From Digital Leader to Frontier Firm: AI and Governance Strategies
Participants
Isaac Sacolick
Joanne Friedman
Heather May
Joseph Puglisi
Martin Davis
Derrick Butts
John Patrick Luethe
Liz Martinez
Niraj Tenary
Episode Summary
This week’s episode of “Coffee with Digital Trailblazers” focused on ...
AI Era Transformation: Is AI the End of IT (as we know it)
Participants
Isaac Sacolick
Joanne Friedman
Heather May
Joseph Puglisi
Martin Davis
John Patrick Luethe
Episode Summary
AI is increasingly automating and transforming traditional IT functions like software development, testing, operations,...
The Silent Drag on Productivity: Navigating Digital Sprawl
Participants
Isaac Sacolick
Christian Potts
Joanne Friedman
Heather May
Joseph Puglisi
Martin Davis
Derrick Butts
John Patrick Luethe
Liz Martinez
Episode Summary
This session discusses the “silent drag on productivity” caused by digital sprawl ...
Building Smarter Organizations: Transforming to Intelligent Operations
10 Memorable Insights
Matthew Frye: “Intelligent operations today is really speaking to visibility and control across the field and back to the office… automating frontline data collection, connecting data and workflows and dashboards to decision makers, and really redu...
Accelerate Transformation: Why AI is Boring in 2025
About this episode
This episode of the Coffee With Digital Trailblazers was sponsored by Appian.
Speakers
Isaac Sacolick – President of StarCIO. Bestselling author. 1,000+ articles on StarCIO, CIO.com, and InfoWorld. Keynote speaker. CIO and Digital Transformation influencer. Thinke...
The Cost of Waiting: Making AI a Priority in Your Annual Budget
Dr. Joanne Friedman, CEO and co-founder of ReilAI, joins Supply Chain Connect to discuss the urgent need for AI investment in supply chain operations. Dr. Friedman highlights the risks of delaying adoption, the importance of data readiness and governance, and strategic budget planning focused on ...
Talent Crunch: Developing Level-1 Expertise in the GenAI Era
Participants
Hosted by Isaac Sacolick, CEO of StarCIO
Special Guests
Kevin Wallis-Eade
Digital Trailblazers
Joanne Friedman
Liz Martinez
Joseph Puglisi
Martin Davis
John Patrick Luethe
Heather May
Derrick Butts
Summary
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National Entrepreneurship Week: Opportunities for Digital Trailblazers
Participants
Hosted by Isaac Sacolick, CEO of StarCIO
Special Guests
Tyler James Johnson
Digital Trailblazers
Joanne Friedman
Liz Martinez
Joseph Puglisi
Martin Davis
John Patrick Luethe
Heather May
Derrick Butts
Summary
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Managing AI Agents: New Skills, Operating Models, and Tools
The event hosted by Isaac Sacolick featured discussions on managing AI agents with special guests, referred to as Digital Trailblazers. Insights were shared from studies indicating that 74% of organizations plan to deploy AI agents soon. A focus was on understanding performance management, risk, ...
Quantify and Measure Your Return on Data
We’ve spent decades in the OT space measuring return on assets, return on capital… But what about return on data?
For this MESA “Knows” Podcast, we sat down with Joanne Friedman to tackle a question most organizations still can’t answer: What are we actually getting from our data?
Every enterpris...
