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Charles Pelton, Contributing Editor, CIO
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Charles Pelton

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Charles 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

2025 CIO 100 Symposium & Awards: Advancing Tech Leadership
Agentic AI to Improve Customer Interaction
Monday, August 11, 2025
2:00 - 3:30pm
The roundtable will consider the fast-moving AI landscape and how agentic AI has rapidly come on the scene. The focus will be on customer experience (CX) and whether to buy or agentic AI-enabled customer service systems. We’ll see how agentic AI agents use numerous tools that must access data from…
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. CIO’s are faced with challenges to both provide an effective platform that solves a myriad of compliance…
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…
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