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AI and LLMs in Engineering: Scaling from Startup to 1,000 Employees with Jon Mort, CTO at The Adaptavist Group

Gareth Watts (Atolio CTO) interviews Jon Mort (CTO at The Adaptavist Group) about his career, the future of tech, and their partnership with Atolio.

Jon Mort

CTO at The Adaptavist Group

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Green Computing and Data Unlocking: Mentorship for Tech Leaders with Andrea Gallego, Global CTO at BCG GAMMA

Andrea Gallego (Global CTO at BCG GAMMA) has taken her career from large financial institutions, to rapidly growing NGOs, and ultimately to this intersection of consulting and tech. Listen in to hear her thoughts on the value of mentorships between women, how she became interested in startup culture, possible new ways to leverage information at consulting groups, and more.

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Internal Knowledge Management: Experimentation While Scaling with Paolo Negri, Co-founder at Contentful

Paolo walks us through his early career at startups across Europe, how he built a company solving a problem he faced at those very startups, why he encourages a culture based on experimentation at Contentful, and much more.

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Engineering Management: Maintaining Intrinsic Motivation at Scale with Aaron Rankin, Co-founder at Sprout Social

Aaron shares an open and honest reflection on how growing up in humble circumstances shaped him into the person he is today.

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Securing Digital Transformation: Practical Lessons from Signal Sciences with Zane Lackey, Co-founder at Signal Sciences

Zane is a Co-founder and Chief Security Officer at Signal Sciences, a web-application security company acquired by Fastly. Zane shares what his career has taught him about security, founding teams, and what the future holds for digital transformations.

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IT Risk Management: Leading Teams Through Change and Technical Debt with Chris Pesola, CIO at Plex Systems

Chris Pesola is CIO at Plex Systems, a Rockwell Automation company. Chris talks with us about how his diverse career informs how and why he loves to mentor people.

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Innovation Culture: Enterprise vs. Startup Technology Scaling with Shivani Govil, CPO at CCC Intelligent Solutions

Innovation has been a central focus in Shivani Govil's career, including during her time at Silicon Valley Startups, SAP, and in her current role as Chief Product Officer at CCC Intelligent Solutions, a modern insurance solutions company. We dove into how she thinks innovation works at different scales, business units, industries, and more.

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Startup to Enterprise Ops: Lessons for Serial Entrepreneurs with Greg Tacchetti, CIO at State Auto Insurance

Atolio's co-founder Mark Matta interviews Greg Tacchetti, CIO at State Auto Insurance. Greg shares his story, what he learned from his previous experience as a co-founder, which tech he's most excited about these days, and more.

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SaaS Sprawl and Transparency: Scaling Internal Employee Directories with Alex Solomon, CTO and Co-founder at PagerDuty

Alex Solomon (CTO & Co-founder at PagerDuty) joins us to talk about the early days at PD and some critical decisions about transparency, documentation, employee experience, and more.

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Internal Customer Experience: When to Consolidate Tools with Karl Mosgofian, CIO at Gainsight

Gainsight is building innovative customer-centric technology, so we sat down with their CIO, Karl Mosgofian, to hear about how he understands and supports the internal customer.

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IT Architecture Strategy: Empathy and Value in Business Partnerships with Andrew Sopko, Head of IT at Twitter

Andrew shares his experience translating the artistic process to IT.

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Engineering Transparency: Building a Culture of Urgency (Without Panic) with Steve Zerby, CIO at Owens Corning

Fortune 500 CIO Steve Zerby talks with us about the culture of urgency that he is helping foster at Owens Corning and how it relates to ego, transparency, service, and more.

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Shadow IT vs. Innovation: Lessons from a Cybersecurity CIO with Brad Pollard, CIO at Tenable

Brad thrived in the punk-rock atmosphere of startups. Check out the full interview to hear some of the highlights (and struggles) from his exciting career.

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Vendor Rationalization: Modernizing a 150-Year-Old Data Model with Jim Chilton, CIO at Cengage

Jim shares stories about going from night-school student to five-time CIO, updating a 150 year-old data model, what technologies he thinks need to exist, and more.

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CIO Peer Communities: Strategic Startup Partnerships and 6G with Dan Krantz, CIO at Keysight Technologies

Dan talks leadership and startups, while also managing to bring up nuclear launch codes, 6G, and much more.

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Purposeful Innovation: Avoiding Single-Vendor Lock-in Risk with Andrew Campbell, CIO at Terex Corporation

Andrew talks with us about a number of topics, including the concept of purposeful innovation at Terex, the drawbacks to single-vendor environments, his reasons for being a servant leader, and more.

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CIO Leadership Advice: Lessons from Sales and Go-to-Market with Julie Cullivan, Former Forescout CIO

Julie (Board Director at Axon, HeartFlow, and AaDya) joins us to share how she handled leading both technology & people at Forescout, why she took the leap to become a first-time CIO at FireEye, what she learned from her go-to-market roles at McAfee & Autodesk, and more.

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CIO to CPTO Transition: Shaping Product Culture and Curiosity with Ramin Beheshti, CPTO at Dow Jones

Ramin is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, Marketwatch, and more. He talks leadership lessons, the value of curiosity, his approach to working with startups, and more.

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CIO to VC: Evaluating Startup Tech and Early-Stage Bets withYousuf Khan, Former 5x CIO

Our first guest is Yousuf Khan, who discusses what he learned on his journey from accidental CIO at companies like Automation Anywhere, Moveworks, and Pure Storage to unconventional VC at Ridge Ventures.