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CIO at Workato

Carter Busse is the CIO of Workato, where for the past five years he has led business technology and internal use of Workato's agentic orchestration technology, including enabling customers to build their own AI agents. His expertise spans AI, orchestration, business technology, security, and IT operations, built across a career with three IPOs at Excite@Home, Salesforce, and MobileIron, where he was employee number 70 and the first IT leader hired. He also founded a CIO Council forum that convenes 50 to 60 VP- and CIO-level leaders to discuss practical frameworks for AI transformation.

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Enterprise AI
February 11, 2026

Your Employees Want to Use AI. Who’s Going to Lead That?

CIOs face a critical opportunity to lead their AI strategy. To lead effectively, they must get hands-on by building and experimenting themselves, not delegating crucial learnings.

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