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

Latest Episodes:

From Projects to Value Streams: Gilbane’s CTO on Outcome-Driven IT Mar 23, 2026

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What happens when IT stops delivering projects—and starts delivering outcomes?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Alex Gutman, CTO of Gilbane, about how a 150-year-old construction leader is transforming its IT operating model around value streams. Gutman shares how aligning technology to client-defined value is driving agility, accountability, and measurable business impact.

Key highlights include:

Transitioning from siloed projects to outcome-driven value streams
Building faster learning loops through cross-functional alignment
Treating data as a trusted asset to enable scalable AI
Applying AI to accelerate RFP responses and field execution
Designing architecture for flexibility, speed, and long-term differentiation

Scaling Technology at Omnicom: Craig Cuyar on Post-Acquisition Transformation Mar 19, 2026

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What does it take to scale technology across one of the world’s largest marketing organizations?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Craig Cuyar, Global CIO of Omnicom, about leading technology transformation across a $25B global enterprise.

Craig shares how Omnicom is evolving from a holding company to a more centralized operating model, particularly in the wake of its acquisition of Interpublic Group.

Key topics include:

Managing post-acquisition integration at global scale
Leveraging first-party data and proprietary platforms
Using AI’s predictive models to agentic workflows, to transform marketing
Balancing centralization, outsourcing, and business-aligned IT leadership

Why Good Companies Go Bad: Eric Ries on Corporate Corruption Mar 16, 2026

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Why do so many successful companies eventually lose their way?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Eric Ries, entrepreneur, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, and author of The Lean Startup and his new book Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great.

Eric argues that corporate corruption rarely begins with bad actors. Instead, it emerges from organizational design—governance structures, incentives, and metrics that gradually push companies away from their original mission.

Key highlights from the episode:

Corporate corruption is often a design problem, not a character problem
Short-term pressure often acts as an “invisible force” inside organizations
Organizations behave like “superorganisms,” developing their own intelligence and moral character
Metrics can distort behavior when companies mistake the measurement for the goal

Software to Digital Workers: Sandhya Venkatachalam on the AI Economy Mar 13, 2026

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Is AI evolving beyond software into a new form of digital labor?

In this episode of Technoventure, Peter High speaks with Sandhya Venkatachalam, Co-Founder and General Partner at Axiom Partners, about the next phase of artificial intelligence.

Sandhya argues that AI is moving from a tool that assists humans to systems capable of performing entire jobs, from data science to network engineering. This shift could expand AI’s economic impact far beyond traditional software markets.

Key topics include:

Why AI is transitioning from software tools to digital workers
How Axiom Partners is building an AI-native venture capital firm
Opportunities for AI in industries like construction, legal, and infrastructure
The importance of creating insanely useful and usable products
How founders can build companies serving billions of people globally

Kellie Romack on How ServiceNow Generated $355M in AI Value Mar 12, 2026

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Enterprise leaders are investing heavily in AI, but many struggle to generate measurable business value.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Kellie Romack of ServiceNow about how the company is scaling AI across its operations to produce real, quantifiable results.

ServiceNow has already generated $355 million in AI-driven value internally, with automation resolving many service requests instantly and improving operational efficiency across the enterprise.

Key topics include:

How ServiceNow runs its own platform internally as Customer Zero
Examples of AI resolving 90% of some IT service requests on first touch
Why AI governance and oversight are essential at enterprise scale
How automation transforms the workforce rather than replacing it
Lessons for CIOs seeking real ROI from AI investments

From Encounters to Journeys: Rajan Mohan on Digital Healthcare Transformation Mar 09, 2026

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Healthcare systems have traditionally been designed around individual encounters, not the patient journey.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Rajan Mohan, Chief Marketing and Digital Experience Officer at Ascension Health, about how digital platforms, marketing strategy, and AI are reshaping how healthcare organizations engage patients.

Drawing from leadership roles at Marriott International and Qatar Airways, Rajan explains how consumer-grade experience design can transform healthcare delivery.

Key highlights include:

Why healthcare must shift from encounters to coordinated patient journeys
How marketing and digital teams can align around shared growth outcomes
The role of AI in expanding healthcare capacity
How personalization removes barriers to accessing care
Why pricing transparency matters more than faster appointments

The Thinking Machine: How Jensen Huang Won the GPU War for NVIDIA Mar 05, 2026

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In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Stephen Witt, award-winning journalist and author of The Thinking Machine, which has been named Business Book of the Year by Financial Times. Witt writes about Jensen Huang’s improbable journey from near-bankruptcy in the 1990s GPU wars to leading NVIDIA at the center of the AI revolution. Witt unpacks how NVIDIA defeated nearly 70 competitors, why Huang began targeting “zero-billion-dollar markets,” and how CUDA became the backbone of modern AI.

Key highlights from the episode:

How investing in zero-billion-dollar markets created durable platform advantage
The emerging bull and bear cases for NVIDIA in robotics, edge computing, and global competition
The strategic lessons NVIDIA extracted from surviving a 70-competitor GPU market
Why operating with a constant “near-death” mindset shaped long-term execution discipline

How Marriott’s Chief Revenue & Technology Officer Is Turning IT into a Growth Engine Mar 02, 2026

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What happens when you put revenue and technology under one executive leader?

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Drew Pinto, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue and Technology Officer at Marriott International, a $26 billion hospitality leader approaching its 100-year anniversary. Pinto shares how Marriott is transforming technology from a support function into a strategic growth engine — tightly integrated with capital allocation, AI experimentation, and commercial outcomes.

Key highlights include:

Why Marriott merged revenue and IT under a single executive mandate
How disciplined capital allocation is shaping AI investments
The shift from “tech for tech’s sake” to measurable business impact
Why most “technology problems” are actually data problems
How a new product operating model is breaking down silos

🎧 Listen to learn how modern CIOs can align IT strategy directly to top-line growth.

Bubble or Breakthrough? How CIOs Should Think About the AI Tech Boom Feb 27, 2026

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Is AI just another tech bubble or the defining platform shift of this era?

Duncan Davidson, Co-Founder and General Partner at Bullpen Capital, argues that the answer lies in one critical distinction: Is the technology being used for its core purpose? In this episode of Technoventure, Duncan draws on his experience across the PC boom, dot-com era, mobile, and now AI to explain why real adoption signals durability.

He also explores why CIOs can’t afford to sit out a boom, how AI agents may disrupt the SaaS model, and why history suggests productivity revolutions create more opportunity than they destroy. For technology leaders navigating board-level AI pressure, this conversation reframes the question from timing the bubble to strategically participating in the inflection.

Key insights include:

Why core-use adoption determines whether AI is hype or a true platform shift
Why leaders must participate in tech booms rather than try to time the peak
How to distinguish defensible AI innovation from fragile “wrapper” plays
What historical signals indicate when a technology boom is nearing exhaustion

Defining, Measuring, and Communicating the Value of AI Feb 26, 2026

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How do you scale AI in a regulated enterprise without risking trust, compliance, or credibility?

In this episode of Technovation, Nick Colisto, CIO of Avery Dennison, and Sathish Muthukrishnan, Chief Information, Data & Digital Officer at Ally Financial, share how they are moving from AI pilots to measurable enterprise impact.

From governance-first implementation inside a federally regulated bank to CFO-grade ROI tracking across a global manufacturing enterprise, this conversation focuses on the discipline required to operationalize AI at scale.

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