2026 CIO Benchmark Report
Where CIOs stand on AI, budgets, influence, and more.
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Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Agentic AI News & Strategy for Technology Leaders
Chris Tidrick, Chief Information Officer at Gies College of Business, on what modern employers want from graduates and why AI dependence often undercuts it.
Aaron Rallo, Co-Founder and CEO of Trovia, on why the last stretch of an AI project is the hardest and what it takes to clear security review.
Mueed Mohammed, Founder and CTO of WindyCity Trader who led enterprise architecture at 7-Eleven, State Farm, and ExxonMobil, on why the durable edge in AI comes from engineering the memory a stateless model can't keep.
CIOnews spoke with Rory Meleniclis, CIO of Global Specialty Lines at Intact Insurance, about how IT organizations can move beyond responsive ticket takers and become strategic partners capable of translating business needs into technology solutions.
Laszlo Nagy, Founder and CEO of DuoClarity, on why an approved AI system drifts after launch and what it takes in people and budget to keep it working.
Former JSX CIO, Craig Airitam, on why durable enterprise AI value lives in the guardrails, observability, and contracts around the model rather than in the model itself.
Pawanjit Singh, CIO of Centria Autism, on why AI use cases reach production only when they answer to a business value driver, and why every new agent starts its career as a closely supervised intern.
Khwaja Shaik, CTO, Industry Market at IBM, and Board Director at MOSH, on why a risk-based intake framework, cross-functional governance committee, and board-level oversight give enterprises the structure to scale AI without slowing down.
Krishnamurthy Rajesh, CIO of Digital Transformation and AI Strategy at Vinmegham, on why "on the loop" supervision gives enterprises both the efficiency gains and the accountability structure that "in the loop" oversight can't deliver simultaneously.
Laszlo Nagy, Founder and CEO of DuoClarity, on why AI direction set below the top leaves companies with separate builds that never connect.
Opinion
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
CIO Commentary, Expert Analysis & IT Leadership Perspectives
Be the Human in the Lead
Is AI Creating Technical Debt Faster Than It Can Fix It?
Your Most Expensive Knowledge Gap is Not the Board's
Leadership
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
CIO Strategy, Digital Transformation & IT Executive Insights
Eli Potter argues that human stewardship, fellowship, mentorship, leadership, and sponsorship are the only governance mechanisms that actually work when agents operate at machine speed.
AI promises to modernize legacy systems quickly, but it's also generating new technical debt at scale. How CIOs can prevent the cycle from spiraling.
Scott Smeester argues the costly AI knowledge gap lives between CEO and CIO, not CEO and board, and briefings won't solve it.
Inundated with AI marketing and anxious to keep a lid on IT spend, CEOs and other business leaders are increasingly looking to the CIO for guidance on which technology will help drive the most value.
Veteran technology executive CIO Michael Spires on the evolving role of CIO as translator and orchestrator, aligning people, processes, and technology around shared business outcomes.
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
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.
Aaron Weller, Leader of Privacy Innovation & Assurance at HP, on why the AI failures that matter most surface after launch, in how users react.
Dell Joshi, CIO of Envu, on why a confident AI answer no one verifies is the business risk enterprises miss, and how the right guardrails catch it first.
Philip Neufeld, Executive Officer of IT at Fresno Unified School District, on why school networks underpin access, security, and workforce readiness.
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.