Cxotalk: Leadership, Innovation, Disruption

Brook Colangelo is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Michael Skok has been a Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners since 2002.

Aneesh Chopra is co-founder of Hunch Analytics and former Chief Technology Officer of the United States.

Giorgos Zacharia Leading the global KAYAK Technology and Product team. Overseeing the company's global technology strategy and product development for KAYAK's websites and mobile applications. Responsible for all aspects of Product Management, UI Design, Technology, Engineering, and Data Science.

Open data and innovation in the federal government are critical topics in today's digital environment. Bryan Sivak, Chief Technology Officer of the US Department of Health & Human Services, discusses sustainable innovation in government and "challenging bureaucracy to escape the status quo.”

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center is among the most venerable institutions in Silicon Valley. Their CEO talks about innovation, the Internet of Things, and other important technology topics.

Change Agents in GovernmentTo innovate and be responsive, the federal government requires change agents -- people working within the system to drive improvements. In this episode, we talk with two accomplished change agents working in the government.

How can a CIO reconcile the demands between technical proficiency and business responsiveness? In this episode, Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat Software, shares ideas for balancing infrastructure and innovation in a dynamic and transformational environment.

Digital transformation is rapidly changing the CIO and IT relationship with lines of business and corporate functions like marketing and finance. In this episode, we explore these issues with Chris Curran, Chief Technologist of PwC who oversees the firm's Digital IQ research.

Chris Hjelm, CIO, Kroger discusses innovations disrupting retail in areas such as digital sales, marketing, operations, inventory, and supply chain.

This episode explores DevOps with background, suggestions, and useful tips.Alignment between IT and business is a core issue facing virtually every CIO. Different perspectives, constraints, and goals can present obstacles to the business gaining the highest value from IT. DevOps can help.

Formula One racing involves a heady mixture of speed, daring, and technology. Sensors, data, and analytics provide a backdrop for ongoing innovation and improvement, on the race track and in the back office.

Scale and inertia are key challenges facing any Chief Information Officer in the federal government. For this reason, successful approaches to innovation and digital government must consider the reality of life in an agency. For this episode, we talk with John B Owens, CIO for the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. Owens explains how his IT organization ensures alignment with end-users, using approaches such Agile development and DevOps.

The CIO role is shifting from provider of infrastructure to customer-facing business partner, while the rise of digital technologies has created an opportunity for Chief Information Officers to assert new importance in the enterprise. Mark Sunday, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Oracle Corp., explores these changes and discusses his role at one of the largest technology organizations in the world.

Information technology in the federal government is large, complicated, and often slow. Our guest, Mark Schwartz who is Chief Information officer of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USICS), wants to change that by applying lean methods and shifting the focus of IT toward consumers inside the government and citizens on the outside. In this show, Schwartz shares his experience with DevOps and other methods to improve IT and enable digital government.

CIO's must evolve to meet the needs of sophisticated business users. In this episode, Brian Lillie, CIO of Equinix, explains how a CIO can play a strategic, customer-facing innovation role in a large technology company.

Gerri Martin-Flickinger is Adobe's senior vice president and chief information officer. She oversees the company's global Information Technology team, providing strategic direction and management for the company's IT infrastructure worldwide, including

For this special event, three important thought leaders discuss innovation, technology, and change in the federal government.

The amazing CIO of Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston discusses health care from an innovation perspective.

Lisa Davis is Georgetown University's Vice President for Information Services and CIO.

Michelle McKenna-Doyle is Senior Vice President and CIO of the National Football League. She is responsible for the NFL’s technology strategy, shared service delivery and management of the league’s corporate technology activities.