Established in 2006, CDT’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Roundtable is a knowledge sharing forum for the most senior technology executives. This partnership between and UC Irvine is aimed at helping them lead their companies to success in a digitally-driven world. The forum provides members with access to leading thinkers and industry experts, facilitates dynamic dialog, and fosters a collaborative community.
The group meets quarterly and our members include senior executives from:
Membership is limited in order to foster a cooperative environment and to maintain diversity. New members are considered based on their ability to:
GenAI: Current Landscape, Future Trends, and Enterprise Adoption
Tuesday, April 30, 2024; 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speakers: Professor Vibhanshu (Vibs) Abhishek, Associate Professor, Information Systems, UC Irvine Paul Merage School of Business; Philip Potloff, General Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Software Marketplace
Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future
Thursday, February 29, 2024; 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Speaker: Professor Venkat Venkatraman, David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University
The Digital Transformation Roadmap
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Speaker: David Rogers, Faculty Director of Executive Education at Columbia Business School
All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Speaker: Tom Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College
What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Speaker: Matthew May, design thinking expert and senior advisor at Insight Partners, and author of What a Unicorn Knows: How Leading Entrepreneurs Use Lean Principles to Drive Sustainable Growth
Discovery-Driven Digital Transformation
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Speaker: Professor Rita Gunther McGrath (Columbia Business School), Global Expert on Strategy and Innovation and 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.
Digital Trailblazer: Essential Lessons to Jumpstart Transformation and Accelerate Your Technology Leadership
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Speaker: Isaac Sacolick, President and CIO of StarCIO, and bestselling author
Global Economic Outlook
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
Speaker: Christopher Schwarz, Faculty Director, UC Irvine’s Center for Investment and Wealth Management
The Never Normal
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Speaker: Peter Hinssen, Entrepreneur, Advisor and Author
Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Speaker: Martin Ford, Author, Futurist and Leading Expert on AI & Robotics
The Digital Factory: The Answer To How To Scale Your Digital Transformation
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Speakers: Shital Chheda and Aditya Dhar, Partners at McKinsey
Board Management and Cyber Risks: Key Issues
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Speaker: Kiersten Todt, Managing Director, Cyber Readiness Institute
Getting to Nimble: How to Transform Your Company Into a Digital Leader
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Speaker: Peter High, President, Metis Strategy
Career Trajectories and Positioning Yourself for Board Appointments
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Speaker: Diana McKenzie, Board Director, MetLife and Change Healthcare, Former SVP & CIO at Workday
How to Build a Data Science Organization
January 14, 2021
Speaker: Sean Taylor, Head of Rideshare Labs at Lyft
September 10, 2020
Speaker: Marshall Goldsmith, CEO Coach
The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health
August 5, 2020
Speaker: Sinan Aral, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
Building Resilience in Uncertain Times
June 19, 2020
Speaker: Susan Doniz, CIO and SVP of IT & Data Analytics at The Boeing Company
Economic Forecast & Implications with COVID-19
April 21, 2020
Speaker: Christopher Schwarz, Faculty Director, UC Irvine’s Center for Investment and Wealth Management
Designed for Digital: How to Succeed in the Digital Economy
January 23, 2020
Speaker: Jeanne Ross, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
Business Leadership, Technology, and Success in the Digital Age
November 6, 2019
Speaker: Mark Schwarz, author of A Seat at the Table and War, Peace and IT
Retreat
June 13, 2019
Orchestrating Transformation
May 9, 2019
Speakers: Co-authors James Macaulay, Senior Director and Joel Barbier, Director of Thought Leadership, Cisco
Road to Reinvention 2019: A one Day Conference for Executive on Leadership in the Digital Age
March 21, 2019
Hyperledger: Blockchain and the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project
March 20, 2019
Speaker: Brian Behlendorf, Executive Director of Hyperledger
Design Thinking Workshop
January 31, 2019
Speaker: Emilie Wagner, Lecturer, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, d.school, Stanford
Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life
December 13, 2018
Speaker: Hal Gregersen, Author and Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center
Strategic Workshop on Digital Innovation
October 25, 2018
Speaker: Margarethe Wiersema, PhD, Dean's Professor of Strategic Management, UCI Paul Merage School of Business
Digital Transformation Playbook
September 20, 2018
Speaker: David Rogers, Author and Faculty, Executive Education, Columbia University
The Platform Revolution
February 1, 2018
Speaker: Marshall Van Alstyne, PhD, Boston University Professor and Expert on Platform Strategy
Artificial Intelligence
November 2, 2017
Speaker: Padhraic Smyth, PhD, Chancellor's Professor, Computer Science UCI
The Day After Tomorrow: How to Survive in Times of Radical Innovation
September 8, 2017
Speaker: Peter Hinssen, Author and Chairman & Co-Founder, nexxworks
The Next Generation Enterprise: Increased Customer Intimacy and Digital Ecosystems
May 15, 2017
Speaker: Peter Weill, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
The Inevitable
March 7, 2017
Speaker: Kevin Kelly, WIRED
Blockchain Revolution
January 19, 2017
Michael Casey, MIT Media Lab
The Promise of Virtual Reality
December 8, 2016
Speaker: Jeremy Bailenson, Founding Director, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University
Building Organizations for the Future
October 20, 2016
Speaker: Tammy Erickson, Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School; Founder and CEO, Tammy Erickson Associates
CIO Roundtable Retreat
June 3, 2016
Automation, Software Design and the Human Factor
April 14, 2016
Speaker: Nicholas Carr, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain
Confronting Complexity in Data Analytics and the Internet of Things
February 11, 2016
Speaker: Sam Ransbotham