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 Creatio, came together for a Breaking Bread session, tackling the tech and operations aspects of making A...
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 everything in line, especially when faced with unexpected pressures?
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 this dilemma. InformationWeek's podcast is evolving. The "Breaking Bread" format brings together one CI...
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 introducing new tech to legacy ops.
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, CIO of IBM, and Phillip Goericke, CTO of NMI, share some key principles that define their respective r...
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 organizations creating unintended access opportunities bad actors might leverage. What top risks, internal...
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 Zakharchenko, chief software officer for Blaize; and Alvin Nguyen, senior analyst with Forrester, d...
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 ambassador. They discussed that question as well as should enterprises make an effort to be quantum-ready, A...
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 capacity needed at data centers that makes the cloud worthwhile. They dove into other questions such a...
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 Modern Data Company; and Deepak Singh, vice president of developer experience at AWS discussed how com...
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 agreements seen in the pursuit of fossil fuels? Does a path forward exist for companies stymied by politics ...
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 Zafar, CEO of Xnurta; and James Newman, head of product and portfolio marketing for Augury. The podcast ...
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 skillsets organizations want in an AI-powered world, fears about job loss, what this may mean for ex...
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 of security and product design research at Tanium; and Omar Khawaja, Field CISO, Databricks. They d...
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 analytics for IBM Consulting; Richard Buractaon, head of AI for Andesite; Carter Busse, CIO for Workato; and...
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 business and AI for Altimetrik; Bradon Rogers, chief customer officer for Island; Max Chan, CIO for Av...
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 formats. This episode saw Greg Rivera, vice president of product at CAST; Paul Davis, field CISO at JFrog...
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 of cyber range and chief people hacker with IBM X-Force; and John Paul Cunningham, CISO for Silverfor...
This episode gathered Marcus Merrell, principal tech Advisor at Sauce Labs; Anuj Kapur, CEO of CloudBees; Bina Khimani, chief product officer and chief revenue officer with Kinesis Network; and Richard Munro, business value lead for the VMware Cloud Foundation Division. They spoke to questions that included whether enterprises are now able to tailor cloud resources to fit their actual operational needs, if cloud costs have become more manageable, how cloud usage has scaled in recent years, and w...
Did any forecasts for 2024 hold water? Are organizations better served by not chasing predictive trends or does that mean giving up a competitive edge? This episode brought together Rocky Cole, co-founder and COO of iVerify; Bogdan Raduta, head of AI with FlowX.AI; Bryan Wood, machine learning solutions engineer at Snorkel AI; Dave Merkel, CEO and co-founder of Expel; Alvaro Oliveira, chief talent officer with Andela; and John Peluso, Chief Technology Officer at AvePoint.
This episode saw Matt Bishop, principal architect at Bitwarden; Artem Kroupenev, vice president of strategy at Augury; Matias Madou, Secure Code Warrior’s CTO and co-founder; and Joel Carusone, senior vice president of data and AI at NinjaOne come together. They discussed the use of AI in software development, its benefits and risks, and how developers want AI to be implemented in the cycle.
This episode, DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Andy Lunsford, a former privacy attorney and current co-founder and CEO of BreachRx; Krysten Jenci, Cisco’s data privacy policy lead; Sean Costigan, managing director of resilience strategy at Red Sift; and Ravi Srinivasan, CEO of Votiro. They discussed such matters as how state-level policies compare with international data privacy laws, whether a national consensus on data privacy law seems to be on the horizon, and whether current data privacy law...
What role does AI have in the current state of cloud? What types of cloud systems and resources stand to benefit from, or need to adapt to, AI? In this episode, Sundaram Lakshmanan, CTO with Lookout, and Amrit Jassal, co-founder and CTO of Egnyte, share their insights on how this space has shaped in the AI era and the potential road ahead.
Final rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau further the march towards open banking -- what will it take to keep such data sharing secure? In this episode, Ben Shorten, Accenture’s finance, risk and compliance lead for banking and capital markets in North America; Adam Preis, director of product and solution marketing with Ping Identity; and Fernando Luege, CTO with Fresh Consulting, came together to discuss security hurdles and the way ahead for open banking
This brought together Carl Wearn, head of threat intelligence analysis and future ops at Mimecast; Robert Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Adlumin; Mike Wiacek, CEO of Stairwell; Armaan Mahbod, vice president of security and business Intelligence with DTEX Systems; and Adam Darrah, vice president of Intelligence with ZeroFox. They discussed ways organizations might orient their cybersecurity and defenses for the post-election world, the prevalent types of attacks launched on behalf of aggressor s...
Scott Crowder says IBM’s development in the space has been on target but also remains cautious about hyping up promises for the future -- reiterating the dilemma that comes with capabilities and use cases for quantum computing cannot be proved until they are proved.
