The InformationWeek Podcast

In this episode, Gourav Pani, chief business officer at GoDaddy, and Eddie Fox, CTO at MetTel, discuss decisions their teams had to make on whether to modernize legacy systems or to wrap them around AI.

Grant Veazey, CTO of Ensemble Health Partners, and Sebastien Jean, CTO of Phison Electronics, discuss how they assess data that might seem perfect.

Quais Taraki, EnterpriseDB's CTO, and Rosalyn Curato, chief innovation officer for Vouched, talk retaking control from agents that go rogue.

Jay Miller, CISO at Paessler, and Andrew Missey, CTO of Convos, discuss how they decide when it is time to start a project over.

Cameron Etezadi, CTO of LaunchDarkly, and Oleksandr Paraska, CTO of Togal.AI, discuss how they deal with AI-generated code that conceals hard-to-find errors.

As companies make challenging decisions on where they will allocate their tech investments, is quantum computing still part of your organization's landscape? Eric Liebowitz, CISO for Thales, and Rob Kim, CTO for Presidio, share their perspectives on whether their organizations have shifted tech investments into other resources and needs that offer more near-term ROI, or if plans for quantum computing remain part of the strategy. Then they face off with the Questionable Ideas tabletop exercise.

Larridin’s Ameya Kanitkar and NetSPI’s Eddie Taliaferro discuss policies to keep unsanctioned AI or mobile devices from compromising the IT environment.

Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to talk about resources and methods to ensure continuity.

Enterprises can feel pressured to at least say they keep pace with the latest IT innovations, even if there is no immediate internal gain. The board of directors, customers, and members of the C-suite might like to hear that a company is modernizing, but how does that effort translate into real returns? What litmus tests do CTOs, CIOs and other tech leaders use to assess results from modernization plans? How do they convey to other stakeholders that the new, much-hyped tech they want might not lead to deliverable returns? In this episode, Antoine Shagoury, CTO for Kyndryl, and Russell Levy, chief strategy and AI officer for ZoomInfo, discussed these issues. They also shared what tech leaders want the operations side of the business to communicate their needs regarding modernization and the impact they hope to see. Levy and Shagoury also tackled the “Questionable Ideas ‘R’ Us” tabletop exercise, facing off with hobgoblins, kobolds, and gremlins with misguided ideas on how to realize ROI from modernization.

What happens when companies have new releases on deck, and it is clear that the dev team is spread too thin? Teams are always under pressure to deliver, but what if a project calls for overtime across the organization? What happens if those teams are pulled in competing directions? When major projects are at stake, development teams may face a less-than-ideal circumstance: a race to meet deadlines with near-mandatory overtime. Such “crunch time” can mean team members get pulled in different directions with little relief in sight until the project is done. Under such circumstances, CTOs must prioritize where development teams focus, but what happens if other IT resources also need urgent support? New software and apps may need to be delivered, yet existing apps could still need attention. In this episode of the podcast, Ken Ringdahl, CTO of Emburse, and Larissa Schneider, COO and co-founder of Unframe AI, discuss what happens when teams are spread thin and must deliver, and how they can work to avoid future periods of crunch time. They also navigated the “Questionable Ideas ‘R’ Us” tabletop exercises, helping the fictional company address its crunch time issues.

Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, discuss how organizations can realign when IT goes awry. Internal or external forces can turn an IT ecosystem upside-down, and how CTOs lead the recovery may shorten or prolong the pain. Whether it is an in-house coding error, hardware failure, third-party software implosion, malicious bad actors, or a force of nature that shakes things up, how does tech leadership restore confidence in the tech resources the organization relies on?

Samya Dassarma, CTO of Iterable, and Margaret Dawson, CMO of Chronosphere, discuss navigating wayward tech implementations.