Al Negrete believes it pays big professional dividends to heed that persistent voice in your head, especially if it’s been there a while. On the brink of his 19th year at AdventHealth, the director of information technology reflects on a pivotal high school computer class in the late 1980s that spoke to him and never […]
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Andrew Buss – City of Philadelphia
For some, the term “innovation management” may seem like a sign on a Disney Studios office door. But Andrew Buss, Philadelphia’s Deputy Chief Information Officer for Innovation Management, sees his role as trying to change the way municipal government works. “There are a lot of ways to define innovation,” Buss says. “For us, innovation is […]
Andrew Dahman – Techficient
By offering protection in times of tragedy or helping fund retirement, life insurance and annuities can make a crucial financial difference for individuals and families. Yet getting the right policy or annuity can be far more complicated than insuring a vehicle or a home, with 30 percent of applicants for life insurance being rejected due […]
Angela Neria – Pittsburg State University
Angela Neria first arrived on the Pittsburg State University campus as a freshman from a small town in Missouri. Crossing the Kansas border to continue her education, she cultivated interests in technology and business and met her husband, all while earning three degrees. Now, as the university’s CIO, she hopes to help other students have […]
Antonio Treviño—Mega Alimentos
La Transformación Digital se ha convertido en una estrategia corporativa alrededor del mundo. Esta maniobra hace que las empresas sean más competitivas, modernizando sus procesos de producción y comercialización, pero sobre todo contribuye a mejorar la interacción con clientes, ofreciéndoles una mayor y mejor experiencia para satisfacer sus necesidades. Para Antonio Treviño, Chief Information Officer […]
Arnulfo Villalba – Servientrega
Even at a relatively large company, an IT director might have 20 people in his or her charge. Fifty, tops. Keeping an eye on 100 people? Maybe if it’s Take Your Child to Work Day. Arnulfo Villalba oversees that many charges each and every day—plus another 20. To be sure, given the size and scope […]
Audrius Polikaitis – UI Health
For most healthcare organizations, a full-on technology upgrade of a 20-year-old records system would be a daunting task. There’s infrastructure to modernize and new best practices and protocols to establish. Sometimes the best solution is breaking everything down and rebuilding. It’s exactly that type of massive undertaking now underway at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System [UI Health], but one worth the […]
Avery Ma – Primrose Schools
Ask Avery Ma what he envisions in classrooms filled with young students and he might answer that he sees them swimming with dolphins or frolicking with whales—even if the classroom is in arid Arizona. Making this happen won’t require thousands of gallons of seawater or scuba suits and flippers for teachers and students, not with […]
Barbara Kunkel – Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
If you want a snapshot showing what happens to companies that resist the tides of change, ask Barbara Kunkel about her days at Eastman Kodak, the company that put cameras in the hands of millions until the tide came rushing in. “They missed the mark in innovation and it cost them because the business model […]
Barry Kallmeyer – Hathaway Brown School
He’s no ornithologist, but Barry Kallmeyer is a big fan of owls. Owl Labs 360-degree cameras, that is—the ones he and his IT team have been installing in classrooms at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio, as the school reopens with a hybrid learning model amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The cameras are the latest […]
