CIO Talk Network

Guest : Mitze Amoroso

Title: CIO, ArchCare

Complete with flat screen TVs in every room, room service, a grand piano in the foyer, elegant architecture and amenities for the whole family during your stay, hospitals are beginning to look more and more like upscale hotels. Healthcare should continually strive to improve the patient experience and remove the sterile, sickly environment that has long been associated with hospitals. Should Healthcare CIOs consider looking to the innovations in the Hospitality industry, where technology and data has been utilized to predict the needs of guests and provide a completely integrated experience that feels memorable and pleasant? How have other hospitals already made their patient experiences more memorable? What can Healthcare CIOs begin implementing today in a way that makes sense for their industry’s demands?

Guest : Scott Zoldi

Title : VP for Transaction Analytics, FICO Analytic Science Group

It goes without saying that the world could benefit from having real-time analytics embedded in their organizational workflow and decision making, but how are we currently approaching building or buying this capability? Innovative platforms such as in-memory computing could be an effective enabler of real-time analytics, but have these platforms been successful? If so, what would be the tenants of such a platform for it to create real value within the organization, and how far are we from adopting it? With that said, we wouldn’t want something so powerful to be seen as a privileged resource, so would it make sense to offer this as a service?

Guest : Eric Brosius

Title: VP for Technology Services, Hudson River Healthcare

With healthcare organizations required to meet compliance standards and use specialized systems offered by software vendors, healthcare is becoming increasingly beholden to IT providers. In order to meet these demands, they require people with the talent to handle these tools, but rarely have the budget to attract or retain them. Is there a staffing crisis in healthcare IT? How will this knowledge be developed and retained internally? Considering the investment challenges and the equal shortage of clinicians from other parts of the organization, how do we work to solving this staffing shortage?

Guest : Kathleen Ryan

Title: Author, Consultant, The Orion Partnership

Too often employees don't aspire to be leaders, to find themselves in the role of inflated responsibilities, expectations, energy and time commitments. But imagine if your entire team could embrace their inner leader and think and act in a way that drove innovation, shared knowledge effectively and produced consistently high performance, all while allowing them to maintain their regular roles, hours and expectations? In practice, how well would a team of 9 to 5 leaders actually work, and could it even become a reality in the first place?

Guest 1: Derek Brink

Title: Vice President, Research Fellow, IT Security and IT GRC, The Aberdeen Group

Guest 2: Jeffrey Wright

Title: VP & CISO, Allstate

With the rise of data breaches, CIOs and CISOs are quickly learning that internal security breaches as a result of social engineering are occurring more often than they’d like to admit. And while everyone seems to be championing best practices for Cyber Security, awareness is not the same as changing behavior. It’s our human qualities that make us most susceptible to human engineers. If a company were to take the millions they invest in security technology and begin focusing on the people side, how much of a real difference can smarter awareness make?

Guest : David McLeod

Title: CISO, VF Corporation

Consider this: A high level threat or APT has presented an aggressive and imminent threat on your organization. Depending on the company and the circumstance, you face either severe loss and theft of precious crown jewels, or the disruption and sabotage of your operations from those looking to do harm. You can either prioritize prevention and do all that's possible to stop the attack, or you can best prepare yourself to respond and make decisions when the attack comes. On this show, we weigh both perspectives and determine which is best for your organization.

Guest 1: Adam Levin

Title : Chairman & Founder, IDT911, Chairman & Co-Founder Credit.com

Guest 2: Phil Agcaoili

Title : CISO, Elavon

Left and right, major CISOs have suffered data breaches despite undergoing best practices for security protection. Threats keep surfacing, and there’s no such thing as “perfect security”. Where should organizations rethink security standards and better assess the risks at hand? Understanding those threats starts at putting higher standards in place, but what would a reasonable set of standards entail? Could they be enforced, will they be adopted, and what added cost and impact would meeting these standards put on organizations and their consumers?

Guest : Massimo Pezzini

Title : VP and Fellow, Gartner

As In-Memory computing has grown in the minds of practitioners along with solution offerings from major players, analysts have been keeping a watchful eye on this emerging technology. And while the idea itself is not radically new, there's debate now as to whether or not in-memory is ready for the mainstream. We sit down with someone reading the tea leaves to assess In-Memory's level of adoption, its innovations and use cases, its pitfalls and how it is likely to evolve.

Guest : Frank Wander

Title : Author, Former CIO and Founder of People Productive, LLC (Formerly The IT Excellence Institute)

Employee burnout is when your workers lose both the motivation and the incentive to finish their work and achieve desired results. Today's IT departments are particularly under pressure, being pulled by numerous stakeholders at any given time and meet pressing business demands. Employees need time to better rejuvenate, communicate and innovate, and the crux is on leaders to build an environment for workers to add more value. So in stepping back from our always-on culture, what are the warning signs of employee burnout that leaders should be aware of, what are the factors that place this pressure on their heads, and how can companies demonstrate they care for employees by putting an environment in place to prevent it?

Guest : John Baekelmans

Title : CTO, Cisco Internet of Everything Solutions Group

Cloud Computing has introduced transformative possibilities into IT departments around the globe, and increasingly the push is being made such that every company eventually stores all of their data on the cloud rather than their own data center. But for companies who face bandwidth issues and have trouble easily retrieving that data, it's clear cloud has its limitations. Fog Computing may be the alternative for those who don't wish to go 100 percent into Cloud. Fog Computing, or Edge Computing, involves when data exists on personal devices at the edge of the Internet such that it can more quickly be accessed. Will "The Fog" be a viable partner to the Cloud, and why is it being considered a critical component to enabling The Internet of Things?