What is coming on season 3 of CIO Classified? In this episode, we give you a sneak peek.

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, how the role of CIO is changing because of it, and the tools you’ll need to succeed. You won’t want to miss it! We’ll see you soon for Season 3!

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.

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.

Paolo Negri, Co-founder and CTO of Contentful, and Martin Paton, CTO of Kin + Carta, discuss the importance of no-code and low-code tools, the benefits of going headless, the future of digital experiences, and much more.

Alex Hood, Chief Product Officer at Asana, and Abhinav Asthana, Co-founder and CEO at Postman discuss how to scale hypergrowth products, build community at your company, stop bottlenecks from happening, and much more.

Rathi Murthy, CTO at Verizon Media, and Leyla Seka, Partner at Operator Collective, discuss building diversity, the future of 5G, fostering innovation, and much more.

Gary Sorrentino, Global Deputy CIO at Zoom, and Charles Bonomo, Global CIO at MSC Industrial Supply, discuss the nuances of a hybrid workforce, digital transformation amidst the pandemic, how to be a collaborative CIO, and much more.

Diana McKenzie, four time board member and previous CIO at Workday and Yousuf Khan, Partner at Ridge Ventures, discuss what board members do, the value of a CIO on a board, how to get a board seat and much more.

Fleming Shi, CTO at Barracuda Networks and Raffael Marty, previous Chief Research and Intelligence Officer at Forcepoint, discuss how you can work against hackers, the nuances of cybersecurity, how to empower your employees against cyber threats, and much more.

Arvind KC, VP of Engineering at Google, and Prakash Kota, CIO at Autodesk, discuss how to cultivate the best employee experience and how that impacts your customers, driving innovation, and much more.

Srini Tanikella, Vice President of IT at SMART Global Holdings and Vipin Arora, previous Head of IT at Hilmar Cheese Company discuss how to personalize your company’s IT, how to keep your IT competitive, and what CIOs need to know going into 2021.

Sasha Siddhartha, Co-founder and CTO of Thrive Market and Nick Rockwell, Senior VP of Engineering and Infrastructure at Fastly discuss the importance of goal setting, cross-functional relationships, and how your IT can enhance your customer’s experience.

Uzi Dvir, Global CIO of WalkMe and Hitendra Mishra, VP Information Technology at Stitch Fix, discuss how digital adoption impacts all of us. They also dig into how to collaborate while working remotely, and how they’re applying AI to push their companies forward.

Alvina Antar, CIO of Okta and Sharon Mandell, SVP Chief Information Officer of Juniper Networks, discuss the importance of mentorship on the road to becoming a CIO. They also unpack how a strong network of industry peers can help you not only do your best work, but help you decide what work is worth focusing on.

John Stecher, CTO of Blackstone, and Anisha Vaswani, the CIO of Toast and previous CIO of Box, discuss everything from what it takes to be a good CIO or CTO, to which details really matter when it comes to remote work. The two C-level standouts dive into what drives innovation within the enterprise and how eliminating the points of friction in our everyday work is so crucial to unlocking that innovation.

In this season 1 recap, we highlight the budget items that our CIO guests considered essential and uncuttable.

What is coming on season 2 of CIO Classified? On this episode, we give you a sneak peek.

Avon Puri, Global Chief Digital Officer at Sequoia Capital and Karl Mosgofian, CIO of Gainsight, discuss how to get teams the right data they need to be successful, what it looks like to build securely and at scale, and why designing your internal architecture to support multi cloud environments is so essential.

George Llado, SVP & CIO at Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and Phil Fasano, CEO of Gigster, discuss the essential role CIOs play at this moment, and trace their influence in digital transformation.

Mark Kuhr, CTO and Co-Founder of Synack, and Tim Campos, CEO of Woven, discuss how to build rock-solid security architecture with intuitive UX, and track how the surface area of security has expanded as more teams are working remotely. In this episode of CIO Confidential, Mark and Tim talk about how companies balance their security priorities with the pace of their business, and a whole lot more.

Robert Dixon, Former CIO of PepsiCo, and Rick Rioboli, EVP and CIO of Comcast Cable, discuss how the role of the CIO has evolved and how modern CIOs drive customer impact across their organization.

Each week on CIO Confidential, we feature two CIOs from leading companies discussing a single topic. This week we're doing things a little differently. We're featuring the hosts of the show as they discuss their favorite moments from previous episodes, share the lessons they've learned from top CIOs, and tell us about their own career journeys.

Julie Cullivan, Chief Technology Officer and Chief People Officer at ForeScout Technologies, and Atticus Tysen, Senior Vice President and CIO of Intuit, discuss where security infrastructure and social infrastructure intersect, how driving digital transformation takes cultural buy-in, and how a Zero Trust strategy helps them keep their company and their customers secure.

Sandeep Chellani, CIO of Teach for America, and Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Wikimedia Foundation, build systems designed to scale. Whether they're hosting a few billion page views a month or processing tens of thousands of applications efficiently, Grant and Sandeep are focused on streamlining systems. On this episode of CIO Confidential, we unpack how they're doing just that.