hashtag Trending, Weekend Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\" data-en-clipboard=\"true\">SHOWNOTES:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 And welcome to Hashtag Trending &#8211; the weekend edition.\u00a0 I&#8217;m your host Jim Love.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My guest for this week and I probably have met professionally, but I don&#8217;t think I really got to know him until we got on a call &#8211; arranged by our associate producer who sets this stuff up. I knew his company but I didn&#8217;t know who the person was meeting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>No, I try not to do too much &#8220;inside baseball&#8221; on this podcast, but I&#8217;ll let you in on my secret. I have to find a way to, tactfully screen guests. I want you &#8211; the audience &#8211; to meet people who are interesting, informative and who you want to spend time with.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So these interviews go one of two ways. They can be be an assessment to see if the guest is going to have someone to say or not.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then there&#8217;s my worst nightmare.\u00a0 Not that the guest isn&#8217;t interesting, but that he or she is so fascinating that you can&#8217;t stop talking with them.\u00a0 And you wonder if you can recreate that spark from the original conversation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, I&#8217;m going to take that chance, because my guest this week is one of those people who is so engaging, we just started to talk&#8230;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And I always say that I do my best job as a host when I meet fascinating people and let them talk.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My guest today is one of those people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dan Kagan is the Country Manager at Okta.\u00a0 Okta is an identity management company. For those who don&#8217;t know what that is, I&#8217;ll let Dan explain. But in world where identify, privacy and security and foundational to everything we do.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And Dan is passionate about identity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But he&#8217;s also, as you will find out &#8211; passionate about people and he&#8217;s passionate about\u00a0 Canada and making Okta Canada a leader.<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/article\/dan-kagan-country-manager-at-okta-my-guest-on-hashtag-trending-weekend-edition\/556444\">Dan Kagan, Country Manager at Okta \u2013 my guest on Hashtag Trending, Weekend Edition<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/\">IT World Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHOWNOTES:\u00a0 Hi.\u00a0 And welcome to Hashtag Trending \u2013 the weekend edition.\u00a0 I\u2019m your host Jim Love. My guest for this week and I probably have met professionally, but I don\u2019t think I really got to know him until we got on a call \u2013 arranged by our associate producer who sets this stuff up. 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