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 Akamai CIO Kate Prouty decided it was time to get her cloud infrastructure bills under control, she knew it would be a tough sell, especially for the engineers. The last thing engineers want to do is look under the hood to find savings. That’s her job. They just
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Students often find it difficult to navigate the college experience, but what if we applied AI to help students, based on their own unique needs build a college experience that’s meaningful to them? Then, what if we took that same technology and applied it to life after college for
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In a recent ForwardThinking commentary, the AI Trust Imperative, I wrote about the importance of being able to believe the answers we are getting from AI tools. Lakshmi Hanspal, who is chief trust officer at DigiCert, says that trust is actually vital in every aspect of enterprise security. Hanspal, whose
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Capital One launched 30 years ago with what was an unusual approach at the time. Its goal was to harness data to gain deeper insights into its customers. Two decades later in 2012, the company began its cloud transformation journey at a time when many large organizations were holding back.
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Drew Houston launched Dropbox in 2008 at TechCrunch Disrupt. When you’ve been running a company for 17 years, helping to guide it from early stage startup to public company, you start to see patterns repeating themselves, and he’s seeing that today in the excitement around AI. While he
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Snowflake is first and foremost a data platform, a place where companies can store, analyze and share data in the cloud. That puts the company in the right place at the right time as data has become central to building meaningful solutions on top of large language models, whether that
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When your company is involved in the crypto market, it has a tendency to make you a target. Consider that just last week on February 21st, crypto exchange Bybit dealt with an historic $1.5 billion hack, followed by $4 billion in panic withdrawals. This is the kind of news
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Amalgamated Bank is not just any financial institution. The bank was founded in 1923, the vision of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America leaders, to give their union members, mostly immigrant women, access to banking services. Its history and mission don't just drive business strategy, they create a culture
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With a remote and distributed workforce of over 8300 employees, Shopify CISO Andrew Dunbar believes it’s imperative to implement a disciplined and controlled approach to technology to help keep the millions of merchants that rely on the company’s platform secure. His core philosophy around security is that a
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As chief operating officer for core engineering, head of product management and head of engineering partnerships at Goldman Sachs, Belinda Neal helps define the core engineering strategy at the firm. She’s also responsible for technology business development, bringing innovative tech solutions directly to the lines of business and part
Intuit CTO Alex Balazs has been at the company for over 25 years, and during that time, he’s seen the organization shift from a set of mostly consumer-focused financial tools to one that serves both consumer and business users. He’s also seen his own role change from
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When you think about a startup, you probably imagine a small company with a handful of daring employees, but Databricks, a company that has been around since 2013 doesn’t really fit that vision, at least not anymore. In its most recent funding round at the end of last year,