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A show for IT leaders who live in the real world, where budgets are tight, systems are aging, and AI won't wait. The Savvy CIO brings real tech leaders to the mic to unpack the tough calls every CIO faces: what to modernize, what to maintain, and how to make it all work smarter. Save. Simplify. Innovate. That's the playbook.
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Our host is Bradd Busick, Principal, AI, Data & Technology Enablement at Frazier Healthcare Partners, a healthcare private equity and venture capital firm based in Seattle. Bradd was previously the CIO at MultiCare Health System where he was recognized as National CIO of the Year at the ORBIE Awards.

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The Savvy CIO: Episode 4 – “The Hidden Cost of AI Readiness”
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 th…
The Savvy CIO: Episode 3 – “Why do AI Buildouts Fail?”
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. T…
The Savvy CIO: Episode 2 – “Liquid Cooling: When, Why, and Which?”
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 co…
The Savvy CIO: Episode 1 – “Can Your LLM Pass an Audit?”
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 t…
The Savvy CIO: Trailer
Introducing The Savvy CIO podcast from Park Place Technologies                   …