Okta Workflows In-Person Meetup Recap

Okta Workflows In-Person Meetup

We hosted an in-person Okta Workflows meetup at Okta headquarters on May 7, 2025. Over 30 Workflows community members learned about what’s new in Workflows, chatted with other community members, and enjoyed delicious Mediterranean food. 

After folks chatted and grabbed food, we started with four talks: 

• Using Slack's interactivity APIs in Okta Workflows with Pete Viri (Staff IAM Security Engineer, Compass)
• Okta Workflows Roadmap with Emily Wendell (Senior Product Manager, Okta)
• Identity Without Limits: Using Anything-as-a-Source in Okta Workflows with Michele Ferrari (Principal Technical Account Manager, Okta)
• Turbocharge Okta Workflows with OpenAI Assistants with Ajay Seetharam (Principal Solutions Architect, Okta)

To begin, Pete demonstrated creating interactive responses with checkboxes and buttons inside Slack messages that trigger a flow. For instance, you can have Approve and Deny buttons that trigger a Workflows automation. 

In the second talk, Emily shared what’s coming up in Workflows. Several new exciting capabilities will be available later this year: 

• Editor
  • Better flow visibility with collapse cards
  • Minimap: a small window to see the entire flow and to navigate
  • Inline iterator: process lists directly in a flow (without a helper flow)
• Security
  • Adding RBAC (Role-Based Access Controls) to folders and connections
  • Hiding sensitive data with Sensitive Data Controls
• Performance and insight
  • Audit flow execution history and monitor performance across all workflows at once

Next, Michele demonstrated how to import user identities from any data source using the Anything-as-a-Source capability available in Workflows.

To wrap things up, Ajay demonstrated leveraging an OpenAI assistant to accomplish complex tasks in identity automation, which was a crowd favorite!

Register for the Online Meetup 

We understand not everyone was able to attend the San Francisco meetup, but no worries—on June 12, 2025, we will repeat the workflow talks with a live webinar. This is a unique opportunity for anyone who wants to learn how to build an identity automation with the no-code Okta Workflows platform. Register to attend.