Recently, Cisco CIO Guillermo Diaz Jr. shared his enthusiasm for culture change - and deep knowledge of IT - before a packed hall at Gartner Symposium ITXPO in Orlando.

Then, he met with Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney for a free-ranging one-on-one discussion - on the culture and talent issues that challenge all CIOs.

For Steve Durbin, cybersecurity isn't just a tech issue. It's a business issue, a culture issue, and above all, a leadership issue.

In this podcast Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney chats with Steve Durbin, the managing director of the Information Security Forum.

It's a free-ranging discussion about what senior leadership teams can do to ensure growth and innovation at a time of ever-increasing cyberthreats.

At a time when AI and machine learning stand poised to replace many rote human tasks, are schools and colleges preparing the workers of tomorrow?

In this podcast, Heather McGowan, a thought leader at the intersection of education, business, and technology, chats with Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney. About how the very foundations of learning need to be disrupted, for what she calls the Augmented Age - a time when human ingenuity, creativity and empathy will separate us from the machines.

A lot of talk about disruption is on the assumption that it's about negating negative forces where actually, quite often it's about leveraging the power of the newly possible to do things, which genuinely create game-changing results."

So says Tom Goodwin, head of innovation at Zenith Media and author of author of Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption.

In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with some leading luminaries in the security space. For some great insights on how to prepare for today's cyberthreats - as well as tomorrow's.

Estonians are looking pretty smart these days.

With 88 percent fast broadband penetration helping to fuel smart lighting, smart traffic, smart buildings and smart just about everything - they are setting what Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo called the gold standard for digital transformation in the public sector.

In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney chats with Anna Piperal, Estonia's "e-ambassador" - about a digital success story that continues to inspire the world.

“I don’t think that the end of routine means the end of jobs,” the futurist Gerd Leonhard stressed. “I think it just means the end of routine.”

Kevin Delaney, Connected Futures executive editor, chatted with Gerd about a world in which machines replace jobs — but, ultimately, won’t replace humans. A world that may be closer than you think.

At Mission Control, Failure — and Panic — Are Not Options

As a NASA flight director and director of mission operations, Paul Sean Hill managed some pretty dicey situations. Like the time in 1991 when a cooling-system failure imperiled the shuttle Discovery, demanding quick action that ran counter to many experts’ opinions.

In this podcast, Kevin Delaney, Connected Futures executive editor, chats with Paul about how the “steely-eyed missile men” of NASA learn to stay cool in a crisis.

Siri, Alexa and those ever-chattier bots on retail sites are interacting with us in all-new ways. But as smart as they are, sometimes it still seems as if we may as well be speaking another language.

In this podcast, Connected Futures executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with James Landay about the coming revolution of smart, talking machines in the workplace.

Experts weigh in on how digital transformation is creating clean water in some of the world’s most challenging places.

In this podcast, Connected Futures’ executive editor Kevin Delaney speaks with:

Amir Peleg, founder and CEO, TaKaDu

Annie Feighery, CEO, mWater

Leo T. Kenny, senior scientist and technologist, Planet Singular

Kevin Wandolowski, senior manager of monitoring and evaluation, Water for People

Anil Menon, global president of Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities group