Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews)

How does a 100-year-old manufacturing leader reinvent itself through autonomy and AI?

In this episode, Caterpillar CTO Jaime Mineart shares how her team is transforming industrial work sites using robotics, machine intelligence, and real-time data. From mining to construction, the company is applying decades of engineering expertise to modern digital challenges, partnering with customers to co-develop scalable automation solutions.

Key highlights from the episode:

How autonomy is expanding beyond mining into quarries and construction

What makes Caterpillar’s AI adoption strategy unique—and replicable

Inside the Helios platform and NVIDIA partnership powering data-driven insights

Why the company pledged $100M to upskill the workforce of the future

Lessons from scaling R&D with real-world customer involvement

1048: What if the hiring process wasn’t broken—but reimagined?

Anthony Moisant, Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer at Indeed, details how his teams are building trusted systems, tackling AI bias, and leveraging background agents and AI sourcing to solve the “black hole” of hiring. He also reflects on the importance of early-career talent, skill-based hiring, and the balance of self-learning and leadership-led growth.

The conversation covers:

Why trust is foundational to AI innovation at Indeed

How “invite to apply” transforms the candidate experience

The future of work through agentic systems and AI sourcing

Balancing self-driven learning with leadership-created space

1047: What does it take to lead tech—and the enterprise—in 2026?

In this episode of Technovation, we feature a panel from our October 2025 Metis Strategy Summit where Steven Norton speaks with three top executive recruiters: Craig Stephenson (Korn Ferry), Jamey Cummings (JM Search), and Scott Robbin (Heidrick & Struggles). Throughout the conversation, each recruiter gives their perspective on the evolving mandate of the CIO.

The conversation covers:

The convergence of data, security, digital, and operations under the CIO

How talent strategy and succession planning are changing

What makes a technology leader board-ready

The rise (and ambiguity) of the Chief AI Officer

Offshore workforce trends and leadership development

Enterprises aren’t failing at AI. They’re failing at data.

Daniel Docter, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, shares why the biggest barrier to enterprise AI isn’t models or talent—it’s the fractured, unstructured, and context-free data that most companies still struggle to harness.

In this episode of Technovation, Daniel and Peter High explore:

Why data context is critical to enabling enterprise reasoning

How Redis and other startups are fixing the AI performance gap

What Dell Technologies Capital looks for in early-stage enterprise AI

How corporate VC has evolved into a founder-enabling force

Why the next five years will reward enterprises that fix their data layer

Digitization was just the first step. True digital transformation in healthcare is only beginning.

Dr. Michael Pfeffer, Chief Information and Digital Officer at Stanford Health Care, shares how he and his team are moving beyond electronic health records to deliver real-time, AI-powered care. From building ChatEHR, a secure, embedded LLM interface, to developing Stanford’s FIRM framework for responsible AI, Pfeffer provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the nation’s most advanced digital health systems.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why “digitized” isn’t the same as “digital”

How Stanford built the first integrated LLM in clinical workflows

What makes healthcare AI safe, useful, and equitable

Where AI adds real clinical value and where it doesn’t

The vision behind precision health at scale