The InformationWeek Podcast

The InformationWeek Podcast

The InformationWeek Podcast brings together one CIO and one executive from business operations to discuss a shared IT pain point, but from their distinct perspectives on how they handle the matter. Host Joao-Pierre S. Ruth then leads the panelists through a set of tabletop exercises, where they must collaborate to resolve the challenges he throws in their way and help a fictional company weather its questionable technology decisions.

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November 12, 2025 40 mins

How tech leadership responds to mass outages can affect internal teams, as well as customer-facing operations.

Reliance on third-party hyperscalers can also mean C-suite tech leadership getting caught flatfooted when outages take down online resources. In late October, AWS and Microsoft Azure went dark temporarily, reminding many companies that they can be at the digital mercy of service providers.

In this week’s podcast, Sunil Pet...

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What happens when companies have new releases on deck, and it is clear that the dev team is spread too thin?

Teams are always under pressure to deliver, but what if a project calls for overtime across the organization? What happens if those teams are pulled in competing directions?

When major projects are at stake, development teams may face a less-than-ideal circumstance: a race to meet deadlines with near-mandatory overtime.

Such...

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Many organizations have at least explored the use of AI in coding, changing the game for professional developers and citizen developers alike. Not that long ago, the conversation focused on what no-code and low-code platforms meant for in-house development. Citizen developers, staffers with limited or no professional background in coding, could use these platforms to produce somewhat simplified apps.

That, in theory, left professio...

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Allan Leinwand, CTO of Webflow, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, discuss how organizations can realign when IT goes awry.

Internal or external forces can turn an IT ecosystem upside-down, and how CTOs lead the recovery may shorten or prolong the pain.

Whether it is an in-house coding error, hardware failure, third-party software implosion, malicious bad actors, or a force of nature that shakes things up, how does tech ...

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Michael Leland, field CTO for Island, and Diane Ma, US finance strategy and global business services practice leader for Deloitte, discuss delivering on a tech overhaul.

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Samya Dassarma, CTO of Iterable, and Margaret Dawson, CMO of Chronosphere, discuss navigating wayward tech implementations.  

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Dan Carpenter, Amplitude's CIO, discusses whether enterprises that adopt new technology face inevitable shifts in how they function.

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Businesses have been through transformative times, from the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of the Digital Age. As a flurry of AI agents and tools emerges, what should CIOs look for in this next period of transformation? How does this era of change differ from cloud transformation?

Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, and Pierre DeBois, founder and CEO of Zimana, spoke to these and more questions in the latest InformationWeek podcast.

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Harry Folloder, chief digital and technology officer for Alorica; and Brooke Huling, chief product officer for Accruent, break bread on productive ways they tap predictive data.

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Building up an AI-enhanced workforce calls for more than telling staffers to use new tools and then hope for the best. Job roles can change, C-suite leadership may need new strategies, and the organization could face a different set of security and oversight concerns.

In this episode of the InformationWeek podcast, Michael Fanning, CISO for Splunk; and Andie Dovgan, chief growth officer with Creatio, came together for a Breaking Br...

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Laura Sellers tackles a series of scenarios, discussing how tech and operations can navigate surprises both may face.

How well do your software delivery cycles mesh with the logistics and operations of your organization? How do you deal with different rhythms of customer demand and logistics vs. the pace of software development and deployment? Who needs to be part of the conversation to get everything in line, especially when faced...

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As IT leadership wrangles with data governance and policies, can operations glean useful information without stepping on a few toes?

In this Breaking Bread session, Craig Martell, chief AI officer for Cohesity; and Matt McVaney, chief revenue office for BombBomb, discussed finding common ground between operations and tech to make data useful, and better understand the demands on either side of this dilemma.

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What happens of an organization feels the need to move to new tech that will require significant investment and other internal changes? How do the operational and tech sides of the enterprise assess their needs and concerns, then share those perspectives over the fence?

Josh Mason, CTO of RecordPoint, and Katie Klein, vice president of marketing for Comcast Business, discuss paths forward for introducing new tech to legacy ops.

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Jeff Reihl, CTO for the legal and professional side of LexisNexis, discusses how the introduction of AI changed their project plans.

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The duties of C-suite tech leadership at enterprises are changing rapidly of late. AI shook up strategies at many companies and can lead to new demands on CIOs, CTOs, and others responsible for technology plans and use.

The core principles that guide CIOs and CTOs can be essential for navigating such times, especially when organizations look to them for direction.

In this episode, Matt Lyteson, CIO of IBM, and Phillip Goericke, CTO...

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With more AI models emerging, how do CIOs and CISOs at enterprises go about establishing security guardrails to reduce risks as the technology gets deployed?

In the early months of the AI craze, the business world saw incidents where proprietary code got into the wild after being fed to AI. There have also been concerns about AI being tapped to launch cyberattacks, as well as AI used within organizations creating unintended access ...

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Will the development of these resources proceed in tandem at enterprises, or must CIOs evolve these technologies with separate strategies?

Luiz Domingos, CTO for Mitel; Jon Kuhn, senior vice president of product for Delinea; Anshu Jain, co-Founder and CTO with Outmarket AI; and Steve Williams, CISO, NTT DATA tackled that and other questions in this episode.

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Is putting a data center under the ocean or in orbit just a novelty or a future-forward idea?

Data centers have been installed put undersea and now in space -- do these exotic locations seem more like a novelty than a benefit to enterprise operations? One benefit is access to natural sources of cooling for data centers, either in the freezing temperatures in space or cold waters of the sea.

Dmitry Zakharchenko, chief software offic...

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As stakeholders in the cloud try their hands at developing quantum compute chips and related resources, is there a symbiotic evolution of tech in the making?

This episode brought together James Kaplan, partner with McKinsey; Rich Salz, principal architect at Akamai; Matthew Keesan, vice president and general manager of quantum computing and platform with IonQ; and Daniella Pontes, quantum ambassador.

They discussed that question as...

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There may be a new era of DeFi in the offing if regulation eases up, and stakeholders in this sector see new potential understandings with watchdogs.

This episode of DOS Won’t Hunt brought together Wenny C., partner with SynFutures; Martin de Rijke, head of growth for Maple Finance; Alan Orwick, co-founder of Quai; and Gerald Gallagher, general counsel at Sei Labs.

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