Online Webinar – Recorded March 13th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

In today’s rapidly changing world, marked by successive high-impact crises, businesses are facing an innovation paradox. While 58% of non-executive directors plan to increase their risk appetite to drive growth, many organizations are scaling back on innovation initiatives.

In fact, only 16% of innovation leaders feel their organizations embrace high-risk innovation. This contradiction presents unique challenges and opportunities.

Join our expert Peter Skyttegaard (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst in this Gartner IT webinar as they explore how a well-organized innovation lab can become a critical ingredient to survive and thrive in this paradox, as it reveals new opportunities to generate business success.

You will explore the key steps for building an innovation lab, through an effective operating model, along with real-time examples of an organization that has successfully leveraged them to be prepared for uncertainties. You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Navigate volatility by balancing short-term and long-term business priorities
• Prepare for success with an expanded set of innovation goals
• Execute innovation with an effective operating model

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Key Elements to Navigate Through A Volatile Business Environment

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Online Webinar – Recorded April 30th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

An often-held assumption about artificial intelligence (AI) is that it is amazing at crunching data, but it could never really replace the emotional quotient (EQ) of a good human leader.

But is that true?

The era of generative AI will shift human-machine relationships, and to get this relationship right, we need both machine and human experts.

Join this Gartner leadership webinar as Gartner expert Mary Mesaglio  (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguised Analyst; explores the myriad of ways that humans and machines interact, what that means for leaders, and the guiding principles to address unforeseen dilemmas.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Explore how human-to-machine relationships are changing
• Understand what the workplace impact of human-to-machine relationships
• Identify the opportunities and risks of this new era

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What if Your Most Human-Centric Leader is A Machine?

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 6th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

The first 100 days of a CIO is a defining time in which to establish yourself and demonstrate value.

Whether you’re a new CIO or an experienced executive taking a new position at a different organization, you must quickly illustrate competency, communicate your vision and set a foundation for trust.

In this webinar Kevin Smith (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Sr Director Analyst  will help you follow a well-devised roadmap, focus on a core set of objectives to establish yourself and your value, and set the foundation for the technology delivery of the organization to make a quick and impactful start.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Identify targeted outcomes, communications, actions, barriers to success and additional considerations for self-development
• Proactively engage the C-suite and focus on business outcomes
• Lay a foundation for impact, growth and leadership by having executed key critical accomplishments

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The Chief Information Officer’s First 100 Days

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 11th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

During economic and social volatility, organizations achieve success through sustainable efficiency.

Organizations must determine how to make the best possible use of new technology developments that could cause significant disruption over the next three years, such as generative

AI, and embrace the connected workforce nature while remaining resilient. Join this complimentary webinar as Gartner expert Samantha Searle (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Principle Analyst, reveals the Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2024 and how CIOs and IT leaders can use them to ensure future success.

Discussion Topics:

• Prioritize sustainable technology trends, aligning practical cybersecurity with business value
• Invest in technology that fits specialist workers and AI-powered software development.
• Incorporate machine customers, augmentation, and AI-powered intelligence in training and work processes

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Gartner Top Strategic Tech Trends For 2024

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Online Webinar – Recorded March 7th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many fear that data is artificial intelligence’s greatest weakness.

Do you have enough data? Do you know the provenance and lineage?

There are many proposed metrics to assure the data is ready, but have you considered that AI processes are not equal or even similar in many cases? AI-ready data is not about metrics and provenance as a standalone assessment.

It is an ongoing experience, and if you fail to comprehend it, your data assurance may just be a “puff of smoke.”

Join this complimentary Gartner leadership webinar as Gartner experts Mark A. Beyer (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst, and Svetlana Sicular (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner VP Analyst dive into the new and pressing topic of AI-ready data. Find out how context, use case and ongoing specific assessment of your data differs based upon how, when, why and for what purposes it is being used.

You will walk away from this session with the right questions to get vital answers, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Determine the strategy and operations behind AI-ready data
• Understand why AI-ready data is an ongoing experience
• Find out how the context, use cases and ongoing assessments of data differs

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Your Organization Is Ready For AI, But Is Your Data?

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Online Webinar – Recorded February 27th 2024
Activity Type:  Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Generative AI (GenAI) has significantly raised organizations’ awareness when it comes to the power of AI techniques.

After a year of experimentation, 2024 is the year of action. AI engineering unites various disciplines from across the organization to tame the AI hype while providing a clearer path to value when operationalizing the combination of multiple AI techniques (including GenAI models). It also includes responsible AI, dealing with risk, trust, transparency, ethics, fairness, and accountability.

Join Erick Brethenoux (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr.Director Analyst & Leinar Ramos (LinkedIn profile) Gartner Directory Advisory; in this Gartner AI webinar as they explore how a sound AI engineering practice will increase organizations’ ability to move projects beyond pilots, and prototypes into production.

You will walk away from this session with answers to your vital questions, a copy of the research slides, and recommended actions to help you achieve your goals.

Discussion Topics:

• Understand how to set up a productive AI engineering practice
• Explore the main issues to overcome while operationalizing AI systems
• Identify the principal actors involved in an AI engineering practice

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AI Engineering: The Link Between AI & Business Value

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