The Savvy CIO

Every CIO right now is being asked to do more with less: modernize the stack, secure the perimeter, embrace AI…and still somehow come in under budget. The Savvy CIO is a podcast for business leaders who are living that tension - not the ones writing thought-leadership posts on LinkedIn about it. Brought to you by Park Place Technologies, this is the show that trades buzzwords for real talk; cost versus control, innovation versus risk, cloud versus local…the tradeoffs that IT leaders navigate every single day, told by people who have actually been through them. Join host and former CIO himself Bradd Busick as he sits down for frank, honest conversations that any CIO worth their salt needs to be having. Because the savviest CIOs aren’t chasing every trend - they’re figuring out which ones are actually worth the budget.

The Savvy CIO is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 6 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #5

  Managing the Spend you Can’t See with Mark Dunkerley

  Sep 16, 202627 minS1

  <p>Mark Dunkerley, VP of Enterprise Technology Services and CISO at Coca-Cola Bottlers Sales and Services, sits down with host Bradd Busick to talk through the invisible costs that quietly erode IT budgets: cloud sprawl, unused tools, lingering AI pilots, and emerging token-based AI pricing…not to mention the persistent drain of legacy and technical debt. Mark and Bradd also discuss why the most successful modern CIO and CISO roles are shelving their egos to converge around shared risk ownership, business continuity, and data-driven communication with executives and boards. </p><p><br></p><p>But it’s not all sharing-is-caring sunsh...

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  Episode #4

  The Hidden Cost of AI Readiness with Roy Illsley

  Sep 2, 202629 minS1

  <p>Host Bradd Busick welcomes Omdia analyst Roy Illsley onto The Savvy CIO to get the data-informed skinny on the sunk costs that bleed out AI initiatives - and you might be surprised to hear that it’s not necessarily the pilots, consultants, or even the platforms themselves.</p><p><br></p><p>Roy pulls back the curtain on some of the more insidious costs of AI: poor utilization, lack of monitoring or proper measuring, and underestimations of token economics. He explains that being AI ready doesn’t just mean that your infrastructure can support the physical tech demand - it a...

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  Episode #3

  Why do AI Buildouts Fail? with Skylar Roebuck

  Aug 19, 202627 minS1

  <p>Skylar Roebuck, CTO of Solvd and self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur with the receipts to back it up, sits down with host Bradd Busick to talk about what he calls the “last mile” of AI engineering: making ambition align with infrastructure reality. They bite into one of the toughest questions facing industry right now to get to the bottom of why AI proof-of-concepts that seem to work perfectly as a demo crash and burn when they’re rolled out at scale. </p><p><br></p><p>Skylar explains that the problem most people run into with AI is treating it like a tech...

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  Episode #2

  Liquid Cooling: When, Why, and Which? with Zachary Smith

  Aug 5, 202627 minS1

  <p>Zachary Smith, CEO and co-founder of Datum, joins host Bradd Busick to talk about why data centers are breaking their longstanding rule of keeping liquid away from the chips. Zac walks Bradd through the history 101 lesson on why AI has superheated cooling needs beyond what air can handle, how to choose the right liquid cooling option for your stack, and when you need to start planning for more efficient heat extraction (spoiler: it’s probably sooner than you think.) </p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on his own journey of fixing PCs to pay his way through his degree in...

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  Episode #1

  Can Your LLM Pass an Audit? with Radha Plumb

  Jul 22, 202626 minS1

  <p>In this inaugural episode of The Savvy CIO, host Bradd Busick speaks with Dr. Radha Plumb, IBM’s VP of AI-first transformation and former Pentagon chief digital and AI officer, about making real-world AI deployments audit ready. She breaks down the tough questions, like: How does your LLM differ from the legacy systems your auditor is used to looking at? Which amorphous risks do you need to be on the lookout for if you want to keep up the pace of progress? Can ensuring your systems are doing what you want them to do actually enable speed in your AI...

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