In this episode, I’m speaking with John Engates, Field Chief Technology Officer at the content delivery network and cyber security provider Cloudflare, the impact AI will have the ability of the good guys to secure an ever-increasing and porous network perimeter as well as how the bad guys are using AI tools such as voice spoofing and deepfakes combined with refined social engineering attacks to break down even the best defenses.

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John’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jengates/
Company website: https://www.cloudflare.com/

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In this episode, I’m speaking with Tom Paider Vice President

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Company website: www.nationwide.com

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In this episode, I’m speaking with BMC Software CTO, Ram Chakravarti,

Ram stresses the importance of collaboration between IT and the

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Ram's blogs: https://www.bmc.com/blogs/author/ram_chakravarti/

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In today’s episode, I’m dissecting the multicloud with the help of John Roese, Global CTO at Dell Technologies. After 15 years of rapid adoption, most companies today have multiple clouds. What they don’t have is true multicloud.

John's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnroese/
Company website: https://www.dell.com

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In this episode, I’m speaking with Beth Johnson, chief experience officer (CXO) of Citizens Bank, a $223B regional bank headquartered in Rhode Island, about how they are leveraging digital transformation as their go-to-market strategy. Digital technologies provide the backbone of how they interact with customers across 14 states.

On they back end, like most banks, they are leaning heavily on digital technologies to become more efficient and responsive to an always-on customer base. In one instance, they took a home equity line process that took 40 days down to just seven.

And, of course, they are looking at how they can use GenAI to better understand and service their customers.

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Beth's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-s-johnson/
Company website: https://www.citizensbank.com/homepage.aspx

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In this episode, I’m speaking with PwC's Cloud & Digital Lead Cenk Ozdemir, about cloud ROI—how it has changed from the early days of cost mitigation to a central pillar in how organizations enable new business models while streamlining business processes and speeding time-to-value for new products and services.

But, to get the most ROI from your cloud strategy, you have to go back to basics. You need to understand why you went there in the first place. A surprising number of companies do not. Smart companies are reevaluating their reasons for going to cloud, what they wanted to get from it then and what they need to get from it now.

Post-Covid-19, the era of cloud 2.0 has begun. Figuring out how to make the most of it is now the No.1 challenge for businesses—not whether they should be there or not. Cloud is an essential technology for every business regardless of size, geography or industry and will only become more important in the age of AI.

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Cenk's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ozdemir/
Company website: https://www.pwc.com/

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In this episode, I’m speaking with Guarav Sharma and Laila Kakar about how they used AI and app rationalization (10 ERPs into just one) to transform the procurement function of Africa’s MTN Group, a $12B telco, from a cost center to a profit center.

To solve the many challenges they faced, MTN developed:

Guarav is MTN’s senior manager for procurement excellence and Laila is MTN’s senior data analytics manager.

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Guarav’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/supernegotiate/

Laila’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laila-kakar/

Company website: https://www.mtn.com

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"We can improve our IT stuff as much as we possibly want but if it doesn’t  somehow translate into some business gain then we’re really just wasting time

In today’s episode, I'm speaking with Forrester analyst Carlos Casanova about AIOps: What it is, who's using it and how it's being deployed to help businesses run more efficiently and effectively by prioritizing IT services delivery.

Carlos along with Forrester analysts Glenn O'Donnell, Audrey Lynch and  Diane Lynch is the co-author of report “The 3 Stages of Preparation for AIOps” that lays out the foundational elements IT and business Leaders need to understand in order to introduce AIOps into their organizations.

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Carlos' LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosacasanova/
Company website: https://www.forrester.com

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“These are the emergent next wave of game changing technologies we need to pay attention to.” - Mike Fulton

In this episode, I'm speaking with Mike Fulton, SVP and CIO at Vernovis, about the next wave of digital technologies that CIOs need to be thinking about today. These are the so-called DARQ technologies: distributed ledgers, AI, extended reality, and quantum computing.

Because all of these will build on the SMAC technologies--social, mobile analytics, and cloud--that have gotten us to where we are today, their impact will likely be much greater than even SMAC has had to date.

The key to making the most of these technologies will come down to seeing the forest and the trees to understand where and how these technologies can be applied to solve business problems.

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Mike's LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelfulton/
Company website: https://www.vernovis.com

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In this episode, I’m speaking with Gamma Force Founder and CEO, Warner Moore about how to effectively manage cyber risk when

Warner and I discuss how everyone can make better use of their cyber security resources: How do you get the biggest bang for the

Tune in for answers to these questions and many more insights from an industry veteran who helps companies make these decisions every day.

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Warner’s LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warnermoore/

Company website: https://www.gammaforce.io

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