As a CIO, CTO or IT leader what’s keeping you up at night? What are the key issues other CIOs are worrying about, and where can you hear more of what those peers in your industry are doing about it? Those are the questions we are answering with a new, regular, panel programme that is live streaming later today on Disruptive.Live and and then on CIO Transformation TV. We are helping Trafford Associates create the programme supported by our joint partnership with Disruptive.Live. The CIO Transformation TV channel itself launched earlier this year with a series of live streamed interviews of delegates, speakers and sponsors from Trafford’s CIO Transformation Live events, as well as a rolling programme of content that includes talks from leading business book authors and motivational speakers.
The new show started last week, is called CIO Top of Mind Live and is hosted by me, David Terrar. We’ll provide a regular, often weekly, forum for a group of 3 or 4 CIOs and CTOs invited from our joint networks to discuss their latest concerns. We’ll cover topics from the changing nature of the CIO role itself, to successes and failures in digital transformation, the challenges of app modernisation, which technologies you should be investing more time in, as well as the problem of finding and keeping the right talent. Whatever issues that are at the forefront of our guests and their businesses that week and on their planning horizon.
Episode 1 – 13:00 UK time, 22 July 2019 – Strategy and Operations
The first CIO Top Of Mind Live programme was streamed last week on Disruptive.Live, is available on demand right now (click on the graphic below), and will become part of the continuous programming on CIO Transformation TV.
The theme was Strategy and Operations. Our guests were Harvey Durrant – Head of ICT at Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, Lia Edwards – Former CIO at Aucerna, Finbarr Joy – Group CTO at Superbet, and Mark Butcher – the Founder of Cloud Consultancy company, Posetiv. We tackled many of the issues around reengineering IT, the chronic skills shortage that we are facing and the fact that we aren’t being supported well enough by either our education or the recruitment sector. We finished with a roundup of the additional topics that are worrying our guests the most.
Episode 2 – 13:00 UK time, today, 30 July 2019 – Technology and Futures
Today’s theme will be on Technology and Futures, when we’ll cover the issues around getting rid of legacy, handling a multicloud world, machine learning and automation, and what technologies our CIOs and CTOs are looking at next.
We are joined by Nour Shaker Fayed – Product Development & Cloud Architect – Public Cloud Services at a large telecoms company, Tim Connolly – Chief Executive for Bloor, Jas Bassi – It Solutions Delivery Manager at Gateley and Phillipe Chone – a provider of advisory services to CIOs, COOs and MDs in the Financial industry. It should be noted that our guests are giving us their personal views rather than the views of their respective employers. After going out live, it will also be available on demand, and will become part of the programming on CIO Transformation TV.
Episode 3 – 13:00 UK time, next week, 6 August 2019 – Diversity and Inclusion
We have 3 great guests lined up for next week who will tackle the problem of Diversity and Inclusion in the tech space. We’ll publicise the show link nearer the time, or go to the Disruptive.Live home page on the day.
As a byproduct of the shows we’ll interview each of our guests individually, and get their input for the agenda of CIO Transformation Live and their suggestions on how we can make the event better and more relevant. All of the video content we produce gets added to the rolling programming on CIO Transformation TV. The next CIO Transformation Live event is at Whittlebury Hall near Silverstone on Wednesday 30th October. If you are interested in coming along, please check out the website, and follow this link to register for a place.
Can I give a big thank you to all of our friends at Disruptive.Live for doing such a great job for us. Follow #CIOTL for our regular event content and #CIOTOML for conversations around the new panel show. If you’ve got suggestions of what we should cover, or you’d like to be a guest on the show, then please contact us.