Gartner’s Don Scheibenreif, right, and Mary Mesaglio discuss the new relationship between artificial intelligence and people at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in Orlando, Fla., on Monday.
Photo: Steven Rosenbush / The Wall Street JournalChief information officers have emerged in a stronger position than many experts expected during the past few years because of the forces unleashed by the pandemic and disruptive advances in artificial intelligence.
CIOs, who bridge technology and business leadership, are viewed by many chief executives as critical to adopting AI, cloud computing and cybersecurity, all now seen as inseparable from business itself.
Increasingly, companies believe they must transform for a new AI era, just as they did to keep pace with mobile computing and the internet.
Persons:
Don Scheibenreif, Mary Mesaglio, Steven Rosenbush
Organizations:
Gartner, Street
Locations:
Orlando, Fla