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By Michael Krigsman
C-Suite Conversations on AI and Strategy. Join industry analyst Michael Krigsman for unfiltered discussions with the leaders shaping the future of business. From AI implementation to digital transformation, hear directly from CIOs, CTOs, CEOs, and more from the world's largest companies. No scripts. No PR fluff. Just real questions from our live audience and honest answers from the C-Suite. Want to participate? Get invited to the next live show: https://www.cxotalk.com/subscribe
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Most enterprise AI pilots stall or fail before production, and the blocker is rarely the model. Nate B. Jones, an AI analyst and advisor who works with Fortune 500 companies and global banks, tells Michael Krigsman that naming an effort a pilot invites small budgets and safe goals. He explains how to pick a first proje
Are AI agents ready for banking and financial services? Former UBS Group CIO Oliver Bussmann explains the risks to trust and reputation in banking. This session examines the current adoption landscape of AI agents within the financial sector. With roughly 50% of financial institutions now integrating these tools into t
Enterprises are running more AI agents than their security teams realize, and attackers only need to be right once. Anand Oswal, EVP of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks, explains how to secure agents across four surfaces: enterprise, SaaS, endpoints, and the browser. With host Michael Krigsman, he covers shadow a
CIOs are accountable for AI results but often not in control of how AI is actually used across the business. Andy Baldwin, Senior Vice President of Consulting Offerings and Growth at IBM Consulting, explains how CIOs regain visibility and control as AI moves from small pilots to industrial scale. He describes the real
Can AI startups keep their promise to benefit humanity? Eric Ries explains why business success often leads to corporate "corruption" of the founder's mission. Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup Method, breaks down the inherent tensions between scaling a business and maintaining its core purpose. We examine why so
Fewer than 100 companies have scaled enterprise AI from pilots to production to capture great value. Alexander Sukharevsky, who leads QuantumBlack, McKinsey's AI practice, joins Michael Krigsman to lay out the repeatable recipe behind those results and why the winners earn roughly three dollars back for every dollar in
Agentic AI has taken off in software engineering, but most CIOs still cannot make agents work in everyday knowledge work in the enterprise. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, explains why that gap exists and what enterprises must change to close it. Drawing on what Box sees across its enterprise customer base, inc
Most enterprises are renters, not owners, of their technology and AI. Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla, explains why dependence on a handful of closed model providers means losing control over model behavior, pricing, and your own data. In CXOTalk episode 920, Krikorian lays out where open-source AI
AI agents are entering enterprise AI faster than CIOs can govern them. Line-of-business users are vibe-coding their own tools, agents are operating with employee credentials, and foundation models are changing under running systems. In CXOTalk episode 919, Anthony Scriffignano, PhD, a prominent data scientist, and Tim
Enrique Ibarra, CIO and Head of Business Transformation at GNP, Mexico's largest insurance company, walks through an enterprise-scale pilot of autonomous software development involving roughly 1,000 internal and external developers. The episode examines how agentic AI changes developers' roles from creators to editors
AI swarms are now considered the most dangerous influence weapons ever created, actively fabricating grassroots consensus and corrupting enterprise AI training data through disinformation. Daniel Thilo Schroeder, Research Scientist at SINTEF, and Jonas R. Kunst, Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, co-authored a
Autonomous software development creates a dilemma for leaders in regulated industries: adopt AI coding at scale or fall behind on product velocity without compromising auditability and code quality. In CXOTalk episode 917, Kris Tokarzewski, Group Chief Technology Information Officer at Vitality, describes how a 14,000-
Agentic AI is reshaping enterprise software faster than most CIOs, CFOs, and vendors are prepared for. Praveen Akkiraju, Managing Director at Insight Partners, joins Michael Krigsman to examine the state of agentic AI in 2026: what works in production, what remains hype, and how sophisticated enterprises are now runnin
Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer of HPE, explains how she measures business value while deploying agentic AI across a 3,600-person finance organization. Her framework separates direct ROI from indirect value (speed, accuracy, fewer errors) and the operating requirements that make finance AI trustworthy at scale. YO
Pradeep Mannakkara (CIO) and Ben Mayrides (CISO) of Cvent explain how they govern AI agents at scale across their 5,500-person organization, which now has over 6,000 agents in production. In this fireside chat recorded at a Glean event in NYC, they walk through the AWARE framework developed by Glean's Work AI Institute
Bill Briggs, CTO of Deloitte, shares findings and advice for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) from the 2026 TechTrends report: 93% of enterprise AI spending goes to technology and tooling, while only 7% of funding goes to culture, change management, and learning. Briggs explains why this imbalance drives failed pilots
A healthcare CEO once told former CDC Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, he had "a fiduciary responsibility not to provide good diabetes care" because the ROI takes 7 years and patients leave after 4. That's not a villain talking. That's our system working exactly as designed, without preventive medicine.Dr. Tom Frieden ran th
Cyberattacks that used to take months now take minutes. And your defenders still can't keep up. Rob T. Lee, Chief AI Officer of the SANS Institute, and David A. Bray, Chair of the Accelerator at the Stimson Center, explain why AI gives attackers a structural advantage. Attackers don't care if their AI breaks something.
Tim Crawford and Isaac Sacolick, both former Chief Information Officers and world-class CIO advisors, join Michael Krigsman on CXOTalk episode 909 to break down why enterprise AI strategies are failing, what separates transformational CIOs from those who are drowning, and why earning your seat at the table matters more
MIT and Stanford professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland, one of the most cited researchers in the world with over 165,000 citations, explains why the real AI advantage isn't smarter models but collective intelligence. It's smarter humans working together with AI as the connective tissue. Drawing from his latest book Shared Wi
AI coding tools are writing more code than ever, but your software isn't shipping any faster. Welcome to the AI Paradox and the solution, intelligent orchestration. Bill Staples, CEO of GitLab, explains why AI-accelerated coding is actually creating massive downstream bottlenecks in code reviews, security checks, and d
Prashant Mehrotra, Chief AI Officer at US Bank, discusses how the bank evaluates AI initiatives and scales projects from pilot to production. He explains how to build customer trust through responsible AI design and prepare for the future of autonomous banking in CXOTalk episode 906. This conversation covers key aspect
An AI chatbot that hallucinates is annoying. A robot or physical AI that hallucinates can cause injury or death. Burkhard Boeckem, CTO of Hexagon, explains why the bar for physical AI is fundamentally higher than digital AI, and what it takes to deploy robots that actually work in the real world. All this in CXOTalk ep
Nation-states are already harvesting your encrypted data, betting they'll crack it when quantum computers mature. It's happening now. In CXOTalk episode 904, Anand Oswal, Executive Vice President of Network Security at Palo Alto Networks, explains what business leaders need to understand about quantum security and how
Most enterprises aren't ready for agentic AI, but ChristianKleinerman, Snowflake's EVP of Product, shares practical advice on what it takes to succeed: data readiness, governance, AI economics, and workforcestrategy. In this episode of CXOTalk, Kleinerman draws on 25 years ofenterprise technology experience to give lea