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Building Your Digital Business Technology Platform Nov 14, 2018

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To embed Digital in the DNA of your business, you need a technology platform. How do you select new technology solutions and leverage what you have? How do you finalize your architectural practices, partner integrations, and data exchange standards? What should be your approach to governance and risk management? And, how do you make it all happen with severe budget constraints?

Guest: Earl Newsome, Vice President and CIO, Praxair

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The RPA Adoption Journey Nov 08, 2018

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RPA promises benefits including increased compliance, improved system compatibility, better management capabilities, and enhanced customer experience. But organizations are facing related adoption challenges including the perception of substantial upfront costs, employee resistance, setting a realistic expectation of what's possible, and identification of candidate processes to automate among others. How are organizations addressing these issues as part of their RPA adoption journey?

Guest: Ben Patel, Chief Information Officer, Cone Health

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Accelerating Incident Detection and Response Nov 02, 2018

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The volume and variety of attacks have left security teams playing catch up. Dwell times span days. Intrusions are left undetected for months. How can organization accelerate incident detection and response to minimize potential damage and improve the defense?

Guest 1: Naresh Podila Title: CISO, Pall Corporation

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Using Emerging Technologies for Banking Innovation Oct 31, 2018

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Banks are looking to enhance and extend enterprise efficiency through technology-enabled transformation. The focus is on how to improve customer propositions for higher revenue and change the internal culture through improved collaboration and innovation. How are emerging technologies helping?

Guest: Andrew Baker, CIO & CTO, CIB, Absa Group Limited

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Technology, Candle, and the Light Bulb Oct 24, 2018

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Businesses are keen to boost business performance and customer experience. But the light bulb wasn't invented by continually improving the candle. How do you balance investment in improvements of legacy systems, processes, and tools and innovation for the best outcome? How do you use emerging technologies to that end?

Guest 1: Jeff Hutchinson, Chief Information Officer, Bombardier

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Guest 2: René Berend, Chief Information Officer, PageGroup

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Steps to Future-proofing Data and Analytics Environments Oct 17, 2018

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Enterprises are making significant investments in rebuilding their data and analytics environments. But, that's based on the challenges today and what's on the horizon. What are the steps to future-proofing it to prevent the cost of rework and the risk of irrelevance in the future?

Guest: Swamy Kocherlakota, Chief Information Officer, S&P Global

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The Hard ROI of Customer Experience Oct 17, 2018

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Customer Experience (CX) is key to an organization's success. It is all the rave today and organizations are reporting that they are heavily focusing on and investing in it. How are the results? Are these investments paying off in form of hard ROI or offering feel good soft ROI? Does CX have the potential to be a profit center?

Guest 1: Steve Zoltick, CIO, Hasbro

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Guest 2: Sherif Mityas, Chief Experience Officer, TGI FRIDAYS

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From Selling to Solving Oct 03, 2018

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Revenue growth is critical, but with so many options available to today's informed and demanding customer, will just selling get you there? How do you reshape strategy, rethink solutions, and use technology to shift the focus of your whole organization from selling to solving customer's problems?

Guest: Ron Guerrier, Chief Information Officer, Express Scripts

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The Industry 4.0 Journey Thus Far Sep 12, 2018

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Change is hard and scary at times. And, embracing Industry 4.0 requires a lot of it. Manufacturers dread the idea of disrupting their supply chain or production output. How, then, can they make the complex changes across the board required to the industrial infrastructure and processes? What about corporate expectations? How can they lead their people to think different and follow the unconventional path to digital manufacturing? Based on the journey thus far, what are the learnings?

Guest: Shantanu Roy, Chief Information Officer, Mahindra Logistics

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The CIO as a Venture Capitalist Aug 23, 2018

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Today CIOs responsible for driving future business growth and innovation must develop a new mindset and new capabilities. What if this mindset that a CIO develops is of a venture capitalist? But, is simply developing a mindset enough? In this time and age, should the CIO also build a portfolio of initiatives that would deliver significant business outcomes? When most CIOs are becoming progressive in vision and action, how should they assume the role of a venture capitalist and use this mindset to deliver success?

Guest 1: Soili Mäkinen, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, Digitalisation, Cargotec corporation

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Guest 2: Saugat Dutta, Country IT Head/ CIO , DP Worldwide

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