CIO Talk Network Podcast

What makes an AI system fair, safe, open, and useful for an average user? How are policymakers, organizations, and academia teaming up to ensure transparency into the data we use, the learning models we adopt, and how we configure those models to process the data to deliver trustworthy AI? Guest: Dr. Mark Nasila, Chief Analytics Officer, FNB Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/ma...

Your digital assets and networks are growing, and so are the related threats. Executive leadership now views cybersecurity as a strategic business issue. The reputational, regulatory, and financial risks are mounting. How are you transforming your security operating model to make cybersecurity an enabler, not a barrier to exploiting digital capabilities? Guest: Richard Kaufmann, Vice President and...

Multi-layered bureaucratic organizations with centralized decision making and endless meeting schedules are a recipe for disaster. How can you creatively unstructure your organization to foster fluid ideation, rapid decisions, and sustained relevance for the future? Guest: Prosenjit Sengupta, Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Limited Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.co...

Multi-layered bureaucratic organizations with centralized decision making and endless meeting schedules are a recipe for disaster. How can you creatively unstructure your organization to foster fluid ideation, rapid decisions, and sustained relevance for the future? Guest: Prosenjit Sengupta Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Limited For more details and related conte...

IT operations leaders are under pressure to deliver speed, scalability, and resilience—often in complex hybrid environments. Modern application delivery models demand rapid provisioning and continuous deployment, making traditional IT Ops execution methods insufficient. In this episode of CIO Talk Network, Siddharth Dhar, Executive Vice President & Global Head for Infrastructure Management Service...

With our world disrupted by COVID, how are you preparing for major cyber events that could most likely follow? What level of crisis preparedness, escalation processes, and communication strategies would allow your organization to handle major cyber events effectively? Guest: Don Cox, Chief Information Security Officer, MEDNAX Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/don-cox/ More on t...

With falling enrollments, increasing student debts, declining state funding, lowering world ranking, and dwindling degree completion rates, the higher education sector in the United States of America is facing grave challenges. What can technology-enabled innovation help address these challenges effectively and keep higher education viable? Guest 1: Jonathan Piersol, Associate Vice President & CIO...

Most leaders take pride in their problem-solving abilities. But, how do you pick the right problems, choose the right people, provide them with the right resources, and get out of the way to prevent leakage in time, money, and effort, and to drive individual, teams, and organizational focus? Guest 1: Tarek Tomes, Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota Guest Bio: https://www...

Businesses are becoming increasingly amenable to remote work arrangement to attract and retain quality talent and to maintain continuity of operations during crises. Most employees are working from home, in isolation, trying to develop a new rhythm, work habits, and be part of a team that learns, innovates, and solves problems together. How are the business and IT leaders building a conducive, con...

COVID-19, a healthcare crisis, has already spawned a financial crisis. Enterprises are slashing costs, halting hiring of new talent, and stalling projects. While AI and ML initiatives have attracted a lot of investment lately, the related ROI may take time to realize. Given the uncertainty, how should organizations be investing in AI and ML moving forward? Guest: Scott Blandford, Executive Vice Pr...

COVID-19, as well as socio-political upheavals, have disrupted security and reduced the sense of safety globally. To restore trust among customers and employees, how are organizations recalibrating standards and approach to safety and security as part of business reopening? Guest: Jeff Cann, Chief Strategist & CIO, Encore Electric Guest Bio: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/contributor/jeff-cann/ Mo...

Many business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and enterprises have explored automation for their operations, but in silos, automating only a few tasks or processes at a time. There are complex challenges that hold them back from bringing together human and digital workforce (bots with brains) to run smarter operations. Hexaware claims that Automate Everything is the new cupid for BPOs. But wha...

With rampant digitization and business dynamics changing constantly, it's often your applications and systems that determine your capability to adapt, grow, and stay competitive. While we are dabbling in multichannel and multitouch new age experiences, many enterprises still heavily depend on legacy applications. Modernizing such legacy applications has been a chronic challenge due to multiple rea...

The increase in the pace of change caused by digitization is driving organizations to move faster than competitors and exceed customer expectations by offering frequent updates to their product and service enabled by technology. In some cases, as quickly as once every 12 seconds. The traditional testing approaches to ensuring reliability that is dependent on human intervention simply cannot keep u...

The healthcare industry, including Pharma, MedTech, and Providers, have been trying to improve the current state of patient care journey by using technology. However, doing so in siloes and not using innovations in an integrated fashion is holding us back. Starting from when a patient gets admitted to the hospital, gets the diagnosis done, receives treatment, and recovers, what if there was a holi...

As companies are working on reopening and resuming operations post Covid-19, how they support their people can make all the difference. Employees are anxious over their job security and about their employer's future. They may have constraints as a single parent or a person with disabilities, or as a caretaker of the elderly. They may need to learn new skills to support changing business needs. How...

Leading meant influence, but can you? It meant taking the plunge first to tackle the change, but how? It was about helping to envision the future, but are you equipped? As organizational and social constructs, and even the fundamentals of what keeps life humming, is disrupted, how should we rethink leadership? What leadership styles, approaches, and philosophies would be useful now? Guest: Sam Seg...

With COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are dealing with a two-fold challenge, including a significant decline in sales performance and inability to resume or scale production. It has been a wake-up call for organizations who focused earlier on daily operations at the expense of building a digital-enabled resilient business. With workforce now remote, collaboration with customers and partners now onlin...

Today's rapidly changing business landscape is driving many organizations to re-calibrate their customer acquisition and retention strategy and establish a real and robust business continuity plan. They need strong leadership, an infrastructure that is scalable with redundant connectivity to access data, flexible systems, and reliable tools to keep their people productive and focused on serving cu...

We are living now in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. And, to sustain and succeed as a business in this environment, a winning data and analytics strategy is key. With the enterprises becoming data companies globally, there is a clear shift in the analytics paradigms today. We want to infuse AI across the value chain, but can we truly ignore the fundamentals of data mana...

The focus in healthcare shifted from volume-based to value-based treatment, forcing the pharma companies to think the path ahead for sustained growth and profitability while maximizing patient outcomes. General health and wellness apps for patient education, side effect management, and medication compliance are ineffective and don't lead to improved outcomes. How are the business and IT leaders at...

IoT devices enabled by analytics and AI, sensing, reactions, and adjustments no longer need human attention, intervention, or awareness. And, with companies deploying many tens of thousands of such devices and endpoints, the attack surface is growing exponentially. What should enterprise security leadership do to proactive plan and manage the security of their IoT network? Guest: Alma R.Cole, Chie...

Within the private sector, AI has proven to have many benefits and been used to gain a competitive advantage. But how is it being applied within the public sector, what are the top benefits realized? Has it made an impact on how the government has been able to respond to the current Coronavirus pandemic? Guest 1: Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Officer, US Office of Management and Budget G...

Securing the internal environment from breaches is becoming increasingly complex for organizations. We keep buying security tools, deploying valuable human resource, and spending more time in fighting fires. But still, the number of breaches keep rising. Cynet, a security solutions provider, claims that its autonomous solution can fully replace multi-security-product stack, that organizations use...

How are you making sure that your organization is maturing while you deliver short term wins as part of your digital transformation initiative? How are you establishing benchmarks to evaluate the key elements, including your strategy effectiveness to ensure that your whole organization aligns around a vision truly? What about culture appropriateness, so it fosters the right mindset and behaviors a...