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.
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When you're the chief data officer at an insurance company that's more than 150 years old and primarily serves businesses, you have to figure out how to make AI work while dealing with legacy systems that can be expensive to change. For CDO Kristen Bessette, it
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With over 30 years of IT experience, Qualcomm CIO Atilla Tinic has seen a few shifts in his time. But like many executives and analysts I’ve spoken with recently, he says AI is changing how he manages IT more significantly than anything that came before it. By now, we
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When Glasswing Ventures' co-founder and managing partner Rudina Seseri appeared at a TechCrunch Early Stage event in Boston in 2024, she already recognized that AI was changing the way firms like hers invest, and what they looked for in a company. The old SaaS playbook was breaking down.
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Adobe announced its new CEO earlier this month, Anil Chakravarthy, who came from the enterprise side of the house where he served as president of Adobe’s customer experience orchestration business. At the beginning of the summer, I spoke to Amit Ahuja, Adobe's SVP of CX products, to
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Visa faces a monumental battle when it comes to fighting fraud, and the volume it deals with is staggering. The company handled 257.5 billion transactions and processed more than $14 trillion in payments last year. AI is only exacerbating the problem by giving scammers more sophisticated ways to fool
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In 2020, IBM announced it was spinning out its managed infrastructure services division as an entirely independent business. It would require essentially building a company from the ground up with everything from a new network to a new security posture to physical badges to get into the building. Yet it
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MetLife has been around since 1868. That means the company was operating when electricity was transforming business. Today, the company finds itself in the midst of an analogous shift, this time to AI. Insurance companies are famous for legacy software stacks. The question is how does the CIO push the
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The AI industry is in the midst of a serious debate about open-weight models with the arguments centered on safety versus openness. While the AI labs argue that open weights lack sufficient guard rails -- pretty rich given the recent spate of reports of private models run amok – Capital One
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Pega CEO Alan Trefler founded his company back in the 1980s when the enterprise world was very different than it is today, but he's been around long enough and seen enough shifts to speak with an authority that few others can when it comes to enterprise software. His
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I caught up with Jai Das, co-founder of Sapphire Ventures, in April at HumanX, the conference devoted to all things AI. He's been investing in enterprise startups for more than two decades, and while he recognizes that AI is transforming his business, he's not getting
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Abby Kearns has spent more than a decade in the open source world, starting at Pivotal before going on to lead the Cloud Foundry Foundation and later serving as CTO at Puppet. Today she is CEO at ActiveState, a company that focuses on keeping the open source software library supply
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Disclosure: I was paid by Zscaler to moderate a video interview with Zscaler executive Swamy Kocherlakota at the company's Zscaler Zenith Live 2026 earlier this month. The quotes from Jay Chaudhry come from two interviews, one in April and one in Las Vegas at the conference. Both were