CIO Talk Network

Guest : Charlie McMahon Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University Does your passion and purpose align? In short, are you doing what you love? Some people gain remarkable skills and talents but don't feel successful. Do you, even after climbing up corporate ladder (which could be seen as success), think it is just not me? It's time we got serious about enjoying our...

Guest : Paul Wilder Title: Chief Information Officer, New York eHealth Collaborative Health 3.0 promises improved access to health related information, facilitate patient self-management and preventive care as well as enhanced health professional expertise. If implemented well, it can have a significant impact on healthcare delivery, patient decision making, and reimbursements to the healthcare pr...

Guest : Steven J Hess Title: CIO, University of Colorado Health Vision is the lifeblood of an organization. Having a strong vision keeps an organization moving forward and provides meaning to what each individual does every day. It helps motivate employees to deal effectively with challenges and setbacks that they face along the way. What does it take for a leader to develop a compelling vision ca...

Guest 1: Philip Stevens Title: EVP and CIO, Army and Air Force Exchange Service Guest 2: Teri Pennington Title: Deputy CIO, City of Austin, TX Our next generation of talent is technologically savvy, likes informality, embraces diversity, learns quickly, yet needs supervision. Their learned behavior and attitude patterns are relatively different compared to previous generations. Can traditional lea...

Guest : Kevin Burns Title: CISO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Most organizations today are essentially dependent on their suppliers and partners in order to deliver goods and services to their own customers. It is uncanny how frequently cyberattacks can be linked back to such partners including third party providers or affiliates. How are organizations working together with third party providers...

Guest 1: Bill Kehoe Title: CIO, King County, Washington Guest 2: Greg Suhr Title: Chief of Police, San Francisco, CA Guest 3: Luther T. Reynolds Title: Assistant Chief, Montgomery County (MD) Police Department Crime never stops, and nor does the law in bringing it to justice. But as technology gets smarter, so do criminals, and local law enforcement should think of using all available resources to...

Guest 1: Robert B. Steele Title: Cook County Commissioner Guest 2: Vikram Sobti Title: CMIO, Norwegian American Hospital While healthcare as an industry has made great strides in patience care and overall customer experience, state of Government supported health systems warrants serious attention. Lack of connectivity and interoperability among hospitals, rising re-entry and trauma cases related c...

Guest 1: John David Thompson Title: EVP, Global Operations and Technology, CIO Guest 2: Shawn Banerji Title: CIO Practice, Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Today's digital economy has positioned the IT department at the forefront of strategic growth and initiative in business, and the CIO has increasingly been exposed to business units across the board. The CIO more than anyone should be position...

Guest 1: Bob Baskerville Title: Chief Information Officer, Scripps Networks Interactive Guest 2: Roger Kent Title: Sr. Vice President & CFO, Allstate Technology & Strategic Ventures Everyone tracks the Miles Per Gallon of their car for the simple reason that they want to know how much mileage they're getting for their money. Yet CFO's evaluate IT spend in terms of ROI; how much value creation will...

Guest 1: Hugh Miller Title: CIO, City of San Antonio, TX Guest 2: Jay Ferro Title: CIO, American Cancer Society IT is no longer the monolith it once was. External business units are creating challenges for CIOs traditionally looking to put everything under one roof. But instead of fighting the battle to continually fight turf wars, how do you knit all the solutions across business units together?...

Guest : Mark Barden Title: Partner, eatbigfish and Author "A Beautiful Constraint" Traditionally, constraints are seen as stumbling blocks or negative forces that prevent us from fulfilling our goals and desires. Can constraints be considered an ally and a powerful resource that can be effectively harnessed to achieve success?

Guest 1: Christopher R. Wood, MD Title: CMIO, Loyola University Health System Guest 2: Gerry Lewis Title: VP of IT Strategy and Business Development, Ascension Health The goal of the Healthcare industry has been to create an overall patient experience, one that gets patients to connect with doctors, to monitor their health activity at home and to be informed about their condition and needs. One th...

Guest : George Surdu Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Comerica Any truly successful leader realizes they can’t accomplish all they wish, nor did they get where they are, by doing it alone. Leaders can rally others and can create a shared vision or common goal. What’s more, they enable others to act and together overcome any roadblocks or obstacles on the path to succes...

Guest : Joe Topinka Title: CIO, SnapAV, CIO Mentor Information Technology has never been more important to the evolution and competitiveness of business than it is now. And yet responsibilities that would now be handed over to the Chief Digital Officers and Chief Data Officers are skills and competencies CIOs now need to develop in order to remain relevant. As more technology spending is being div...

Guest : Elizabeth King Title: CIO, White Plains Hospital Healthcare providers continue to face a wave of information required to maintain regulatory compliance, all while IT workers struggle to lower costs and utilize data to create a more patient-centric approach. But as regulations become more stringent and as standards are either lacking or vary across sources, both data retention and integrati...

Guest : Mitze Amoroso Title: CIO, ArchCare Complete with flat screen TVs in every room, room service, a grand piano in the foyer, elegant architecture and amenities for the whole family during your stay, hospitals are beginning to look more and more like upscale hotels. Healthcare should continually strive to improve the patient experience and remove the sterile, sickly environment that has long b...

Guest : Scott Zoldi Title : VP for Transaction Analytics, FICO Analytic Science Group It goes without saying that the world could benefit from having real-time analytics embedded in their organizational workflow and decision making, but how are we currently approaching building or buying this capability? Innovative platforms such as in-memory computing could be an effective enabler of real-time an...

Guest : Eric Brosius Title: VP for Technology Services, Hudson River Healthcare With healthcare organizations required to meet compliance standards and use specialized systems offered by software vendors, healthcare is becoming increasingly beholden to IT providers. In order to meet these demands, they require people with the talent to handle these tools, but rarely have the budget to attract or r...

Guest : Kathleen Ryan Title: Author, Consultant, The Orion Partnership Too often employees don't aspire to be leaders, to find themselves in the role of inflated responsibilities, expectations, energy and time commitments. But imagine if your entire team could embrace their inner leader and think and act in a way that drove innovation, shared knowledge effectively and produced consistently high pe...

Guest 1: Derek Brink Title: Vice President, Research Fellow, IT Security and IT GRC, The Aberdeen Group Guest 2: Jeffrey Wright Title: VP & CISO, Allstate With the rise of data breaches, CIOs and CISOs are quickly learning that internal security breaches as a result of social engineering are occurring more often than they’d like to admit. And while everyone seems to be championing best practices f...

Guest : David McLeod Title: CISO, VF Corporation Consider this: A high level threat or APT has presented an aggressive and imminent threat on your organization. Depending on the company and the circumstance, you face either severe loss and theft of precious crown jewels, or the disruption and sabotage of your operations from those looking to do harm. You can either prioritize prevention and do all...

Guest 1: Adam Levin Title : Chairman & Founder, IDT911, Chairman & Co-Founder Credit.com Guest 2: Phil Agcaoili Title : CISO, Elavon Left and right, major CISOs have suffered data breaches despite undergoing best practices for security protection. Threats keep surfacing, and there’s no such thing as “perfect security”. Where should organizations rethink security standards and better assess the ris...

Guest : Massimo Pezzini Title : VP and Fellow, Gartner As In-Memory computing has grown in the minds of practitioners along with solution offerings from major players, analysts have been keeping a watchful eye on this emerging technology. And while the idea itself is not radically new, there's debate now as to whether or not in-memory is ready for the mainstream. We sit down with someone reading t...

Guest : Frank Wander Title : Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute) Employee burnout is when your workers lose both the motivation and the incentive to finish their work and achieve desired results. Today's IT departments are particularly under pressure, being pulled by numerous stakeholders at any given time and meet pressing business deman...

Guest : John Baekelmans Title : CTO, Cisco Internet of Everything Solutions Group Cloud Computing has introduced transformative possibilities into IT departments around the globe, and increasingly the push is being made such that every company eventually stores all of their data on the cloud rather than their own data center. But for companies who face bandwidth issues and have trouble easily retr...