TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

While the world continues to await the arrival of safe, reliable and cost-effective self-driving cars, one of the pioneers in the world of autonomous vehicle software has raised some substantial funding to double down on what it sees as a more immediate opportunity: providing technology to industrial companies to build off-road applications.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Hidden costs and price hikes Deploying AI takes a different approach than other technologies, adds Sumit Johar, CIO at finance software vendor BlackLine. In a recent IFS survey of IT decision-makers in industrial and related industries, 82% of respondents say they’re under significant pressure to adopt AI quickly, he notes. “We

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. At the same time, leaders say the industry will need colleagues who can strategize, guide, and check AI-enhanced work, while keeping in mind the business goals of their organization. But that will change. “As

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CIO

JANUARY 13, 2025

To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. Over the next 12 months, IT leaders can look forward to even more innovations, as well as some serious challenges.

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CIO

MARCH 13, 2025

Dun and Bradstreet has been using AI and ML for years, and that includes gen AI, says Michael Manos, the companys CTO. They can certainly educate internally, but the technology is evolving so rapidly that by the time you finish a grad school course or program, the technology is different. Tell us a story,' he says.

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CIO

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the role of the CIO has transcended simply managing IT infrastructure to becoming a pivotal player in enabling business strategy. Understanding the company’s competitive position allows IT leaders to mindfully act to implement technology for competitive advantage.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

By partnering with industry leaders, businesses can acquire the resources needed for efficient data discovery, multi-environment management, and strong data protection. Achieving ROI from AI requires both high-performance data management technology and a focused business strategy.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Agentic AI, the more focused alternative to general-purpose generative AI, is gaining momentum in the enterprise, with Forrester having named it a top emerging technology for 2025 in June. The technology is in its early days, and several questions remain open chief among them, how AI agents will be priced.

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CIO

DECEMBER 26, 2024

An IT consultant is a technology professional who advises and supports business clients in designing, developing, and executing technology projects in service of business goals. IT consultants are often hired to provide companies guidance on what technologies they should use to achieve their aims, according to career website Indeed.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The Americans of Nigerian descent toured across 20 states and studied different value chains for crops spotting inefficiencies that could be solved by technology. Nzewi says the team saw an opportunity and set out to build a technology to help farmers crack oil palm nuts. L-R: Uzoma Ayogu (CTO) and Ikenna Nzewi (CEO).

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2025

You expect a certain amount of shadow IT, but there was much more of it last year, says Krishna Prasad, CIO of technology services business at UST. Another challenge was IT may not have had the available skills to support the new technology. At the same time, they need to evangelize on the value of new technology.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

” To make matters more complex, robots used in warehouses, mining, agriculture and other industrial environments have hyper-specific applications that are structured and are often repeated thousands of times. Think of it as SaaS for industrial robotics. Image Credits: Polymath Robotics.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

The wig industry aimed at women of color has an estimated market in the neighborhood of $13 billion. A group of four Black women, two with MBAs from Wharton, and the other two with PhDs from MIT, founded Parfait because they believed they could build a better and more efficient way to design and build these wigs using technology.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chief technology officers are key players in the enterprise C-suite, oftentimes working in collaboration with CIOs at the forefront of new and innovative technologies. They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Technology has shifted from a back-office function to a core enabler of business growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Senior business leaders and CIOs must navigate a complex web of competing priorities, such as managing stakeholder expectations, accelerating technological innovation, and maintaining operational efficiency.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

As SVP and CTO for the Boston Red Sox, Brian Shield is responsible for the strategic direction of technology, fan engagement, day-to-day IT operations, and cybersecurity in support of the team, their fans, and Fenway Sports Management. We’ve changed on-prem technologies to cloud-based technologies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Their cross-industry experience equips them with best practices and innovative approaches tailored to each organization’s unique needs. For example, consider a technology company undergoing a digital transformation. Industry insights support the critical role of interim executives.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

because the scale of compute power required would be too costly to reproduce in house, says Sid Nag, VP, cloud, edge, and AI infrastructure services and technologies at Gartner. Even after organizations use tools such as RedHats InstructLab to augment those industry-specific models with company-specific data, theyre still small by comparison.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The right tools and technologies can keep a project on track, avoiding any gap between expected and realized benefits. Clearing business strategy hurdles Choosing the right technologies to meet an organization’s unique AI goals is usually not straightforward. But this scenario is avoidable.

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CIO

MARCH 10, 2023

By Leonard Kleinman, Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ) Cortex for Palo Alto Networks JAPAC Many things challenge how we practice cybersecurity these days. It also enables a greater ROI on your current tools and technology, bringing them into play as part of the orchestration process. Where to start?

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. The CTO also said fashion brands have been reaching out to Humble Bee Bio. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What really matters is determining how to fit every function together to achieve unified goals — chiefly IT and its business counterparts, given the importance technology has organizationwide. It allows businesses to be the best technologically enabled version of themselves,” Upchurch says.

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CIO

AUGUST 21, 2023

They may publicly preach “No technology for technology’s sake,” but they still frequently share their fascination with the latest tech gadgets. It’s then that the hopes for the technology get way ahead of what it can actually deliver today. He says generative AI’s “potential is great; it will transform many industries.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

HotelOnline , a Kenya-based Yanolja-backed travel technology scale-up that fashions itself as an e-commerce and digital marketing enabler in the hospitality industry, has acquired HotelPlus, a software provider with clients in 22 countries. Muliro has also been appointed as HotelOnline’s chief technology officer.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Yet as the technology grew in capability, successful websites became more and more complex. If you think with a twentieth century factory mindset, those workers spend their days grinding out products, just like their industrial forebears, only today, they are producing software rather than physical goods. No code became a buzzword.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.

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CIO

JANUARY 10, 2025

Despite the many concerns around generative AI, businesses are continuing to explore the technology and put it into production, the 2025 AI and Data Leadership Executive Benchmark Survey revealed. Last year, only 5% of respondents said they had put the technology into production at scale; this year 24% have done so.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Alan Radford is regional CTO of One Identity and has a passion for helping organizations solve unique challenges in the identity and access management space. Robotic process automation (RPA) is making a major impact across every industry. Alan Radford. Contributor. billion in investments in the past two years alone.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Its focus is on developing DAC kit that can be installed (retrofitted) inside working cooling towers in the industrial sector — thereby, its pitch runs, slashing the cost of drawing down carbon emissions. Or indeed the really tiny units you might find on a shopping center or office building.)

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CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO. According to Baris Sarer, who leads the AI division of Deloittes technology, media, entertainment and telecommunications industry practice, Metas Llama model is the one that shows up most in industry deployments, followed by Mistral.

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CIO

JANUARY 19, 2023

The research, conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC) and commissioned by SUSE surveyed 838 respondents in 11 Asia/Pacific countries across a range of industries such as financial services and insurance, telecommunications, and government. When it comes to container-related technologies, only 30% are using OSS.

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CIO

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Set clear, measurable metrics around what you want to improve with generative AI, including the pain points and the opportunities, says Shaown Nandi, director of technology at AWS. This data suggests change management efforts are lagging technology efforts at many organizations.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

This surge is driven by the rapid expansion of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, both of which are reshaping industries and enabling unprecedented scalability and innovation. Green computing contributes to GreenOps by emphasizing energy-efficient design, resource optimization and the use of sustainable technologies and platforms.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Jim talks with Jennifer Baker, former CTO of Synovus. She shares her journey from unexpected career opportunities to becoming a trailblazing technology leader in the insurance and banking sectors, culminating in significant strides in product development, customer experience, and digital transformation. In this episode of What If?

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CIO

OCTOBER 16, 2024

For Adrian Butler, who has been CTO of the $8 billion global business for about two years, the key is to focus on the data that matters most, and to help the entire business understand how to use its data to inform decisions and better serve customers. What excites me is the critical role technology plays in enabling this.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

With emerging technologies like Gen-AI keeping organizations in a flurry of new implementations, a rapidly shifting CIO role, new innovations testing budgets and adaptability of organizations and increasing competition, a competent CIO is the ace that can change the game.

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