Thursday, February 6, 2025, 7pm ET | Friday, February 7, 2024, 11am AEDT
IT leaders are facing a transformative challenge: to adapt people, process, and technology in a world driven by quickly-evolving technologies. This will require a strategic shift in the CIO mindset to ensure that data, skills, and security align to enable organisational growth and resilience.
Info-Tech’s CIO Priorities 2025 report investigates five critical initiatives IT leaders should prioritise to broaden their mandate and deliver organisational success. Amplify your impact in 2025 with these data-driven insights.
Join this dynamic webinar to bring your 2025 agenda into focus with five priorities.
Principal Research Director, Apps and Data
As a Principal Research Director, Brian focuses on emerging technology and has developed Info-Tech Research Group’s annual Tech Trends report, its flagship publication, since 2020. Brian also provides support with executive leadership strategy, and digital strategy. After more than a decade as a technology and science journalist, Brian has his fingers on the pulse of leading-edge trends and organisational best practices towards innovation. Brian holds a Certification in Emerging Technologies from ISACA and is a certified foresight practitioner via the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies. He writes columns on Forbes Technology Councils and Spiceworks Insights.
Prior to joining Info-Tech Research Group, Brian was the Editorial Director at IT World Canada, responsible for the B2B media publisher’s editorial strategy and execution. A leading digital thinker at the firm, Brian led IT World Canada to become an award-winning publisher.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Carleton University. He is regularly featured as a technology expert by media including CIO.com, CIO Dive, Techopedia, Chorus Radio, CBC, and elsewhere.
Managing Partner I
George is a seasoned executive with extensive experience as both a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of businesses across diverse industries, including SaaS, financial services, media, education, government, and construction. His successful track record includes raising and exiting businesses totaling over $100 million in funding and over $3 billion in M&A.
George has over 20 years of experience in a variety of industries, including financial services, crypto, technology, media, retail, and construction. In his CxO roles, he excelled at leading and motivating product, technology, sales, and marketing teams to achieve scale.
In addition, George serves as a trusted advisor to boards and leadership teams. He has a talent for providing scalable solutions that drive growth, change, and continuous improvement, with a focus on enhancing the end-user experience.
Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.
We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.