InnoTech San Antonio

This presentation is a look ahead at the newest high technologies, innovative business forces, and accelerating global changes that will shape the IT manager's workday of the future.

These include trends like business digital transformation, cloud based application and infrastructure migration, the growth of the internet of things (IoT), advanced mobile platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics, machine learning, and the service economy. Russ Finney first explains these rapidly advancing trends and their associated economic impacts, and then he makes practical suggestions for the actions that IT executives should be taking to leverage these opportunities within their own companies.

Russ draws his insights from his time as both an IT executive and as a consultant working inside the computer chip industry building semiconductor equipment, the defense industry building aircraft carriers and submarines, the financial services industry building advanced trading platforms, and the aerospace industry serving as a the CIO of an international aerospace consortium. Since 2012 he has been an advisor to some of the most innovative companies in the US and in 2016, he was named a Top 5 executive CIO Influencer through social media by Apollo Research (@rfinney).

The key take away from this overview are the most impactful and practical IT executive action items and methods which can be immediately applied at any company - no matter the size or sophistication.