2026 CIO Benchmark Report
Where CIOs stand on AI, budgets, influence, and more.
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Enterprise AI
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
As health systems head toward thousands of AI capabilities, Craig Richardville, Chief Digital and Information Officer at UF Health, on the discipline that matters most is knowing when to decommission a model, not just how to deploy one.
Edward Cheng, Senior Advisor for Safe AI Agents at Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab, on how shared rules and decision records let companies judge when an agent can act alone.
Jason Jodoin, President of 23 Advisory Group, on why an agent headcount tells CIOs nothing about the risk underneath it, and how product discipline turns a sprawling estate into a governed one.
With hundreds of AI agents in production, Richard Teachout, Chief Technology Officer at Ashley Furniture, is replacing the central knowledge base with a self-correcting layer that flags when reality drifts from documented process.
Srinath Gopinath, a reliability and observability leader at a major U.S. financial institution, on judging agent decisions and building systems to catch fall-through.
Caio Fernandes, VP of Technology at Checkers & Rally's, on why the voice model is the smallest piece of a drive-thru AI rollout, and why the baseline and the trusted data around it decide whether it pays.
As AI accelerates market change, CIOs must shift from one-time procurement choices to a continuous discipline of managing optionality. Which layer of your stack do you own to stay competitive?
Neeraj Mathur, Chief Information Officer at SickKids Foundation, explains why domain experts belong at the start of an AI project and what changes once building stops being the constraint.
Aroon Grover, GM of AI, Analytics, and Strategy at 7-Eleven, measures AI by the return it creates and knows when data isn’t the answer.
Opinion
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
Leadership
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
M&A success is decided in post-close execution. In this exclusive preview of his upcoming book Make IT Work: An IT Playbook for Mergers and Acquisitions, CIO Jason James covers repeatable playbooks, quick wins, and handling outages and human crises.
Bindu Chanagala, Vice President of Performance Insights at CommonSpirit Health, on why AI in healthcare moves only as fast as the governance around the data and the clinicians who act on it allow.
Rebecca Fox, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Relentica and former Group CIO at NCC Group, on why technology leaders earn trust only by delivering, and why AI has raised the bar on what delivering means.
Winston Ma, Co-Founder of Dragon Global and former head of North America for China's sovereign wealth fund, on what CIOs building AI stacks can borrow from sovereign investors.
From the Edge to the Core:
Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.
Security, Governance, Risk
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
AI Governance, Cybersecurity & Enterprise Risk News
Masato Yamanishi, Owner of Liaison Works and former global CISO at Olympus, on why business impact should decide the order of the risk register before cost enters.
Mark Alvarado, Executive Director of IT Security & Compliance at Academy Sports + Outdoors, on governing AI as a hybrid workforce that needs both people and system controls.
Sandy Jacolow, SVP and CTO at Empire State Realty Trust, on why prompt logs can expose sensitive disclosures and how shared oversight keeps them with the right reviewers.
Enterprise AI Governance Moves To Benchmarks Built For The Business
Sequencing Is The Fix To Security's Agentic AI Complexity Problem
Arvinda Rao, Director of Compliance at Veeam, on the case for governing agent delegation through intent, human checkpoints, and continuous monitoring instead of static access rules.
Candlewood Strategies Principal and CIO, Tim Ehrhard, on why autonomous AI needs the same audits and control mechanisms that decades of financial and healthcare regulation already require.
Boston Public Health Commission CIO, Puneet Sharma, on why public-sector AI fails on data, budget, and team readiness, and how CIOs build the foundation first.
Industry News
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Kapil Viren Ahuja, Partner and CTO of Digital at Nagarro, explained how AI code generation pushed engineering into specification and review, and how a custom harness, and role-based agents rebuilt trust at enterprise scale.
Ann Dunkin breaks down AI's true costs: trillions in infrastructure spending, soaring energy and water use straining the grid, and job disruption from AI investment and layoffs. Hidden costs, she argues, are unmanaged costs.
The Federal Government Wants a Seat at the Frontier AI Model Launch Table
Ann Dunkin breaks down how the GPT-5.6 launch and the Fable/Mythos suspension show Washington now shapes when and to whom frontier AI models ship, and what that means for CIOs.
Missing AI ROI Traces Back To Ungoverned Value Adoption And Decisions
Dr. Elena Alikhachkina, board director, founder of InfoFluence.ai, and author of AI Oversight, on how enterprises drowning in technical AI controls have left value, adoption, and decisions ungoverned, and what it means for ROI.
Quantum computers will break the encryption protecting banking and government secrets—and "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks are already underway. Why CIOs and CISOs must act now.
A Hitachi Vantara report found enterprises are wasting an estimated $108 billion annually on AI because poor data infrastructure undermines their return on investment.
The European Commission launched formal proceedings to compel Google to share its AI and search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.
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From the Edge to the Core:
Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.