Guest 1: Amy J. Rislov

Title : Chief Human Resources Officer, Aurora Health Care

Guest 2: Jonathan Reichental

Title : Chief Information Officer, City of Palo Alto

With rapidly changing business demands as well as workforce mindset, location and needs, HR faces a daunting task to build a sustained workforce capability that scales and extends as needed. What are the related challenges and how are HR leaders looking to tame this beast? Where can IT partner?

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Guest : Joe Topinka

Title : CIO, SnapAV, CIO Mento

For years, succession planning has been a crucial part of the CIO's job. As a leader,The CIO's responsibility to ensure continuity. However, with changing times, does the CIO need to evaluate and change his succession planning strategy? What are the concerns and goals that existing CIOs face and how should he find and mentor the right people to fill his shoes? how should succession planning be altered to develop successors who may be more relevant for the organization?

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Guest 1: Bob Toupin

Title : Chief Information Officer, BlueLinx Corporation

Guest 2: Melvin Kirk

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

The CIO's role has morphed from technology manager to strategic leader who has critical inputs related to what the organization offers to the customers and how it adapt to the changing marketplace. This warrants a CIO to work as a peer to the CEO so they become a cohesive unit instead of just sharing a reporting relationship. Are organizations rethinking CIO-CEO relationship in their respective best interests?

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Guest 1: Brian Haugabrook

Title : CIO, Valdosta State University

Your vision, strategy, and goals as a leader are only achieved when your team develops thinking, behaviors and relationships that allows each individual to effectively solve problems, focus on things that matter and achieve higher satisfaction in life. If we are to consider achievement as a muscle, what can you do to help the team learn how to flex and strengthen it?

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Guest 1: John Willis

Title : Co-Author of "The Devops Handbook"

Guest 2: Leonard J. Hardy

Title : Senior Vice President of Operations & Technology, Northern Trust Corporation

DevOps approach is gaining momentum because it tightly integrates development and testing with system operations.But how can the two groups work more closely together and automate the deployment process. How can dev teams make sure the changes map to the larger initiatives at the business level? How does the organization address the change management issues and focus on competitive differentiation and customer retention?

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Guest 1: Zeeshan Sheikh

Title: Chief Information Officer, Entergy

Is IT talent management still an issue for CIOs? Have organizations, like some claim, finally managed to attract and retain top talent and develop their skills and competencies based on rapidly changing demands or has it just been lip service? Has the CIO recruited staff from outside IT or are they working closely with HR to build talent programs? Is there a talent management playbook that one can refer to in order to fix this issue forever?

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Guest 1: Sahal Laher

Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Brooks Brothers

Bi Modal IT has gone mainstream. So how are CIOs evaluating the impact of Bi modal IT adoption in their organizations? What has been the success rate? What were some of the challenges that CIOs faced while implementing it and what are some of the lessons learned. Has Bi Modal IT delivered on its promise?

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Guest 1: Kevin Burns

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Miami

Guest 2: Walter Weir

Title: CIO, The University of Nebraska

How does the year 2016 look for the CIO? With new disruptive technologies such as mobility, big data, and cloud are mainstream, what new technologies will the CIO bank upon? What are the CIO's key wants and spending plans? What do they plan on doing differently to take advantage of all the new opportunities on the horizon?

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Guest 1: Jay Ferro

Title: CIO, American Cancer Society

A healthy organization's culture can be best understood as a set of shared values and how everyone gets work done as individual and team to delivers value to customers. A healthy culture results in sustained growth, profitability and employee wellbeing. Who is responsible for building and maintaining it and what does it take?

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Guest 1: Dean Pipes

Title: Chief Architect and Chief Technology Officer, Zurich Insurance

Your organization may have dedicated Enterprise Architecture (EA) groups as the custodian of the what and how IT systems and applications should enable business processes. Is it driven by ideal state scenarios or empirical evidence of what works? How are you refining and leveraging your Enterprise Architecture to develop a solid foundation for handling future demands and disruptions?

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