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
2026 CIO 100 Awards & Conference
How AIOps Modernizes Network Management: Building Intelligent Campus and Data Center Networks
Monday, August 17, 2026
2:00 - 3:30p
Ryder Cup B Pre-registration is required. Register here. The role and nature of the enterprise network is shifting. Far more than a utility responsible for uptime, today’s network is a strategic intelligence platform that connects users, applications, data, and workloads across the enterprise. The modern network spans campuses, branch offices,…
The Hypervelocity Enterprise: How AI Reshapes Delivery, Talent, and Technology
Monday, August 17, 2026
4:00 - 5:30p
Ryder Cup B Session Full. Pre-registration is required. AI redefines how organizations innovate, operate and compete. Autonomous agents, AI-assisted engineering and digital labor are becoming embedded across the enterprise. That requires technology leaders to rethink operating models, workforce strategies, governance and the platforms to build and maintain competitive advantage. What…
CIO 100 Leadership Live Los Angeles
Executive Roundtable: Hybrid IT: Evolving Infrastructure in Light of AI, Virtualization Costs, and Security
Thursday, April 16, 2026
8:30 - 9:45 am
Today’s enterprise IT leaders must manage their infrastructure in light of several simultaneous trends: the growth of AI, the ballooning costs of virtual machines, and ever present (and ever changing) security pressures. For many companies the solution lies in a hybrid cloud environment where some resources and applications reside on…
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…
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…