Saving Lives Through Digital Transformation

The Digital Workspace Works Podcast

This week, Ryan interviews Danny Attias, Chief Digital & Information Officer for Anthony Nolan, the UK's national stem cell register. They chat about C-suite technology titles, implementing DevOps, how IT infrastructure's changed over the past 5-10 years, moving past imposter syndrome, and more.

Topics

• The role of the CIO vs CTO or CDO
• Using DevOps and automated testing while developing a predictive search algorithm for matching blood cancer patients with 40+ million donors around the world (GitHub link for ATLAS)
• Danny's team's journey to DevOps
• Do product managers need technical backgrounds?
• The evolution of virtualization, cloud, and subscriptions
• Dealing with imposter syndrome while making decisions

Meet Our Guest
Danny Attias is the creator and host of brand-new podcast called ‘Sondership’ in which he interviews people who are having a positive impact on society and the environment.

Listed by CIO 100 as the most transformational and disruptive CIO in 2020, Danny is a Chief Digital & Information Officer having held roles in multiple industries including Anthony Nolan, the UK’s leading provider of stem cells for life saving transplants. Danny also holds digital advisory roles for several other organisations including Plan International and the World Marrow Donor Association. Danny was previously Global CIO for the Grass Roots Group, delivering employee, customer, and channel partner engagement solutions as well as international event management, he has also held roles in the John Lewis Partnership and Marks & Spencer.

Connect with Danny on LinkedIn.

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