CIO Talk Network

Guest 1: Doug Henschen

Title: Executive Editor at InformationWeek

Guest 2: Dr. Phil Shelley

Title: Former CTO, Sears Holding

Big Data has exploded as a field, and with it will come a massive flux of new openings within IT organizations. Half the battle is finding the right talent when to some extent these jobs and these skills don't even exist yet, but an equal challenge is in defining the various Big Data roles for your organization and industry given the broad variety of skills and competencies that maintaining Big Data will require. How exactly does a Big Data job differ from something related to "analytics," "statistics" or a "data scientist?" What approaches on the whole will help integrate Big Data hiring into regular IT staffing duties?

Guest : William A. Brindley

Title: Former Chief Executive Officer at NetHope, Special Advisor in the Social Sector

Philanthropic organizations across the globe all have a single goal; we want to work together to make the world a better place. The cause could be ending world hunger, poverty, disease or lack of education, but the intention is the same. The trouble lies in organizing all of those different parties who can help contribute money, resources and services onto that one unified vision. So how are NGOs starting to think like businesses in order to compete, deliver expectations and quantifiable change such that they can see a difference? How is new technology helping to produce more transparency, agility and information sharing toward this end goal?

Guest : Kevin Novak

Title: CISO & IT Risk Manager, Northern Trust Corporation

Threats to your enterprise have as much chance to come from around the globe as they do across the hall. This much is obvious to the savvy CISO. Your organization may have governance policies in place along with proper education on privacy and security within your organization, but is it possible that investment dollars are not entirely going where they belong? To what extent are organizations overlooking internal security threats? What kind of internal threats are most concerning, be they malicious or unintentional? And where should CISOs be refocusing their efforts? Kevin Novak will be speaking today at the SC Congress in Chicago on the topic "Security, Privacy and Whistleblowing".

Guest 1: Dr. Barb Kunkel

Title: Chief Information Officer, Troutman Sanders, LLP

Guest 2: Professor Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Title: John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School

The world in which we operate moves so quickly that it's ill-advised for a leader to devote an organization's undivided attention on one thing or one direction for too long. So in an effort to be nimble and flexible to changing conditions, a leader will make evolving commitments to many markets, funding or technology. But wouldn't doing so put added stress on people within the organization scrambling to meet all these diverse commitments? How does such decision making impact an organization? What are the pros and cons and how should a leader respond?

Guest 1: Dan Lohrmann

Title: CSO, Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection, State of Michigan

Guest 2: Elayne Starkey

Title: CSO, Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Delaware

Even in our modern workplace, we’re still having discussions about gaps in our BYOD security policies or that many companies don’t even have one in place. If you listen to many blogs or vendor white papers, employees are utilizing workarounds, executives are being careless and many organizations are still living in the stone age. Aren’t we just peddling fear at this point? What do we have to do to put these concerns behind us? How bad is the problem really, and what can we focus on so far that’s actually worked as a benchmark moving forward?

Guest : Kevin M. Larson

Title: VP and Chief Information Officer, AAR Corp.

Many qualities define an effective manager, and many people can do the job. But in a day and age where the expectation is not the productivity you can deliver but the value you can generate, those who will become the true leaders of an organization are the ones who can make a real impact. So how do you groom a tactician built on process and productivity into a strategist who lives and breathes ideas and innovation? What personal hurdles does that individual need to get over to reach that next phase of their career?

Guest 1: Deena M. Amato-McCoy

Title: Research Analyst, Retail & Consumer Markets, The Aberdeen Group

Guest 2: Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D.

Title: Professor, University of Florida in Gainesville, Chair and a tenured faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law

As retailers aggressively grow and evolve to fight the threat of digital disruption, one equally prevalent threat is an actual security risk. Retailers need to be able to provide a secure customer experience in order to drive competitive advantage and differentiation, and that means protecting the organization at the store front and the back end. As new forms of payment, mobility and online touch points are being introduced, how are retail CISOs meeting compliance needs and securing the many wide reaching points of entry? How can data driven approaches from other sectors of the organization be used to bolster security efforts, and how conversely can security support retail's revenue-generating ventures?

Guest 1: Adam Hils

Title: Research Directo Network Security, Gartner

Guest 2: Michael P. Wilson

Title: Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, McKesson

Guest 3: Roy Mellinger

Title: VP and CISO, Wellpoint

In today's security landscape, cases of cyber espionage and advanced persistent threats (APTs) have rendered many traditional cyber security practices and vendor software completely ineffective. Big Data has shown potential in providing deeper insights into these sophisticated attacks, but CISOs need to be able to be proactive, they need to understand the threats of APTs and their impact on the enterprise and they need to share that information among peers, the executive suite and the rest of the organization. So how can we allay some fears about the extent of these threats while also building an information pipeline designed to keep us vigilant?

Guest 1: James L. McQuivey, Ph.D.

Title: Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Guest 2: Naomi Fried, Ph.D.

Title: Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Guest 3: Richard Roth

Title: Vice President. Strategic Innovation, Dignity Health

The idea behind Digital Disruption is not just an ongoing threat to how business will operate but a mega-trend that will dictate the future of how business operates in virtually every industry. If digital disruption will affect not just communication and worker skills but also consumption, competition and plain market forces, how is the business evolving and making this disruption an opportunity? How will business model new corporate strategies that affect our cost structures and revenue streams? How is business managing the next generation of workers to make this disruption possible? How is business aligning with IT such that IT can help support this effort?

Guest : Colin Brown

Title: Professor, Kanbar Graduate Institute of Film & Television, Tish School of the Arts, NYU; Editorial Director Slated

The movie industry is at a crossroads. Record box office numbers are coming in with each summer blockbuster and the major Hollywood movie studios are posting stock market highs, but attendance is uncontrollably dropping as movie theaters lose audiences to television and on-demand streaming. Online services are seeing success using Big Data as a means to better understand their users. How can Big Data be used to help a movie reach an audience or change the way content is consumed? Can it also change the way the movies are made? If so, to what extent, if any, do we want technology impacting the art of the movies?