Technology Executives Club

Leadership Briefing: CIO Report on Gartner’s AI Symposium Guest: Tom Irvine, Technology Executive & Board of Advisor Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club® In this Leadership Briefing, technology executive Tom Irvine shares key takeaways from the 2025 Gartner IT Symposium, with a focused look at Gartner’s latest guidance on AI in the Enterprise. Drawing directly from Gartner’s...

2025 Technology Executives Review® and 2026 AI in the Enterprise Forecast Listen Now: What Technology Leaders Need to Know to Succeed — and Win the AI Race — in 2026 The   2025 Technology Executives Review® and 2026 AI in the Enterprise Forecast   is an on-demand executive briefing on what actually happened this year in AI, what’s coming next, and what enterprise and B2B leaders need to...

🎧 Leadership Briefing: Future Facing Engineering Leadership Guest: John Szeder, CTO & Engineering Leader Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club In this Leadership Briefing, engineering leader and CTO John Szeder shares why future facing leadership is now essential for every technology executive. Drawing from a formative experience growing up on a farm in Northern Canada, John...

🎧 Spotlight Interview: Turning AI Boundaries into Better Healthcare Outcomes Guest: Dr. Amit Shah, Founder & CEO, GNS AI Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club In this Spotlight Interview , Dr. Amit Shah , Founder & CEO of GNS AI , shares how artificial intelligence can transform healthcare and life sciences — when deployed responsibly and within clear operational boundari...

 🎧 Leadership Briefing: Upskilling Your Employees — The New Retention Strategy Guest: Richard Doran, Founder & President, Sierra ITS Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club In this Leadership Briefing , Richard Doran shares why learning is the new loyalty — and how companies can use upskilling as a powerful retention strategy in the age of AI and digital transformation. Ri...

Driving Strategy and Investment Decisions in the Age of AI Guest: Patrick Marshall, Partner at Altman Solon Host: Alex Jarett, Founder, Technology Executives Club  “Everybody knows they need an AI strategy. The question is: where should you start, and how will it impact your business?” — Patrick Marshall In this Leadership Briefing, Patrick Marshall shares how AI is reshaping strategy, invest...

Success with Engineering Leadership Promotions with John Szeder So you’ve been working hard and focused as an engineer for many years.  All of a sudden, you get a promotion.  After the celebration ends, and you start earnestly working as a new Engineering Leader - what, exactly do you do? That’s exactly what John Szeder discussed in his recent Leadership Briefing with Alex Jarett.  ...

“The shift to agentic AI is -- you’re asking AI to write an API Call.” Here’s a short video that will help you understand real life applications of “Agentic AI.” In this short preview interview, Joe Rose, who is the President of JBS Dev and an expert in AI, Agentic AI, Machine Learning and Development, explained it to me.  As he describes it: *️⃣ First the core value of AI has been establishe...

Join us for a Spotlight Interview with Tim Walter. Tim is the award winning CIO of Edward Don & Company, a major restaurant equipment and supply company based in the Chicago area. Tim really dedicates the awards to his teams, which are the ones who make the projects work.  Recent awards include the 2025 Orbie CIO of the Year Award, The CIO 100 Magazine award for 2025, to name a few. One o...

Happy to announce Tim Walter, CIO of Edward Don & Company, who will provide the keynote presentation at our upcoming AI in the Enterprise Summit 11/13 on ROI of AI and Use Cases.   You’ll love learning how Edward Don & Company had a hugely successful AI project in the area of accelerating their RFP and Quote process. With the failure rate of AI projects very high - Tim and his team lo...

Alex Jarett & Technology Executives Club presents: AI in the Enterprise Webinar - For Sept 2025 Finding the ROI in AI For Technology Leaders and Tech Business Executives We have entered the Age of AI - Board Members and CEO's are demanding AI - even in the most conservative of companies. And it's the Technology Leaders and Tech Business executives who are responsible for making it happen in ea...

How Edgar Escobar & his team at ALTO had two successful AI Projects We are pleased to Alex Jarett's recent interview with Edgar Escobar, the CIO & COO at Grupo Alto, a company dedicated to helping its retail clients reduce shrink via a combination of services, which include both surveillance and back end legal services to help companies and law enforcement prosecute criminals and reduce th...

Welcome to Executive Engineering Leadership Briefing with John Szeder. John is a highly in-demand and seasoned executive engineering leader focused on high volume consumer and industry applications. He is also an expert in helping people build and retain elite engineering teams and has agreed to help people in their journey! This briefing is focused on helping executives who have recently risen to...

In this Leadership Briefing, Technology Leader & CIO, Praveen Kamsetti, take us though a very structured discussion focused on Driving Value with AI, A CIO's Approach. It's a very thoughtful and well researched conversation, in which Praveen and Alex Jarett discussed: * Understanding ROI in the Content of AI - the difference in ROI between traditional projects and AI-Based projects. * Steps to...

Richard Doran - 3rd in a sequence - Retaining Talent in Age of AI

Happy to share our recent Spotlight Interview with Neil Gomes, a S-Suite Technology Leader with global experience in Digital Transformations and Technology leadership at scale. Most recently Neil was the Chief Digital Officer at AmeriHealth Caritas, among others. You’ll be both inspired and educated from listening to Neil, who has developed multiple frameworks for success in Technology Leadership....

“At the end of the day, it all comes down to people.  People move the needle … you need the right team.” Great insight from Richard Doran, President of Sierra ITS, who breaks down how they help their clients attract top tech talent in this valuable briefing.   Attracting top tech talent has always been a challenge, but now in the Age of AI, even more so.   Richard starts w...

Happy to share Alex Jarett's recent Spotlight Interview with Christopher Carter, a four-time best selling author and CEO of Approyo, and involved in multiple other really interesting companies! This is a really interesting interview that goes by really quick, so you’ll want to listen Here’s what we learned about Chris: 📖 First, his books - Mastering SAP Series, 4 best sellers. 17 different books....

Happy to present our latest Spotlight Interview between Alex Jarett and Tory Bjorklund, CEO and Cofounder of Victoria Fide Consulting. Tory and his team are experts in both fixing broken Technology projects and also providing the leadership to assure that your next major project goes smoothly. The name “Victoria Fide” is Latin for “Success Assurance.” And Tory and his team are on a mission to help...

AI is impacting hiring practices, especially in the Tech space. Here’s a great conversation Alex Jarett had with Richard Doran, President of Sierra ITS on this exact topic. As Richard puts it - there is a lot of noise related to AI in the workplace now, and it’s going to BOTH help growth AND create job elimination. “What companies and hiring managers need to do is challenge their outdated assumpti...

Here's the first ten minutes of our June 2025 Peer Advisory Group internal discussion on Executive Presence. Each month our Peer Advisory Group of Technology Leaders discusses a new topic that helps them in their role as Technology Leaders. In this segment, we discussed: * How to gracefully move the Board Meetings forward when board members want to go deep into the technology. * How AI is coming u...

Join us for a Spotlight Interview with Stan Hammond! Stan is a Global C-Level AI & Business Technology Advisor at ServiceNow who leverages his experiences as a past Global CIO and CISO at companies such as Pfizer and GKN Aerospace (to name a few) to help clients: a. Accomplish Big Wins; b. Leverage AI for real business gains today; c. Fulfill and Exceed Cybersecurity Requirements throughout th...

Join us behind the scenes from our recent Peer Advisory meeting roundtable. In this Roundtable discussion a few of our Peer Advisory members and Alex Jarett discussed, Best Tips, Insights, Challenges and more from a Technology Leadership standpoint in leveraging and managing SAAS applications. Some of the topics discussed were: * Best Tips, including how to negotiate a better deal. * Usage and Pri...

We are pleased to present our newest Spotlight Interview with Robert Gonzalez, who is VP of Engineering at SugarCRM. Sugar CRM is a very popular CRM that is known for their product, their strong customer community, and partnership ecosystem. As you’ll learn from this interview, Robert’s passion and expertise is in the areas of : * Building customer-centric products that deliver measurable value at...

We are pleased to present our latest Spotlight Interview with Phil Smith, CEO of Fractional Executive Advisors. Phil has a very successful career performing successful operational and management roles at a variety of companies and industries, including CEO, CIO, COO and even CMO, to name a few, so it’s only natural that he launch Fractional Executive Advisors as a way to give small and medium size...