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