CIO Classified

Mike Kelly, CIO of Red Hat, and George Gerchow, Chief Security Officer at Sumo Logic, talk about how to build a culture of security and foster innovation in a secure environment, and why CIOs play a critical role in creating the employee experience.---------“Security is one of those things you can't compromise on. It's just too important.” - Mike Kelly“To be a security leader today you have to have three fundamental skill sets: 1) knowledge of the business, 2) technical breadth, and 3) you've got to be able to sell your program. You’ve got to sell it at a board level and you've got to sell it at a customer prospect level.” - George Gerchow---------Time Stamps* (4:51) How to build a culture of security in remote work* (17:27) The impact security has on innovation* (30:19) The CIO’s impact on employee experience* (45:11) Mike and George’s questions for each other--------SponsorThis podcast is brought to you by Asana. Asana is a leading work management platform that empowers teams to orchestrate their work — from daily tasks to big strategic initiatives — all in one place. By enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly, Asana helps organizations of all sizes and industries achieve their goals, faster. Learn more at Asana.com.--------LinksConnect with MikeConnect with GeorgeRed HatSumo Logic Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Mark Settle, Seven-time CIO and Author, and Viral Bajaria, Co-Founder and CTO, 6sense, talk about what’s going on in the startup scene, the different facets of digital transformation, mistakes to avoid when scaling your company, and much more.---------“At the executive level, you can't rest on your laurels because the criteria that are going to be used to measure your success change over time.” - Mark Settle“If you're vulnerable with your employees, and you accept your mistakes and faults. Many times it rubs off on your team and they will own up to their mistakes too and do it the right way next time.” - Viral Bajaria---------Time Stamps* (4:23) The science behind startups* (8:28) The overlap of digital transformation and being customer-centric* (24:27) How to talk digital transformation in the C-Suite* (30:30) How to scale your company* (38:22) Advice for fellow CIOs--------SponsorThis podcast is brought to you by Asana. Asana is a leading work management platform that empowers teams to orchestrate their work — from daily tasks to big strategic initiatives — all in one place. By enabling the world’s teams to work together effortlessly, Asana helps organizations of all sizes and industries achieve their goals, faster. Learn more at Asana.com.--------LinksMark's book “Truth from the Valley: A Practical Primer on IT Management for the Next Decade”6sense.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

What is coming on season 3 of CIO Classified? In this episode, we give you a sneak peek. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In the Season 2 finale, we’ve put together the best advice we’ve received for CIOs trying to figure out how to navigate a post-covid work environment. Several of our most prominent CIO guests share how to lead the new hybrid workforce and how the role of CIO is changing because of it. You won’t want to miss it!We’ll see you soon for Season 3!---------“The hybrid worker requires radical flexibility, so we have to build that into everything that we do. And not just in technology, but into our policies or procedures.” - Gary Sorrentino, Global Deputy CIO, Zoom---------Time Stamps* (1:45) A return to work requires radical flexibility* (13:06) How the role of CIO is changing* (21:49) What should be in every CIO’s toolbelt--------SponsorLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best of breed tools like Box,  Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Paul Meller, Global Head of Engineering at EY, and Ash Fontana, Author of “The AI-First Company”, discuss the current and future state of AI, what role AI should be playing in your company, how to set yourself up for success when it comes to AI, and much more.---------“Part of the cultural change is how do you get people that haven't had to use data before to be open to using data and embrace data in their decisions that they're making? And then to have them take suggestions from AI and machine learning to support them in their work. ” - Paul Meller“If you're not developing AI, someone else will. And if you do start developing it now, then you start compounding your data assets and competitive advantage really quickly.” - Ash Fontana---------Time Stamps* (3:04) Welcome to the AI-first century* (7:07) Why you should be prioritizing AI* (9:33) How to become an AI-first company* (12:58) The data questions you need to be asking your business teams* (23:36) Common AI mistakes to avoid* (31:03) How to create a successful AI startup* (38:24) What are Paul and Ash dying to know about each other?--------SponsorLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best-of-breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom.--------LinksAsh’s book “The AI-First Company”EY.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures, and Cathy Southwick, CIO of Pure Storage share how they handled the transition from Cathy taking over the role of CIO from Yousuf. They discuss the secrets to making a transition successful, how to maintain a positive relationship with your predecessor, advice for CIOs to be more effective earlier in their role, and much more.---------“Take some time to reflect on your previous role and ask yourself: Are there things in my previous role that I would not want to repeat because I could have done a better job? And actually, be honest with yourself.” -Yousuf Khan“The biggest thing that all of us have to do coming into a role is you have to seek to understand first. You want to respect the past and respect the legacy so that you can help the organization move forward.”- Cathy Southwick---------Time Stamps* (1:46) Intro* (3:24) How to start CIO transition process* (6:47) Building a relationship with your predecessor * (21:14) How to choose a new CIO role* (23:55) Finding great talent* (30:51) Advice for CIOs during a transition* (41:45) Yousuf and Cathy ask each other their burning questions--------SponsorLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best-of-breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom.--------Linkshttps://ridge.vc/https://www.purestorage.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Paolo Negri, Co-founder and CTO of Contentful, and Martin Paton, CTO of Kin + Carta Europe, discuss the importance of no-code and low-code tools, the benefits of headless CMS, the future of digital experiences, and much more. Key TakeawaysImplementing no code and low code tools empowers users.Going headless will make your employees’ lives easier and workflows more productive.The more agile you can make your content the more effective it will be.Key Quotes“As soon as the lifecycle of your content differs from the lifecycle of your presentation, or you have multiple and different presentations of your content, the benefit [of headless] becomes huge. You really understand that the life of your content and where the content comes from and goes to are all things that you want to manage explicitly and deliberately.” - Paolo“Last year we did some research that showed that up to 70% of content didn't get utilized. I think it's really clear that we need to create quite a tight feedback loop between the overall content production and the end-user. And what we believe passionately at Kin + Carta is: speed up the experimentation process to ensure that the content is landing. And you need to do that really quickly because content can almost be out of date the moment that it's published.”- Martin“The principle of low-code is really: How can we make available an environment where people can only write code specific to their business? So it's business logic that is absolutely custom to what they’re doing–it stays in the domain of knowledge for which they are solving.” - Paolo“What we try and encourage people to do is really slash and burn the content that you're producing, really focus on the core messages you want people to read. And we’re quite ruthless about that schedule and cycle that you go through when you're actually refreshing your content--the ‘you ain't gonna need it’ principle really does apply here.” - Martin Linkswww.contentful.com/https://www.kinandcarta.com/en-us/ Thanks to our friendsLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best-of-breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Key TakeawaysThe best companies prioritize using the best software tools.Create communication flows that build your company’s culture and community.Having an advanced tech stack signals to your employees and potential hires that you are both forward-thinking and open to new ideas.Key Quotes“If you're going to adopt something horizontally, look for something where the internal champions are from a broad set of different teams that have to work cross-functionally by nature.” - Alex“Every company is becoming a technology company and, in fact, is going to become a software company, and developers are at the center of it.” - Abhinav"The intangibles really matter. They set up cultural norms where people feel like they can be productive and they feel like they're in a supportive atmosphere. If you only consider the outputs and the outcome, then you’ll burn people out." - Alex"When every year you hire a company's worth of people, you have to really think about ‘is this a new company or is this the same company?’ And you really have to put in the work to ensure it's the same company, and the culture is not getting diluted." - Abhinav LinksAlex Hood LinkedInAbhinav Asthana LinkedInAsanaPostman Thanks to our friendsLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best of breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Key TakeawaysThe more diverse your teams the better your products and services will be.Women, especially women of color, have been disproportionally affected by the pandemic. Prioritize bringing more women into tech and leadership positions.Engineers are critical to the corporate ecosystem. Be sure to give them support to be creative and innovative.Key Quotes"There's huge value in bringing diversity around the table. Diversity not just in gender or race, but points of view and diverse opinions." - Rathi“Being deliberate is really important, looking around the table and seeing who isn't there, and then making an effort to get them there.” - Leyla“Disrupt yourself. Otherwise, someone else is going to disrupt you.” - Rathi"If we really want to be a country or a corporate America where people do have a fair shot, then we have to be deliberate. We have to make space for everyone. " - LeylaLinksRathi Murthy LinkedInLeyla Seka LinkedInVerizon MediaOperator Collective Thanks to our friendsLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best of breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Key TakeawaysRemote work looks different for each employee. Ask them what would make them feel comfortable.Ensure your employees take care of their mental health while working from home to avoid burnout.Make sure leadership is ready to adapt to remote work, and not just the workers below them. They need to lead by example.Key Quotes“The hybrid worker requires radical flexibility.” - Gary"Don't assume everyone is comfortable coming back to the office. Make sure you're listening to their questions and concerns. Have that empathy." - Charlie"It needs to be labeled work from anywhere. It's not work from home. We should be prepared for people to work from wherever they're comfortable to be productive." - Gary“Your first team as the CIO is the executive team not the IT team. It's very important that the CIO makes friends with the executive team and becomes their go-to guy. ” - Charlie LinksGary Sorrentino LinkedInCharles Bonomo LinkedInZoomMSC Industrial Supply Thanks to our friendsLearn more about CIO Classified and find other episodes at CIOpod.comThis podcast is brought to you by Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Modern employees demand the best tools at work. If your company wants to embrace the modern work environment, you need best of breed tools like Box, Okta, Slack, and Zoom. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.