Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

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Inside Teradata’s AI Strategy: CTO Louis Landry on Open & Connected Data Systems May 29, 2025

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“Enterprise data platforms must evolve to express context to AI systems.”

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Louis Landry, Chief Technology Officer at Teradata, a $1.75B cloud analytics and AI data platform. Louis shares how Teradata is reshaping its core platform to meet the demands of the AI era through open, hybrid architectures, vector search integration, and mixed workload optimization.

A 11-year veteran of the company, Louis reflects on Teradata’s evolution from centralized analytics to a hybrid, multi-cloud powerhouse, and what it means to support some of the world’s largest banks, airlines, and healthcare providers. He also offers insight into agentic AI, data-centric intelligence, and model-sharing futures.

How Dun & Bradstreet Drives Risk Intelligence Through Data & AI Labs with Chief Data & Analytics Officer Gary Kotovets May 26, 2025

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“We don’t just deliver data—we deliver trust.”

In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Gary Kotovets, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Dun & Bradstreet, a global leader in business decision-making data and analytics. Gary shares how he oversees the company’s end-to-end data strategy, from acquisition and normalization to advanced analytics and GenAI integration, serving a customer base that spans Fortune 500 giants to small businesses.

Learn how Gary’s team fuels innovation through alternative data, builds trusted AI tools like ChatD&B, and partners directly with C-level clients to deliver decision-ready intelligence.

Key insights from Gary:

Why governance and trust are core to scalable AI
How D&B integrates social media, merchant, and geospatial data into risk scoring
The role of GenAI in entity resolution and customer engagement
How D&B.AI Labs helps clients co-create GenAI solutions with enterprise-grade oversight

How P&G’s AI Factory is Powering Scalable Digital Transformation with CIO Seth Cohen May 22, 2025

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“We start with capability, not technology.”

Seth Cohen, Chief Information Officer of $84B consumer goods leader Procter & Gamble, joins Peter High on Technovation to share how P&G is transforming through data-driven innovation, a robust AI factory, and end-to-end supply chain visibility.

Seth, who previously held CIO roles at PepsiCo and Reckitt Benckiser, unpacks P&G’s digital flywheel from freeing siloed data and scaling AI use cases to upskilling IT talent and building a quantum-ready future. He also explains how the Pampers Club app connects consumer insights with factory-level data, and why agentic AI could make dashboards obsolete.

Key topics include:

P&G’s enterprise data strategy and AI factory approach
Creating supply chain transparency across 11 categories
Upskilling IT and the broader workforce for digital fluency
Building a reasoning model-ready AI platform with identity controls

Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes on Marketcraft and the Future of the American Economy May 19, 2025

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“Marketcraft isn’t left or right—it’s a method,” says Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook and author of Marketcrafters. In this episode, Hughes and host Peter High explore how governments have shaped U.S. markets over the past century.

They discuss economic history, policy strategy, and the role of institutions like the Federal Reserve and RFC in stabilizing the economy.

Key highlights include:

Why the Fed is an overlooked example of successful marketcraft
How the U.S. semiconductor industry was saved through coordinated policy
The structural failure of U.S. healthcare markets
Distinguishing industrial policy from broader economic strategy
Hughes’s call for expert-driven, stable institutions in a volatile era

How St. Jude CIO Keith Perry Uses Digital Innovation to Transform Pediatric Care May 15, 2025

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“If St. Jude doesn’t do it, who will?” That mission-driven mindset fuels innovation at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Keith Perry, Chief Information Officer of St. Jude, about how he is leveraging technology to enhance the patient journey and accelerate research into pediatric catastrophic diseases.

Keith shares how his nearly decade-long tenure has driven transformation through a strategic six-year, $12.9B plan, including the implementation of Epic and Workday, GPU-enabled research infrastructure, and a concierge-style patient mobile app. He also explores the global impact of St. Jude’s outreach in under-resourced countries, the evolution of data science partnerships, and the future of AI and cybersecurity in healthcare.

Key topics include:

Delivering patient-centered care with a customized mobile app
Aligning technology strategy with long-term institutional goals
Partnering with data science leaders to scale research insights
Elevating information security as a shared executive priority

How Novant Health’s CDIO Is Scaling AI and Future-Proofing Healthcare May 12, 2025

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Transforming healthcare through digital innovation and AI.
In this episode, Peter High speaks with Onyeka Nchege, EVP and Chief Digital and Information Officer at Novant Health, a $10B healthcare network with over 900 locations across the southeastern United States. Onyeka shares how his team is building a future-ready digital infrastructure to scale operations, improve patient care, and expand access through cloud migration, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence.

He also highlights Novant Health’s Institute for Innovation and AI, explains how they embed responsible AI practices, and outlines the vision for the hospital of the future including virtual care, virtual nursing, and a data-driven approach to personalized healthcare. Onyeka also speaks to the culture he’s fostering within the IT organization, his lessons from five previous CIO roles, and how the right leadership bench powers transformation.

Key topics include:

Creating a $30B scalable health system through cloud and EMR strategy
Building AI governance through the Institute for Innovation and AI
Expanding virtual care: telestroke, virtual nursing, menopause clinics
Fostering IT culture, mentorship, and leadership development at scale

How Stanford HAI Defines Human-Centered AI May 08, 2025

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How should global leaders govern artificial intelligence responsibly without stifling innovation?

In this episode, Russell Wald, Executive Director at Stanford HAI, joins Peter High to explore how universities, policymakers, and industry must collaborate to keep AI human-centered. Wald shares takeaways from the AI Index, explains how China is narrowing the performance gap, and outlines why academic institutions are vital to ethical AI leadership.

Key highlights include:

HAI’s concentric model of human-centered design
The AI Index’s global benchmarking methodology
Why China is narrowing the frontier AI performance gap
The pivotal role of public investment in universities
How ethics reviews are embedded in HAI’s research lifecycle

How Wolters Kluwer Became a Cloud-First, AI-Driven Enterprise with CIO Mark Sherwood May 05, 2025

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In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Mark Sherwood, Chief Information Officer at Wolters Kluwer, a €6B global professional services and software firm headquartered in the Netherlands. Mark joined as CIO in December 2024 and has helped accelerate the company’s transition from a traditional publishing business to a tech-centric organization.

Mark discusses how his global team supports the company’s AI- and cloud-first strategy, the role of business relationship managers (BRMs) in bridging tech and business, and how a strong innovation culture helps Wolters Kluwer stay ahead in the digital age. With nearly half the company’s products leveraging AI and a robust multi-cloud foundation, the firm is redefining access to expert content in legal, tax, healthcare, and finance.

Key topics include:

Building a multi-cloud foundation for global resilience and innovation
The evolution from a holding company to a unified operating mode
Scaling AI across products while protecting intellectual property
Driving cultural change through transparency, inclusion, and BRM alignment
Balancing cutting-edge tech with ethical AI and data governance

Inside TransUnion’s OneTru: Building a Platform for the AI Era May 01, 2025

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In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Venkat Achanta, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology, Data & Analytics Officer at TransUnion, a $4.5B global information and insights company. Since joining after TransUnion’s acquisition of Neustar, Venkat has led a sweeping modernization of the company’s tech stack—culminating in the creation of OneTru, a platform powering data governance, analytics, and AI innovation at scale.

Venkat shares how his 7,000-person global team built a single pane of glass to manage petabytes of sensitive data across 30+ countries and hundreds of products. He also discusses how TransUnion’s OneTru and TruIQ platforms are enabling internal teams and external clients to rapidly build, deploy, and govern real-time machine learning models.

Key insights include:

The architectural vision behind TransUnion’s unified platform strategy
How OneTru boosts fraud detection by 50% while reducing false positives
Why TransUnion is embedding agentic AI workflows across its ecosystem
Lessons from merging 10+ tech stacks post-acquisition, including Neustar

Tune in to learn how TransUnion is reshaping analytics and decision-making in a highly regulated, data-driven industry.

American Express: Scaling AI with Trust, Governance, and Continuous Modernization Apr 28, 2025

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“Technology at American Express provides the foundation for everything we do at the company,” shares Ravi Radhakrishnan, EVP & CIO of American Express, as he outlines the company’s AI strategy, continuous modernization philosophy, and data-driven customer focus.

In this episode, Ravi offers an inside look at how American Express is evolving its technology foundation to power trust, security, and world-class service. From AI governance to the Intuitive Servicing Portal, he breaks down key strategies shaping the company’s digital future.

Key highlights:

Continuous modernization through foundational technology reuse
AI governance via a Generative AI Council and risk frameworks
Data as a strategic asset for fraud detection and customer personalization
Curating a diverse AI ecosystem with flexible enablement layers
Future trends in AI, including agentic AI and quantum intersections

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