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CIO Top Of Mind Live – what keeps the CIO/CTO up at night?

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CIO Top Of Mind Live – what keeps the CIO/CTO up at night?

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.  

CIO Top Of Mind Live – Episode 1 – Strategy and Operations

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.  

CIO Top Of Mind Live – episode 2 – Technology and Futures

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.  

CIO Transformation Live gets Disruptive in Manchester

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CIO Transformation Live gets Disruptive in Manchester

You may know that I’ve been a regular contributor to Trafford Associates CIO events over the last couple of years. I chaired and opened their CIO Transformation Live conference near Silverstone on March 20th this year, and with Andy McLean and the team from Disruptive.Live we amplified the event on the day by live streaming interviews of a dozen of the speakers, sponsors and delegates. It was so successful, we’ve formalised our partnership, and on top of that Trafford and Compare the Cloud/Disruptive.Live have also entered in to a media partnership going forward.

That means the next one at the Manchester Central event space, starting the evening of 17th June, with a full conference day on the 18th will be even more “disruptive”. Andy and I with the Disruptive team will be back live streaming interviews from the evening and the day like before. The agenda aims to bring together CIO’s, IT Directors, CTO’s, CISO’s and IT practitioners for a day full of peer to peer learning, providing the platform to share thought leadership. All of the agenda ideas are generated from the dialogue they have with the delegates as they sign up. They will have some great presentations, panel session and workshops, and the networking breaks are just as important as the content, so delegates will get time to talk and share their ideas. For delegates the conference is free and includes complimentary accommodation on the evening of the 17th.

The content covers the issues you’d expect in terms of the practical application of Digital Transformation, Security, Data & Analytics, Public, Private and Multi-Cloud as well as IoT and AI. However we’ll also be covering the importance of story telling, the need for a start-up mentality and the importance of social collaboration across your organisation.

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At the last conference Dan Brimble, Trafford Associates MD, made a personal commitment to have more diversity in the speaker line up. You’ll see the evidence of that in more women speakers and panelists this time including Sally Eaves CTO and Author at Forbes, Lesley Salmon CIO at Kellogs, and Lulu Laidlaw-Smith Managing Partner at Collaborate2 who also runs the Rip It Up network of disruptors and start-ups. Check out the line up as it comes together.

The other difference, is the newly launched CIO Transformation TV channel. See it here below with it’s rolling programme of interviews from the last event, as well as leading business book authors and motivational speakers. There will be more programming added in the coming weeks and months. It’s the start of something new, and my colleagues at Trafford will be announcing some new initiatives at the show.

If you are interested in coming along, please check out the website, and follow this link to register for a place.

#transformCIO – a new live streamed interview series of leading CIOs & CTOs

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#transformCIO – a new live streamed interview series of leading CIOs & CTOs

In collaboration with my good friends at Compare the Cloud we’ve started an interview series on CTC’s Disruptive Tech TV platform.  We’ve called the programme #transformCIO and plan for it to be a weekly series, broadcast live at 14:30 UK time every Tuesday, and available on demand on Periscope, Vimeo, and elsewhere too.  My first victim yesterday was Finbarr Joy, who has been CTO of Willam Hill, then Group CTO for Lebara, and as of today is CTO of a new start-up called SuperBet (literally, today is his first day!).   I’ll be interviewing CIOs and CTOs who are at the leading edge of changing the way technology is deployed and viewed in their organisations.  I want to get to the heart of the way that the CIO/CTO’s role is changing, how the leaders in the profession are handling the changes and dealing with (or leading) the digital disruption that is happening around us.
In the interview series we will talk around the key themes of:
  • IT leading Digital Transformation
  • Doing everything faster
  • Attracting and keeping talent
  • The changing role of the CIO
  • Emerging tech – what’s next?
I first met Finbarr several years back when he was talking at a techUK event about how he transformed William Hill, an 80 year old UK brand, from an 18-24 month time to market for new products to 3 weeks!  We talk about that “fail fast” story, along with his attitude to Cloud Computing, data centres, agile, DevOps, shadow IT, holding on to talent, low-code solutions, emerging tech and more.  I also asked for his thoughts around the recent British Airways system outage.  Every #transformCIO victim gets to make a business book recommendation – I let Finbarr get away with two.  Please take a look – Finbarr’s got some “spot on” observations about how the profession should be viewed, dealing with disruption and the right way to approach the head of technology role within today’s fast moving digital landscape.

#TransformCIO Episode 1- Interview with SuperBet’s CTO, Finbarr Joy from Compare The Cloud on Vimeo.

Episode 2 will be next Tuesday at 14:30 with Stephen Deakin.  Amongst other things Steve was CTO for the Metropolitan Police, so we might just talk a little around security, along with our normal themes.  If you are interested in taking the hot seat as a CIO or CTO facing these challenges, then please contact us and book a slot in the schedule.

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