This episode explores DevOps with background, suggestions, and useful tips.

Alignment between IT and business is a core issue facing virtually every CIO. Different perspectives, constraints, and goals can present obstacles to the business gaining the highest value from IT. DevOps can help.

Formula One racing involves a heady mixture of speed, daring, and technology. Sensors, data, and analytics provide a backdrop for ongoing innovation and improvement, on the race track and in the back office.

Scale and inertia are key challenges facing any Chief Information Officer in the federal government. For this reason, successful approaches to innovation and digital government must consider the reality of life in an agency. For this episode, we talk with John B Owens, CIO for the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Owens explains how his IT organization ensures alignment with end-users, using approaches such Agile development and DevOps.

The CIO role is shifting from provider of infrastructure to customer-facing business partner, while the rise of digital technologies has created an opportunity for Chief Information Officers to assert new importance in the enterprise. Mark Sunday, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle Corp., explores these changes and discusses his role at one of the largest technology organizations in the world.

Information technology in the federal government is large, complicated, and often slow. Our guest, Mark Schwartz who is Chief Information officer of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USICS), wants to change that by applying lean methods and shifting the focus of IT toward consumers inside the government and citizens on the outside. In this show, Schwartz shares his experience with DevOps and other methods to improve IT and enable digital government.

CIO's must evolve to meet the needs of sophisticated business users. In this episode, Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix, explains how a CIO can play a strategic, customer-facing innovation role in a large technology company.

Gerri Martin-Flickinger is Adobe's senior vice president and chief information officer. She oversees the company's global Information Technology team, providing strategic direction and management for the company's IT infrastructure worldwide, including

For this special event, three important thought leaders discuss innovation, technology, and change in the federal government.

The amazing CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston discusses health care from an innovation perspective.

Lisa Davis is Georgetown University's Vice President for Information Services and CIO.