IT Visionaries

John Roese is the Global Chief Technology Officer of Products and Operations at Dell Technologies and he’s helping guide the company on its journey as one of the largest and most influential in the tech world. From hyperconnectivity to 5G to computing on the edge, John says that Dell Technologies has a hand in all of it, and each of those innovations will eventually change the internet and the wor...

Not many CIOs are walking around with Emmys. But when you’ve had a career as broad as Sean Wechter , the fact that he and his teams have become Emmy-Award-winners is not all that surprising. From Dell to Comcast, to USA Today to now, as the CIO of Qlik , Sean has seen and done it all. On this episode of IT Visionaries, he walks us through some of his experiences, and he explains the current state...

Asana’s Head of Product, Alex Hood explains all things Asana, best practices for teams, the future of A.I. and ML, and advice on any first-time head of products. Key Takeaways: Asana’s changing work management The future of A.I. and ML Advice to a first-time head of product IT Visionaries is brought to you by the Salesforce Customer 360 Platform - the #1 cloud platform for digital transformation o...

Sri Shivananda is PayPal’s SVP and CTO, which is a long way away from his original dream of being a pilot in the Indian Air Force. But being the SVP and CTO of a payment company that in 2018 did $578B in total payment volume and 9.9B transactions in 200 different markets in about a hundred different currencies is still a pretty big deal. On this episode of IT Visionaries, Sri takes us through his...

What makes a start-up a start-up? And when do you move on from that definition? Marc Murphy , the CEO of Atlatl , is currently trying to answer that question. Atlatl is changing the sales process with AR and VR and the company is selling to top tier enterprise companies looking to transform digitally. On this episode, Marc explains how he’s grown as a CEO and used the lessons he’s learned to bring...

Rachana Kumar   is currently the Senior Director Of Engineering at Etsy , the e-commerce platform made for unique buyers, sellers and creatives. But Etsy isn’t like a normal e-commerce site with traditional vendors and inventory, the tech behind the platform is just as unique as the people using it. Rachana explains it all on this episode of IT Visionaries. Plus, she dives into the importance of c...

Computing at the edge is only really starting to come into fashion now. But Tyler McMullen has known the merits of working at the edge for a long time. As the CTO of Fastly , he’s been advocating for the edge and helping companies such as The New York Times and others realize that through Fastly and edge computing, you can create a whole new and better experience for your users. He explains all of...

John Kucera the VP of Product Management at Salesforce and Taksina Eammano , VP, AI & Automation, Service Cloud at Salesforce, work together on a mission to bring automation into the hands of customers. On this episode of IT Visionaries, they explain what they focus on when thinking about automation, and they discuss the role automation and RPA will play in the future of work and life. Key Takeawa...

The best way to learn about a subject is to study it in depth. Jeanne Ross knows that better than most. As the Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research , she spends her time really digging into how to get the most out of information technology. One of the subjects she’s looked at closely is the topic of digital transformation — in fact, she recently published a...

Wade Wegner has been focused on building developer tools and platforms for most of his career. Today, he is the SVP of Product for Platform at Salesforce and responsible products that are used by countless customers around the world. What Wade and his team focus on most is helping customers get more done faster so that they can put more of their energy into moving their business forward. On this e...

From joining when there were 7,000 employees to, in just four years, scaling the IT behind Uber’s current 43,000 employees, Shobhana Ahluwalia , the head of IT at Uber, was faced with the ultimate challenge. Some IT leaders dream of helping to scale their company’s IT at the rate Uber did, others may fear it. Shobhana confronted this challenge head on and now is responsible for Uber’s IT across 65...

The usage of mobile phones has been sky-rocketing since 2007 and continues to play a major role in our personal and work lives. In the future, will our usage continue to grow? The answer to that question is still unknown. But we do know how and why mobile is so important in the present day. On this episode of IT Visionaries, we chatted with Victor Oliveros , the Senior Director of Product Manageme...

Phil Tee would tell you he is a math and physics nerd. But his LinkedIn tells a different story, one about a multi-time founder who currently serves as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Moogsoft . On this episode of IT Visionaries, Phil explains how he went from studying theoretical physics to finding a place in the tech industry and then taking off from there. He dives into the big operational...

The way that technology has expanded throughout the last decade has been impressive. And that expansion is set to continue. As we move into the future, we can expect that technology will be used in more ways than ever before, including for things like image-recognition. Zineb Laraki , the Deep Learning Senior Product Manager at Salesforce , is helping to build out that technology and more, which s...

Throughout the last twenty-plus years, Jim Ryan has seen his company, Flexera , change and grow in exciting ways. And he’s been able to grow with the company along the way. Today, Jim is the CEO of Flexera, and he joins IT Visionaries to discuss his journey. Plus he dives into how members of the C-suite can find ways to be more efficient, cost-effective, and build out long-lasting companies. Key T...

Blockchain is a technology that can change the way people work, how supply chains run, and, as we learned on this episode of IT Visionaries, how students can take control of their education. We talked to Lev Gonick and Adam Caplan , the CIO of Arizona State University and the SVP, Emerging Technology at Salesforce , respectively, about how the two organizations have joined together to bring blockc...

Cole Crawford says that it’s no longer a matter of if we will move to edge computing, it’s a matter of when, and how soon? Cole is the CEO of Vapor IO , which is utilizing colocation facilities and interconnection services in order to bring cloud-like services to the edge of the wireless network. On this episode of IT Visionaries, Cole talks about what that all means, why it makes sense to invest...

Digital transformation is hard. Especially when all of your data is spread across hundreds or thousands of systems. How do you connect them all and work faster and more effectively across the business? Lindsey Irvine , the Senior Vice President and CMO of MuleSoft , joined us on this episode of IT Visionaries to explain the answer: APIs and broad integration. Key Takeaways:   What are APIs and why...

We are living in a digital world. But what does the term “digital” actually mean? Paul Roehrig is currently the head of strategy at Cognizant , and he joined IT Visionaries to dive deep into that question. Plus, he discusses what the future of work looks like, and why we should not fear automation and robots.  Key Takeaways: Redefining the word “digital” The day-to-day responsibilities of the head...

Patrick Stokes , the Executive Vice President of Platform Shared Services at Salesforce , first got into technology the same way many other leaders first get into technology: through video games. Games such as Quake and Doom have a special place in Patrick’s heart not only because of how fun they are, but also because they are open-source. The open-source aspect is what sparked Patrick’s interest...

Data’s evolutionary journey started out like all journeys, nonexistent. However, the evolution of data has been exponential since the dawn of the internet and the birth of the companies that followed. Fast-forward a couple of decades to today, and you may notice that data is everywhere.  Raffael Marty , VP of Research and Intelligence at Forcepoint talks about this evolution, his own journey into...

“Hey do you want to go paramotoring?” This may not be the typical way an IT conversation starts, but it just might be the way you begin an interaction with Richard Socher . Especially if you’re near a beautiful vista or in any gorgeous outdoor setting. But paramotoring is only Richard’s hobby, his job is Chief Scientist for Salesforce . As the Chief Scientist, Richard wears a couple of different h...

Igor Jablokov has made a name for himself in the world of voice recognition technology. His former company, Yap, was acquired by Amazon and his technology was used to build Alexa. And before that, Igor was on the team that built IBM’s Watson.  Now, Igor is the CEO of a new company leading the way on a new frontier: augmented and artificial intelligence. His company, Pryon is helping to change the...

On this episode of IT Visionaries, Sarah Joyce Franklin , EVP & GM Platform, Trailhead & Developers at Salesforce discusses digital transformation, Salesforce’s Customer 360 Platform, and what the role of CIO will look like in the future.  Key Takeaways: Salesforce’s Customer 360 Platform has everything a company will need all in one The role of the CIO is changing overnight Digital transformation...

On this episode of IT Visionaries, we sit down with Ankit Kumar , CTO of Ubiquity6 , whose mission is to unlock new ways for people to connect in physical spaces. Ankit and host Ian Faison take a deep dive into everything currently going on in the computer vision industry, specifically, augmented and virtual reality. Ankit discusses building AR technology and the complexity that goes into it, as w...