Rad had little scope for compromise as CIO to what ’ s billed as the world ’ s largest and only fully integrated commercial lending system – with 25 of the top-100 banks using AFS products and services .

And AFS solutions process more than US $ 3 trillion in small business , commercial , CRE , wealth management and syndicated loans daily .

Read on p56 how AFS modernized Disaster Recovery strategy in the cloud with 11:11 Systems .

KPMG and Microsoft have entered a landmark agreement to put AI at the forefront of professional services . See on p40 how this alliance intends to ‘ supercharge ’ the employee experience and accelerate innovation for clients across Audit , Tax and Advisory .

Carl D ’ Halluin , CTO , Datadobi ; Steve Santamaria , CEO , Folio Photonics ; Seth Blank , CTO , Valimail and Stephen Cavey , Co-founder and Chief Evangelist , Ground Labs outline what lessons can be learned from the ‘ old school ’ as the CIO role transitions toward a future as challenging as the tech that ’ s coming .

Nathan Blom collided with Asteroids in the 80s . In Get to Know on p79 , Nathan , now Chief Commercial Officer , Iceotope Technologies , tells of his tech start designing a game that was ‘ very similar to Asteroids , but much worse ’.

And in BASIC on an IBM PC Jr – how ’ s that for ‘ back in the day ’.

Just a sample , then , of what we ’ re serving up .

So get stuck in .

Have an innovative month – make stuff happen !

We asked what qualities should the present generation of CIOs pass on to the next generation of CIOs ?

A selection of those who work with CIOs have their say responding to Editor ’ s Question on p33 .

Bill Tanner Editor

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