CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Michael Israel Title: Senior Vice President and CIO, Six Flags Guest 2: Morgan Geddie Title: Associate Dean, Department Chair and Professor at California State University Chico, Recreation, Hospitality and Parks Management Department The goal of any successful hotel, casino or theme park shouldn’t just be to provide their guests with a good time but to truly wow them, helping to improve g...

Guest 1: Jay Ferro Title: CIO, American Cancer Society Guest 2: Mark Shaver Title: VP & CIO of Joy Global Growth is a leading priority for many C-Suites, and yet many companies still struggle to make an impact. We all want market expansion, an enriching customer experience, the capability to predict consumer behavior and create flexible business models while minimizing the effect of such a volatil...

Guest 1: Atti Riazi Title: Assistant Secretary-General & Chief Information Technology Officer at United Nations Guest 2: Chandra Dhandapani Title: SVP and Divisional CIO, Capital One Financial Services Division What does it take to build a strong brand? It has to provide consistency, convenience, quality and overall value. A strong brand is one that people can trust. Some departments have been suc...

Guest : Dr. John Kotter Title: Head of Research at Kotter International, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at Harvard Business School You can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result, and it's a hard fact that organizations are specifically designed such that they receive consistent results. But if the organization wants change, it requires a change leader who...

Guest 1: Dr. Jon Gant Title: Director of the Center for Digital Inclusion, Professor at Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois Guest 2: John Windhausen Jr. Title: Executive Director of the Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition Over five billion people, nearly two thirds of the world’s population, are without Internet access. Attempts to bridge th...

Guest 1: Bob Baskerville Title: Chief Information Officer, Scripps Networks Interactive Guest 2: Kathy Edwards, Ph. D. Title: Senior Lecturer Department of Management, University of Texas, McCombs Business School Kids say the darnedest things. If you took your son or daughter into your office, what questions might they ask? They would ask the simplest questions about why you do what you do, what e...

Guest : Larry Biagini Title : Chief Technology and Security Officer, GE Traditionally, cloud has been seen as having major security vulnerabilities. Is it now possible to ensure that corporate and customer data is protected when used over public and private cloud services? What new security policies and architectures actually take advantage of cloud delivery in order to increase the levels of secu...

Guest 1: Debbie Simkins Title: Associate Vice President, Office of the CIO for Molina Healthcare, Inc. Guest 2: James H. Sills, III Title: Cabinet Secretary and Chief Information Officer, State of Delaware When IT teams try to rationalize which project to invest in, where to appropriately allocate IT spend and how to respond as business constantly changes, the process put in place is often over-en...

Guest 1: Teresa Shuchart Title: Deputy Chief Information Officer, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Guest 2: William G. Halnon Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Republic Services Inc. We aspire to do more, dream more, learn more, and become more, and for better or worse, the traditional wisdom has been that we need to accomplish more in order to get more. But for many, exper...

Guest 1: Becky Blalock Title: Former SVP & CIO, Southern Company; Author Guest 2: Brenda Decker Title: Chief Information Officer, State of Nebraska Part of a CIO’s job is to instill confidence in your team that you’ve got everyone’s back. Demonstrating that you know what’s important to your team and to your business can go a long way toward building productivity, connectivity and a willingness to...

Guest : Wayne Shurts Title : Executive VP & Chief Technology Officer, Sysco Cloud Computing, Big Data and mobility arguably share similar intrinsic features such as distribution, and geographical dispersion. How can you utilize these common intrinsic features to invite Big Data and mobility into your organization, leveraging an existing cloud infrastructure, at a low risk, low cost and with high r...

Guest 1: Fawn Germer Title: Global Leadership Speaker, Bestselling Oprah Author and Women's Leadership Expert Guest 2: Janet Sherlock Title: Chief Information Officer, Carter's, Inc. We want to be able to promote gender equality within IT just as the world has done so within other industries. Numbers suggest that fewer women entering into science, technology, engineering or math fields that might...

Guest : Jon Walton Title: Chief Information Officer, County of San Mateo, CA A leader isn’t born in a day but in a lifetime. A leader needs to grow and refine their craft and their influence day in and day out. So let’s take a deep look at everything it takes to make sure a leader is maximizing their potential and developing in the right way. What kind of qualities do we see on display? How do the...

Guest 1: Greg Schwartz Title: Chief Information Officer and SVP Information Technology, USAA Guest 2: Heather Hernandez Title: Senior Research Engineer, USAA Guest 3: Ryan O’Leary Title: IT Technical Director, USAA For as much as the current generation loves to bash the 20-somethings entering into the workforce and assign clichés about their demeanor and work ethic, the reality is that this group...

Guest : George Surdu Title : Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Comerica In planning your application and infrastructure environment, an essential step is to determine their cloud suitability. How do you go about determining that? Since each application and infrastructure element may have its unique provisioning needs, how do you transform or modernize these elements to run on...

Guest 1: Doug Henschen Title: Executive Editor at InformationWeek Guest 2: Dr. Phil Shelley Title: Former CTO, Sears Holding Big Data has exploded as a field, and with it will come a massive flux of new openings within IT organizations. Half the battle is finding the right talent when to some extent these jobs and these skills don't even exist yet, but an equal challenge is in defining the various...

Guest : William A. Brindley Title: Former Chief Executive Officer at NetHope, Special Advisor in the Social Sector Philanthropic organizations across the globe all have a single goal; we want to work together to make the world a better place. The cause could be ending world hunger, poverty, disease or lack of education, but the intention is the same. The trouble lies in organizing all of those dif...

Guest : Kevin Novak Title: CISO & IT Risk Manager, Northern Trust Corporation Threats to your enterprise have as much chance to come from around the globe as they do across the hall. This much is obvious to the savvy CISO. Your organization may have governance policies in place along with proper education on privacy and security within your organization, but is it possible that investment dollars...

Guest 1: Dr. Barb Kunkel Title: Chief Information Officer, Troutman Sanders, LLP Guest 2: Professor Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. Title: John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School The world in which we operate moves so quickly that it's ill-advised for a leader to devote an organization's undivided attention on one thing or one direction for too long. So in an effort to be nimble...

Guest 1: Dan Lohrmann Title: CSO, Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection, State of Michigan Guest 2: Elayne Starkey Title: CSO, Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Delaware Even in our modern workplace, we’re still having discussions about gaps in our BYOD security policies or that many companies don’t even have one in place. If...

Guest : Kevin M. Larson Title: VP and Chief Information Officer, AAR Corp. Many qualities define an effective manager, and many people can do the job. But in a day and age where the expectation is not the productivity you can deliver but the value you can generate, those who will become the true leaders of an organization are the ones who can make a real impact. So how do you groom a tactician bui...

Guest 1: Deena M. Amato-McCoy Title: Research Analyst, Retail & Consumer Markets, The Aberdeen Group Guest 2: Richard C. Hollinger, Ph. D. Title: Professor, University of Florida in Gainesville, Chair and a tenured faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law As retailers aggressively grow and evolve to fight the threat of digital disruption, one equally prevalent threat is...

Guest 1: Adam Hils Title: Research Directo Network Security, Gartner Guest 2: Michael P. Wilson Title: Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, McKesson Guest 3: Roy Mellinger Title: VP and CISO, Wellpoint In today's security landscape, cases of cyber espionage and advanced persistent threats (APTs) have rendered many traditional cyber security practices and vendor software completely i...

Guest 1: James L. McQuivey, Ph. D. Title: Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Guest 2: Naomi Fried, Ph. D. Title: Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School Guest 3: Richard Roth Title: Vice President. Strategic Innovation, Dignity Health The idea behind Digital Disruption is not just an ongoing threat to how business will operate but a mega-trend that wi...

Guest : Colin Brown Title: Professor, Kanbar Graduate Institute of Film & Television, Tish School of the Arts, NYU; Editorial Director Slated The movie industry is at a crossroads. Record box office numbers are coming in with each summer blockbuster and the major Hollywood movie studios are posting stock market highs, but attendance is uncontrollably dropping as movie theaters lose audiences to te...