CIO Talk Network

For the upcoming year 2021, how are the CISOs enabling a business-driven cyber strategy, gearing up to take on the broader role, and planning budgets that directly tie to business growth and improved risk management? How are they planning to develop their talent pool and manage security services partnerships to deliver on their 2021 CISO agenda successfully?

Guest 1 : Arun DeSouza

Title : Chief Information Security & Privacy Officer, Nexteer Automobiles

Guest 2 : Jake Margolis

Title : Chief Information Security Officer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/delivering-on-the-2021-ciso-agenda/

What makes an AI system fair, safe, open, and useful for an average user? How are policymakers, organizations, and academia teaming up to ensure transparency into the data we use, the learning models we adopt, and how we configure those models to process the data to deliver trustworthy AI?

Guest : Dr. Mark Nasila

Title : CAO, FNB

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

Your digital assets and networks are growing, and so are the related threats. Executive leadership now views cybersecurity as a strategic business issue. The reputational, regulatory, and financial risks are mounting. How are you transforming your security operating model to make cybersecurity an enabler, not a barrier to exploiting digital capabilities?

Guest : Richard Kaufmann

Title : Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Amedisys

For more details and related content:

https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/transforming-security-operating-model/

Guest : Nuno Miller

Title : Chief Information Officer, Sonae Fashion

What if we didn’t need to fight daily fires, and could stay focused on building capabilities and delivering value? While it may be a dream come true, why do we keep tolerating today’s problems and turn blind to the ones we could face tomorrow? What should we change in our culture, work habits, organizational structure, and leadership style to enable our enterprise where we fix problems before they happen?

What if we didn’t need to fight daily fires, and could stay focused on building capabilities and delivering value? While it may be a dream come true, why do we keep tolerating today’s problems and turn blind to the ones we could face tomorrow? What should we change in our culture, work habits, organizational structure, and leadership style to enable our enterprise where we fix problems before they happen?

Guest : Nuno Miller

Title : Chief Information Officer, Sonae Fashion

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/fixing-problems-before-they-happen/

Organizations are increasingly adopting modern application delivery models to support accelerated time to market, but it has tipped over the traditional IT operations execution methods. Today, IT infrastructure must be provisioned almost instantaneously with minimal downtime to keep pace with continuous code deployment requirements and achieving it in a typical enterprise cloud environment can be extremely complicated. Thus, many enterprise IT operations leaders are looking to invest in automation and AI/ML to help build these capabilities. What is the most efficient and effective way of moving from traditional IT Ops to automated AI Ops?

Guest : Siddharth Dhar

Title : Executive Vice President & Global Head - Infrastructure Management Services, Hexaware

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/from-traditional-it-ops-to-automated-ai-ops/

Multi-layered bureaucratic organizations with centralized decision making and endless meeting schedules are a recipe for disaster. How can you creatively unstructure your organization to foster fluid ideation, rapid decisions, and sustained relevance for the future?

Guest : Prosenjit Sengupta

Title : Executive Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, Thermax Limited

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https://ciotalknetwork.com/how-to-unstructure-your-organization-for-the-future/

With our world disrupted by COVID, how are you preparing for major cyber events that could most likely follow? What level of crisis preparedness, escalation processes, and communication strategies would allow your organization to handle major cyber events effectively?

Guest : Don Cox

Title : Chief Information Security Officer, MEDNAX

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/preparing-for-major-cyber-events/

With falling enrollments, increasing student debts, declining state funding, lowering world ranking, and dwindling degree completion rates, the higher education sector in the United States of America is facing grave challenges. What can technology-enabled innovation help address these challenges effectively and keep higher education viable?

Guest 1 : Jonathan Piersol

Title : Associate Vice President & CIO, Howard University

Guest 2 : Jack Suess

Title : VP of IT and CIO, University of Maryland Baltimore County

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https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/keeping-higher-education-viable-through-technology/

Most leaders take pride in their problem-solving abilities. But, how do you pick the right problems, choose the right people, provide them with the right resources, and get out of the way to prevent leakage in time, money, and effort, and to drive individual, teams, and organizational focus?

Guest 1 : Tarek Tomes

Title : Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, State of Minnesota

Guest 2 : Maurice Ferrell

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

For more details and related content :

https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/using-problems-to-drive-focus/