Moderator
Charles Pelton
Contributing Editor CIOCharles Pelton has run dozens of business and IT roundtables, moderated IT and other business-focused panels, and hosted executive conferences for CIO, Computerworld and other groups. A former editor-in-chief of events and research at InformationWeek magazine, Charles co-founded Modern Media Partners, a media company that focused, in part, on the production of live events and conferences. Charles has been an IT and business journalist for more than 25 years, working as a reporter for Time and USA Today and on events for The Economist and The Wall Street Journal.
Upcoming and recent events
CIO 100 Leadership Live Los Angeles
Executive Roundtable: Virtualization and Hybrid IT: Simplifying Your Approach to Architecture
Thursday, April 16, 2026
8:30 - 9:45 am
Enterprise IT leaders are under pressure to deliver greater agility and resilience while managing increasingly complex hybrid architectures. At the same time, they must manage the ballooning cost of virtualized environments. Enter HPE GreenLake, a hybrid IT approach to better manage budgets in a hybrid environment with embedded governance. The…
CIO 100 Leadership Live Atlanta
Executive Roundtable: Virtualization and Hybrid IT: Simplifying Your Approach to Architecture
Thursday, March 5, 2026
8:30 - 9:45am
Enterprise IT leaders are under pressure to deliver greater agility and resilience while managing increasingly complex hybrid architectures. At the same time, they must manage the ballooning cost of virtualized environments. Enter HPE GreenLake, a hybrid IT approach to better manage budgets in a hybrid environment with embedded governance. The…
2026 CIO 100 Conference & Awards
Agentic AI to Improve Customer Interaction
Monday, August 11, 2025
2:00 - 3:30pm
In a fast-moving AI landscape, agentic AI is the latest and could be the most transformative innovation for customer experience. But do you need to buy an agentic AI-enabled customer service system? In this roundtable, we’ll see how agentic AI agents use numerous tools that must access data from multiple…
Unlock AI’s Potential: Prepare Your Data to Be “AI Ready” and Execute the Mechanisms for Success.
Monday, August 11, 2025
4:00 - 5:30pm
In today’s data-driven world, artificial intelligence is rapidly transporting – and transforming – organizations, but its potential can only be fully realized when built upon a foundation of clean, secure, and trustworthy information. CIOs are faced with challenges to both provide an effective platform that solves compliance and structural issues,…
2024 Data, Analytics & AI Summit | Foundry Events
Accelerate and Manage Your Generative AI Journey
Thursday, April 11, 2024
12:25 pm - 12:50 pm
With AI moving to the mainstream, organizations look to bolster confidence in their approach, better aligning executive expectations with business goals. It’s not about influencing the outcome, but controlling it. This session discusses how DataRobot helps centralize an enterprise’s approach to building AI solutions for any industry. We’ll explore how…
AI, RAG and Best Practices to Leverage Your LLMs
Thursday, April 11, 2024
1:20 pm - 1:45 pm
Today’s organizations face multiple challenges to get the most out of their large language models (LLMs). These include security, privacy, hallucinations, relevance, scalability, and cost. In this Q&A session, you’ll hear Elastic’s Steve Mayzak discuss best practices and how to utilize RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) technology as you refine your AI…