Stewart Ebrat , CIO , Vera Wang , outlines the brand ’ s work with HPE Aruba Networking ( Aruba ) to provide a highly personalized haute fashion retail experience from a store ’ s threshold through to sale .

As Stewart explains , the brand ’ s customer relationships depend upon exceptionally high-touch personal interactions and premier purchasing experiences – both of which being difficult to deliver online .

Tapping into this theme , Editor ’ s Question asks how the CIO role can adapt to advances in AI ?

This had such a strong response we ’ ll likely be running the question again . Meantime , see who had their say this month on p32 .

Tom Nadeau , CTO Spirent Communications , was the kid with an engineers ’ curiosity who would take things apart to see how they worked – then put them back together again .

Turn to Get to Know on p79 to see what that led Tom into .

But transformation also had to modernize the brand ’ s administrative , facilities and IT operations by adopting solutions for automating tasks .

With a wired and wireless network refresh critical , Aruba took the job on – see how on p56 .

That ’ s just a sample of what ’ s on offer – so enjoy the read .

Have an innovative month .

Make stuff happen .

On p44 , Matt Sanchez , Global Chief Data and AI Officer at Tecnotree and Vice Chairman at the Responsible AI Institute , talks us through the ‘ game changing ’ potential he sees Generative AI holding for telecommunications companies .

To Matt that means making the calls to bring about transformational change to telcos as they realize the inherent promise of this evolving field .

Bill Tanner Editor

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