Isaac Sacolick

Announcing StarCIO's AI Strategy & Governance Workshops - 15 Advisories to select from & evolve your roadmap. We guide the leadership team on a pragmatic AI vision, define clear guardrails, and establish a responsible path to value. starcio.com/starcio-worksh… #AI #CIO

Data point: directors use AI 2x the hours per week of individual contributors, 1.5x more than managers. Mid-career leaders aren't behind on AI adoption - they're leading it. But "using it" isn't the same as reskilling. #AI #Leadership drive.starcio.com/podcast/reskil…

RT At #VerintEngage I finally got direct answers to the question most CIOs are wrestling with: how do you bring AI to production and actually get financial returns? Real numbers. Real customers. Real CX impact. #AI #CX @Star_CIO youtube.com/watch?v=oC5l-k…

Really good eval of the latest models > An AI buyers guide open.substack.com/pub/profbachma… #ai

From the Reskilling Midcareer Leaders episode of Coffee With Digital Trailblazers, I researched 5 leadership skills every for the AI era. 3 that AI rewrote. 2 that didn't exist 5 years ago. #FutureOfWork #Leadership drive.starcio.com/2026/07/leader…

RT Every organization has data scattered across warehouses, lakes, SaaS platforms, and clouds. Data fabrics are the connective tissue - and in the AI agent era, they're no longer optional, even for smaller companies. #DataFabric #AI @Star_CIO infoworld.com/article/418269…

Reskilling Mid-Career Leaders: What Senior Talent Needs to Stay Relevant Review the research, whiteboard, and episode -> drive.starcio.com/podcast/reskil… #FutureofWork

LLMs are word-smart. World models are becoming world-smart. Spatial intelligence lets AI reason about 3D space - objects, movement, collisions - the foundation for robotics, autonomous vehicles, and digital twins. #AI #DigitalTwins infoworld.com/article/419532…

Wall Street called it the "SaaSpocalypse" - a bet CIOs would build AI to replace SaaS. I disagreed. So I attended 9 conferences in Q2 to see how SaaS is actually deploying AI agents. Here's what CIOs need to know. #AI #CIO cio.com/article/418969…

RT Every year on my Silicon Valley tour, startup founders latch onto subscription models as growth hacks and skip the hard parts: attracting prospects with a real problem statement, aligning value proposition, & delivering. #SaaS #AI @Star_CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/07/ai-sub…

Reskilling mid-career leaders in the AI era. Key insight: AI isn't just changing jobs - it's collapsing the labor market. #Reskilling #Leadership drive.starcio.com/podcast/reskil…

CIOs have a responsibility to help their employees reskill for the AI era. drive.starcio.com/podcast/reskil… #CIO #AI

Today's new post! > 3 Leadership Skills AI Rewrote — and 2 That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago drive.starcio.com/2026/07/leader… #AI

RT Live from Snowflake Summit 2026. Two announcements stood out for CIOs trying to turn data management debt into AI velocity. Both reframe what "self-service" actually means in the AI era. #SnowflakeSummit #DataManagement @Star_CIO youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1YmV…

Missed the episode - Reskilling Mid-Career Leaders: What Senior Talent Needs to Stay Relevant Watch on demand! --> linkedin.com/events/7477686… #FutureofWork

New post! > 3 Leadership Skills AI Rewrote — and 2 That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago drive.starcio.com/2026/07/leader… #AI

RT Cooking pasta from scratch works for a small family. Cooking for many under time pressure? You want canned tomatoes and boxed pasta. Data products are the boxed pasta of your AI stack ? consistent ingredients, faster meals. #Data #AI @Star_CIO infoworld.com/article/419285…

Weekend reading for this Sunday >AI Companies Bet on Subscriptions: Many Will Repeat SaaS’s Worst Mistakes drive.starcio.com/2026/07/ai-sub… #CMO

RT GenAI exposed the SDLC's real bottleneck: validating code against the real world. Local-coding + remote-context environments and ephemeral sandboxes are how mature teams remove the friction between intent and deployable change. #DevOps #AI @Star_CIO infoworld.com/article/419072…

RT Data engineers nearly doubled the time they spend on AI in two years - from 19% to 37%. But they still lose nearly 40% of their time to data wrangling. The math doesn't work. Something has to give. #DataEngineering #AI @Star_CIO drive.starcio.com/2026/06/data-m…

Sunday reading! >AI Companies Bet on Subscriptions: Many Will Repeat SaaS’s Worst Mistakes drive.starcio.com/2026/07/ai-sub… #CMO