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Who Do You Think You Are?Mark Chillingworth, Who Do You Think You Are?In this episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, Mark Chillingworth, contributing editor at Diginomica and founder of the Horizon CIO Network, talks to host Federica Monsone about his editorial journey taking to the world’s most influential CIOs and CTOs, and how technology leadership is evolving in an age of AI, cybersecurity challenges, and data sovereignty. Listen here to learn how CIOs are shaping digital transformation, what vendors can do to better tell their customer stories, and why data storage is set to rise back up the business agenda.
2025-12-0329 min
Literary Masterpiece DigestThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter follows Hester Prynne, a woman living in Puritan New England who is publicly shamed after committing adultery. Forced to wear a scarlet letter "A" on her chest, Hester bears her punishment with quiet dignity while raising her daughter Pearl alone. The father of Pearl is secretly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected minister who hides his guilt while Hester is condemned openly. His internal torment contrasts with Hester's outward resilience, revealing the hypocrisy of a society that punishes visible sin while ignoring hidden wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Hester's estranged husband, Roger Chillingworth, returns in disguise...
2025-10-1204 min
This Week in Enterprise TechWeek 16 - This Week in Enterprise TechAI interfaces, vendor dependencies, C-suite changeups, addressing common security breaches even at cutting-edge AI companies, and CIO strategies for business growth - all on this week’s This Week in Enterprise Tech, brought to you by Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights and Charles Araujo of The DX Report.The “Egg Theory” of AICan AI be too simple? Hyoun and Charles discuss Rex Woodbury’s assertion that “just add water” agentic AI may be dissatisfactory to its users. Particularly with the concept of AI agents as “co-pilots,” what is the correct balance of AI assistance and human agency...
2024-06-0630 min
The Data Scientist PodcastPodcast: Mark Chillingworth on the future of the Chief Information OfficersThe role of a CIO has changed significantly over the years as data has become more important to organizations' success. In the past, a CIO was responsible for the IT infrastructure and not much else. Nowadays, this is just one of many responsibilities that a CIO undertakes.
On this episode Mark Chillingworth comments on the current state of CIOs and what their future might bring.
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2021-11-1319 min
The Valuu Makers PodcastAdventures of the CIO Tech WriterInterview with Mark Chillingworth, European CIO & CTO Community Editor and Chair of the Horizon CIO Network. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit valuumakers.substack.com/subscribe Get full access to Ryan Purvis at ryanpurvis.substack.com/subscribe
2020-10-2041 min
Northern Stage Theatre PodcastEP.2 - Melody Sproates cabaret maker and binary breakerThis week Mark and Louie caught up with cabaret maker and binary breaker Melody Sproates about their work not just on-stage but also off stage and how they have been working out how to live and work in our current situation. Featuring chats about their show *gender not included, lip-syncing, Tiger King and more, it's totally entertaining, totally honest and full of brilliance.
The interview was recorded on 7 April 2020 in various houses across Newcastle upon Tyne and South Shields via online chat.
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2020-04-1039 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: The important role sponsors play in business changeThe role of the sponsor in a major business transformation is vital and as this episode of the Horizon CIO Podcast reveals, not always well understood or specified by the business. To get some insight into the role of the sponsor HR transformation specialists Joe Ales and Jason West of Underscore Group described how they help organisations get the most from sponsorship. “Sponsors are the most critical role in a business transformation, they define what the transformation is going to achieve and what the end state will look like,” says Ales on the podcast for bu...
2019-11-2238 minHorizon CIO PodcastHorizon CIO Podcast: Understanding Security RatingsRatings agencies are a fact of life for the financial community and as cyber security rises in importance, so too must the security of an organisation be rated. Security rating platforms is a rapidly growing area of the security technology market. “Ratings give you the ability to tell a story that is not just about firewalls. There has been an evolution of the way that we present to the CEO and the board,”“A security rating is a measurement of the cyber security performance carried out by an independent agency,” says Jake Olcott, VP of BitSig...
2019-10-2530 minHorizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Wellcome Trust CTO James ThomasWellcome Trust chief technology officer (CTO) James Thomas told a Horizon CIO Network roundtable how his organisation has built a new operation with data and change at its heart. Talking to CIO and CTO peers from FTSE 100 organisations Thomas gives a frank insight into how to deliver change and reveals how he created a new culture and set of measurements to benefit the organisation and its technologists. The Wellcome Trust is headquartered in central London, but owes its philanthropic heritage to an American, Sir Henry Welcome who moved to th...
2019-10-0335 min
Underscore Transformation10 steps to scoping a successful business transformation – the debateThank you to our guests in this episode:
Andy Welch, Portfolio Director – LinkedIn
Kathryn Marshall, Chief HR Officer – LinkedIn
Mark Harrison, Change and Delivery Director – LinkedIn
Richard Phelps, Management Consultant – LinkedIn
Sharon Bridgland-Gough, Chief HR Officer
Mark Chillingworth kindly hosted the discussion - LinkedIn
The 10 Points covered in the Scoping Checklist are:
1. Programme sponsorship2. Problem definition3. Preparing for change4. Requirements gathering5. Vision, objectives and design principles6. Governance and decision making7. Methodology and approach8. Programme management capability9. Solution design capability10. Business case
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2019-09-261h 06Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: AI, the law and ethicsThe first Horizon CIO Network roundtable event of 2019 focused on how organisations can implement artificial intelligence (AI). CIOs from major financial services, medical, retail, education, manufacturing and housing joined the debate.Keynote for the event was Alistair Maughan, who has been a partner with leading law firm Morison Foerster LLP since 2004 and at the forefront of technology law throughout his career. Maughan told a room full of CIOs about ethical and legal implications of AI.“For almost 30 years now I've seen successive waves of technology evolution breaking on the shore from, offshoring and cloud and ro...
2019-04-0421 minHorizon CIO PodcastMedia CIOs personalise the messageThe media industry has been highly disrupted by the internet and the move by consumers to digital media. This has led to major changes in the business models of media organisations. For the March Horizon CIO Podcast, three leading media business technology leaders came together to debate the impact, but more importantly the opportunity, for technology to change the shape of the media.CIOs from three unique media types joined CIO Community Editor Mark Chillingworth to describe how their sector is changing in shape. Chris Fosberry represented the subscription critical business data sector as CTO of Argus...
2019-03-1934 minHorizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast, Editor’s review of the CIO & CTO job moves of 2018A quarter of major business technology leadership hires in 2018 were for a CTO role. 2018 saw a small decrease in role changes amongst the UK’s CIOs and CTOs.Speaking to major search providers, they too are seeing an increase in demand for CTOs and at both ends of the country.Financial services was one of the most active sectors throughout 2018, perhaps indicative of the rising awareness that technology led challengers are fast encroaching on their business models. Early in the year Duncan Gray moved from automotive auctioneers BCA to Premium Credit, a provider of specialist lo...
2019-01-2405 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Alan Hill CIDO, University of ExeterThe Horizon CIO Podcast is brought to you in partnership with Future Processing:
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“It’s hot on the exoplanet Wasp 107 Bravo, 500 degrees celsius and that is very important. A team of experts from the University of Exeter has detected helium in the atmosphere of this exoplanet, they used the Hubble space telescope to analyse light passing through it and they have discovered helium by looking at the data and analysing it,”...
2018-11-0522 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: customer centred mobile Apps
As bank TSB knows all too well, how people perceive your brand is based on their technology experience. In the highly competitive world of online book retailing this is especially the case because of the dominant position of Amazon, which of course has transformed not only the retail of novels, but every shopping story you can name.
Despite the scale and success of Amazon, here in the UK a technology driven service, developed by a UK development house demonstrates that a good technology consumer experience allows organisations to flourish alongside a US giant like Amazon.
2018-07-1926 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO podcast: David Germain, CIO of RSA Group
For the second year in a row insurance business RSA Group has announced good results. During 2017 RSA Group, which in the UK is better known for its More Than general insurance (GI) brand, recorded profits of £322 million after tax, up from £20 million in 2016. The good results of 2016 prompted CEO Stephen Hester to state that the international insurance business was out of recovery.
In late 2016 David Germain joined RSA Group as CTO working alongside stalwart RSA business leader Darren Price and a year later became Group Chief Information & Technology Officer.
Germain invited the Horizon CI...
2018-06-2724 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Is SAP restricting CIO’s ability to be agile?In the spring of 2018 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software giant SAP announced that from 2025 its ERP software will be built to operate with just one database platform, its own SAP HANA database.
Between now and 2025 SAP will continue to support ERPs using Oracle, SQL, IBM or a myriad of other database formats, but beyond 2025 it will no longer support ERP applications not using the HANA database. Discussion on CIO forums that the Horizon CIO Podcast is a member of displayed a fear amongst business technology leaders that SAP is imposing a restriction on agility and technology spend on...
2018-06-2140 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: London’s digital leadershipPicture by Matt Gore/icon
Throughout this week London’s technology communities will come together to discuss, announce and consider the role of technology in the nation’s capital at London Tech Week. Driving a great deal of change and wider adoption of data are the first Chief Digital Officer (CDO) for London, Theo Blackwell and CIO for the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and chair of the London CIO Council Stephen Docherty. The duo tell the Horizon CIO Podcast how CIOs in the public sector as well as their peers in startup and service providers are reshaping the...
2018-06-1441 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Investing in skills and people
Old fashioned processes and approaches to human resources are hampering organisations from employing the technologists they need to become relevant digital businesses in 2018. Business technology leaders have discussed the ‘skills gap’ for the last five years, although there is a shortage of skills, recruitment and employment practices are exacerbating the issue.
“We need to see companies really begin to invest in people and to put a stop to this reactive culture that will be self perpetuating, because if you don’t support the juniors where are you going to find the seniors of tomorrow...
2018-06-0837 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO Podcast: Sport CIOs – how F1, football, cricket & rugby CIOs leadGraeme Hackland CIO at Williams Formula One, Damian Smith, Head of Information Technology at The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), IT Director Matthew Reynolds from Southampton Football club and sports portfolio CIO Mike Bohndiek formerly Head of IT at West Ham United.
“In cricket we capture all the data about every head strike, which goes into R&D about helmets and concussion protocols and data is turning that from an anecdotal method to a data led approach,” says Head of Information Technology at The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Damian Smith.
Smith is CIO for cric...
2018-05-241h 04
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO podcast: Simon Lamkin, CIO Brussels Airlines“I think it is really important that the customer can take responsibility,” says Simon Lamkin, CIO of Brussels Airlines. Lamkin, speaking at a Horizon CIO Podcast roundtable debate, revealed to peers how digital transformation in the airline sector is reshaping the customer experience, but also the business processes of airlines and airports.
Lamkin has been CIO of Brussels Airlines since April 2016. The Englishman joined the airline headquartered in the Belgian capital following a 12 year career with the pioneering low cost airline easyJet. You can hear Lamkin discuss the major disruption easyJet had on the airlines sector with fellow...
2018-05-1025 min
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO podcast: Craig Walker, Global CIO Shell Downstream
In 2017 Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) announced it was exiting the controversial oil sands sector in Canada and was focussing on becoming an energy company. As Fortune reports, the company wasn’t making a rash decision, it had invested expertise and research into understanding the disruptions to energy production and usage. According to Fortune, Shell realised the disruption was arriving sooner than many in the oil sector predicted. Since March 2017 the company has been expanding its portfolio and diversifying its business.
Craig Walker is CIO for the Downstream business of Shell and tells the Horizon CIO pod...
2018-05-021h 00
Horizon CIO PodcastCIO podcast: Claudette Jones, University of the West of Scotland
“I wanted to work much more closely with students and people who were at the cutting edge of working with technology,” CIO Claudette Jones says from University of the West of Scotland, where she is leading technology.
The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has four campuses in south-western Scotland across Paisley, Hamilton, Dumfries and Ayr and even has a campus in London. The university took on its name in 2007, but can trace its roots to the 19th Century.
“This university has a real reputation for vocational courses, we have...
2018-04-2817 min