Another Midmarket CIO Forum has come and gone, and the tenacious team at Boardroom Events feels more than ever like The Little Engine That Could. Any challenges or hurdles that might arise are met with an admirable level of perseverance to deliver the best experience for our CIO clients and the vendors with whom they [...]
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou's famous quote resurfaced for me this week as our team finalizes the remaining details and begins packing in preparation for our upcoming forum in Savannah, Georgia. In business, we want to do business with people we know and like. [...]
While technology allows us to track data down to the near nanosecond it was produced, it’s only part of the equation. Building relationships is paramount to staying competitive. My father started his professional working career as a dishwasher and worked his way up to corporate trainer at Pizza Hut. To this day, he remains [...]
2018 is well underway with a flurry of activity as the Boardroom Events team prepares for the next Midmarket CIO Forum in Savannah this April. While it’s no surprise that business intelligence, disaster recovery and security concerns top the list for this Forum’s CIO audience top concerns, it’s interesting to see communication and collaboration tools [...]
It’s hard to believe the retrospectives on 2017 have already been compiled. Where did this year go?! This month, we were excited to launch our new series, From The Trenches, a collection of business and technology challenges facing today’s CIOs. First up: 9 Tips for Better Vendor Management. We’re also focusing on how CIOs must [...]
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly six months of hard nosed work culminates in a three-day whirlwind. But when a leading CIO and former military leader tells me Midmarket CIO Forum effectively gives him back 18 days a year, I know our team's doing something right. A few years ago, Hilary heard RC [...]
Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Irma passed, the sunsets in the Florida Keys are still second to none. The "Old Salts" of the Florida Keys rarely bat an eye each hurricane season as storms start swirling off the coast of Africa like fastballs headed for the Caribbean. But earlier this month, the tension [...]
We recently hosted an enlightening discussion with leading midmarket IT executives who shared their impending plans to use artificial intelligence and machine learning across their organizations. While there’s an appetite for employing these technologies in the next one to three years, 30 percent of respondents to a recent survey of the Boardroom Events executive community [...]
Smart homes, driverless cars, virtual assistants...artificial intelligence, like it or not, is rapidly moving to the forefront of IT organizations under pressure to drive digital transformation. Nearly 20 percent of respondents to a recent Boardroom Events community survey report they're already utilizing AI within their organizations with the top three uses including decision management, report [...]
For more months than I care to recall, the catamaran on which I live in South Florida has been out of the water for some maintenance and repairs. A slight miscalculation out sailing last year carried one of her precious hulls across a jagged jetty and ripped a gaping hole in her bottom side. Another [...]