Dion Hinchcliffe

Vice President & Practice Lead, Digital Leadership & CIO

Dion Hinchcliffe is a distinguished thought leader, IT expert, and enterprise architect, celebrated for his strategic advisory with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. With over 25 years of experience, Dion works with the leadership teams of top enterprises, as well as leading tech companies, in bridging the gap between business and technology, focusing on enterprise AI, IT management, cloud computing, and digital business. He is a sought-after keynote speaker, industry analyst, and author, known for his insightful and in-depth contributions to digital strategy, IT topics, and digital transformation. Dion’s influence is particularly notable in the CIO community, where he engages actively with CIO roundtables and has been ranked numerous times as one of the top global influencers of Chief Information Officers. He also serves as an executive fellow at the SDA Bocconi Center for Digital Strategies.

Recent Insights, NEWS & RESEARCH:

Dion Hinchcliffe, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how CIOs are maturing their AI strategies in 2025 to prioritize scalable success, financial efficiency, and partner ecosystem control.
In our latest Market Brief, The AI-Powered Content Revolution, created in partnership with Egnyte, Futurum explores how AI is transforming cloud content management from static storage into a dynamic system of insight, automation, and compliance. The report offers guidance on how enterprises can deploy AI agents, streamline knowledge discovery, and future-proof their content operations.
The Highly Influential Model Context Protocol Launched With Backing From OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, and Now Microsoft, but CIOs Must Weigh Openness Against the Risk of Ecosystem Lock-in
Dion Hinchcliffe, VP of CIO Insights at Futurum, shares why the Model Context Protocol is fast becoming a strategic control point for enterprise AI, including what CIOs must weigh as vendors race to define memory standards.
Dion Hinchcliffe, VP of CIO Practice at The Futurum Group, recaps GTC 2025, ServiceNow’s Yokohama update, and AWS’s AI pricing strategy - helping CIOs rethink AI infrastructure, automation, and SaaS data control.
In our latest Executive Summary, Agentic AI Platforms Powering the Next Era of Work for Enterprise, we share a sample of the findings from our broader study, “Market Overview of Agentic AI Platforms in the Enterprise for 2025,” published exclusively for Futurum Intelligence Subscribers as an example of the deeper insights available to Subscribers to our Futurum Intelligence Service.
Dion Hinchcliffe and Nick Patience at The Futurum Group present the first comprehensive market overview of enterprise agentic AI, evaluating the strengths and trade-offs of commercial and DIY AI automation solutions. This report provides key insights for CIOs on the future of AI-driven workflows.

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