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People-first focused Business Reopening post Covid-19 Jul 02, 2020

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As companies are working on reopening and resuming operations post Covid-19, how they support their people can make all the difference. Employees are anxious over their job security and about their employer's future. They may have constraints as a single parent or a person with disabilities, or as a caretaker of the elderly. They may need to learn new skills to support changing business needs. How are Business, IT, and HR leaders reopening the business, ensuring a safe, productive, inclusive, and rewarding working environment?

Guest: David Baker, Chief Information Officer, Pacific Dental Services

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How to Lead Now? Jun 30, 2020

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Leading meant influence, but can you? It meant taking the plunge first to tackle the change, but how? It was about helping to envision the future, but are you equipped? As organizational and social constructs, and even the fundamentals of what keeps life humming, is disrupted, how should we rethink leadership? What leadership styles, approaches, and philosophies would be useful now?

Guest: Sam Segran, CIO, Texas Tech University (TTU)

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Digital Transformation during COVID-19 and Beyond Jun 18, 2020

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With COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are dealing with a two-fold challenge, including a significant decline in sales performance and inability to resume or scale production. It has been a wake-up call for organizations who focused earlier on daily operations at the expense of building a digital-enabled resilient business. With workforce now remote, collaboration with customers and partners now online, how to analyze the market, develop products, and serve customers needs to change. How should organizations continue their Digital Transformation efforts, individually and collectively, for sustained growth and profitability?

Guest: Rajeev Ravindran, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Ryder System

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Keeping up with Pace of Business and Unpredictable Changes Jun 17, 2020

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Today's rapidly changing business landscape is driving many organizations to re-calibrate their customer acquisition and retention strategy and establish a real and robust business continuity plan. They need strong leadership, an infrastructure that is scalable with redundant connectivity to access data, flexible systems, and reliable tools to keep their people productive and focused on serving customers. How are they making this shift to keep up with the pace of change?

Guest: Talvis Love Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer - Pharmaceutical Segment, Cardinal Health, Inc.

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Creating a Winning Data and Analytics Strategy Jun 12, 2020

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We are living now in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. And, to sustain and succeed as a business in this environment, a winning data and analytics strategy is key. With the enterprises becoming data companies globally, there is a clear shift in the analytics paradigms today. We want to infuse AI across the value chain, but can we truly ignore the fundamentals of data management? Garbage in is garbage out after all. How can organizations create a data and analytics strategy to future proof their data management landscape?

Guest: Vaidya JR Title: Senior Vice President and Global Head, BI, Big Data, and Analytics, Hexaware

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Better Pharma through Digital Jun 02, 2020

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The focus in healthcare shifted from volume-based to value-based treatment, forcing the pharma companies to think the path ahead for sustained growth and profitability while maximizing patient outcomes. General health and wellness apps for patient education, side effect management, and medication compliance are ineffective and don't lead to improved outcomes. How are the business and IT leaders at pharma companies collaborating to define and realize a holistic, value-based, and digital-enabled beyond and around the pill strategy that leads to improved value contribution and competitive advantage for their organizations?

Guest: Gyan Pandey, Global and Group CIO, Aurobindo Pharma Limited

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Managing IoT Security May 21, 2020

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IoT devices enabled by analytics and AI, sensing, reactions, and adjustments no longer need human attention, intervention, or awareness. And, with companies deploying many tens of thousands of such devices and endpoints, the attack surface is growing exponentially. What should enterprise security leadership do to proactive plan and manage the security of their IoT network?

Guest: Alma R.Cole, Chief Information Security Officer, US Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security

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How the Public Sector is Utilizing AI? Apr 28, 2020

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Within the private sector, AI has proven to have many benefits and been used to gain a competitive advantage. But how is it being applied within the public sector, what are the top benefits realized? Has it made an impact on how the government has been able to respond to the current Coronavirus pandemic?

Guest 1: Suzette Kent, Federal Chief Information Officer, US Office of Management and Budget

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Guest 2: Dorothy Aronson, Chief Information Officer, National Science Foundation

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Can Cynet bring Simplicity back into Security? Apr 21, 2020

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Securing the internal environment from breaches is becoming increasingly complex for organizations. We keep buying security tools, deploying valuable human resource, and spending more time in fighting fires. But still, the number of breaches keep rising. Cynet, a security solutions provider, claims that its autonomous solution can fully replace multi-security-product stack, that organizations use currently to protect their internal environments and deliver a significantly higher ROI. Let's find out if Cynet truly has a secret recipe for eliminating silos, human intervention, and technology integration needs while providing full visibility that prevents organizations today from protecting their internal environments.

Guest : Netanel Amar Title :- Co-Founder & COO, Cynet

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Benchmarking Organization's Maturity for Digital Transformation Apr 10, 2020

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How are you making sure that your organization is maturing while you deliver short term wins as part of your digital transformation initiative? How are you establishing benchmarks to evaluate the key elements, including your strategy effectiveness to ensure that your whole organization aligns around a vision truly? What about culture appropriateness, so it fosters the right mindset and behaviors and the organizational structure for best execution of projects? And last but not least, the capability levels, including systems, tools, and skills to properly support delivery? And, once defined, how are you using these benchmarks to stay focused on continually improving the organization's maturity to exploit future opportunities?

Guest: Helen Norris, Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

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