Chief Information Officer Roundtable
CDT’s CIO Roundtable, established in 2006, is a premier forum for senior tech executives to exchange ideas, gain expert insights, and drive digital success.
Upcoming Events
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Corporate Partners
The group meets quarterly and our members include senior executives from:
- Amazon Web Services, Inc.
- Auto Club of Southern California (AAA)
- Bourns
- Capital Group
- Children's Health Orange County (CHOC)
- Exemplis
- ICANN
- Ingram Micro
- Irvine Company
- MemorialCare
- SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union
- UC Irvine Health

Limited Membership
Membership is limited in order to foster a cooperative environment and to maintain diversity. New members are considered based on their ability to:
- Actively participate in quarterly meetings
- Share expertise and suggest strategic directions
- Actively represent the CIO Roundtable to the broader business community
- Partake in CIO Roundtable activities as a speaker, moderator, or sponsor
- Honor the confidentiality of discussions
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Past Events
December 5, 2024
Building AI Competence
Meghna Sinha - Former VP of AI, Verizon
June 2, 2024
In-Person Forum
April 30, 2024
GenAI: Current Landscape, Future Trends, and Enterprise Adoption
Vibhanshu (Vibs) Abhishek - Associate Professor, Information Systems, UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business
Philip Potloff - General Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software Marketplace
February 29, 2024
Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
Venkat Venkatraman - David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University
November 16, 2023
The Digital Transformation Roadmap
David Rogers - Faculty Director of Executive Education, Columbia Business School
June 7, 2023
All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence
Tom Davenport - President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management, Babson College
April 4, 2023
What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth
Matthew May - Design Thinking Expert and Senior Advisor, Insight Partners
Author of What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth
January 10, 2023
Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation
Rita Gunther McGrath - Professor and Academic Director in Executive Education, Columbia Business School, Global Expert on Strategy and Innovation
Author of the best-selling book The End of Competitive Advantage and Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
September 20, 2022
Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
Isaac Sacolick - President and CIO of StarCIO
Bestselling author of Driving Digital
June 14, 2022
Global Economic Outlook
Christopher Schwarz - Faculty Director, Todd and Lisa Halbrook Center for Investment and Wealth Management, UC Irvine
March 31, 2022
The Never Normal
Peter Hinssen - Entrepreneur, Advisor and Author
January 25, 2022
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
Martin Ford - Author, Futurist and Leading Expert on AI & Robotics
November 3, 2021
The Digital Factory: The Answer To How To Scale Your Digital Transformation
Shital Chheda and Aditya Dhar - Partners at McKinsey
November 31, 2021
Board Management and Cyber Risks: Key Issue
Kiersten Todt - Managing Director, Cyber Readiness Institute
May 20, 2021
Getting to Nimble: How to Transform Your Company Into a Digital Leader
Peter High - President, Metis Strategy
March 18, 2021
Career Trajectories and Positioning Yourself for Board Appointments
Diana McKenzie - Board Director, MetLife and Change Healthcare, Former SVP & CIO at Workday
January 14, 2021
How to Build a Data Science Organization
Sean Taylor - Head of Rideshare Labs at Lyft
September 10, 2020
Marshall Goldsmith - CEO Coach
August 5, 2020
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health
Sinan Aral - Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
June 19, 2020
Building Resilience in Uncertain Times
Susan Doniz - CIO and SVP of IT & Data Analytics, The Boeing Company
April 21, 2020
Economic Forecast & Implications with COVID-19
Christopher Schwarz - Faculty Director, Todd and Lisa Halbrook Center for Investment and Wealth Management, UC Irvine
January 23, 2020
Designed for Digital: How to Succeed in the Digital Economy
Jeanne Ross - Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
November 6, 2019
Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
Mark Schwarz - Author of A Seat at the Table and War, Peace and IT
June 13, 2019
Retreat
May 9, 2019
Orchestrating Transformation
Co-authors James Macaulay, Senior Director and Joel Barbier, Director of Thought Leadership, Cisco
March 21, 2019
Road to Reinvention 2019: A One Day Conference for Executive on Leadership in the Digital Age
March 20, 2019
Hyperledger: Blockchain and the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project
Brian Behlendorf - Executive Director of Hyperledger
January 31, 2019
Design Thinking Workshop
Emilie Wagner - Lecturer, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, d.school, Stanford
December 13, 2018
Questions are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
Hal Gregersen - Author and Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center
October 25, 2018
Strategic Workshop on Digital Innovation
Margarethe Wiersema, PhD - Dean's Professor of Strategic Management, UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business
September 20, 2018
Digital Transformation Playbook
David Rogers - Author and Faculty, Executive Education, Columbia University
May 31, 2018
The Digital Matrix: New Rules for Business Transformation through Technology
N. Venkatraman - David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management; Professor, Information Systems, Boston University
February 1, 2018
The Platform Revolution
Marshall Van Alstyne, PhD - Boston University Professor and Expert on Platform Strategy
November 2, 2017
Artificial Intelligence
Padhraic Smyth, PhD - Distinguished Professor, Director of UCI's Data Science Initiative, UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences
September 8, 2017
The Day After Tomorrow: How to Survive in Times of Radical Innovation
Peter Hinssen - Author and Chairman & Co-Founder, nexxworks
May 15, 2017
The Next Generation Enterprise: Increased Customer Intimacy and Digital Ecosystems
Peter Weill - MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
March 7, 2017
The Inevitable
Kevin Kelly - WIRED
January 19, 2017
Blockchain Revolution
Michael Casey - MIT Media Lab
December 8, 2016
The Promise of Virtual Reality
Jeremy Bailenson - Founding Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University
October 20, 2016
Building Organizations for the Future
Tammy Erickson - Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School; Founder and CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates
June 3, 2016
CIO Roundtable Retreat
April 14, 2016
Automation, Software Design and the Human Factor
Nicholas Carr - Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain
February 11, 2016
Confronting Complexity in Data Analytics and the Internet of Things
Sam Ransbotham