CIO Talk Network

Guest: Vince Kellen

Title : CIO, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

When faced with uncertainty, most organizations make moves to mitigate risk and prepare for managing the potential consequences of dealing with the unknown. What can leaders do to harness the confusion to create opportunities for market differentiation and unleash innovative solutions that appeal to customers, partners and other ecosystem players?

Guest 1: Samuel Sudhakar

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

Guest 1: Curtis Carver

Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Best strategies gather dust or don’t meet their full potential due to people-related challenges. Getting rid of problem employees does not solve the underlying issues. We need to identify such employees, communicate with them, manage their resistance to change and turn them around. How do you lay the groundwork to minimize people issues from surfacing, quickly and efficiently fix them if they do, and enjoy the fruits of predictably realized strategies using productive workforce?

Guest 1: Nigel Kersten

Title: Chief Technical Strategist, Puppet

As part of Digital Transformation, enterprises are rethinking their infrastructure, applications and other software based systems and service platforms to enable innovation, business agility, performance improvement, resilience, and secure operations. Automation, while considered as a key driver for DevOps, if leveraged in a holistic manner, can be the shortest path to driving related change with confidence", claims Puppet. With humble roots in Open Source, Puppet is now positioning itself as a major player in Automation. With multiple established Automation providers serving Global Enterprises already, how does Puppet match up? We speak with Puppet's Chief Technical Strategist to find out.

Guest : Pedro Domingos

Title : Professor of Computer Science, University of Washingto

Artificial Intelligence and related analytics capabilities offer the promise of better, more accurate decision making. As humans, we are still not ready to sit in a driverless, speeding car. Have we come to trust the machines to a point where we are willing to let Artificial Intelligence drive big decisions in business?

Guest 1: Jonathan See

Title: Chief Information Officer, Pepperdine University

Traditional, centralized IT operating model is not adaptable or agile enough to support staying competitive in this continuously evolving digital marketplace. How can we reorganize IT, so it integrates directly into the business while remaining centralized where appropriate to maintain benefits from the scale? What should we change in investments, architecture, governance, and talent to bring IT out of the back office?

Guest : Mark Lantzy

Title : CIO, Indiana University Health

In this age of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity; organizations can benefit from the reorientation of their business offerings and processes as a collection of services. While services based models are not new, XaaS requires fundamental transformation at the core. What would it take for an organization to get ready for XaaS?

Guest : John F. Milazzo Jr

Title : Chief Information Officer, Kodak Alaris

Last few generations of IT CXOs have been following the mantra “only what can be measured, matters.” However, for their organizations to remain relevant, the focus needs to turn from what’s visible as IT’s activity to what value IT delivers to the business. How are IT CXOs making this shift?

Guest : Melvin Kirk

Title : Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ryder

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Heavy focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning driven applications and processes may allow us to predict, learn, adapt and operate autonomously. However, faster does not always make things better, reducing human intervention does not always make an interaction effective, and becoming responsive does not always result in meeting a customer need. So, how do we align and converge all such smarts and intelligence building efforts to achieving the ultimate business goal of staying relevant?

Guest : Andy Newsom

Title : Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, CSL Group LTD

Leaders need to converge interests of people and organization, hold individuals accountable but also allow them the room to live their full potential. With so many books written, speeches delivered, and training conducted–we still have fewer effective leaders. How should we develop individuals who can apply various elements of Leadership in harmony similar to instruments in an orchestra—inspiring change and innovation?

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Guest : John Ellinger

Title : Chief Information Officer, Bowling Green State University

John Ellinger, Bowling Green State University chief information officer, has more than 20 years of experience in strategic planning, visioning, project management and change management, collaboration and organizational management skills. In addition to these areas, his expertise includes business intelligence and data warehouses. He was involved in the development and implementation of these programs at BGSU and The Ohio State University. Other achievements include leading the first statewide Data Center and Disaster Recovery Program for the 14 Ohio public universities, leading the first statewide Business Continuity Program for Ohio universities and agencies and implementing 22 customer systems in 36 months at BGSU. Ellinger has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Ohio State University. He has completed postgraduate work at Kent State University. He has worked at BGSU since 2010.