CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Brian Stewart Title: Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation, University of Alberta Guest 2: Michael Dellinger Title: Chief Information Officer at City of Tulsa For IT leaders, saying Yes to ever increasing business demands makes their workload unmanageable and saying No earns them a bad name. Is there a way out? What strategies for work acceptance, prioritization, allocation,...

Guest 1: Peggy Barber Title: The Americas CEO and General Counsel, The International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) Guest 2: Saugat Dutta Title: Country IT Head/CIO, TVS Supply Chain Solutions Pvt. Ltd (erstwhile known as TVS Logistics) Making Digital Transformation effective and holistic requires that we optimize core business systems and processes including contract m...

Guest 1: Brian LeClaire Title: Chief Information Officer, Humana When tackling future readiness, organizations mostly focus on reimagining their customer offerings and experience. But what about strengthening the enterprise core business systems? How are Business and IT leaders using digital to revitalize the very foundation that will keep the business humming now and in the future?

Guest 1: Ariel Zeitlin Title: CTO & Co-Founder, Guardicore Implementing effective segmentation for security with relatively flat enterprise networks is a hard and tedious task involving multiple teams and application downtime. The result: business critical applications are at higher risk and the compliance costs is very high. How can CISOs and Security Architects rethink segmentation to make secur...

Guest 1: Deepa Soni Title: US Chief Information Officer (CIO) and US P&C Technology Chief Information Officer(CIO), BMO Financial Group Driving a robust data analytics engine in an enterprise is not much different than a team sport. Business, data, and IT constituents need to develop mutual trust, bring forth ideas and challenge norms, take ownership as appropriate, and work cohesively in one dire...

How IT Leaders can make service management future-ready Guest 1: David Giannetto Title: Chief Operating Officer, Astea International Increasingly, businesses are relying upon their service operation to position the entire organization for sustainable growth and profitability well into the future. But, no two companies are identical in their approaches to service delivery, even though they could us...

Guest 1: Earl Newsome Title: Vice President and CIO, Praxair Centennials, the first truly digital-native generation, has started entering the workforce. This generation is characterized as sharp, argumentative, with short attention span, is easily demotivated, and puts personal priorities and commitments over what the employer needs. How are CIOs planning to lead this new generation for the benefi...

Guest 1: Brian Stewart Title: Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation, University of Alberta Guest 2: Gregg Chottiner Title: Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology Imagine a workplace where both human and digital resources fluidly and autonomously reconfigure themselves in response to dynamically changing business need...

Guest 1: Klara Jelinkova Title: Vice President for International Operations and IT and Chief Information Officer at Rice University Guest 2: Thomas Skill (Ph. D. 1984, University at Buffalo Title: Associate Provost & Chief Information Officer at the University of Dayton With yesterday’s technical debt related maintenance and transformational initiatives in hand, should CIOs even bother to think ab...

Guest 1: Paul M. Bellack Title: Vice President, Global IT (CIO), Corporate IT Group, Magna International Inc. A few great ideas that bring unprecedented value must be celebrated. But what changes in organizational mindset, model, and culture should you enable for such value creation in a sustained manner and at scale?

Guest 1: Mark Gay Title: Chief Information Officer, QBE Insurance Australia Pacific To become the company your customer wants you to be, your customer experience needs to exceed expectations. Effective adoption of AI-powered people, processes, and tools can help. How should IT and customer service leaders join hands to maximize the AI opportunity while meeting related challenges?

Guest 1: Gregg Chottiner Title: Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology Guest 2: John Ellinger Title: Chief Information Officer, Bowling Green State University Leaders have been dealing with episodic volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) for decades. What’s should be the leadership recipe in this era when VUCA...

Guest 1: Rainer Steffl Title: CIO, Mondi Group AI can impact Supply Chain Management (SCM) outcomes. But many such attempts by companies lead to disappointing results. What’s missing? Why hasn’t AI delivered in SCM? What’s needed to harness the most value of AI for SCM?

Guest 1: Marcus Dauck Title: Chief Information Officer, Ringier AG While machines don’t have emotions, can they do a better job evoking the same in humans? From user experience, marketing, and search optimization, to storytelling, how is the media industry planning to use AI to create more powerful and engaging entertainment experience for you than ever before?

Guest 1: John Kolb Title: Vice President for Information Services and Technology & Chief Information Officer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Guest 2: Stan Waddell Title: CIO, University of New Hampshire The fast, volatile, and scaling digital demands require enterprise infrastructure and operations (I&O) to change beyond supporting traditional data center and cloud environments. How are organiza...

Guest 1: Lawanda Parnell Title: Chief Information Officer, Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) Guest 2: Helen Constantinides Title: Chief Information Officer, AVBOB With most organizations well on their way to embedding digital in the DNA of their organizations, what’s on the CIO Agenda for 2019? How do they plan to support volatile and growing business capability demands reliably without breaki...

Guest 1: Vijay Venkatesan Title: Chief Analytics Officer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey You want to use AI and sophisticated analytics to enable business outcome. Is your workforce data literate? Do you have a refined, automated, and process-oriented methodology for your data management and analytics needs? How can you enable your organization to exploit digital opportunities throug...

Guest 1: Hem Chari Title: CIO, Automation & Controls from GE Guest 2: Neil Arnott Title: SVP IS, and CIO, Traffic Tech Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven to be a disruptive technical tool with promising applications across industries. But, as a CIO, how do craft your AI strategy, identify most promising user cases, build required analytics capabilities, and embed it in the very fabric of your...

Guest 1: Christopher Porter Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Fannie Mae Going digital is about harnessing data to create opportunities for growth. It’s data in the cloud, your datacenters, on the endpoints, and in other not as visible pockets within your enterprise. It’s your intellectual property and institutional knowledge. It’s the conversations that make your teams productive. Data l...

Guest 1: Samuel Sudhakar Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino Are people just resources that your organization must exploit? In this day and age, when people are not making widgets, should they be ‘managed’ to improve the value they can help create? Would just leading them by painting a vision be enough...

Guest 1: Jeff Cann Title: Chief Strategist & CIO, Encore Electric Digital is here, real, and shifting. CIOs may have successfully delivered on the digital transformation mandate, in this world of instability and constantly chasing what’s next, how are they building strategies, culture, and platforms to stay ready and relevant for the continuous next?

Guest 1: Kathy Linares Title: Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Orora Packaging Solutions Does your organization just react to problems as they occur or try to predict and mitigate those problems before they happen? You may know what happened but do you know why? How can you boost organizational performance in the context of your customers, employees, products, and brand through experienc...

Guest 1: Earl Newsome Title: Vice President and CIO, Praxair To embed Digital in the DNA of your business, you need a technology platform. How do you select new technology solutions and leverage what you have? How do you finalize your architectural practices, partner integrations, and data exchange standards? What should be your approach to governance and risk management? And, how do you make it a...

Guest 1: Ben Patel Title: Chief Information Officer, Cone Health RPA promises benefits including increased compliance, improved system compatibility, better management capabilities, and enhanced customer experience. But organizations are facing related adoption challenges including the perception of substantial upfront costs, employee resistance, setting a realistic expectation of what’s possible,...

Guest 1: Naresh Podila Title: CISO, Pall Corporation The volume and variety of attacks have left security teams playing catch up. Dwell times span days. Intrusions are left undetected for months. How can organization accelerate incident detection and response to minimize potential damage and improve the defense?