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
Anthony Moisant, Indeed's CIO and CSO, on building AI governance around friction points instead of token dashboards.
Michael Nieves, EVP and Head of Cloud at Capgemini, on why multi-cloud has evolved from accidental sprawl into a deliberate capability strategy driven by AI and business ambition.
A new tier of AI capability arrived this week. So did a new set of questions about who controls what.
CIOnews talked to UF Health's Craig Richardville about the importance of a digital foundation in healthcare, deciding when to build and when to buy, and the new mandate for technology leaders.
Vikas Krishan, Chief Digital Business Officer at Altimetrik, on why AI governance becomes the velocity layer when banks move past experimentation and confront years of deferred architecture.
As AI reshapes commerce, Unilever's Prashaant Huria talked to CIOnews about building an AI-centric shopping experience, the importance of APIs, and the CPG giant's data transformation.
Daniel Murphy, Head of SRE at PwC UK, on how AI adoption in regulated enterprises is not held back by budget, but by the operational gap between governance policy and engineering teams.
Aman Sharma, Principal Enterprise Architect AI/ML, on why production AI systems require AI gateways, orchestration middleware, and layer-by-layer observability rather than better prompts.
TCS Generative AI Developer Sai Santhosh Goud Bandari says AI adoption remains slow over security fears, urging risk-based governance rooted in DevSecOps and Zero-Trust.
Preetha Sekharan, CAIO at Hudson Valley Credit Union, on why point solutions fail to compound and what it takes to build a unified intelligence layer that decouples growth from cost.
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
Jeff Brzycki, former CIO at Autodesk and VeriSign, on why the integration and control layer that IT has long owned by default is becoming the strategic foundation of the agentic enterprise.
Christoph Wargitsch, CEO of Wargitsch Transformation Engineers, on why the boundaries between business and IT exist on paper but collapse in practice.
Caroline Carruthers, Chief Executive of Carruthers and Jackson, on why AI governance only works when it changes what people actually do, not what they say.
Eli Potter, VC/PE Executive Advisor and CIO, on why culture and accountability are hard systems inputs to AI transformation, not soft leadership considerations.
Alex Sasnouskikh, Tech Lead at Picnic Technologies, on why decision ownership is replacing implementation skill as engineering's core signal.
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
CTO and CISO Stewart Alpert warned that while security is approaching the limits of human scalability, human-led AI guardrails are more essential than ever.
Hemil Deshmukh, Group Head of Data & AI at Wilson Group, on why resilience beats policy, and how CIOs can pressure-test governance by starting with decisions rather than models.
Vid Desai, CEO of Desai Technology Consulting LLC and former CIO at the FDA, on healthcare deregulation shifting the compliance burden to enterprise IT, and why most organizations aren't ready.
Sandeep Shilawat, Partner, Hybrid Cloud CTO Lead & AI/Automation Leader at IBM, on why compliance as code is the only path from periodic federal security reviews to real-time automated proof.
José Freitas, Lead Enterprise Architect at IATA, broke down why data context, lineage, and digitalization determine whether AI delivers or stalls.
Ann Dunkin, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy and EPA, on why mutual accountability is the real foundation of CIO-CISO success.
Industry News
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
Enterprise Technology Trends, IT Vendor News & CIO Moves
The European Commission launched formal proceedings to compel Google to share its AI and search data with competitors under the Digital Markets Act.
A new report from Pearson finds that AI could add $6.6 trillion to the U.S. economy by 2034 if businesses invest in upskilling their workforce.
AI Hype Hits a Wall of Messy Data, Costing Firms Billions: Hitachi Vantara Report
A Hitachi Vantara report found enterprises are wasting an estimated $108 billion annually on AI because poor data infrastructure undermines their return on investment.
Healthcare's Shadow AI Problem Puts Patients At Risk: Report
A new survey reveals widespread use of unvetted "shadow AI" by healthcare workers, creating significant risks for patient safety and data privacy.
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Only 9% of business have fully deployed agentic AI, according to the recent “From the Edge to the Core: Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise” report.
A recent Gartner report warned CIOs that unaddressed risks in generative AI strategies, including shadow AI, could lead to widespread project failures.
The UK government launched a new AI strategy, committing £100 million to purchase hardware from British startups and a £500 million growth fund.
AWS has open-sourced Agent SOPs, an open-source framework designed to make AI agents more reliable using structured, natural language instructions.
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Capgemini's EVP On Multi-Cloud Strategy: Why Differentiated Capability Beats Single-Cloud Simplicity
Bringing Agentic AI to the Heart of the Enterprise.
