Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Today we’re talking to Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard. We discuss the ethos that allows for sustainable economic development, how Mastercard makes fraud scoring more precise, and why Ed thinks multitasking isn’t worth it. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast!

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JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. It’s just a question of choice.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Stacklet , a startup that is commercializing the Cloud Custodian open-source cloud governance project, today announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. The company was co-founded by Travis Stanfield (CEO) and Kapil Thangavelu (CTO). Stacklet launches cloud governance platform with $4M seed investment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

specializing in defense, space and emerging technologies. government official and contracting officer, defense executive and VP/GM for a Silicon Valley tech startup. Government or any employer, company, client or investor. She formerly held positions as a career U.S The good news is that the U.S. The Critical 4Cs .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Search is hard, but even the decent tools developed by Google, Microsoft and others can’t seem to get it right when it comes to navigating the thousands of documents and ideas trapped in enterprise and government databases. government clients today, with a few others pending contract,” said Wohns.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

To become a software-powered organisation, companies must first identify and address the concerns of its developers in areas such as developer experience, developer velocity and software security. Development teams are also under pressure to stay current with newer cloud-native technologies and deliver applications faster.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

As we learned from our last survey of investors active in the space earlier this month , the technology democratizes access to modern software development, but there are still some kinks to iron out. We spoke to: Patrick Jean , CTO, OutSystems. Patrick Jean, CTO, OutSystems. Deb Gildersleeve , CIO, Quickbase.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Appointed as CTO, he was immersed in a non-profit feeling the brunt. Video streaming success Shortly after the first government lockdown, the ROH—which employs more artists than any other UK arts organisation—offered an interim streaming service so customers could continue to enjoy shows from home.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

To the chief technology officer of SupPlant, which supplies farmers with critical agronomic insights, the more real-time weather, plant, soil, and water data the company’s solution can gather, the bigger the improvements in crop yield and productivity for customers. SupPlant Revital Kremer is greedy for data.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

Key elements of this foundation are data strategy, data governance, and data engineering. Next is governance; the rules, policies, and processes to ensure data quality and integrity. A healthcare payer or provider must establish a data strategy to define its vision, goals, and roadmap for the organization to manage its data.

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Capgemini

JULY 23, 2021

If it is properly controlled and governed, citizen development can solve the desperate shortage of dev resources. All you need to make it happen is some professional developers. Finding highly skilled developers in the current marketplace is a challenge for every enterprise and in every vertical. Easy, right?

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CIO

MARCH 25, 2024

Emad Mostaque stepped down as CEO of Stability AI, the developer of the Stable Diffusion image generation tool, over the weekend, saying he wanted to “fix” the concentration of power in AI. We should have more transparent and distributed governance in AI as it becomes more and more important,” he wrote.

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.

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CIO

JANUARY 24, 2024

The proper use of unstructured data will become of increasing importance to IT leaders,” says Kevin Miller, CTO of enterprise software developer IFS. “It They also need to establish clear privacy, regulatory compliance, and data governance policies. Organizations need to create a robust data governance framework, Williams says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

They should be able to work collaboratively with many departments in developing AI strategy and vision, and they should be able to design and target relevant business use cases, assess project outcomes, and measure ROI in each case. What is a chief AI officer? Ozzie Coto, chief AI officer and CTO at The Cult Branding Co.,

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Smaller and midsize organizations can address the gaps by developing a communications program to engage businesses and stakeholders, establishing an ideation process to capture new business needs, and leveraging design thinking methodologies. The human element is the most important,” says Brian Suk, associate CTO at SADA.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. Not all government CIOs are moving workloads off the cloud or feeling the need for repatriation. “I

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CIO

MAY 24, 2024

PE investors have begun to realize they can achieve better returns with strong and empowered CIOs at portfolio companies, says John Buccola, CTO of E78 Partners, a managed services provider focused on the private equity market. The CIO role is front and center on all these topics that are really top of mind for an investor.”

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

“Although the talks are a good first step towards establishing potential guidelines for AI safety, the talks will most likely be focused on existential risks, instead of the more mundane, but significant risks, that IT leaders are facing on a daily basis,” said Andrew Gamino-Cheong, CTO at Trustible, an AI governance strategy firm.

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CTOvision

MARCH 18, 2014

AFFIRM is a non-profit collective seeking to improve the management of information and related systems in the federal government. Kirit Amin , Deputy CIO and Chief Technology Officer, US Department of Commerce. Sonny Hashmi , Acting Chief Information Officer, General Services Administration.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.) The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

. “We empower CIOs and CISOs to seamlessly govern their low-code/no-code applications and prevent unintentional data leaks, disturbance to business continuity, compliance risks or malicious breaches.” Image Credits: Zenity.

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CIO

JANUARY 29, 2024

To reinforce the creator culture, Wenhold’s group hosts regular events like hackathons and Nitro Create, a development conference keyed to specific themes designed to encourage people to think outside the box. It engenders a sense of pride in the tradecraft and the products they’re producing,” he explains.

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Conscious of the recent history of disruption to financial services, the sector’s technology leaders are already looking for opportunities in AI. Generative AI is starting off a new age of exploration in IT,” says Frank Schmidt, CTO at insurance firm Gen Re. However, developing and deploying an LLM is costly.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

It gets costly very quick,” says Jim Ducharme, CTO of ClearData, a cloud security posture management (CSPM) and managed detection and response (MDR) SaaS provider for the healthcare industry. Set an eight-week development cycle with two-week sprints. Assign a product owner. Follow an agile model to iterate and deliver value over time.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Christian Spannbauer, CTO for the Digital Hangar, spoke with CIO.com from Barcelona about the impact of this new initiative for the official flag carrier airline of Germany, which, as a founding member of the Star Alliance network, has become a truly global airline. It’s also about agile ways of working, and the need to be empowered.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Just one year ago, ExtraHop was closing in on $100 million in ARR and was considering an IPO, so Ron and Alex spoke to ExtraHop CTO and co-founder Jesse Rothstein to learn more about how (and why) the deal came together. The hidden benefits of adding a CTO to your board. “A CTO understands the nuts and bolts,” says Kearns.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2024

For the more specialized IT needs, there just aren’t enough people to meet the demand,” says Michael Manos, CTO of Dun & Bradstreet. IT leaders must rigorously assess their partners’ talent management and development strategies, build greater trust and transparency into the relationships, and invest in greater partner governance.

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CIO

MAY 24, 2023

But it’s already here for corporate board governance. For an on-the-ground look at how one major company is navigating state, federal, industry and international data privacy laws, JCPenney Global Privacy Officer Shaina Varia will share the company’s winning strategy. Regulation is almost certainly coming for AI.

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CIO

MAY 7, 2024

One possible definition of the CDO is the organization’s leader responsible for data governance and use, including data analysis , mining , and processing. In many cases, CDOs focus on business objectives, but in other cases, they have equal business and technology remits, according to the authors. Those bridges need to be built.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SoftBank-based digital creation platform Picsart , which recently hit uniciorn status , announced today it’s acquiring the research and development company DeepCraft. research and development arm, PAIR (Picsart AI Research) with additional senior resources, the company says.

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

Faced with a long-running shortage of experienced professional developers, enterprise IT leaders have been exploring fresh ways of unlocking software development talent by training up non-IT staff and deploying tools that enable even business users to build or customize applications to suit their needs.

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CIO

MARCH 21, 2024

While the CAIO is not an official CxO position, this role rolls into the CDO who helps drive strategy, governance, and connect to the board,” Kataria explained. Last year in September, market research firm IDC floated a quick survey globally sampling responses from 97 CIOs. “In

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

“Crucially, framing comprehensive policies that govern AI use, ethical standards, and security practices is essential to safely integrate AI into organizational workflows, ensuring a secure and compliant adoption process.” For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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CIO

JUNE 11, 2024

Tyler James Johnson, co-founder and CTO of PrivOps, says, “If we’re rebranding, unless we’re also transforming, then all we’re doing is putting lipstick on a pig.” What dataops, data governance, machine learning, and AI capabilities are IT developing as competitive differentiators?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

In an effort to protect other organizations from suffering the same fate, Corsha has developed an automated MFA solution for machine-to-machine API traffic. That’s what we’re doing in the API world,” Corsha co-founder and CTO Anusha Iyer told TechCrunch. government doesn’t stop there, as Corsha secured the U.S

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CIO

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO. These priorities must fundamentally tie back to the business’ priorities and goals,” she says.

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