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Life for the CIO and IT was relatively easy when customers, leaders and colleagues were fine with delays in receiving data, analytics, reports or insights. There was a general understanding that it took time to process data and there was acceptance in the manual efforts it required to produce reports. Leaders got used to looking at yesterday's or last week's results. Customers were tolerant to some latency in applications and lived with whatever level of data transparency was exposed to them... 

The divide between organizations that are executing a digital strategy and those that have not started is becoming more pronounced. A recent Deloitte survey on the global CIO shows that 42 percent of organizations either had no or limited digital strategy. Within those organizations, only 40 percent of CIOs are leading the digital strategy and only an additional 27 percent are leading its execution. That leaves a large number of organizations that are lagging in transformation, so it's no surprise that only thirteen percent of IT organizations were perceived as market leaders according to this survey...

It is almost seven years to the day from when Mark Andreesen wrote a signature thesis on why software is eating the world. He wrote it nearly a decade after the internet bubble burst and he defended the growing valuations of technology companies based on increases in broadband access, the relatively low investment required to start a software company, and the increasing ability for companies built on software to disrupt legacy value chains...

Isaac Sacolick, Consultant, CIO, Author StarCIO, ET Exchange Advisory Board Member 

Chances are that you know someone who struggles with mental health disorders.  It's possible that someone is you.  Your workplace can play a major role in your well-being, so if your wellness is challenged by your working conditions, there is good news.  The gig economy offers opportunities for improving your quality of life while still earning a living... 



Produced in partnership with the European PR agency Tyto, in this episode, we discuss Tyto's 2018 'State of the Nation report' on the Internet of Things (IoT), hearing from a number of experts who contributed to it.

For the main part of the show, Russell Goldsmith speaks to Practical Futurist, Andrew Grill and Abraham Joseph, Founder of IOT insights, plus Stephanie Atkinson, CEO of Compass Intelligence also joins the discussion in the studio via Skype from her offices in San Antonio in Texas.

We also hear from two more IoT experts from the US, Dan Yarmoluk, Director of Business Development for IoT and Data Science at ATEK Access Technologies and Rich Rogers, Senior Vice President for IoT Product & Engineering at Hitachi Vantara.

We also hear from Tyto's Managing Partner Brendon Craigie who explains why he put this report together...
 

Verizon's Danny Johnson, Director VES Product Marketing, Strategic Enterprise Networks  will give the keynote presentation at the 5th annual  ET Enterprise Transformation Exchange Summit this November 11-13 at the Pont Vedra Inn & Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Blaine Mathieu, Chief Product & Marketing Officer at VANTIQ is also schedule for a keynote on the ET Exchange main stage to help our IT executives from across the U.S. with their digital transformation roadmaps...

Mobile is the new favorite target for bad actors looking to gain access to data and more from enterprises-or is it? On one hand, we hear reports with huge scary numbers about the amount of mobile malware out there; while on the other hand, how many of us run anti-malware on our phones?...

Some companies may not have a do-or-die security or workflow use case for MDM, but a good reason to use it might still be right under their nose!...


Companies of all sizes are embracing cloud computing services to reduce infrastructure costs, increase agility and build new services. Over a third of the companies Lopez Research interviewed are using public cloud infrastructure services but what's impressive now is the range of services companies are adopting. Advanced analytics using cognitive functions is an excellent example of the cloud computing market's expansion beyond infrastructure...


Predictive analytics, pervasive communications, and intelligent systems played a key role in the around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race, as crews dealt with wind, waves, the unpredictability of nature, and personal privacy compliance...

Tim Scannell, Director of Strategic Content, CIO Executive Council at IDG, ET Exchange and IoT6 Exchange Advisory Board Member

Effective communication across the enterprise requires a renewed focus on capturing an audience. Tech leaders from California State University, QEP Resources, and Arup share how they handle the challenge...


The hype around analytics is real. When it comes to mobile, this technology can help IT administrators glean more information about users, business processes and more... 

Eric Klein, Director, Mobile / Wireless, VDC Research, ET Exchange Advisory Board Member

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Upcoming Summits!
ET Exchange Summit (Nov. 11-13, 2018, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)

ET Exchange Summit is an invitation-only, hosted summit designed for senior IT managers and executives who want to understand how current and future digital technology and trends will impact their business and investment decisions...

Advanced Scale Forum ( April 15-17, 2019, Hyatt Regency Lost Pines & Spa, Austin, TX)

The  Leverage Big Data and  EnterpriseHPC summits have merged to become Advanced Scale Forum reflecting the realities of convergence happening as enterprises increasingly leverage High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve modern scaling challenges of the big data era. The goal of the joined events will be to foster a deeper understanding of the advanced scale solutions increasingly being employed to solve Big Data challenges across industries and achieve performance beyond the capabilities of their traditional IT environments.

(May 6-8, 2019 Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)

Security Leadership Exchange is an invitation-only, strategic business summit that gathers Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), senior decision-makers, and industry experts to address the unique needs and current challenges faced by enterprise cyber security leaders... 

HR Tech Connect Summit   (October, 2019 - Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)
 
HR Tech Connect  is an invitation-only, hosted summit focused exclusively on bringing an executive HR and IT audience together that is tasked with understanding the rapidly changing HR and workforce technology landscape, while delivering and implementing a successful digital transformation strategy.
IoT6 Exchange Smart Cities Summit   (2019, Ponte Vedra Inn & Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL)

IoT6 Exchange Smart Cities hosted summit will bring together thought leaders, technology decision-makers, and vendors to explore, learn, exchange best-in-class ideas, technology, solutions, and solve real issues around smart cities and smart campuses. From retrofitting legacy assets and infrastructure to building smart and intelligence infrastructure from the ground up, this 2.5 day event will be hard hitting, actionable, and bring smart city ideas to fruition. We will capture all the technology and innovation elements as we transition from unintelligent, static physical structures and assets to intelligence, learning, and digital structures and assets.
ET6 Exchange (2019 Dates/Location TBD)

ET6 Exchange is the longest running hosted enterprise mobility and digital transformation summit focused exclusively on bringing an executive IT audience together to discuss strategy, policy, solutions and security to advance their business objectives...

ET Canada Exchange   (October, 2019, Fairmont Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec)
 
ET Canada Exchange  is a clone of ET6 in it's fourth year designed specifically for the Canadian market. The goal of the summit is to serve as a platform to drive digital investments, share knowledge and propel digital transformation within the Canadian enterprise...
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