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510: IBM President and former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst discusses

The differences in IBM and Red Hat’s culture
Why they are looking to inject cultural elements from each other into their own operating models
The three cultural characteristics IBM wants to drive: entrepreneurial spirit, growth mindset, and radical candor
Why IBM decided to spin out the managed services business
Why Red Hat is separate from IBM
The importance and potential of AI
How IBM thinks about where it’s going to invest versus where it’s going to rely on open source

Among a variety of other topics.

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507: Honeywell Chief Digital Technology Officer Sheila Jordan discusses

Why data is the currency of any digital transformation
How the IT organization moved from being 69% outsourced, to much more heavily insource
How the pandemic has supplied the market with a significant amount of world class talent
How Honeywell has successfully identified, hired, and onboarded new employees during the pandemic
Why video is here to stay
The increasing importance of security in a remote workforce
An overview of Honeywell’s connected enterprise
The state of the union of women in IT
Sheila’s take on AI

Among a variety of other topics.

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489: HARMAN International Chief Digital and Information Officer Nick Parrotta discusses

HARMAN International’s focus on driving integrated, seamless, frictionless, excellent experiences to both the automotive and the consumer markets
IT’s focus on four S’s: To make technology simpler, smarter, scalable, and secure
Some of the work the company has done around cyber
how the company has responded to COVID-19
How it is preparing to return to work
How the pandemic has resulted in a rapid acceleration towards a digital workforce
How the company is looking to improve the experience in the car
How Nick’s time at GE helped him become a better leader
His take on 5G, AI, and autonomous vehicles

Among a variety of other topics.

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484: Lenovo CISO Jason Ruger discusses:

How Jason has navigated working with three variations of the same company
How Lenovo operates as a global firm
The pandemic’s impact on the company
How the fact that Lenovo has a major manufacturing operation in Wuhan, China led to early warnings as to the issues that arose related to COVID-19
How the pandemic has led to a 3x increase in cyber attacks and the methods Jason and his team have undertaken to counteract them
Jason’s CIO and CISO responsibilities and how he segments his thoughts processes related to each

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, Intel CIO Archana Deskus discusses,

Archana’s purview as the global CIO of Intel
Archana’s experience coming up to speed in the role
Intel’s response to COVID-19
How COVID-19 will impact the future of work
How her team has been enabling the shift to remote work.
The company’s data-first mindset and their Corporate Data Office
How the company is using artificial intelligence
How the CIO role has evolved in Archana’s 17+ years in the post

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss

COVID’s impact on enterprise
How COVID has impacted the amount of Slack users positively and negatively
The potential challenges a hybrid model of working will present.
How people are more attracted to new features versus core improvement to the existing features
The main difference between Slack and Microsoft Teams and how they can be used together
How the demand for synchronous communication can be disruptive to people’s time management and their ability to focus

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss

Atish’s career path and his experience as CIO of a technology giant
How the CIO role is more similar to CTO roles that he has held in the past
The three main functions he oversees
His thoughts on the two biggest ways COVID will change the business world
The value an executive with technology expertise can bring to a corporate board

Among a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss

An overview of SAIC’s business
Nathan’s purview as CIO
The interesting complexities of being a CIO of a B2G company
Nathan’s first few months as CIO and Nathan’s role in that
SAIC’s acquisition of Engility
SAIC’s goal to make IT customer zero
How the company looks to innovate
Why the cultural element of the future of work is a challenge

and a variety of other topics.

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In this interview, we discuss Kevin’s upbringing in rural Virginia and why he felt he had to leave his hometown to pursue opportunity, how people can have successful careers by using sophisticated technological tools without having to move to technology hubs like Silicon Valley, Kevin’s thoughts on improving technology knowledge and expertise, the importance of teaching kids technology, how COVID-19 will make distance learning and working more prevalent, how AI and ML can be used for positive benefit with healthcare applications, such as disease detection, why everyone must play a role in shaping technologies future, not just a select privileged few, Scott’s take on synthetic biology, among other topics.

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460: Syngenta Group chief information and digital officer Greg Meyers asserts that we are now heading into the third wave of technology change, which he believes can help reverse some of the effects that we have seen with climate change. Agriculture is responsible for about one third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and it consumes about 70 percent of the world’s freshwater supply, which is 30 percent more than we can naturally replenish. This third wave entails bringing computer and data science to the farms to try to find these breakthroughs that allow farmers to continue to increase food production as the world population grows in a way that is more regenerative, keeps more carbon in the soils, and allows us to conserve more water. We also discuss the extreme difference between different market segments that the company operates in, the talent landscape in Switzerland, the evolution of IT going from trying to get IT on the agenda of management teams to extreme excitement around the function, among other topics.

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