Movers and shakers: Marcel van den Assum of GreenButton, David Scott of Techspace, Roger Jarquin of Wynyard
The CIO as ‘angel investor’ and other new and emerging roles for ICT leaders.
The CIO as ‘angel investor’ and other new and emerging roles for ICT leaders.
GreenButton’s customers include Pixar, NASA and Boeing. But founder and CEO Scott Houston discloses his stint as Weta Digital CTO and the massive computing power required by the Lord of the Rings movie spurred him to create a start-up that became GreenButton.
A discussion on ‘raising the strategic profile of IT’ at the CIO Summit morphed into a treatise on how CIOs are managing the multiple layers of an in-house/cloud/mobile/BYOD environment. The backdrop to what is variously called “shadow”, “stealth”, or “rogue” IT; the term refers to technology used by employees without clearance or even knowledge by the IT team.