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Among other topics, Steve discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

An overview of Avnet and his responsibilities as the CIO
Navigating Avnet through the technological changes of the past decade
Delivering continuous improvement to achieve enterprise effectiveness
Avnet’s journey to the cloud
Advantages of being an externally-facing CIO
Criteria to distinguish the use of waterfall from agile for software development projects
Insights he has garnered from serving as the chairman of the board at a local publications company
Eye on the Trends: Industrial Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Mobility

Steve Phillip’s Biography
Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Steve Phillips to the broadcast. Steve is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Avnet, a $26 billion distributor of electronic components, computer products, and embedded technology. In that role, he is responsible for delivering competitive differentiation and enterprise efficiency through technology enablement. Steve was recently inducted into CIO Magazine’s CIO Hall of Fame, and is the recipient of several other awards to recognize his leadership at Avnet.

Steve joined Avnet through the 2005 acquisition of Memec, where he served the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Steve also held the position of Chief Information Officer at Gateway Inc., among several other leadership roles.

Steve received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Essex in Electronic Engineering and a post-graduated Diploma in Management Studies form the University of West London.

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Among other topics, Diana discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

How prior experience as a Workday customer has helped her transition into her role as the CIO
Her thoughts on the evolving responsibilities of today’s CIO
Tying enterprise architecture and microservices to empower business partners and stakeholders
How technology advancement has driven collaboration among Workday’s C-suite executives
IT’s role in prospecting emerging technologies to create competitive advantage for the organization
A glimpse into the priorities and strategic plans of the team she leads at Workday
Eye on the Trends:Big Data, Analytics, Virtual Personal Assistants

Diana McKenzie’s Biography

Diana McKenzie is the Chief Information Officer at Workday, a one billion dollar provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. In that role, she is responsible for the mobilization of the technology that fuels the growth of the digital leader, and for being engaged at the forefront of the customer experience.

Prior to joining Workday, Diana worked at Amgen. She also held several leadership positions at Eli Lily.

Diana received a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Computer Information Systems.

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Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

The three innovation pillars that underpin Facebook’s ten-year roadmap
The talent needs of Facebook extending beyond computer engineering
Strategies for unifying a diverse talent pool to achieve a common goal
Engaging in partnerships within the industry to accelerate the rate of technological change
How utilizing Facebook in the workplace can bolster productivity and collaborative efforts among employees
The idea of “cultural engineering” to build cohesion across an organization

Mike Schroepfer’s Biography

Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Mike Schroepfer to the broadcast. Mike is the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. In that role, he leads the development of the technology strategies and teams that will enable Facebook to connect billions of people around the world and make significant breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

Before Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at various startups, including a digital effects software startup where he developed software that has been used in several major motion pictures.

Mike holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.

I met with Mike in his office at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California last week, and our conversation covered Facebook’s ten-year plan, and the three innovation pillars that he leads. Examples of innovations that the organizations are working on in the near and long-term, the methods he uses to evaluate recruits and employees, the way in which Facebook has maintained its innovative edge despite its extraordinary growth, among a variety of other topics.

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Among other topics, Roger discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Exploring the roles and responsibilities of the Chief Innovation Officer
Defining innovation, and the various types that exist at Pitney Bowes
The importance of cultivating an ecosystem of partners to accelerate efforts for innovation
The global innovation team at Pitney Bowes and how it approaches and organizes its work
Processes and methodologies for incubating innovation
Where Pitney Bowes draws its inspiration for innovation
Eye on the trends: Internet of Everything, Commerce Cloud, Digital

Roger Pilc’s Biography

Roger is the Chief Innovation Officer of Pitney Bowes, a $4 billion e-commerce solutions provider. In that role, Roger is responsible for spearheading the organization’s innovation efforts to help its customers succeed in an increasingly complex digital and physical world. Prior to Pitney Bowes, Roger worked for CA Technologies where he held leadership roles as a Senior Vice President and General Manager. He also held positions as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton.

Roger received a bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, & Government from Cornell University, a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Among other topics, Jeff discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

How Jeff’s role at Google (and the company itself) has evolved since he joined in 1999, and his current role as the head of Google Brain
How Google resists organizational stasis and remains innovative, despite growing into a corporate behemoth
Google’s vision for an AI first world, and how the company applies its fundamental AI research to improving and creating new products and service
Trends in artificial intelligence such as open source software and conversational assistants
Major challenges AI presents
How companies in any industry can leverage artificial intelligence

Biography

Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Jeff Dean to the broadcast. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow, currently leading Google Brain, the search giant’s initiative to build large-scale artificial neural networks. Jeff also leads the development of TensorFlow, Google’s open-source library of machine learning algorithms.

Jeff joined Google in 1999 and had a leading role in building much of the core technology and infrastructure of the company

Jeff earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota where he studied Computer Science and Economics. In 2009, Jeff was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and was also named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS).

I recently caught up with Jeff by phone at his office in Mountain View, California. Our conversation covered World Class IT principle, one, People, as we discussed how Google continues to attract, retain, and train top engineering talent; principle three, Project & Portfolio Management, as we discussed Google’s process for productizing its AI research and bringing it to market, and principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, as we discussed how Jeff determines who to interact with inside and outside the company. We also discussed Google’s vision for the transition from the mobile first world, to an AI first world, and how Jeff and the Google Brain team are building the infrastructure to bring this vision to life.

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Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

The ongoing digital transformation that is taking place in the farms of America
How Land O’Lakes’ IT has evolved from a supporting function to an industry leader in innovation
An overview of technologies that he and his team have developed to help revolutionize the way farmers work
Successful management practices that he uses to streamline IT with the needs of the business, its partners, and clients
Important emerging skills to be considered by all aspiring technologists
The role of cybersecurity at Land O’Lakes
Methods to prospect new technologies for the business
Eye on the Trends:Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence

Mike Macrie’s Biography

Mike Macrie is the Chief Information Officer of Land O’Lakes, a $15 billion agricultural- cooperative. In that role, Mike is responsible for leading the organization’s digital transformation while overseeing the operations of information technology. Through his work at Land O’Lakes, Mike was awarded the Forbes CIO Innovation Award.

Prior to joining Land O’Lakes, Mike worked for Ingersoll Rand where he was the Vice President of Software Architecture and Strategy. Mike also held positions at G5 Technologies and AlliedSignal Aerospace (Honeywell).

Mike received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell University, where he was also a member of the varsity baseball team, and he also has an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

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Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Target, and the design decisions of the workplace
The methods he uses to maintain customer prospective
How he sees differences in customer behaviors between Europe and the United States
The disappearance of “omnichannel” terminology in retail
The absence of a digital-physical divide in retail
The management of “offline” versus “online”
The organizational systems he has used to promote efficiency
What his priorities are for the foreseeable future
Target’s reaction to information breaches and improved security
Eye on the Trends: Open Source

Mike McNamara’s Biography Mike McNamara is the Chief Information Officer at Target, a well-known retail business with over $72 billion in revenue. As CIO, Mike is responsible for information technology operations throughout the retail company’s stores, distribution centers, headquarters locations and international facilities. Prior to Target, Mike worked at Tesco, serving as Chief Information Officer, Operations Development Director, UK IT Director, and CTO of tesco.com during his over 16 years with the company. Mike received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from University College Dublin.

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Among other topics, Nick discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

The increasing need for a focus on ethical behavior in a technology-driven world
The role of existential risks in the field of research
Current trends that are fueling the advancement of artificial intelligence
The inherent implications that artificial intelligence has on the human civilization
The complication that artificial intelligence presents as it is introduced to the business landscape
The Future of Humanity Institute that he oversees
People of influence on Nick’s personal development and the work he conducts

Nick Bostrom’s Biography

Nick Bostrom is the author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, a book that explains the impending threats that artificial intelligence presents to the human civilization, and ways to co-exist with its presence. He gave a TED talk on the subject of machine intelligence in 2015. Nick is also a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and the Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary research center at the University of Oxford whose mission is to enable leading researchers bring the tools of mathematics, philosophy and science to bear on big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.

Nick received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Gothenburg. He received his master’s degree in Philosophy and Physics at the University of Stockholm, a master’s degree in Computational Neuroscience at King’s College London, and a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics.

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Among other topics, Greg discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

Motorola Solutions, and his role as CIO of the organization
Items on his roadmap for the year ahead
How he engages external customers and utilize those insights to create his IT strategy
The ways in which he interacts with other CIOs at customer organizations
The processes and skills that have been necessary to shift to a “customer-first” culture within IT
The methods he used to shift IT from a support organization to becoming a strategic enabler
How he has worked to insource some previously outsourced business processes
His career path through the pharmaceutical industry to his eventual hiring at Motorola Solutions
Eye on the Trends: The Internet of Things, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and the Cloud

Greg Meyers’ Biography

Greg Meyers is the Chief Information Officer of Motorola Solutions, a $6 Billion telecommunications equipment provider that succeeded Motorola Inc. following the spin-off of Motorola’s mobile phone division. As CIO, Greg is responsible for the entire IT organization company-wide.

Prior to Motorola Solutions, Greg worked in multiple technology roles within the pharmaceutical industry, including stints as the Vice President of IT at Biogen, Vice President and CIO of Novartis Consumer Health, and Director of Sales and Customer Technology at Johnson and Johnson.

Greg received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Rutgers University – Camden and his MBA from Temple University.

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Among other topics, Atticus discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:

His journey across multiple parts of Intuit, culminating with the CIO position
Working in a technology company where all employees are tech-savvy
The advantage of being both a “consumer” and now producer of IT’s value to the organization
Methods IT has used to become “product leaders” rather than “order takers” within the organization
How he has ensured that the team understands how “customer-centric” technology is used within the organization
The skills and roles that are rising in importance within Intuit
Advice he would give to CIOs not at technology companies, as a CIO who has worked at multiple tech-centric organizations
Resources he uses to remain abreast of innovation and technology
Eye on the Trends: Data, and the shift to managed and hosted solutions

Atticus Tysen’s Biography

Atticus Tysen is the Chief Information Officer of Intuit Inc., a $4 billion software organization that develops financial and tax preparation software and services. In that role, Atticus is responsible for the applications supporting the company’s HR, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Support organizations. Atticus has been with Intuit since 2002, holding multiple roles both within and outside IT.

Prior to Intuit, Atticus was the Vice President of Engineering at Aveo Inc. He also previously worked as a software engineering manager at Octel and Apple Computer.

Atticus earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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