CIO

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Combined with an April IDC survey that found organizations launching an average of 37 AI POCs, the September survey suggests many CIOs have been throwing the proverbial spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, says Daniel Saroff, global vice president for consulting and research services at IDC.

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CIO

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. However, before that can go into production, the AI has to be trained not only to quote policy, but to also respond in a tone that respects sensitivities in different parts of the world.

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CIO

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CIO

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Your communication strategy is lacking Leaders often overlook the importance of building strong communication links between management and team members, says Pavlo Tkhir, CTO at software development firm Euristiq. You can be the executive sponsor, assigning someone from your organization who you would like to train in this area, she says.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With C-suite leaders under increasing pressure to align technology with strategic objectives, many experience that roles — whether CEO, CFO or even CTO — lack the deep technical insight needed to bridge the gap between business and technology. The CTO and CIO handle IT management and technological innovation.

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Plus, they can be more easily trained on a companys own data, so Upwork is starting to embrace this shift, training its own small language models on more than 20 years of interactions and behaviors on its platform. Take for example that task of keeping up with regulations. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Jim Chilton is an award-winning CIO who serves as the chief technology officer of Cengage Group, an innovative disruptor in the edtech space. As a business and technology executive, Chilton leverages his unique experiences to drive innovation and optimize technology throughout the company.

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CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

The services created a new class of citizen developers , but trained programmers were still needed for complex coding projects. Prashanth Ram, CTO at IT training and engineer placement firm Smoothstack, agrees AI wont eliminate the need for developers. The job will evolve as most jobs have evolved.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Steve Ross, director of cybersecurity for the Americas at S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, says gen AI can reduce a day’s worth of research to a single hour, but not without a catch. “It You need people who are trained to see that. We had to figure this out and get our team trained,” she says.

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CIO

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s widely recognized that introducing IT teams to the latest technology, business, and security advancements is essential for maximum performance and productivity. Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments? Training technology is also rapidly advancing.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Making emissions estimations visible to architects and engineers, such as the metrics based on the Green Software Foundation Software Carbon Intensity , along with green systems design training gives them the tools to make sustainability optimizations early in the design process. Long-term value creation.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

As VP of cloud capabilities at software company Endava, Radu Vunvulea consults with many CIOs in large enterprises. Industry-specific modelsrequire fewer resources to train, and so could conceivably run on on-premises, in a private cloud, or in a hosted private cloud infrastructure, says Nag. But should you?

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CTOvision

JUNE 7, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Today, were not using gen AI in any investment decision, trading decisions, or even back office areas without a human in the loop, he adds. Once you get Copilot for Office 365, you go through training, and thats driven up our utilization to around 93%. Were taking that part very slowly. Youve got that down to a science, he says.

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CTOvision

MAY 30, 2014

Here are the details: If you’re trying to stay ahead of advanced persistent threats getting inside your network while working with shrinking budgets that impact headcount and training, then you know that defending your enterprise isn’t easy. Manual remediation is costly and requires manpower and time you don’t have.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

, she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Workers receive full training, earn two safety licenses, are guaranteed a wage of $30 an hour and receive shares in the startup, Terry said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

After securing $16 million in Series A funding last April, Databook , an AI-powered consultative sales intelligence company, is back, this time with $50 million in Series B funding. As companies look toward the future, they must reassess the role of digital selling in the enterprise,” he said. “To

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

“Today’s CIOs inherit highly customized ERPs and struggle to lead change management efforts, especially with systems that [are the] backbone of all the enterprise’s operations,” wrote Isaac Sacolick, founder and president of StarCIO, a digital transformation consultancy, in a recent blog post. We’re dependent on it.”

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

threat actor-trained LLMs) automating portions of ransomware development and distribution. This will allow adversaries to pivot across networks and deliver customized payloads more quickly. Adversaries Will Leverage GenAI-Enhanced Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) for More Advanced Attacks In 2025, we foresee GenAI capabilities (e.g.,

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves. This reinvention goes beyond the adoption of cloud, agile development principles, and cutting-edge technologies. Strategies to transform IT for digital success include the following.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2022

By Andy Nallappan, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Software Business Operations, Broadcom Software The information technology that enables scientific and commercial breakthroughs, from precision medicine to digital transformation, demonstrates tech’s boundless potential to improve our world.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection. How do we grow our business responsibly?”

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CIO

JULY 18, 2024

But there are no ways around the significant premium pricing being placed on generative AI workloads because the core infrastructure necessary to train and tune generative AI models are “largely supplied by one company: Nvidia ,” IDC notes. These chips are evolving rapidly to meet the demands of real-time inference and training.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

But Adept’s co-founders, CEO David Luan, CTO Niki Parmar and chief scientist Ashish Vaswani, boil their ambition down to perfecting an “overlay” within computers that works using the same tools people do. And several teams, including our founding team members, trained Transformers that can write code.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Companies that fail to build their own AI agents will turn to outside AI consulting firms to build custom agents for them, or they will use agents embedded in software from their current vendors, write Forrester analysts Jayesh Chaurasia and Sudha Maheshwari. Kumar adds. “We Kumar adds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

” The model was trained on more than 100,000 hours of audio, in consultation with journalists and audio editors. ” In addition to Imbruce, the Podz founding team includes CTO Seye Ojumu, Head of Design Rasmus Zwickson and iOS lead Greg Page. The startup has raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the corporate sector, upskilling (teaching employees additional skills) and reskilling (training employees on an entirely different set of skills in preparation for a new role) are being prioritized across whole organizations, with much of the interest driven by various pandemic-fueled resignations and a desperate need to retain top talent.

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CIO

JULY 28, 2022

Companies are struggling to hire true data scientists — the ones trained and experienced enough to work on complex and difficult problems that might have never been solved before. This has left data scientists not only bored but also frustrated that they weren’t focusing on the core work they have been trained to do.

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CIO

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. For healthcare organizations, what’s below is data—vast amounts of data that LLMs will have to be trained on. Consider the iceberg analogy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

“Many enterprises today attempting to experiment with graph neural networks have been unable to scale beyond training data sets that fit in a single accelerator (memory in a single GPU), dramatically limiting their ability to take advantage of these emerging algorithmic approaches,” he told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. AIs need a lot of training data, and for some types of high-level, strategic decisions, there isn’t much of it.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2024

Just under half of those surveyed said they want their employers to offer training on AI-powered devices, and 46% want employers to create guidelines and policies about the use of AI-powered devices. CIOs should work with their organizations’ HR departments to offer AI training, Chandrasekaran recommends.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2024

Companies use gen AI to create synthetic data, find and remove sensitive information from training data sets, add meaning and context to data, and perform other higher-level functions where traditional ML approaches fall short. If there are duplicate records, fuzzy logic matching technology is great at checking whether it’s the same person.

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Modern CTO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! With the rise of social media disinformation threats, Andrew founded Verity7 to deliver anti-disinformation training and consulting. He went on to found Technology Leaders, one of the first consulting companies devoted to digital analytics.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2024

“You can have the best solution but if you don’t have adoption, it will fail,” says Wayne Tung, managing director of Sendero Consulting. There’s always change,” says Jim Moore, CTO at HR Acuity. “A Too many times we see clients put a new system in place and train users a day before it goes live,” says Sendero’s Tung.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Organizations don’t want fractional allocation — people rolling on to a project and rolling off,” he explains. Establishing technology and business owners also drives collaboration. Gary Jeter, EVP & CTO, Trust One. There is also a slate of internally run hackathons and bootcamps.

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CIO

MAY 22, 2024

“A chisel in the hands of a trained professional can create amazing things; a chisel in the hands of an amateur can be a lost opportunity.” The AI market is still developing, and some companies are adopting the technology without a specific use case in mind, he adds. Most companies are simply playing with the novelty of AI still.”

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