La Salle Digital Coffee "Role of the CIO. How the COVID-19 has affected the IT area and future challenges"

Conferences and workshops

Start date

Tue, 07/07/2020 - 19:00

Venue

Online

The current situation of global crisis has placed the figure of the CIO at the center of the company's operations. Firstly, to continue ensuring its operations and guarantee business continuity through actions such as teleworking, ensuring communication or cybersecurity, among others.

Once this obstacle has been overcome, it is now when the CIO and the rest of the board must collaborate to adapt the company to the changes that take place: consumer habits (B2C), transactions between companies (B2B) and relationship with the employees themselves. It is time to highlight the importance of digitalization and the empowerment of the IT department as a catalyst between technology and business.

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ALBERTO ALMAJANO, CIO/Director of Information Systems at Indukern Group, a major chemical-pharmaceutical group with its own financial resources and affiliates in 18 countries, and a member of the advisory board of CIONET in Catalonia. He is a computer engineer, holds an MBA and a Master in Digital Business by ESADE, a Master in Information Technology by La Salle Campus Barcelona - URL, and a PDD by IESE. Since 2008 he participates as a professor at La Salle Campus Barcelona - URL in different programs: Master in Information Technology Management, Master in eHealth, and he is also a professor in the Degree in Engineering in ICT management. He also teaches at the ESAN business school in Peru, one of the most prestigious business schools in Latin America.

INTERVIEWER

Lluís Font, Director of the Executive Education de La Salle-URL and Coordinator of the Executive MBA, will talk with Alberto Almajano about the role of the CIO.