Among other topics, Diana discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Diana McKenzie’s Biography
Diana McKenzie is the Chief Information Officer at Workday, a one billion dollar provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. In that role, she is responsible for the mobilization of the technology that fuels the growth of the digital leader, and for being engaged at the forefront of the customer experience.
Prior to joining Workday, Diana worked at Amgen. She also held several leadership positions at Eli Lily.
Diana received a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in Computer Information Systems.
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Among other topics, Mike discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Mike Schroepfer’s Biography
Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Mike Schroepfer to the broadcast. Mike is the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook. In that role, he leads the development of the technology strategies and teams that will enable Facebook to connect billions of people around the world and make significant breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Before Facebook, Mike was the Vice President of Engineering at Mozilla Corporation, where he led the global and open product development process behind Firefox. Mike was formerly a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems, which acquired his company, CenterRun. He began his career working at various startups, including a digital effects software startup where he developed software that has been used in several major motion pictures.
Mike holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University and has filed two U.S. patents.
I met with Mike in his office at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California last week, and our conversation covered Facebook’s ten-year plan, and the three innovation pillars that he leads. Examples of innovations that the organizations are working on in the near and long-term, the methods he uses to evaluate recruits and employees, the way in which Facebook has maintained its innovative edge despite its extraordinary growth, among a variety of other topics.
Among other topics, Rick discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Rick Hopfer’s Biography
Rick Hopfer is the Chief Information Officer of Molina Healthcare, a $14 Billion healthcare company providing health services to financially vulnerable families and individuals covered primarily by government programs. As CIO, Rick is responsible for all technology and security at the company.
Prior to Molina, Rick worked for Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he served as CIO for four years and as senior vice president of information technology prior to that. Before Sony, he served as CIO for Homestore.com and then as chief technology officer (CTO) for Homestore International.
Rick received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Arizona State University.
Among other topics, Roger discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Roger Pilc’s Biography
Roger is the Chief Innovation Officer of Pitney Bowes, a $4 billion e-commerce solutions provider. In that role, Roger is responsible for spearheading the organization’s innovation efforts to help its customers succeed in an increasingly complex digital and physical world. Prior to Pitney Bowes, Roger worked for CA Technologies where he held leadership roles as a Senior Vice President and General Manager. He also held positions as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Roger received a bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, & Government from Cornell University, a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Among other topics, John discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
John Hagel’s Biography
John is the Co-Chairman of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge. This Silicon Valley-based group conducts original research and develops substantive points of view on emerging business opportunities that should be on CEOs’ agendas. John has over 30 years of experience as a management consultant working both independently and with leading consulting firms. John is also a highly-acclaimed speaker and author. His latest book is “The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, can Set Big Things in Motion”.
John received bachelor’s degrees from Wesleyan University and Oxford University. He also received a J.D. and MBA from Harvard University.
Among other topics, Jeff discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Biography
Welcome to Metis Strategy’s Forum on World Class IT. I’m Peter High, and I’m pleased to welcome Jeff Dean to the broadcast. Jeff is a Google Senior Fellow, currently leading Google Brain, the search giant’s initiative to build large-scale artificial neural networks. Jeff also leads the development of TensorFlow, Google’s open-source library of machine learning algorithms.
Jeff joined Google in 1999 and had a leading role in building much of the core technology and infrastructure of the company
Jeff earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota where he studied Computer Science and Economics. In 2009, Jeff was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and was also named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS).
I recently caught up with Jeff by phone at his office in Mountain View, California. Our conversation covered World Class IT principle, one, People, as we discussed how Google continues to attract, retain, and train top engineering talent; principle three, Project & Portfolio Management, as we discussed Google’s process for productizing its AI research and bringing it to market, and principle four, IT & Business Partnerships, as we discussed how Jeff determines who to interact with inside and outside the company. We also discussed Google’s vision for the transition from the mobile first world, to an AI first world, and how Jeff and the Google Brain team are building the infrastructure to bring this vision to life.
Mike Macrie’s Biography
Mike Macrie is the Chief Information Officer of Land O’Lakes, a $15 billion agricultural- cooperative. In that role, Mike is responsible for leading the organization’s digital transformation while overseeing the operations of information technology. Through his work at Land O’Lakes, Mike was awarded the Forbes CIO Innovation Award.
Prior to joining Land O’Lakes, Mike worked for Ingersoll Rand where he was the Vice President of Software Architecture and Strategy. Mike also held positions at G5 Technologies and AlliedSignal Aerospace (Honeywell).
Mike received his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell University, where he was also a member of the varsity baseball team, and he also has an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Mike McNamara’s Biography Mike McNamara is the Chief Information Officer at Target, a well-known retail business with over $72 billion in revenue. As CIO, Mike is responsible for information technology operations throughout the retail company’s stores, distribution centers, headquarters locations and international facilities. Prior to Target, Mike worked at Tesco, serving as Chief Information Officer, Operations Development Director, UK IT Director, and CTO of tesco.com during his over 16 years with the company. Mike received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from University College Dublin.
Among other topics, Nick discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Nick Bostrom’s Biography
Nick Bostrom is the author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, a book that explains the impending threats that artificial intelligence presents to the human civilization, and ways to co-exist with its presence. He gave a TED talk on the subject of machine intelligence in 2015. Nick is also a Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and the Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary research center at the University of Oxford whose mission is to enable leading researchers bring the tools of mathematics, philosophy and science to bear on big-picture questions about humanity and its prospects.
Nick received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Mathematics, Mathematical Logic and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Gothenburg. He received his master’s degree in Philosophy and Physics at the University of Stockholm, a master’s degree in Computational Neuroscience at King’s College London, and a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics.
Among other topics, Geoff discusses the following issues with Metis Strategy:
Geoff Hinton’s Biography
Geoff Hinton is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and also works at Google, where he uses deep learning techniques to improve voice recognition, image tagging and other tools. He has worked part-time at Google since 2013, when his company DNNresearch Inc., was acquired.
Geoff is known for his work on artificial neural networks, and is an important figure in the “deep learning” community. He has authored over 200 publications in the area of leanring, memory, perception, and symbol processing, including pieces in Scientific American in 1992 and 1993.
Geoff received his Bachelor of Arts in experimental psychology from Kings College at Cambridge, and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1977.
