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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May 7, 2026 31 mins

As major companies tout AI’s efficiency amid layoffs, Saurabh Gupta, CTO of GreyOrange, and Winston Astrachan, CTO of Phobio, offer their takes on organizations embracing AI, and what that means for IT teams.

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Jay Miller, CISO at Paessler, and Andrew Missey, CTO of Convos, discuss how they decide when it is time to start a project over.

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Robin Gordon, chief data officer for Hippo Insurance, and Gabe Goodhart, chief architect of AI open innovation with IBM, discussed how they match data models with context.

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Cameron Etezadi, CTO of LaunchDarkly, and Oleksandr Paraska, CTO of Togal.AI, discuss how they deal with AI-generated code that conceals hard-to-find errors.

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Ravi Soin, CISO of Smartsheet, and Steve Croce, field CTO of Anaconda, discuss how the combination of edge, cloud, and AI has evolved transformation and IT architecture.

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As companies make challenging decisions on where they will allocate their tech investments, is quantum computing still part of your organization's landscape?

Eric Liebowitz, CISO for Thales, and Rob Kim, CTO for Presidio, share their perspectives on whether their organizations have shifted tech investments into other resources and needs that offer more near-term ROI, or if plans for quantum computing remain part of the strategy. Th...

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When companies connect a partner or supplier to their IT ecosystem, a CIO or CISO may need to juggle permissions, security, and orchestration. The reach of outside AI can also bring concerns of third parties compromising sensitive data or offering bad actors a backdoor.

In this episode of the InformationWeek Podcast, Tony Garcia, CISO for Infineo, and Ghaleb El Masri, North American managing partner for Adaptovate, compare challeng...

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Larridin’s Ameya Kanitkar and NetSPI’s Eddie Taliaferro discuss policies to keep unsanctioned AI or mobile devices from compromising the IT environment.

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Amol Ajgaonkar shares insights with Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, on what makes sense in deploying smaller AI models.

At the time of the episode recording, Ajgaonkar was CTO of product innovation at Insight Enterprises. He is no longer with the company.

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Lee Rossey, CTO of SimSpace, joined Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, to talk about resources and methods to ensure continuity.

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Cassandra Mack, CISO at TensorWave, and Pierre DeBois, CEO of Zimana Analytics, discuss striking a balance to keep development secure.

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Enterprises can feel pressured to at least say they keep pace with the latest IT innovations, even if there is no immediate internal gain. The board of directors, customers, and members of the C-suite might like to hear that a company is modernizing, but how does that effort translate into real returns?

What litmus tests do CTOs, CIOs and other tech leaders use to assess results from modernization plans? How do they convey to other...

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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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