Cio Talk Network Podcast

Business leaders are looking to lessen the impact of current global disruption while fortifying against future ones. They want to acquire new capabilities quickly through mergers and acquisitions, reimagine customer relationship building, and improve their cybersecurity posture to minimize risk while controlling costs. How well are IT and Security leaders supporting this business reinvention effort? Guest: Ketan Pandit Title: Chief Information Officer, QBE North America For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/supporting-business-reinvention-to-alleviate-global-disruptions

It is one thing to envision an AI concept, develop a prototype, and take it to production. It is another to scale such efforts to build and manage a robust enterprise-grade AI pipeline. How can organizations adopt product engineering, lifecycle management, and governance disciplines to scale AI efforts ensuring performance and reliability? Guest 1: Mark Miller Title: Chief Information Officer, Party City Guest 2: Prasanna Kumar Burri Title: Group Chief Information Officer, Dangote Industries For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-scaling-ai

From timely patient diagnostics, proper treatment to reliable recovery, vision can play a critical role in enhancing patient care, which requires reliable, compatible, cost-effective, energy-efficient, and high-performing vision technology solutions. Whether it is diagnostic imaging, medical carts, or pill dispensers, embedded vision can change the game. However, due to inadequate knowledge in camera technology, lack of technical and engineering expertise, supply chain fragmentation, and improper device support, medical device companies struggle to incorporate vision in their products timely and confidently. Starting from defining a vision playbook to establishing camera integration standards, how can we shape this much-needed, rapidly growing vision ecosystem to drive the best outcomes for the patients, providers, and medical device companies? Guest: Maharajan Veerbahu Title: Co-Founder & Vice President of Embedded Services, e-con Systems For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.c

If appropriately harnessed, even the small ideas can lead to a big impact on the way we acquire, serve, and retain our customers. But how to keep those ideas coming, testing them, and operationalizing the ones that show promise timely? But, how to do so despite the constraints posed by significant disruptions like the pandemic? Guest 1: Miao Song Title: Global Chief Information Officer - Petcare, MARS Guest 2: Byron Clymer Title: Chief Information Officer, Lockton Companies For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/from-small-ideas-to-big-impact

From fighting health care inequality to expanding access to medicines, from stopping infectious diseases to keeping healthcare clean, and from preparing for future epidemics to gaining public trust, the World Health Organization and the public health departments worldwide have a critical task at hand. The recent pandemic showed us that there is a complex journey ahead into an unpredictable future. How are the World Health Organization (WHO) and the national public health departments worldwide working together to harness available resources and innovative technologies to deliver on their promises? Guest: Bernardo Mariano Junior Title: Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Digital Health & Innovation, World Health Organization For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/delivering-on-the-world-health-promise

How well is your organization able to support its workers as they ride an emotional roller coaster due to losses in the family, disrupted life conditions, and burnout at work? How are you balancing your efforts and investments toward employee wellbeing with the task or reenergizing and realigning your organization’s priorities to stay sustainable and profitable as a business? Guest 1: Kathleen Larkin Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer, South Jersey Industries Guest 2: Samuel Sudhakar Title: Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology Services, California State University, San Bernardino For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/balancing-employee-and-business-wellbeing

While IT is always seen as enabling business transformation and related initiatives, but not always does it elevate its status as a partner. Is there a playbook one can use to effectively enable the transformation journey to earn that stripe. Guest: Leonard Brinson Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, South Jersey Industries For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/steps-to-effectively-enabling-business-transformation-to-earn-a-partner-status-for-it

The often shifting sales tax rules and regulations in over 14,000 state and local tax jurisdictions in the USA make sales tax compliance management a daunting task. Supporting ongoing manual changes to 3rd party on-premise business applications increases the burden on IT teams already juggling multiple priorities. Sovos claims its technology solution eliminates this burden on IT and grants the tax and finance departments complete autonomy to handle indirect tax processes, timely and valid sales and use tax self-assessments, accurate reporting, and exemption certification across jurisdictions. Is this claim too good to be true? Can the Sovos solution hold up to scrutiny and deliver on the sales taxation agility promise? Guest 1: John Landy Title: Chief Technology Officer, Sovos Guest 2: Terry Melnik Title: General Manager, Sales and Use Tax, Sovos For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/can-sovos-enable-it-to-streamline-sales-tax-controls-and-future-proof-your-tax-compliance

Running a relevant business with a competitive edge today requires a scalable, reliable, and secure operation ready to support the future of work. One where remote and on-the-go employees, powered by seamless digital collaboration and secure access to data and applications, have the clarity and confidence to meet your customer demands. One that simplifies and consolidates productivity platforms and solutions that helps them discover the freedom to work and create value, any time and anywhere, and enjoy the work-life balance they want at the same time. And one that allows you to respond to market changes quickly and effectively. How can you build such a resilient and future-fit business that grows at the speed of change? Guest: Sireesha Mandava Title: Chief Information Officer and VP of Innovation, GreenPath Financial Wellness For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/remote-work-is-here-to-stay-how-to-make-it-scalable-and-secure

Due to the increasing adoption of a data-driven approach to work and decision-making, analytics leadership is essential for an organization’s growth. As an analytics leader, how do you get clear commitments from management and users about data and information approaches? How do you prevent missing simple yet critical patterns due to cognitive overload? How do you foster a collaborative and zealous environment that offers individuals psychological safety to speak up without hesitation and share unique information? Guest: Christopher Hutchins Title: VP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/how-to-be-an-effective-analytics-leader

Leadership is influence, and relationships play an essential role. To ace your performance appraisal as a security leader, you need to develop healthy relationships with the internal security team, organizational peers, management, vendors, and customers. How can CISOs build their relationship capital with all constituents to enable business growth while keeping the fort secure? Guest: Rob Hornbuckle Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Allegiant For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/building-your-relationship-capital-as-a-ciso

The year 2020 taught us a lot. We became candid and openly vulnerable among our peers. While bearing enormous stress, we came together, came up with more new ideas, and tried new things than ever before. How can we sustain this creativity and persistence and emerge from the crisis to build a long-term advantage for the business? Guest: Danielle Maurici Arnone Title: Chief Information Officer, Reckitt Benckiser (RB) For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/sustaining-an-employee-driven-culture-of-innovation

Going alone may make things a little faster for business transformation, but taking others along would take you farther. While this conventional wisdom sounds logical, organizational change initiatives often have lackluster results, or they fail due to siloed strategy, unilateral decision making, and disconnected execution. What is so complicated about Inclusion? How should leaders drive transformation using Inclusion for best results? Guest: Viren Shah Title: Chief Digital Officer, GE Appliances, a Haier company For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/using-inclusion-to-drive-transformation

Covid-19 forced B2B companies to suspend the face to face marketing and sales models. What are the digital alternatives to the traditional models, and are organizations ready to leverage them successfully? What should change in marketing and sales strategies, processes, channels, people, and tools to pave the path to purchase with digital experiences? Guest 1: Ann Dozier Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits Guest 2: John Wittig Title: Chief Commercial Officer, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/paving-the-path-to-purchase-with-digital-experiences

Seniors deal with loneliness and financial predators besides aging and illness issues. With mounting healthcare and living costs, they also need to stay financially secure. How are the organizations serving this target customer base leveraging technology to reimagine their business models, products, and service delivery approach to enable safe, comfortable, and healthy living for seniors? Guest: Andrea Ciccolini Title: Global Chief Information Officer, Amplifon For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/reimagining-senior-care

Companies are digitally transforming their business to transform customer experiences and enable sustained competitive advantage. They are also adopting agile principles to stay fast on their feet and outpace their competitors. How integrated and synchronized is the agile transformation effort at these organizations with the digital transformation initiatives? While demonstrating digital leadership, are the top executives, including the C-Suite, functioning as agile leadership teams? How can organizations repurpose and leverage the Agile Manifesto, which otherwise was only developed for software development, to drive an agile digital transformation? Guest 1: Nicholas Colisto Title: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Avery Dennison Guest 2: Kevin Jones Title: Chief Information Officer, Indiana Department of Child Services For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/leveraging-the-agile-manifesto-for-digital-transformation

In a fast-changing market and global uncertainty, only the most innovative, bold, and flexible wealth managers stand a chance in delivering real value to their customers. How are financial institutions leveraging digital to provide proper organizational support for quality research with agile decision-making, enabling reliable portfolio and risk management that is much needed for keeping customer confidence? Guest 1: Ram Nagappan Title: Chief Information Officer, BNY Mellon | Pershing Guest 2: Rob Zelinka Title: Chief Information Officer, Jack Henry & Associates For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/digital-enabled-wealth-management

Cybersecurity is no different from a sports car’s brakes, which is only to keep us safe, not to slow us down as we test our businesses’ limits during such unprecedented times of digital growth and disruptive change. How should a CISO help executive management understand cybersecurity, why it is essential for growth, and how to leverage it to maximize digital potential? Guest: Juan Carlos Title: Chief Information Security Officer, Metlife For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/why-cybersecurity-is-important-for-business-growth

Due to the pandemic, both the healthcare organizations and patients were pushed into trying virtual care. While the initial results are encouraging, significant challenges remain. Doctors struggle with technological, licensing, jurisdictional issues, and many patients with bandwidth. Hospital systems are trying to integrate virtual care into their clinical workflow and bolstering their technology infrastructure while juggling HIPAA compliance and security concerns. How can policymakers, healthcare organizations, and medical practitioners collaborate to enable effective virtual care? Guest: Jason Joseph Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Spectrum Health For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/enabling-effective-virtual-care

Even with easy access to AI and advanced analytics technologies, the total cost of getting data wrong can be huge, with organizations trying to exploit digital opportunities ahead. How can leaders enable data-driven enterprise DNA with relevance, completeness, and transparency of the data models as the foundation? Guest 1: Dante Tellez Guevara Title: Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Chubb Guest 2: David Wright Title: Chief Data Officer, Commerzbank For more details and related content: https://www.ciotalknetwork.com/enabling-data-driven-enterprise-dna