Every week we feature conversations with the CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and technology leaders shaping enterprise technology, along with founders and executives at startups building the tools they rely on.
When Kristie Grinnell stepped in as CIO of TD Synnex, a global IT distributor, earlier this year, she arrived just as AI was reshaping the way every organization operates. She needed a clear picture of where the company was and where it needed to go, so she kicked off her
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AI coding tools are among the most visible manifestations of AI in business so far. The startup Cursor has grabbed headlines with its rapid growth and $29 billion valuation. Meanwhile, GitHub Copilot from Microsoft is widely regarded by analysts like IDC as the leader in enterprise adoption of AI coding
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Chris Wright has been working at Red Hat in various roles for more than 20 years. When he started, there was just a single product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). But throughout Wright’s tenure over the past two decades, the company has expanded far beyond that. Today, while RHEL
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Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal has always loved being a founder. It doesn’t hurt that he sold his first startup AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the same week the company was set to go public. Even with a mega exit under his belt, he didn’t
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Regulated industries like banking, legal, finance, and healthcare face a far greater level of scrutiny when something goes wrong. Driven by tighter oversight, stricter privacy rules and higher stakes for consumers, these companies have to approach major shifts like AI with a lot more caution than other sectors. Wolters Kluwer,
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Samsara, a software company that helps organizations with large vehicle fleets monitor and improve driver safety, has been layering on AI in recent years to surface deeper insights from its data. The company serves both managers and drivers, giving fleet leaders the tools to make operations safer, while helping drivers
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As global CIO at Liberty Mutual, a 113-year-old insurance provider, Monica Caldas is determined to modernize her company’s technology. That includes fully embracing AI, while walking the line between transformation and governance that a regulated organization like Liberty Mutual demands. This year, Caldas was named the 2025 MIT Sloan
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Just about every organization wants to be an AI-first company right now, but making every part of the business run on AI is easier said than done. If history’s any guide, past digital transformation efforts showed how a lack of organizational buy-in can sink even the best intentions. Brian
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Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) may not be a brand you hear about every day, but the real estate management firm’s roots stretch back more than 200 years. Today, JLL employs 112,000 people across more than 80 countries and reported annual revenue of over $23 billion last year. In
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When your company’s primary business involves storing and managing data, and your customers include 751 of the Forbes Global 2000, it puts a lot of pressure on you to understand how to maximize the use of your platform and put data to work inside your organization. That’s the
Craig Flower, CIO at customer support platform Zendesk, came on board in 2023, a year to the day after OpenAI released ChatGPT. It was a pivotal time for the organization as it tried to figure out how to incorporate generative AI into operations and products. At the same time, the
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This week, HubSpot is holding its 13th annual Inbound customer conference, and it’s a time for the company to look back on its journey from a startup focused on the notion of inbound marketing for small- and medium-sized businesses to a full-service $25 billion public company. HubSpot helped define