Panel
Modernizing The Tech Landscape
[We are] really getting IT out of the way, so having more of a seamless, self-service type of environment so you can actually enable your business users.”
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We started from 100 or so developers. Now we
have more than 4,000 around the world. ... Without upskilling, without training, that doesn’t go anywhere. If you stretch the organization [without strategy], then it’s difficult to do technology transformation.”
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With AI, we’re trying to solve a problem. We’re not just putting AI in to put AI in. So you have to understand, as a technologist, what the business is trying to solve.”
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Scott Crowder
SVP & CIO, BMC Software
Guido Sacchi
CIO, Global Payments
Carissa Rollins
CIO, Illumina
62%
of CIOs are on board with increasing investment in cybersecurity.
Forbes Research CxO Growth Study 3.0, 2022
[Our culture] is taking and understanding the compliance and regulation, but also leaning forward to basically challenge both technology and science for the benefit of our customers and our warfighter.”
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In terms of offense or growth for our culture, a lot of our job on the technology side is making sure that our team members understand how they ladder up to [our] mission.”
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We are pivoting away from guiding people towards career advancement by jobs and ladders, and moving people to look at careers and development from the perspective of skills. ... It’s a jungle gym, it’s not a ladder.”
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VP & CIO, Northrop Grumman
John Russell
SVP & CTO, W.W. Grainger, Inc.
Jonny LeRoy
EVP & CIO, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Monica Caldas
44%
of CIOs—more than any other C-suite executives—said accelerating diversity and inclusion initiatives is a top talent priority.
Forbes Research CxO Growth Study 3.0, 2022
Panel
Cultures That Are Built To Last
We want to make sure that [AI use is] ethically sound, that we’re not doing anything that would harm anybody or anything, or use data that we don’t want people touching.”
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We’ve tried to let [use cases] emerge from what the organization finds to be valuable, and now we’re thinking about coming back and saying, ‘okay, so which ones do we want to put real money behind?’”
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In healthcare, we have to be really, really careful. ... You don't want to barrel ahead in things like diagnosis or making care decisions or things like that without being very, very thoughtful.”
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SVP & CIO, Adobe
Cynthia Stoddard
SVP & Global CIO, Marsh McLennan
Paul Beswick
SVP & Chief Digital and Analytics Officer, The Cigna Group
Katya Andresen
50%
of CxOs said they have significant concerns regarding the use of generative AI outputs or data inputs due to legal or ethical concerns.
Forbes Research AI Study, 2023
Panel
Separating Hype From Reality In Generative AI
More Technology Insights
VP & Senior
Research Director, Forrester
Matthew Guarini
It’s an absolute critical need to be able to align your [customer experience], your digital and even your marketing and your sales. Companies that do that outperform by 2.4 times.”
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[AI] will only know what is already known. It’ll be good at replacing a lot of really boring writing, but in my little world, it is way, way, way aways from being threatening.”
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Bestselling Author
Michael Lewis
I’ve never seen a great data and analytics practitioner who doesn’t have a healthy degree of curiosity associated with them, because you have to be willing to continuously learn and grow and develop.”
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Chief Data
& Analytics
Officer, National Football League
Paul Ballew
Photo Credit: Jamel Toppin
Speakers discussed how ambitious CIOs are moving on to expansive new roles.
