How CIOs Can Surface Innovation, Reduce Duplication, and Scale AI

February 9, 2026

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About the Guest

Sean Murphy

Founder & Chief Executive Officer | DemoHop

Sean Murphy is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DemoHop, a platform that helps large, distributed technology organizations surface ideas, share work, and reduce duplication through interactive, science fair–style events. Prior to founding DemoHop, Sean held senior technology leadership roles at Target and UnitedHealth Group, leading globally distributed teams through periods of significant change. Earlier in his career, he helped scale Custom Ink from its early days to approximately $350 million in revenue.

Episode Overview

Innovation isn’t slowing down, but in many enterprises it’s becoming invisible.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Sean Murphy, Founder and CEO of DemoHop, about why distributed work is trapping great ideas inside organizations and what CIOs can do to fix it. Sean explains how weak ties across enterprises have eroded, why peer-to-peer discovery beats status meetings, and how visibility is becoming the missing ingredient for scaling AI.

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