“The CIO Automation Council is designed to deepen relationships that help propel the automation industry and strengthen the CIO’s influence both within and outside their organisation,” said Bobby Patrick, Chief Marketing Officer at UiPath. “The CIO Council members are visionary leaders who will contribute tremendous insights that will directly benefit their peers. We are taking an outcome-based approach to help CIOs realise the possibilities of automation to solve complex enterprise challenges.”
CIOs are critical decision makers on enterprise solutions and are responsible for maximising return on technology investments. While CIOs pursue digital modernisation, reducing technical debt, and enhancing IT governance and security, they are also facing macroeconomic conditions such as inflation, supply chain disruption, and labour shortages that add difficulty to their roles. In fact, a recent UiPath survey of business executives revealed 78% are very or somewhat likely to invest more in automation to offset the impact of the labour shortage. In addition, a report by IDC predicts that by next year, 60% of CIOs will be primarily measured for their ability to co-create new business models and outcomes through extensive enterprise and ecosystem-wide collaboration.
Among the topics the CIO Automation Council will seek to address are expanding and strengthening citizen development and communicating with workers to identify new automations; improving the employee experience through automation to retain talent and attract new talent; and understanding how low code and AI capabilities can take on more advanced use cases with high business impact.
The members of the CIO Automation Council include:
Vincent Melvin, Arrow Technologies
Fumbi Chima, BECU
Scott Kessler, BJ's Wholesale Club
Steve McMahon, CrowdStrike
Lutz Beck, Daimler Truck NAFTA
Robert Barrios, E. & J. Gallo Winery
Tim Dickson, Generac Power Systems
Rajan Kumar, Intuit
Leslie Sequeira, Patrick Industries
Dr. Zafar Chaudry, Seattle Children's
William S. Kehoe, State of Washington
Sriram Sitaraman, Synopsys
Ryan Kean, Total Quality Logistics
Shawnna DelHierro, Visionworks
Steve Miller, Xerox
