I don't know what the future is going to look like. Nobody's got a crystal ball. But if we have to pivot, how can we implement this quickly? Pure Storage and Sectra vendors like us need a plan for agility to pivot to handling the unpredictable.

Mark Dobbs, Pure Storage

The first thing I do in a new company is say, show me a list of all the contracts that we have and information services. A lot of this is like cybersecurity 101. Contract 101. You can't do something with it if you don't know what you have. Because ultimately what you want to try to do is fewer contracts and fewer agreements which means a simpler world that you live in.

Drex DeFord, CrowdStrike

In my mind the CIO is the CDO plus the network operations guy. If you extract the CDO element from it or the CIO, they’re no longer the fun, cool, glamorous techie. They're just operations, right? You might just want an IT operator that says greenlight screen network is on and we're safe. But I think that really great CIOs do both.

William Walders, Health First