A Day in the Life of a CIO: Top 5 interviews of 2024
Dec 16, 2024 | 4 minsADAPT conducted 21 interviews this year with prominent senior technology executives across several personas and market sectors including telecommunications, education, healthcare, financial services, not-for-profit and sport.
Here’s our top 5.
1. Kieran O’Meara, Chief Information Officer, Telstra
In October, Telstra’s Executive, Software Engineering & IT (CIO), Kieran O’Meara, had a key piece of advice for organisations looking to deploy AI tools: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
During a trip to the United States, O’Meara was shown a use case of how generative AI could be used to better explain a bill to a customer.
“It’s a great example of, ‘just because you can doesn’t mean you should because that bill shouldn’t be so complex in the first place,” he told ADAPT at the time.
He also spoke about how Telstra is moving from being an organisation with a capital-intensive, annual planning cycle funded programs to one…