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CTO Chat
CTO Chat is a tech series that brings you the best insights from fun, engaging and intelligent tech leaders across Finance, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence + Many more industries.
How Technology Has Changed Healthcare?
The rise of technology, digitalisation, machine learning, and 3D modelling is showing a huge impact on the patient experience.
The healthcare industry is poised to deliver breakthrough innovations at a rate, and cost, never thought possible.
We got to chat with Laura Gilbert, Chief Technology Officer for Rutherford Research and Chief Analyst at 10 Downing St. Laura shares her wealth of knowledge and experience about the future of healthcare innovations.
Laura is a highly accomplished Chief Technology Officer with 15 years+ of experience.
Laura has been at the cutting edge of scientific research and technology, developing, designing and delivering high quality products that support users health and happiness.
The Impact of Technology on Financial Payments
Technology is revolutionising the way that the financial industry operates. Technological advances are creating entirely new business propositions, such as crowd-funding, peer-to-peer lending, digital currencies, mobile banking, online investment, and new payment systems.
We were able to take some time to chat with Paul Hansford, Chief Technology Officer at Global Processing Services (GPS). GPS are a leading payments processing partner to some of today’s top brands, including Revolut, Starling Bank and Curve.
Paul shares his insights on the cashless world of payments and how technology advances are disrupting the financial industry.
**Reaching the top in the world of technology is no mean feat, and technologically speaking, there aren’t many spots higher than that of Chief Technology Officer within a business. Larger companies normally have this role open for senior executives that have the skills, knowledge and foresight to help them take the company to the next level on the technological front. Some smaller startups with a technological focus also have the role of CTO available, although this is likely to be more of a hands-on role with programming and coding duties.
The role of CTO is typically an executive function, which means that it is a top senior role with lots of pressure and responsibility placed on the individual. While it is a technical role, it is not always a hands-on position — especially if the company is large and well-established. Smaller companies with smaller budgets may require their staff to perform many different roles, so be aware of the requirements of the CTO post that you are applying for ahead of time.**
**The CTO also needs to be aware of all aspects of the company, including its financials. This is so that the forward planning for the businesses technological needs can be catered for in a solid timeframe (Short, Medium and Long-Term).
I had the opportunity to chat with Les Kerjenski, a highly accomplished Chief Technology Officer with 30 years+ of experience in B2B, B2C and he has industry experience with technology, finance, manufacturing, pharmaceutical sectors. We’ll be diving into the ins and outs of what it takes to be a CTO. What is a typical day for a CTO as well as some recruitment advice**