The InformationWeek Podcast

How do C-suite tech leaders handle times when others in the C-suite or board rejected strategic tech proposals? The CEO obviously must sign off on a proposal—who are the other essential stakeholders who must be convinced for a proposal to get off the ground? Brian Blakley, CISO with Bellini Capital and Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, discuss decisions on supporting or shutting down new str...

Art Hu, CIO at Lenovo; Marc Kermisch, chief AI and technology officer at Protolabs; and Joe Papp, CTO at Anthro Energy, discuss cultivating new leaders during the AI transformation era.

Mike Gerhard, BDO USA's chief data and AI officer, and Nate Unruh, Nox Group's CIO, discuss setting boundaries and governance for AI-driven decisions.

In this episode, Gourav Pani, chief business officer at GoDaddy, and Eddie Fox, CTO at MetTel, discuss decisions their teams had to make on whether to modernize legacy systems or to wrap them around AI.

Richard Mackey, CIO at CCS Medical, and Heather Hinton, CISO at Sitecore, discuss how they get other stakeholders on board for new tech with tentative ROI.

Grant Veazey, CTO of Ensemble Health Partners, and Sebastien Jean, CTO of Phison Electronics, discuss how they assess data that might seem perfect.

In this episode, Mike Tria, CTO of Gusto, and Joshua Foltz, CISO of NerdWallet, discussed how they navigate the use of AI as their companies operate under regulatory oversight. They talked about how they tailor their AI use to comply with guardrails in their sectors, their vetting process before putting third-party AI to work, and whether they develop in-house AI resources designed to meet complia...

Quais Taraki, EnterpriseDB's CTO, and Rosalyn Curato, chief innovation officer for Vouched, talk retaking control from agents that go rogue.

As major companies tout AI’s efficiency amid layoffs, Saurabh Gupta, CTO of GreyOrange, and Winston Astrachan, CTO of Phobio, offer their takes on organizations embracing AI, and what that means for IT teams.

Jay Miller, CISO at Paessler, and Andrew Missey, CTO of Convos, discuss how they decide when it is time to start a project over.

Robin Gordon, chief data officer for Hippo Insurance, and Gabe Goodhart, chief architect of AI open innovation with IBM, discussed how they match data models with context.

Cameron Etezadi, CTO of LaunchDarkly, and Oleksandr Paraska, CTO of Togal. AI, discuss how they deal with AI-generated code that conceals hard-to-find errors.

Ravi Soin, CISO of Smartsheet, and Steve Croce, field CTO of Anaconda, discuss how the combination of edge, cloud, and AI has evolved transformation and IT architecture.

As companies make challenging decisions on where they will allocate their tech investments, is quantum computing still part of your organization's landscape? Eric Liebowitz, CISO for Thales, and Rob Kim, CTO for Presidio, share their perspectives on whether their organizations have shifted tech investments into other resources and needs that offer more near-term ROI, or if plans for quantum comput...

When companies connect a partner or supplier to their IT ecosystem, a CIO or CISO may need to juggle permissions, security, and orchestration. The reach of outside AI can also bring concerns of third parties compromising sensitive data or offering bad actors a backdoor. In this episode of the InformationWeek Podcast, Tony Garcia, CISO for Infineo, and Ghaleb El Masri, North American managing partn...

Larridin’s Ameya Kanitkar and NetSPI’s Eddie Taliaferro discuss policies to keep unsanctioned AI or mobile devices from compromising the IT environment.

Amol Ajgaonkar shares insights with Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, on what makes sense in deploying smaller AI models. At the time of the episode recording, Ajgaonkar was CTO of product innovation at Insight Enterprises. He is no longer with the company.

Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to talk about resources and methods to ensure continuity.

Cassandra Mack, CISO at TensorWave, and Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, discuss striking a balance to keep development secure.

Enterprises can feel pressured to at least say they keep pace with the latest IT innovations, even if there is no immediate internal gain. The board of directors, customers, and members of the C-suite might like to hear that a company is modernizing, but how does that effort translate into real returns? What litmus tests do CTOs, CIOs and other tech leaders use to assess results from modernization...

How tech leadership responds to mass outages can affect internal teams, as well as customer-facing operations. Reliance on third-party hyperscalers can also mean C-suite tech leadership getting caught flatfooted when outages take down online resources. In late October, AWS and Microsoft Azure went dark temporarily, reminding many companies that they can be at the digital mercy of service providers...

What happens when companies have new releases on deck, and it is clear that the dev team is spread too thin? Teams are always under pressure to deliver, but what if a project calls for overtime across the organization? What happens if those teams are pulled in competing directions? When major projects are at stake, development teams may face a less-than-ideal circumstance: a race to meet deadlines...

Many organizations have at least explored the use of AI in coding, changing the game for professional developers and citizen developers alike. Not that long ago, the conversation focused on what no-code and low-code platforms meant for in-house development. Citizen developers, staffers with limited or no professional background in coding, could use these platforms to produce somewhat simplified ap...

Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, discuss how organizations can realign when IT goes awry. Internal or external forces can turn an IT ecosystem upside-down, and how CTOs lead the recovery may shorten or prolong the pain. Whether it is an in-house coding error, hardware failure, third-party software implosion, malicious bad actors, or a force of nature th...

Michael Leland, field CTO for Island, and Diane Ma, US finance strategy and global business services practice leader for Deloitte, discuss delivering on a tech overhaul.