Cxotalk: Leadership, Innovation, Disruption

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.

Patty Hatter is Senior Vice President, Operations & Chief Information Officer, and is responsible for innovating and executing a sustainable transformation of McAfee's operational processes and infrastructure across the global organization. As CIO, Hatter is responsible for driving cross-functional partnerships to accelerate delivery of strategic business priorities that impact bottom line profitability. Focused on driving world-class operational effectiveness and scalability, Hatter leads all facets of McAfee's ongoing transactional business and shared services, as well as IT, risk and compliance, and M&A integration.

Sonny Hashmi was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Named as CIO in May 2014, Mr. Hashmi is responsible for managing the agency's $600 million Information Technology (IT) budget and ensuring alignment with agency and administration strategic objectives, information security and enterprise architecture.

Dr. David A. Bray is Chief Information Officer for the Federal Communications Commission. Dr. Alissa Johnson (Dr. J) is Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO) for the Executive Office of the President (EOP)

Jeanette Horan is Chief Information Officer for IBM, a position she has held since May 2011.

Oliver Bussmann is the Group CIO for UBS AG, based in Zurich. UBS is the biggest bank in Switzerland, operating in more than 50 countries with about 63,500 employees globally, as of 2012. It is considered the world's largest manager of private wealth assets; with over CHF2.2 trillion in invested assets, a leading provider of retail banking and commercial banking services in Switzerland.

William H. Miller Jr. leads Broadcom's information technology strategy by scaling and optimizing information systems to operate seamlessly .Miller served more than 25 years in a variety of information technology leadership roles.

Timothy Weaver is the CIO for Danone’s North American business units, where the focus is to bring health through food to as many consumers as possible.Its Dannon subsidiary is the market leader in the USA’s fast growing yogurt category.

Dr. David Bray is Chief Information officer at the Federal Communications Commission. Bray holds a a PhD in information systems.During this time, Dr. Bray was also detailed as an Executive Director supporting the National Commission for Review of Research.

Learn about CIO innovation, DevOps, and building out a world-class IT department in a major Internet company.Mike D. Kail serves as Vice President of IT Operations (CIO) at Netflix. Mr. Kail has more than 20 years of IT Operations experience. Prior to Netflix, was Vice President of IT operations at Attensity, where he was responsible for the Americas data center.

Maryfran Johnson is an award-winning IT journalist and editorial executive at IDG Enterprise, the parent company of CIO magazine.speaker recruitment and conference moderating duties for the CIO 100 Symposium and 9 regional CIO Perspectives events.

David Chou is CIO of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. He is responsible for all technology related to the three missions: education, research and patient care.UMMC includes five hospitals and University Physicians.

Kristin D. Russell is the Secretary of Technology and Chief Information Officer of Colorado. As the Chief Information Officer, she is responsible for the overall information systems function statewide and to increase the effectiveness of government.