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Rethinking Segmentation for Better Security Apr 23, 2019

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Implementing effective segmentation for security with relatively flat enterprise networks is a hard and tedious task involving multiple teams and application downtime. The result: business critical applications are at higher risk and the compliance costs is very high. How can CISOs and Security Architects rethink segmentation to make security more robust and simpler to manage?

Guest 1: Ariel Zeitlin Title: Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Guardicore

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Data Analytics as a Team Sport Apr 18, 2019

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Driving a robust data analytics engine in an enterprise is not much different than a team sport. Business, data, and IT constituents need to develop mutual trust, bring forth ideas and challenge norms, take ownership as appropriate, and work cohesively in one direction. How to secure sponsorship? Who all should be recruited in the team? Who should be the coach? And, how should the playbook be practiced to consistently win the games?

Guest: Deepa Soni, US Chief Information Officer (CIO) and US P&C Technology Chief Information Officer (CIO), BMO Financial Group

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How IT Leaders can make service management future-ready Apr 09, 2019

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Increasingly, businesses are relying upon their service operation to position the entire organization for sustainable growth and profitability well into the future. But, no two companies are identical in their approaches to service delivery, even though they could use the exact same technician to fix the exact same piece of equipment. As a result, service leaders are demanding best-of-breed technology solution that is designed specifically for their service organization's nuanced needs and enables flexibility to perform critical tasks in different ways. IT leaders want to help the business become future-ready using a best-of-breed approach, but it can undermine their standard practice of preventing unmanageable complexity and unwarranted higher integration costs. The result: IT leaning toward picking an otherwise sub-optimal service management solution with the service software as an ancillary component of their existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. How can service and IT leaders collaborate to adopt future-ready service management technology while meeting the 'simplify IT' agenda?

Guest 1: David Giannetto Title: Chief Operating Officer, Astea International

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Leading the New Digital-Native Generation Apr 05, 2019

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Centennials, the first truly digital-native generation, has started entering the workforce. This generation is characterized as sharp, argumentative, with short attention span, is easily demotivated, and puts personal priorities and commitments over what the employer needs. How are CIOs planning to lead this new generation for the benefit of all involved?

Guest: Earl Newsome, Vice President and CIO, Praxair

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Developing Digital Dexterity Mar 27, 2019

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Imagine a workplace where both human and digital resources fluidly and autonomously reconfigure themselves in response to dynamically changing business needs. How can an enterprise develop such digital dexterity to stay relevant and competitive?

Guest 1: Brian Stewart, Deputy CIO and Director of Business Transformation , University of Alberta

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Guest 2: Gregg Chottiner, Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Should CIOs be Futurists? Mar 20, 2019

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With yesterday's technical debt related maintenance and transformational initiatives in hand, should CIOs even bother to think about the future? How can futuristic thinking help IT leaders effectively lead their organizations to stay relevant and profitable today?

Guest 1: Klara Jelinkova, Vice President for International Operations and IT and Chief Information Officer, Rice University

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Guest 2: Thomas Skill, Associate Provost & CIO and Professor, Communication, University of Dayton

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Creating Value at Scale Mar 14, 2019

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A few great ideas that bring unprecedented value must be celebrated. But what changes in organizational mindset, model, and culture should you enable for such value creation in a sustained manner and at scale?

Guest: Paul M. Bellack, Vice President, Global IT (CIO), Corporate IT Group, Magna International Inc.

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Adopting AI for Customer Service Feb 28, 2019

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To become the company your customer wants you to be, your customer experience needs to exceed expectations. Effective adoption of AI-powered people, processes, and tools can help. How should IT and customer service leaders join hands to maximize the AI opportunity while meeting related challenges?

Guest: Mark Gay, Chief Information Officer, QBE Insurance Australia Pacific

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Leadership Recipe for VUCA Feb 14, 2019

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Leaders have been dealing with episodic volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) for decades. What's should be the leadership recipe in this era when VUCA is constant and exponentially increasing in intensity?

Guest 1: Gregg Chottiner Title: Vice President for Technology Advancement and Chief Information Officer, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Guest 2: John Ellinger Title: Chief Information Officer, Bowling Green State University

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AI And Supply Chain Management Feb 07, 2019

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AI can impact Supply Chain Management (SCM) outcomes. But many such attempts by companies lead to disappointing results. What's missing? Why hasn't AI delivered in SCM? What's needed to harness the most value of AI for SCM?

Guest: Rainer Steffl, CIO, Mondi Group

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