CIO Talk Network

A hybrid work environment is here to stay. How did you motivate and engage people and lead a team you can’t see face-to-face all the time? How did you ensure effective communication, collaboration, trust-building, and ensuring accountability? What current leadership approaches and skills you used helped or hurt as you lead your troops in the hybrid work environment? How should we develop future leaders for this new paradigm?

Guest 1: Rajeev Ravindran

Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ryder System

Guest 2: John Kolb

Title: Vice President for Information Services and Technology & Chief Information Officer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/building-future-leaders-for-hybrid-work-environment/

Your business needs to be resilient that bounces back from disruptions and adversity. You also want to make sure that you are relevant now since the future is uncertain. Should you focus on automation, go remote, digitalize your offerings, promote self-service, and discard any people, processes, and technology that don’t fit your current agenda? How to build an elastic, people-centric business that’s focused on what’s vital now while getting future-ready?

Guest 1: Bhavana Devulapally

Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Office, Ventas

Guest 2: Maurice Ferrell

Title: Assistant Dean & CIO, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill- School of Government

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/building-an-elastic-people-centric-business-focused-on-now

Is your organization ensuring data security and privacy sufficiently and practicing race and gender diversity and inclusion effectively? Are your business practices ethical and transparent? Is worker health and safety getting the same focus and investment as product safety and quality? If such social and environmental issues are supported by a business properly, customers are willing to help, and employees are more likely to stay engaged. What is your organization doing to fulfill this increasing demand to become a more environmentally and socially conscious enterprise? How can IT help?

Guest 1: Todd Britton

Title: Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice President, IT, University of La Verne

Guest 2: Helen Norris

Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/enabling-an-environmentally-and-socially-conscious-enterprise

As an IT leader, you strive to create an environment where people can learn, grow, inspire, and innovate. But to deliver on this promise, how are you building and sustaining a bottom-up culture, where each member of your team has a voice, empowered to make decisions, and motivated to create innovative and practical solutions to solve challenges and exploit business growth opportunities? And, how are you embedding resilience, so it stands the tests of business and life-changing disruptions like the pandemic?

Guest 1: Faith Burn

Title: Chief Information Officer, Eskom Holdings

Guest 2: Michael Hites

Title: Chief Information Officer, Southern Methodist University

Guest 3: Kevin Gray

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Burbank

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/building-a-disruption-proof-bottom-up-it-culture

Business leaders are looking to lessen the impact of current global disruption while fortifying against future ones. They want to acquire new capabilities quickly through mergers and acquisitions, reimagine customer relationship building, and improve their cybersecurity posture to minimize risk while controlling costs. How well are IT and Security leaders supporting this business reinvention effort?

Guest: Ketan Pandit

Title: Chief Information Officer, QBE North America

For more details and related content:

https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/supporting-business-reinvention-to-alleviate-global-disruptions

It is one thing to envision an AI concept, develop a prototype, and take it to production. It is another to scale such efforts to build and manage a robust enterprise-grade AI pipeline. How can organizations adopt product engineering, lifecycle management, and governance disciplines to scale AI efforts ensuring performance and reliability?

Guest 1: Mark Miller

Title: Chief Information Officer, Party City

Guest 2: Prasanna Kumar Burri

Title: Group Chief Information Officer, Dangote Industries

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-scaling-ai

From timely patient diagnostics, proper treatment to reliable recovery, vision can play a critical role in enhancing patient care, which requires reliable, compatible, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and high-performing vision technology solutions. Whether it is diagnostic imaging, medical carts, or pill dispensers, embedded vision can change the game. However, due to inadequate knowledge in camera technology, lack of technical and engineering expertise, supply chain fragmentation, and improper device support, medical device companies struggle to incorporate vision in their products timely and confidently. Starting from defining a vision playbook to establishing camera integration standards, how can we shape this much-needed, rapidly growing vision ecosystem to drive the best outcomes for the patients, providers, and medical device companies?

Guest: Maharajan Veerbahu

Title: Co-Founder & Vice President of Embedded Services, e-con Systems

For more details and related content:

https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/vision-enabled-medtech-for-improved-patient-care

If appropriately harnessed, even the small ideas can lead to a big impact on the way we acquire, serve, and retain our customers. But how to keep those ideas coming, testing them, and operationalizing the ones that show promise timely? But, how to do so despite the constraints posed by significant disruptions like the pandemic?

Guest 1: Miao Song

Title: Global Chief Information Officer - Petcare, MARS

Guest 2: Byron Clymer

Title: Chief Information Officer, Lockton Companies

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/from-small-ideas-to-big-impact

From fighting health care inequality to expanding access to medicines, from stopping infectious diseases to keeping healthcare clean, and from preparing for future epidemics to gaining public trust, the World Health Organization and the public health departments worldwide have a critical task at hand. The recent pandemic showed us that there is a complex journey ahead into an unpredictable future. How are the World Health Organization (WHO) and the national public health departments worldwide working together to harness available resources and innovative technologies to deliver on their promises?

Guest: Bernardo Mariano Junior

Title: Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Digital Health & Innovation, World Health Organization

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/delivering-on-the-world-health-promise

How well is your organization able to support its workers as they ride an emotional roller coaster due to losses in the family, disrupted life conditions, and burnout at work? How are you balancing your efforts and investments toward employee wellbeing with the task or reenergizing and realigning your organization’s priorities to stay sustainable and profitable as a business?

Guest 1: Kathleen Larkin

Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, South Jersey Industries

Guest 2: Samuel Sudhakar

Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino

For more details and related content:

https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/balancing-employee-and-business-wellbeing