unlock great potential for our goals and ambitions. And that is the CIO, the Chief Information Officer.
So I talked about why and the reason behind that boils down to one single word – data. Because right now we are experiencing an explosion in data with the advent of AI and the business drivers and the business possibilities that can be unlocked by the power of AI is driving this explosion of data. And so I talked about how the CIO is at the centre of that in every single company today, making decisions about how best to deploy AI use cases to drive value, drive business results. And together with the chief sustainability officer, those two stakeholders can be very powerful.
Nicola Acutt, Chief Sustainability Officer,
NetApp
But today they’ re not because they’ re not necessarily in the same room. And so I offered the audience a couple of insights based on my experience at NetApp working with our CIO around challenges that they are dealing with today, whether that is modernising their infrastructure or cloud or data resilience and AI. So I gave the audience an idea of what’ s keeping the CIO up at night and then also what are some opportunities for collaboration.
72 October 2025