CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Michelle Reina Title : Co-Founder and CEO, Reina Trust Building Institute, Author Guest 2: Warren Kudman Title : Former CIO, Sealed Air Corporation Parents teach their kids how to get along with others, and they enable them to build meaningful relationships for the rest of their lives. But the education shouldn't stop upon entering the workplace. There's a big difference between getting a...

Guest 1: Ashutosh Nandeshwar Title : Director, Advancement Information Systems & Analytics, California Institute of Technology Guest 2: David Crain Title : Assistant Provost and CIO, Southern Illinois University (SIU) Guest 3: Ellen Wagner Title : Co-Founder, Chief Research and Strategy Officer PAR (Predictive Analytics Reporting) Framework Higher education is in the business of bringing students...

Guest : Adam Rice Title : CISO, ATK As threats from APTs and other attackers continue to rapidly morph, the CISO faces an uphill battle of getting his or her team up to speed on the dangers that face an organization. The traditional model of waiting for a breach and then reacting has changed to be preemptive and preventative, and with that comes a score of new skills and strategies the CISO must d...

Guest 1: Bill Chapman Title : VP of IT, Arrow Electronics Whether it’s hardware, software or a toaster, planning for when a product should go through End of Life can be a risky and grueling journey if not handled properly. From when to announce a product’s EOL to addressing existing customer needs and wrangling the decisions and needs of supply chain, marketing or even PR, a product’s EOL demands...

Guest 1: Eric Siegel Title : Founder, Predictive Analytics World, Author, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die Guest 2: Jack Levis Title : Senior Director of Process Management, UPS Predictive Analytics has been used for some time in exploiting patterns among data, and Big Data has now removed the limits on what can be analyzed. But there’s a difference betwe...

Guest : John Baldoni Title : Executive Coach, Leadership Educator/Author In an always-on world, the demands heaped on today’s leaders make it seem like their time is unlimited. But a leader’s time is finite, and too often leaders get frustrated by constantly needing to put out fires, get backlogged on email, rally the troops or devote their attention to external stakeholders. Most executives stuck...

Guest 1: Randy Gaboriault Title: CIO,Christiana Care Health System Guest 2: Tom Corrigan Title: SVP Finance and CFO, Christiana Care Health System There will come a day when the CIO and the CFO can work together as true partners and allies. It will be when CFOs will see IT as more than just a cost center and the CIO will be able to prove IT’s value in a way the CFO can understand. Someday they wil...

Guest 1: John Higginson Title: CTO, Wheels Inc. Guest 2: Josh Bersin Title: Principal and Founder, Bersin by Deloitte Guest 3: Steve Safier Title: Chief Transformation and Human Resources Officer, Panasonic North America With a younger generation rising in the workplace, technology replacing more and more roles and new technology and data centric strategies demanding new skills that are short in s...

Guest 1: Jim Davis Title : Vice Provost IT & Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA Guest 2: Jim Wetzel Title : Technical Director, Platform Center of Excellence, General Mills The potential of the Internet of Things in the Manufacturing industry suggests that as machines and processes begin to govern themselves, every step of a product’s journey will be interconnected. No longer is manufacturing...

Guest : Alan Berson Title: Learning Director at Wharton Executive Education and founder of Leadership Conversation LLC There's nothing like the speed, strategic alignment and employee engagement and vision that strong start-ups have. Each has a certain magic that simply vanishes in a large, multi-department environment. Many leaders know the feeling of struggling to bring that magic back, but how...

Guest 1: Frank Buytendijk Title: Author, Research VP, Gartner Guest 2: Kord Davis Title: Author, Co-Founder, Design+Strategy Forum Big Data may be a dying buzzword, but the act of collecting and analyzing data to create new value and insights is here to stay. As data analysis practices get more sophisticated and companies are collecting even more data about their customers, business leaders and de...

Guest : Tricia S. Blair Title: SVP, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Enterprise IT Services, Lincoln Financial Group The hiring of Chief Digital Officers has doubled every year since 2005. The CDO role is here to stay, and it is their job to put the customer first by being focused on strategy and execution, by never being afraid of failure and being able to recruit and retain talent that will get...

Guest : Carolyn Parnell Title: CIO and Commissioner of IT Services, State of Minnesota An organization is like a puzzle, with each person a piece that fits snugly to make up the whole. It doesn’t work the other way around, and you can’t fit a round peg into a square hole. In order to achieve the greatest value and success from a team, an organization should help individuals identify what they’re r...

Guest : Frank Wander Title: Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute) A successful leader needs to offer direction and vision that goes beyond what is said and what is needed among the team. A leader must know a team's wants and needs before they do. He or she must know when to prod, when to coax and when to do nothing at all. A leader needs th...

Guest 1: Gavin Nichols Title: VP of Strategy/EA/R&D Innovation IT, Quintiles Guest 2: Richard Thomas Title: CIO and Global Head Technology Solutions, Quintiles A mountain bike decked out with gears is built to travel up rocky, uneven climbs as well as slick, paved downhills. But an IT department focused on gathering requirements only has one speed, and for many groups that's way too slow. Two-Spee...

Guest 1: Matthew Jennings Title : Managing Director, Bosch Software Innovations Americas Guest 2: Troy Foster Title : CTO, Bosch Software Innovations Americas In the industry of the future, software-based system and service platforms – such as the one supplied by Bosch Software Innovations – will play a large role. They will enable the real and virtual worlds to be connected and therefore enable c...

Guest 1: Gonzalo Martinez Title: Director of Strategic Research in the Office of the CTO, Autodesk Guest 2: Greg Morris Title: Strategy and Business Development Lead for Additive Technologies, GE Aviation, Former CEO Morris Technologies Back in 1999, Napster put the music industry into the Wild West. With absolutely no regard or rules for intellectual property, music companies have had to find a w...

Guest 1: Dr. Chris Nøkkentved Title : Chief Technology and Security Officer, GECTO, HP Enterprise Application Services Guest 2: Jeffrey Word, Ph. D. Title : VP of Product Strategy for Databases and Technology, SAP “SAP HANA can help you dramatically accelerate analytics, business processes, predictive analysis, and sentiment data processing – all on a single in-memory computing platform.” In-memor...

Guest 1: Jeff Brzycki Title: CIO, Autodesk Guest 2: Vineet Nayar Title: Former CEO, HCL Technologies, Author, and Founder of the Sampark Foundation Employees should have the courage and the privilege to live and work not in the way others expect of them but in a way that's true to themselves. This is an idealistic vision across most organizations, but it's not out of the question. Everyone should...

Guest : Simon Jacobson Title : Research VP, Gartner The Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining plenty of hype as a game-changing way of thinking for every industry. Those in the manufacturing space view it as a revolution, offering significant improvements to manufacturing processes as a way of making productions more efficient, agile and flexible. But is this all for real? Manufacturing business lea...

Guest 1: Claudia Keith Title: Chief Communications Officer, City of Palo Alto, CA Guest 2: Jonathan Reichental, Ph. D. Title: CIO, City of Palo Alto, CA Social media hasn't just empowered today's kids; it has enabled business leaders to more effectively communicate, think strategically and facilitate an agile, responsive organization. But many leaders still harbor perceived fears of security risks...

Guest 1: Dr. Roger R. Schell Title: Professor, USC/ISI, University of Southern California Guest 2: Roy Mellinger Title: VP and CISO, Wellpoint As the threats of APTs deepen and become increasingly difficult to prevent or detect in a timely fashion, CISOs are rethinking the approach to security, pooling their efforts and information to attain better intelligence on how to respond quickly and approp...

Guest 1: Bob Krestakos Title: VP, CIO & Americas Operations, Steelcase Inc. Guest 2: Charles (Chuck) Walker Title: Director, Information Technology, Simulation Engineering, Steelcase Guest 3: Robert (Bob) Hendriksen Title: Plant Manager, Kentwood West, Steelcase The expectation of IT and the CIO has risen to the point that innovation and finding value outside of operations is a necessity. IT can n...

Guest 1: David Mathison Title: Founder, CDO Club, Curator, CDO Summit Guest 2: Sergio Corbo Title: Former CMO, GE Energy Management Industrial Solutions The word “digital” has expanded its definition to touch not just the Internet but mobile, social and local platforms, and the expectation is that digital business strategies must include everything digital. Who will be the agent of change in charg...

Guest : Scot Berkey Title: Managing Director Full Peak LLC, Former CIO Much of a person's emotional intelligence is built on their individual endeavors of self-awareness, self-assessment and self-regulation. The strongest leaders demonstrate, and are expected to contain strong emotional intelligence, but it's less of an expectation of a leader's team, and that leader's behavior doesn't necessarily...