Progress in AI technology has moved faster than our ability to leverage it for the many ways in which it can create value. In this episode, Yadin looks back on the past CIO Exchange episodes focused on AI, and shares a special announcement.

How can companies move fast, securely? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Laura Bell Main, CEO of SafeStack and co-author of the book Security for Everyone, to discuss securing organizations of all sizes, navigating security conversations when selling to large enterprises, and some common missteps with security and AI.

VC Investor Yon Hardisty, Founder of Healthtek Incorporated, joins Yadin on the podcast to share his advice for CIOs and his perspectives on long-term investing. They discuss navigating board and executive staff conversations, and how current tech trends are impacting the way people invest.

Are CIOs prepared for the space age? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Elizebeth Varghese, Partner / Principal, Space Economy Acceleration Leader at Deloitte and the author of Stellar Singularity: Navigating the Spacefaring Economy. They discuss the impact that space technologies have on terrestrial companies and why every company will become a space company.

What does it mean to be a truly sustainable business? What factors should be included in the definition of 'sustainability'? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Srini Koushik, President of Technology, Sustainability, and AI at Rackspace. The two discuss the 'Three E’s' of sustainability that should be top of mind for tech leaders and delve into examples of how this framework applies to recent technologies.

Switch is an innovator in the data center industry, providing services that are 100 percent renewable with a perfect uptime record. In this episode, Yadin sits down with Switch’s CIO, Missy Young, to discuss how Switch’s sustainability practices trickle down and benefit their customers' ESG efforts, as well as their bottom line, and how AI is impacting the data center capacity across the industry.

Is implementing generative AI different from implementing other tools? Should CIOs build or buy, and how should they choose their AI partners? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Suhail Nimji, VP/Head of Business Development, Corporate Development, and Partnerships at Jasper, to discuss what he is seeing and hearing in the market.

Incidents like the Log4j incident and new governmental regulations have forced tech leaders to examine the security of their software supply chain. Understanding the complexities of this is challenging; how can CIOs determine their exposure and prioritize their vulnerabilities? In this conversation, Yadin sits down with Chip Childers, VP Security, Compliance, Open-Source & Privacy Engineering & Chief Open Source Officer at VMware and Jim Mercer, Research Vice President - DevOps &...

How would an artificial intelligence advise CIOs to think about AI? In this special episode of the CIO Exchange podcast, host Yadin Porter de León brings on an artificial intelligence as a guest for the first time, called Pi. Yadin asks Pi a variety of questions about itself and how it works, AI generally, and how CIOs and technology leaders should be thinking about generative AI.

What mindset shift should CIOs and CTOs make in order to succeed in an AI-driven world? How can they take control of their destinies and future proof to ensure responsible AI use in their organization? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Jeff Boudier, who is responsible for Product and Growth at Hugging Face, to discuss in depth.

This is part of an ongoing series entitled “Customer Zero” where we talk with the member of the VMware IT leadership team who are the first to use the products that our engineering teams produce. In this episode, we are joined by VMware’s Sr. Director IT, Digital Customer Experience Engineering, Pankaj Purwar and Senior Director - IT Application Operations, Varinder Kumar as they discuss their journey of modernizing the mission-critical VMware Customer Connect application. During our...

Many of the challenges facing the healthcare industry became common knowledge throughout the pandemic. How has industry thinking shifted with the emergence of new technologies and solutions? How can we think about tackling these huge issues at this point? Peter Shen, Head of Digital Health - North America at Siemens Healthineers, joins the podcast to discuss how emerging technologies, including AI and LLMs, can help move the needle in democratizing healthcare

How does cybersecurity impact the global economy and geopolitical landscape? How is AI changing the game? Yadin sits down with renowned cybersecurity strategist, advisor and geopolitics thought leader Dmitri Alperovitch to discuss this in depth. They dive into the current geopolitical landscape and how CIOs should be thinking about global macro trends as they build their security strategy.

How should CIOs be thinking about implementing generative AI? What does it mean to be a sustainable business? What are offices for? In this episode, host Yadin Porter de León sits down with Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA, to discuss these questions in depth.

Striking the balance between data access and security has always been a nuanced challenge for tech leaders, long before the rise of generative AI. But now, how does AI play into the need for data literacy and data democratization? In this episode, Yadin sits down with Trevor Schulze, the CIO of Alteryx, to discuss the importance of data democratization amidst the “intelligence era”.

While it is not a new issue, managing talent continues to be an important challenge for technology leaders. Abhimanyu Saxena is the Co-Founder of Scaler, an online transformative upskilling platform for working tech professionals. In this episode, Abhimanyu and Yadin dive into retaining, upskilling and reskilling talent, discussing best practices that will help both employers and employees navigate this changing landscape. They touch on everything from standard approaches, to the major shifts...

This is part of an ongoing series entitled “Customer Zero” where we talk with the member of the VMware IT leadership team who are the first to use the products that our engineering teams produce. Through conversations with IT and engineering, we see how they are leveraging the technology to solve the same hard problems our customers are challenged with. From Multi-cloud complexity and app modernization to the needs of the new workforce, we hear how they are changing IT and the business. In...

Generative AI is one of the most exciting and disruptive technologies to emerge in recent years. It has the potential to revolutionize the way we live and work, and it is already having a major impact on many industries. With the rapid advancement of Generative AI technology, businesses are scrambling to keep up and adapt to the new reality. In this episode, Paul and Yadin discuss the rapid growth of artificial intelligence, its impact on the workforce, and how to make all of this tech easy...

This is part of an ongoing series entitled “Customer Zero” where we talk with the member of the VMware IT leadership team who are the first to use the products that VMware's engineering teams produce. In this episode, VMware’s VP IT Colleague Experience Pam Cocca and Head of Enterprise Data Office Travis Icard discuss user experience and how human connections, and the use of data, can influence personal and business goals.

Rob Hirschfeld is the CEO and Founder of RackN, a leader in physical and hybrid DevOps software. He has been in the cloud and infrastructure space for 20 years and has executive experience at both start-ups and big companies. In this episode of the CIO Exchange, Rob dives into how platform engineering can impact an organization’s productivity and improve the developer experience.

This is the first of a series entitled “Customer Zero” that includes conversations with IT and engineering, where we see how they are leveraging technology to solve same hard problems that VMWare customers are challenged with. In this episode, VMware’s VP/Global Head of Engineering Roopa Raj and VP of Product Management, IT and Digital Transformation Satya Jena discuss business model transformation, technology and changing the business, and the importance of agility and how to address...

Saket Srivastava is the CIO of Asana, a software company that helps teams orchestrate and organize their work. Saket is an experienced IT leader. In this episode of the CIO Exchange, Saket explains the realities of adapting your workforce and office environment in a post-pandemic world.

Genpact is a global professional services firm. They redesign and run thousands of processes with digitally enabled operations and Data-Tech-AI services. Sanjay Srivastava is Genpact’s Chief Digital Strategist. He mobilizes digital transformation with cutting-edge technology, data strategy, operating models, and process design. In this episode, Sanjay discusses the ideal mindset of a technologist, the evolving tech ecosystem, and the value of data.

As supercloud (also referred to as multi-cloud) emerges, tying together disparate environments into a distributed computing paradigm necessitates developer buy-in. In this episode, originally recorded during the January 2023 Supercloud event, theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante & John Furrier sit down with VMware’s Vittorio Viarengo and Sarbjeet Johal, industry influencer and Analyst at StackPayne. In this session they focus on the role of developers in the supercloud buildout and how...