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JANUARY 9, 2023

The recent layoffs and hiring freezes by the big tech companies have leveled the playing field somewhat,” Hoemeke says. The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Some organizations have been innovating, transforming, and growing so fast that they haven’t had time to clear up older cost structures that start getting in the way,” says Stewart Buchanan, research vice president on Gartner’s CIO team. Today’s CIO is not just a technology leader, but a business executive.

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CIO

JANUARY 17, 2024

Storytelling is as old as humanity itself and it’s core to the fundamentals of faith, politics, and marketing. I take what I learned in the scriptwriting seminar about passion and the narrative arc into every meeting I attend,” one chief technology officer said.

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Modern CTO

MARCH 25, 2024

He also touches on the unique challenges and innovations in digital influencer marketing. Join us for a journey into the intersection of technology, business, and society with insights from Jim’s experiences. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! His most recent book, Blindsided!

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI being the talk of 2023, [there were questions on] how do we, as a company, handle its adoption, governance, and education about it to our employees,” he says. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“It seems to be an increasing worry — worry over whether the enterprise is secure and its data is protected, because everything else falls to the wayside if that’s not taken care of first,” says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, which provides consulting and managed services in finance technology and other professional areas.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. Databook co-founder and CEO Anand Shah said via email the company wasn’t out to raise additional capital so soon.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

MAY 5, 2023

Lee has thought a lot about what a modern workplace should look like, and he’s innovating new ways of doing business. Designed for IT professionals in the Capitol-area community, the event promises to help attendees master the complexity of digital innovation. conference taking place May 11 at Convene.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

The reinvention of banking is well underway, and we’re excited to welcome three key players — Peter Hazlehurst, co-founder and CEO, Synctera; Laura Spiekerman, co-founder and president, Alloy; and Amanda Swoverland, chief compliance officer, Unit — to the Fintech Stage on September 19 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. billion valuation.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

When asked which challenges most often force IT to redirect time and focus away from strategy and innovation tasks, CIOs most commonly cited staff and skills shortages, changing business conditions, and addressing security threats. They were changing the features so quickly, and we were finding ourselves jumping back and forth.

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CIO

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Supply insightful, actionable data IT should supply sales team members with the timely, accurate data they need to become top performers, recommends Michael Tantrum, national sales director at IT consulting firm Resultant. An AI sales automation tool, for example, can be designed to analyze large datasets and make market predictions.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The ability to pivot quickly to address rapidly changing customer or market demands is driving the need for real-time data. But poor data quality, siloed data, entrenched processes, and cultural resistance often present roadblocks to using data to speed up decision making and innovation. Customers have too many options.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

While the tranche is a fraction of the startup’s previous raise ($70 million), Mythic claims that the tranche will enable it to bring its “next-generation” product — an improved energy-efficient AI processor — to market. Mythic initially worked on projects for the U.S. He wouldn’t elaborate.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

They can code, write poetry, draw in any art style, create PowerPoint slides and website mockups, write marketing copy and emails, and find new vulnerabilities in software and plot holes in unpublished novels. But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. billion this year to $36 billion by 2028.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2024

Plan for cost savings up front Cost optimization starts with defining desired business outcomes and architecting a cost-effective solution right from the start, says Jevin Jensen, research VP, Intelligent CloudOps Market at IDC. Refactoring applications to take advantage of cloud-native services is vital to maximizing cloud ROI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Asset inventory has historically been a challenge when workforces were physically sitting in company offices and on company networks,” said Paul Baird, chief technical security officer at cloud security firm Qualys. Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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TechEmpower CTO

AUGUST 21, 2023

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. At TechEmpower, we’ve conducted more than 50 technical reviews for companies of all sizes, industries, and technical stacks. Keeping up with the competition: You’re a market leader in a fast-growing field.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

“Organizations often get services and applications up and running without having put stewardship in place,” says Marc Johnson, CISO and senior advisor at Impact Advisors, a healthcare management consulting firm. he says “How will unstructured data contribute to revenue or market growth, gaining cost efficiencies or other strategic outcomes?

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Apiumhub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Andrea Tosato – Software Architect at Open Job Metis Andrea is a green software speaker, Microsoft MVP in Azure, and Developer Technologies, recognized for outstanding contributions. Employed as a software architect within an Italian company, Andrea has been actively involved in software development since 2010.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. That could be LinkedIn content or articles you post on your company site.” We’re creating things that don’t exist yet.

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CIO

JANUARY 16, 2024

Given the disruptive potential of generative AI, the stakes are high, as Reuven Cohen, strategic AI advisor to Baxter International, a Fortune 500 company, points out. While he acknowledged LLMs are not on par with human intelligence, Mayar sees the pace of innovation in generative AI as unparalleled. “Gen

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

When I last dedicated an episode of the Tech Whisperers podcast to the state of tech talent, we were just coming out of a multi-year “sellers” market, and we could sense that we were hitting an inflection point. Fast-forward a year and things have changed significantly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

This morning, Anna Heim and Alex Wilhelm dug into the EU insurtech market , interviewing European VCs and collating the biggest recent rounds to take the temperature of the waters across the pond: Alex Timm, CEO, Root. What do these 4 IPOs tell us about the state of the market? Dan Preston, CEO, MetroMile. Luca Bocchio, partner, Accel.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Angel investors like Ham Serunjogi, co-founder and CEO of Chipper Cash; Josh Jones, former co-founder and CTO, Dreamhost; and Tayo Oviosu, co-founder and CEO of Paga also participated. What it meant was that we needed to find how to allow companies to use WhatsApp, voice, SMS effectively ,” he said to TechCrunch. Playing in a $3.6

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CIO

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Host Isaac Sacolick ( @nyike ) was joined by a bevy of consultants and practitioners who had no shortage of advice on the topic. The answers reflected the need for companies to properly prepare for cloud migrations. If #CIO & #CTO took cloud planning as serious as Disney tourists, there’d be less #cloud disasters.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is where Saurabh Mittal, CTO at Mumbai-based Piramal Capital & Housing Finance, wants IT leaders to make a careful distinction. Enterprise technology leaders must differentiate between cost and investment if they want to make the most of their limited budgets.

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CIO

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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CIO

JULY 4, 2023

And if you’re presenting, it’s best to study older board packages and consult with colleagues about how the directors discuss, debate, and finalize key decisions. They assume their board lacks technical expertise In 2019, MIT reported that only 24% of US boards of companies with over $1 billion in revenue were digitally savvy.

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CIO

JANUARY 11, 2024

Navigating uncertainty Like many IT leaders, Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, believes ongoing lack of economic clarity on a wide scale, paired with instability in the tech market, will create new challenges for 2024. Srivastava believes employees will stay motivated if they can see their work is meaningful and delivers value to the company.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The wig industry aimed at women of color has an estimated market in the neighborhood of $13 billion. A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For many CIOs, implementations may be nascent, but mitigating biases in AI models and balancing innovation with ethical considerations are already among their biggest challenges. What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With a solid EA strategy, companies can better weather complex and fast-moving change, and can even put your organization in a position to thrive during turbulent times. A good EA strategy considers the latest innovations in business processes, organizational structure, agility, information systems, and technologies.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. Rather they should get a part-time Acting CTO who can help close the gap.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

“The anticipation and fear of the impact of generative AI in particular, and its relationship to artificial general intelligence (AGI), makes it overhyped,” says Daryl Cromer, vice president and CTO for the PCs and smart devices division at Lenovo. And it’s not going to turn into a product for the mass market.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. For one, as one source told me, BlackRock’s investment is a show of faith in the SMB 401(k) market — one where the firm hasn’t historically played. Consolidation everywhere.

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