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• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  MIT CIO: What is digital culture, why it's needed and how to get it

  Creating a digital culture is essential in the age of information, but companies must not lose sight of their core values in the process. Two tech execs show how they're doing it.

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Early-stage company execs talk partnering with CIOs

  Participants in the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium's Innovation Showcase discuss the relationship between early-stage company execs and the C-suite.

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Indeed.com releases top 10 most in-demand CIO skills

  Job site Indeed.com has released a list of the most in-demand skills for today's CIOs, based on job postings. Experts I talked to said 'most in-demand' doesn't mean most valuable.

• May 21, 2018 21 May'18

  Rue La La CTO: Don't let data poisoning impair business health

  If not treated properly, data can corrupt agendas, spur endless arguments and narrow thinking, the e-commerce company's Anthony Accardi says.

• May 16, 2018 16 May'18

  Build a culture of innovation on PaaS platforms

  Tech execs from Deutsche Bank and Experian at the Red Hat Summit in San Francisco shared their thoughts on reaping the benefits of PaaS platforms by addressing the risks head-on.

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• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Build 2018 gives the office meeting a high-tech sheen. Does it matter?

  A display on the future of meetings at Microsoft's Build 2018 event was a technology tour de force. But analysts said the fanfare sort of misses the point.

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  Force multipliers in cybersecurity: Augmenting your security workforce

  During his RSA conference keynote, IBM Security's van Zadelhoff highlighted cybersecurity's top three force multipliers and explained best practices to deploy them.

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  With machine learning models, explainability is difficult and elusive

  The enterprise's demand for explainable AI is merited, say experts, but the problem is more complicated than most of us understand and possibly unsolvable.

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Four CIO strategies for finding the business ROI in emerging tech

  IT execs from Yamaha, Union Pacific, the city of Las Vegas and UL share their CIO strategies for deriving business benefit from emerging tech.

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  IT pros name users, GDPR as biggest cloud computing security threats

  The cloud is growing faster than companies can prepare for cloud computing security threats, a quartet of tech leaders say at a Boston forum. But managing risk is within reach.

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Artificial intelligence for social good: Big tech spins a new narrative

  AI for social good is a thing. SAS touts research on tracking cheetah populations, Microsoft showcases work on precision farming at the Artificial Intelligence Conference.

• May 04, 2018 04 May'18

  Corporate IT rebrands its modern role: Reduce complexity

  The days of corporate IT as a back-end function with its practitioners relegated to the basement are long over. But IT strategy in 2018 has its own host of challenges.

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Cloud Foundry deployments boost customer experience, communication

  IT pros from Comcast, American Airlines and Zipcar sound off on benefits of the software development platform at April's Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston.

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Security awareness programs that work against human nature will fail

  Security awareness programs should take into account that humans are basically 'lazy, social, creatures of habit,' said KnowBe4's Perry Carpenter at the CIO Boston Summit. Here are three tips.

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  Top 2018 cybersecurity trends to watch out for

  A glance at IT news shows cybersecurity trends remain on companies' radar. At the CIO Boston Summit, Cybereason's Jessica Stanford discussed steps to defend against risk.