This month we lead with Darren Roubinek, Director of Marketing and Promotions, University of Central Missouri, putting us in the picture over shaping perceptions with Canto.

In university marketing, images do more than decorate a campus brochure – they speak to a prospective student’ s hopes, validate an alum’ s pride or underscore the impact of a major gift.

Read on p48 how this new agreement is seen as a major step towards the seamless integration of advanced 5G services capabilities into GCI’ s network.

In CIO Opinion on p44, Victor Szczerba, Chief Commercial Officer, Pathway, says the splintering language model market holds opportunity for forwardthinking CIOs.

Organisations that prepare for AI models prioritising specialised functions are those that will lead during the next phase of AI, he says.

And yet, until recently, Darren’ s own department struggled to manage the very visuals it needed most.

Get to Know on p79 has Susan Odle, CEO, StorMagic, sharing what time in tech has taught her so far.

The images, says Darren, were fantastic, they just weren’ t workable. Or at least not without friction.

That’ s just a sample of what’ s inside – enjoy the read.

Have an innovative month.

On p56 Darren tells how his team turned this around to work with Canto on the right mix of usability, scalability and AI-powered capabilities.

Make stuff happen.

In Alaska, GCI has selected Ericsson to deploy and operate new 5G Core network.

The new agreement provides the latest generation of cloud-core technology along with new AI tools and ways of working that address increasing network complexity inherent with evolving networks.

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