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Isaac Sacolick
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Upcoming Events
Isaac will be speaking at the following events
The Great Data Pressure Test
Register here. Generative AI has reignited concerns about data ecosystems, challenging even the most mature data strategies. Participants will explore the emerging risks and gaps that have surfaced in the wake of this technological advancement. This panel aims to shed light on innovative approaches and operating models that organizations must adopt to stay ahead. Key themes include adapting to data privacy and security requirements, reevaluating data quality standards, and embracing new governance frameworks that are agile and resilient in the face of generative AI's capabilities and provocations.
Topic: Developer Experience: Selecting Tools - Strict Standards vs Self Organizing Chaos
Digital Trailblazers are product managers, DevOps engineers, agile leaders, data experts (scientists, governance, dataops), and other innovators driving transformations in their organizations and life.
Every week we explore a topic and share lessons learned. All are welcome to attend, and please raise your hand to participate.
Upcoming Topics:
5/3 - Developer Experience: Selecting Tools - Strict Standards vs Self Organizing Chaos
5/10 - Celebrating Moms in Tech: Ideas on Transforming the Workplace
5/17 - AI Era Transformation: How GenAI Transforms How We Teach and Learn
Keynote: Why Digital Trailblazers are the Secret to Successful Digital Transformations
Isaac Sacolick, a 20+ year veteran CIO/CTO and now President of digital transformation leadership company StarCIO , will share leadership stories and learnings from his newest book, Digital Trailblazer. Your business needs more transformation leaders – what Isaac calls Digital Trailblazers—who can lead teams, evolve agile collaboration methods, develop data capabilities as competitive differentiators, and deliver business outcomes. This keynote highlights who are Digital Trailblazers, how to empower them, and what practices they will need to drive business outcomes from transformation initiatives. Isaac will cover many transformation topics, including creating vision statements, evolving AI-enabled employee experiences, establishing a data-driven organization, and developing a lifelong learning culture.
Moderator: AI in Construction Industry: A practical guide to adopting a project and productivity “game changer”.
Previous Events
Keys to Leading Digital Transformation as a Core Organizational Competency”.
Leaders often say, "Digital transformation is a journey," but today's competitive opportunities and risks require developing digital transformation as a core organizational competency. "You will always be transforming," says Isaac Sacolick, author of two top books on leading digital transformation. During this open discussion, Isaac will share key insights for business and technology leaders on:
Workshop: Developing the CIO's Leadership Team: The Secret to Successful Digital Transformations
Part 2 and by popular demand!! Isaac Sacolick, a 15+ year veteran CIO/CTO and now President of StarCIO, will share leadership stories and learnings from his newest book, Digital Trailblazer. Your business needs more transformation leaders – what Isaac calls Digital Trailblazers—who can lead teams, evolve agile ways of working, develop data capabilities as competitive differentiators, and deliver business outcomes. This workshop highlights who are Digital Trailblazers, how to empower them, and what practices they will need to drive business outcomes from transformation initiatives. By invitation only - get more information.
Workshop: Developing the CIO's Leadership Team: The Secret to Successful Digital Transformations
Isaac Sacolick, a 15+ year veteran CIO/CTO and now President of StarCIO, will share leadership stories and learnings from his newest book, Digital Trailblazer. Your business needs more transformation leaders – what Isaac calls Digital Trailblazers—who can lead teams, evolve agile ways of working, develop data capabilities as competitive differentiators, and deliver business outcomes. This workshop highlights who are Digital Trailblazers, how to empower them, and what practices they will need to drive business outcomes from transformation initiatives. By invitation only - get more information.
IT leaders across all industries are already thinking about what their top of mind priorities will look like, including how they plan to educate and experiment, manage their blue sky planning, update data governance policies, partner closely with legal, and much more. Isaac will speak to what he's hearing from hundreds of CIOs in the market, and cover many urgent questions around LLM adoption and strategy.
Challenge Leaders to Drive Change
Isaac is the best selling author of Driving Digital and has 500+ articles published. His keynotes challenge leaders to prepare for a world where agile, collaborative teams must be smarter, faster, and innovative. Drawing from his hands-on experience as a transformational CIO, startup CTO, and now President of StarCIO, Isaac shares hard lessons learned, management frameworks, and technical knowledge that leave audiences ready to tackle the future.
Isaac is available to speak at your next event, moderate panels, facilitate leadership sessions, host dinners, and moderate webinars.
Topics that Isaac Sacolick KEYNOTES on
Digital leadership 2025 - What leaders must do to ready their organizations for the next wave of digital opportunities and disruption
Digital Transformation - The Role of IT in Transforming Organizations
Data Driven Organization - Enabling the Smarter, Faster Data Driven Organization
Artificial Intelligence - AI in the Enterprise: Finding Winning Business Opportunities
Agile and DevOps - Driving the Digital IT Organization with Agile and DevOps Practices
Citizen Development - Building a Smarter, Faster Workforce Through No-Code Technology
Emerging Technologies - Using Data to Power Emerging Technologies
Other topics: Developing analytics and data products, CIO’s role in driving digital organizations, Scaling agile practices, The digital role of the PMO
Examples of Isaac Speaking
Isaac has spoken events by Gartner, nGage Events, SINC USA, CDM Media and other corporate events.