The InformationWeek Podcast

Samya Dassarma, CTO of Iterable, and Margaret Dawson, CMO of Chronosphere, discuss navigating wayward tech implementations.  

Dan Carpenter, Amplitude's CIO, discusses whether enterprises that adopt new technology face inevitable shifts in how they function.

Businesses have been through transformative times, from the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of the Digital Age. As a flurry of AI agents and tools emerges, what should CIOs look for in this next period of transformation? How does this era of change differ from cloud transformation? Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, spoke to these and more questions in...

Harry Folloder, chief digital and technology officer for Alorica; and Brooke Huling, chief product officer for Accruent, break bread on productive ways they tap predictive data.

Building up an AI-enhanced workforce calls for more than telling staffers to use new tools and then hope for the best. Job roles can change, C-suite leadership may need new strategies, and the organization could face a different set of security and oversight concerns. In this episode of the InformationWeek podcast, Michael Fanning, CISO for Splunk; and Andie Dovgan, chief growth officer with Creat...

Laura Sellers tackles a series of scenarios, discussing how tech and operations can navigate surprises both may face. How well do your software delivery cycles mesh with the logistics and operations of your organization? How do you deal with different rhythms of customer demand and logistics vs. the pace of software development and deployment? Who needs to be part of the conversation to get everyt...

As IT leadership wrangles with data governance and policies, can operations glean useful information without stepping on a few toes? In this Breaking Bread session, Craig Martell, chief AI officer for Cohesity; and Matt McVaney, chief revenue office for BombBomb, discussed finding common ground between operations and tech to make data useful, and better understand the demands on either side of thi...

What happens of an organization feels the need to move to new tech that will require significant investment and other internal changes? How do the operational and tech sides of the enterprise assess their needs and concerns, then share those perspectives over the fence? Josh Mason, CTO of RecordPoint, and Katie Klein, vice president of marketing for Comcast Business, discuss paths forward for intr...

Jeff Reihl, CTO for the legal and professional side of LexisNexis, discusses how the introduction of AI changed their project plans.

The duties of C-suite tech leadership at enterprises are changing rapidly of late. AI shook up strategies at many companies and can lead to new demands on CIOs, CTOs, and others responsible for technology plans and use. The core principles that guide CIOs and CTOs can be essential for navigating such times, especially when organizations look to them for direction. In this episode, Matt Lyteson, CI...

With more AI models emerging, how do CIOs and CISOs at enterprises go about establishing security guardrails to reduce risks as the technology gets deployed? In the early months of the AI craze, the business world saw incidents where proprietary code got into the wild after being fed to AI. There have also been concerns about AI being tapped to launch cyberattacks, as well as AI used within organi...

Will the development of these resources proceed in tandem at enterprises, or must CIOs evolve these technologies with separate strategies? Luiz Domingos, CTO for Mitel; Jon Kuhn, senior vice president of product for Delinea; Anshu Jain, co-Founder and CTO with Outmarket AI; and Steve Williams, CISO, NTT DATA tackled that and other questions in this episode.

Is putting a data center under the ocean or in orbit just a novelty or a future-forward idea? Data centers have been installed put undersea and now in space -- do these exotic locations seem more like a novelty than a benefit to enterprise operations? One benefit is access to natural sources of cooling for data centers, either in the freezing temperatures in space or cold waters of the sea. Dmitry...

As stakeholders in the cloud try their hands at developing quantum compute chips and related resources, is there a symbiotic evolution of tech in the making? This episode brought together James Kaplan, partner with McKinsey; Rich Salz, principal architect at Akamai; Matthew Keesan, vice president and general manager of quantum computing and platform with IonQ; and Daniella Pontes, quantum ambassad...

There may be a new era of DeFi in the offing if regulation eases up, and stakeholders in this sector see new potential understandings with watchdogs. This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Wenny C., partner with SynFutures; Martin de Rijke, head of growth for Maple Finance; Alan Orwick, co-founder of Quai; and Gerald Gallagher, general counsel at Sei Labs.

This episode brought together Tatum Tummins, senior product manager with Kion; Edward Walsh, senior managing consultant for IBM’s global cloud advisory practice; Jason Hardy, vice president and CTO of AI at Hitachi Vantara; Joe Jacir, cloud architect for enVista; Stephen Manley, CTO with Druva; and Dave Driggers, CTO and founder of Cirrascale. They discussed whether AI might devour the critical ca...

What mindset do enterprises need to adopt in order to make AI happen without breaking the bank and see tangible results? Leading into the final week of InformationWeek's "The Cost of AI" series, Fred Sala, chief scientist at Snorkel AI; Becky Carroll, partner, IBM Consulting Global - AWS strategic partnership lead for data and AI; Charles Xie, CEO and founder of Zilliz; Srujan Akula, CEO of The Mo...

Sometimes "The Cost of AI" rests in the hands of political players. International politics can throw disruptive curves into companies’ plans and ambitions to leverage AI to remain competitive. The extent of such disruptions -- or the negotiations to avoid them -- could vary in influence based on how organizations respond. Could global needs for AI create “strange bedfellows” comparable to agreemen...

As AI saturates the market, what becomes of its competitive advantages? Does it become a basic, digital commodity in the background? As InformationWeek kicks off “The Cost of AI series,” this episode of DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Andy Boyd, chief product officer with Appfire; Amol Ajgaonkar, CTO of product innovation with Insight; Mike Finley , CTO and co-founder for AnswerRocket; Kashif Zafa...

This episode features Luke Behnke, vice president of product for Grammarly; Cliff Jurkiewicz, vice president of global strategy for Phenom; Ryan Bergstrom, chief product and technology Officer for Paycor; Daniel Avancini, co-founder and chief data officer for Indicium; and Arun Varadarajan, co-founder and chief commercial officer for Ascendion. They discussed how AI already changes staffing, what...

In a world dominated increasingly by AI, access to relevant data becomes paramount -- but what if such streams of information dry up? This episode features Shobha Phansalkar, vice president of client solutions and innovation for Wolters Kluwer; Olga Megorskaya, founder and CEO of Toloka; Pete DeJoy, co-founder and senior vice president of product for Astronomer; Melissa Bischoping, senior director...

In this early stage of the AI era, it can be easy to think a blank check to develop the technology will deliver success. At what point should the ROI be measured for AI? What happens if a company overspends on AI? Can the project be recovered or should the company cut its losses and move on? This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt featured Manish Goyal, vice president and senior partner for AI and analytic...

Before an enterprise can set any strategy in motion for AI, leadership at the top must decide what the plan of action will be. The question is, who should guide the conversation? The CEO, the overall executive leader? A more tech-oriented executive such as the CTO or CIO? How much say should other, operations-driven divisions have? This episode brought together Adam Caplan, president of digital bu...

In 1999, under the digital gleam of Keanu Reeves in “The Matrix,” IT teams either sat confidently with the changes they made to resolve the Y2K bug or waited with bated breath to see if the fixes held. The arrival of the year 2000 did not bring about the feared digital apocalypse thanks to fixes to make software and hardware to understand what seemed like a simple, yet crucial change to date forma...

This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt saw a panel comprised of David Richardson, vice president of endpoint and threat intelligence for Lookout; Kris Lovejoy, senior vice president for security with Kyndryl; Jake King, head of threat and security intelligence with Elastic; Mikhail Ishkhanov, senior director, product strategy and sales enablement with SOTI; Stephanie ”Snow” Carruthers, IBM’s global head o...