The insights in this article were extracted from an interview with Caroline Tsay, board director at The Coca-Cola Company, Morningstar, Semrush, and NiCE. Cyber risk oversight is increasingly becoming an audit committee conversation. In our recent review of S&P 500 proxy and governance disclosures, we found that 79% of companies assign primary board-level cybersecurity oversight…
As Europe seeks to assert its technological independence from the US vendors Aleph Alpha, once seen as Germany’s sovereign AI hope, is the target of a transatlantic takeover. Aleph Alpha is set to merge with Canada’s Cohere in a deal that will bring together Cohere’s global AI clout and Aleph Alpha’s background in research. The…
Google didn’t so much announce products at Cloud Next ’26 as it tried to reframe the real bottleneck to scaling AI as the architecture that CIOs have been building while trying to piece it together. For years, enterprises have treated AI like a kit, with models, infrastructure, and data spread across different vendors and heterogenous…
La jornada CIO ForwardTech & ThreatScape Spain, organizada por CIO y CSO (la marca especializada en ciberseguridad de COMPUTERWORLD en España) con la colaboración de las compañías Avanade, Riot, Object First, ManageEngine, Rubrik, Thales, Tanium, Everpure|Rubrik y OnSoluciones, se convirtió, el pasado 16 de abril en Madrid, en el mejor punto de encuentro de los…
In most of the enterprise AI programs I’ve been involved in, the biggest issue wasn’t that CIOs made the wrong architectural decision early. It’s that they stayed committed to it long after the system around it had fundamentally changed. Early on, everything looks like success. Pilots deliver results. Models perform well enough to justify expansion.…
Sonia Segade, directora general de Innovación, Sostenibilidad y Transformación Digital de Renfe, Ricard Guasch, CIO de Zurich Insurance Company, Enric Llaudet, director de Seguridad de la Información en el ámbito internacional de Teladoc Health, y Carlos Manchado, CISO global de Acciona, protagonizaron el debate con el que se clausuró el evento CIO ForwardTech & ThreatScape…
Many organizations still lack a clear AI strategy, making it difficult for CIOs to drive real results when they deploy the technology. Asked about their top challenges to AI initiatives, 31% of CIO respondents to CIO.com’s 2026 State of the CIO survey identified a lack of clarity on corporate AI strategy as a top challenge,…
Keeping up with new technologies, and recalibrating existing ones, can seem almost impossible as they seem to appear every month. But innovation breeds necessity, so knowledge updates within the enterprise are essential to successful reskilling, and CIOs are the pacesetters. “In our profession, training is a given, like courage in soldiers,” says Gracia Sánchez-Vizcaíno, CIO of…
The cybersecurity community is currently fixated on data lineage and leakage via LLM prompts. While SandboxAQ’s 2025 AI Security Benchmark Report confirms that 52% of security leaders identify sensitive data egress as their primary concern, this focus addresses a yesterday problem. As a cryptography and security engineer, I look at the underlying building blocks of…
I recently sat down with a group of enterprise technology leaders to discuss artificial intelligence deployments. It was a spirited discussion with lots of learnings. The consensus among the group highlighted a rapid transition away from simple chat applications. Companies want autonomous agents capable of executing multi-step workflows across human resources and customer service departments.…