CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Brandon Champion

Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Syneos Health

Digital has forced security leaders to rethink their department’s strategy, people, processes, tools, governance, budgets, and culture. With the dynamic and volatile nature of digital, it isn’t easy to build a standardized, unified, and cohesive approach to making security forethought and implementing it in the very DNA of the organization. With unique organizational needs and constraints, how are security leaders developing their unique recipes and acing it?

Guest 1: Samuli Savo

Title: Chief Digital Officer, Stora Enso

Guest 2: Edward W Marx

Title: Chief Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic

Guest 3: Thomas Barnett

Title: Chief Information Officer, University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center

Digital has the potential to uncover new and hidden markets. What about the existing market full of competition? How are companies leveraging digital to establish higher value-based positioning, increase mindshare, proactively prospect, and enhance delivery to displace competition?

Guest 1: Rekha Ramesh

Title: Chief Information Officer, Daymon Worldwide

People have conversations as part of doing their job to exchange information or data. They also interact to pitch ideas and persuade others. But how can leaders foster a transformational level of conversations that would lead to real change and desired results?

Guest 1: Michael Welch

Title: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), OSI Group

Public and hybrid cloud infrastructure has proven to be a viable option for business but is it the most secure? Security breaches are rampant, with many of them attributed to cloud adoption. How can the business, IT, and cybersecurity leaders work together with the cloud providers to effectively manage cloud security?

Guest 1: Leon Ravenna

Title: Chief Information Security Officer at KAR Auction Services, Inc.

Data security requires rethinking people, processes, and tools to protect data throughout its lifecycle across public cloud, on-premises, and hybrid cloud deployments no matter the size and scale. Marred with explosive data growth, privacy regulations, operational complexities, and acute talent shortage, enterprises are scrambling at best. What are some of the most progressive and creative security leaders doing to tame this beast?

Guest 1: Saugat Dutta

Title: Country IT Head/CIO, DP Worldwide

Lack of transparency, siloed thinking, lack of vision, and openness to experimentation indicate issues that prevent harnessing digital opportunities in enterprises. How can we reset and rebuild a winning culture for digital success where leaders think big, take risks, and employees are informed, engaged, and empowered?

Guest 1: Steven A Marks

Title: CIO, Brooklyn Law School

Guest 2: Dr. Jonathan Vester

Title: Vice President of Technology and Chief Information Officer, Nash Community College

Guest 3: Kelly Walsh

Title: CIO, The College of Westchester

CIOs need to shift from keeping business humming and predictable to mastering the art of possible and working with others to create new solutions. How do they reset their hardwiring, develop new skills, and lead their organizations into the new?

Guest 1: Sheryl Rose

Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Summa Health System

In the digital age, IT security needs to improve resilience, fast track innovation, and drive business expansion. But we require the entire organization’s support to make that happen. What does it take to make IT security everyone’s business?

Guest 1: Balaji Rengachari

Title: Global Chief Information Officer, Tata Global Beverages

Business is willing to invest in digital but wants to know where we are, how is it going, when will we get there, and what did related investments get us. With dynamically shifting digital landscape and experimentation underway, how should business and IT leaders collaborate to define digital KPIs and measure them to track progress and performance?

Guest 1: Jeanne Holm

Title: Deputy CIO and Senior Technology Advisor, City of Los Angeles

Good leaders today are expected to drive business agility through cooperation, collaboration, and adaptability of its team and ecosystem partners. Such leaders are also supposed to demonstrate flexibility and sensitivity? Can we harness AI beyond just automation or aid to decision making? Are there ways AI can help improve leadership quality within an organization?