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Building an Effective Chief Technology Office on Different Business Scales

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It is now common for a team leader or project manager to find themselves placed in the CTO’s shoes at a moment’s notice. Often, this brand-new executive is forced to form a Chief Technology Office out of thin air and without any help. This is the challenge facing what we call the accidental CTO.

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CIO Leadership Live with Marc Hale, Chief Technology Officer, AIA NZ

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Marc Hale, Chief Technology Officer, AIA NZ, on enabling healthier outcomes for customers and his approach to his own career transformation. Watch the episode: Listen to the episode: CIO Leadership Live

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CTO KPIs with Templates and Tracking Procedures – Explained by a Seasoned Chief Technology Officer

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In this post, Jason Noble, Academy’s Chief Technology Officer, explains the design of highly relevant CTO KPIs and shows you how to a) track them and, more importantly, b) use them to improve performance. Now, the odds are that you’re either a CTO in a start-up or fast-growing company or soon to become one.

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CIO Leadership Live with Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank

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Ivneet Kaur, Chief Technology Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, joins host Maryfran Johnson for this CIO Leadership Live interview, jointly produced by CIO.com and the CIO Executive Council. Watch this episode: Listen to this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy for the future.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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What does it mean to be a CTO for a startup? Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies? The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. Instead, given a startup project, they’ll default to building everything in-house, using technologies that they’re already familiar with.

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Role of a Chief Technology Officer in Different Business Sizes

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Generally speaking, the role of a chief technology officer involves strategic management and execution of technology initiatives within an organization. It is, therefore, pivotal in shaping and implementing the technology roadmap while aligning it with the company’s overall goals and vision.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

In the world of ever-changing technology, customer representation has become a key factor for a product’s success. As the CTO, it is your job to determine how to implement these important features. Sign up now to learn how to: Reexamine what processes your QA & Dev teams already have.

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Schema Evolution Patterns

Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk

This is an important topic for technology leaders to understand in order to understand and help their teams navigate one of the tougher issues they face. Alex will go through both general principles like schema compatibility and specific techniques to help you learn: Recognizing what makes schema changes easy or hard.

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The Beauty and Brains of Actionable Data: How to Go From Concept to Reality

Speaker: Dr. Joe Perez, Chief Technology Officer at SolonTek and Senior Systems Analyst at NC Dept. of Health & Human Services

As a CTO, you see the end result of those concepts but will they ever become reality? Anyone can make a pretty bar graph, but can you make sound decisions based on that graph? Is it actionable or is it only fluff? Do you have the vision to combine beauty with brains, thereby driving decisions with data? What value do you see in your data?

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Software Delivery Metrics for the C-Suite

A key challenge for all technology leaders is building a strong relationship with internal stakeholders and customers. Often, senior stakeholders view technology delivery as a ‘black box’. As a result, CTOs may find it difficult to build dialogue, understanding and trust.

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Your Team's Pragmatic Guide to Security

Speaker: Naresh Soni, CTO, Tsunami XR

As technology leaders, it's time to rethink some of your product security strategy. We are excited to be joined by a CTO who is an expert in pragmatic choices around security. Naresh Soni, CTO of Tsunami XR, will take us through critical information to make smart choices in how to protect our organizations.

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The Six Principles of Persuasion

Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech

We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. This knowledge and the related skills are essential to success as a technology leader. Our “good idea” is simply the beginning.

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Best Practices for Micro-Services Management, Traceability and Visualization

Speaker: Robert Starmer, Cloud Advisor, Founding Partner at Kumulus Technologies

Moving to micro-services, or even working with distributed applications in a traditional environment, brings with it a host of interactions that are often difficult to understand.