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Eli Potter argues enterprise AI needs its own checks and balances, borrowing separation of powers, red-teaming, and federalism from the U.S. Constitution.
AI can do the work. The harder question for CIOs in 2026 is whether it can do it economically. Todd Mazza on token costs, AI FinOps, and the case for a "token P&L."
Talking to the CFO about AI takes two answers, not one. Motti Finkelstein on separating AI value from cost, and the vocabulary that keeps programs funded.
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.
Your AI agents learn from broken processes, hallway decisions, and sanitized meeting summaries. Here's how CIOs can govern what the model actually sees.
Zach Rossmiller, AVP and CIO at the University of Montana, on how structured change management and pillar-based execution transformed IT from a campus utility into a driver of enrollment growth.
Jorge Cardenas, CIO for the City of Brownsville, Texas, on why CIOs who master only one corner of the technology stack lose the ability to lead the whole.
Caroline Carruthers, Chief Executive of Carruthers and Jackson, on why new AI titles paper over the ownership gaps that only a strong CIO and CDO partnership can close.
Rob Zelinka, Technology Advisor at Leadership, Life & Legacy, on why misaligned AI messaging erodes the workforce trust that enterprise adoption depends on, and why honest intent is the only fix.
Wilf Russell, Chief Technology Officer at Livmor, on why the instinct to create new C-suite titles for AI repeats the same mistake enterprises made with data leadership.
Ryan J. Crosby, three-time CIO and Strategic Advisor at Zertain, on why owning P&L starts with mapping where revenue leaks across cross-functional workflows.
Robert Fulk, CIO for the Indiana Secretary of State, on how governed orchestration as the operating layer converts fragmented government AI experiments into production systems.
Brandeis University CIO, Jim La Creta on how decades of cultural habits undermine data governance even when the right systems are already in place.
Mir Ali, Head of Enterprise Data & AI Platforms at The Hershey Company, on why the gap between AI strategy and delivery comes down to execution discipline, not technology.
More CIOs are reporting to the CEO, managing larger budgets, and gaining more authority to rework operations around data and AI. The challenge? Not squandering the opportunity.
Jonathan Fozard, CIO at Florida State University, outlined how structured governance and shared language turn AI into coordinated campus-wide progress.
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