Dion Hinchcliffe

Vice President & Practice Lead, CIO Insights

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 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.
In the latest study by Futurum Research, Maximizing ROI with Agentic AI: Why Agentforce Is the Fast Path to Enterprise Value, completed in partnership with Salesforce, Futurum Research explores why Agentforce outperforms DIY (do-it-yourself) approaches, offering a currently unparalleled combination of speed, scalability, and lower Total Cost of Ownership.
Dion Hinchcliffe, VP of CIO Practice at The Futurum Group, highlights Google’s Gemini 2.0, OpenAI’s Deep Research, and Anysphere’s Cursor, showing how they reshape IT leadership, AI adoption, and custom development.
Dion Hinchcliffe, Vice President of CIO Practice; Daniel Newman, CEO; and Tiffani Bova, Chief Strategy and Research Officer of the Futurum Group and Ben Smith, Partner & Global Lead, Digital & Analytics; Ramyani Basu, Partner & Global Lead, Data & AI; Bharath Thota, Partner, Data & AI; Khalid Khan, Partner & Americas Lead, Digital & Analytics; Bharat Kapoor, Partner & Global Managing Director, PERLab; Michael Roemer, Partner, Digital & Analytics; and Dieter Gerdemann, Partner & European Lead, Digital & Analytics at Kearney share insights on how global CEOs are navigating AI adoption, focusing on governance, strategic alignment, and workforce transformation.
Hosts Camberley Bates, and Dion Hinchcliffe share some of the announcements from AWS re:Invent, along with insights on Quantum, chips, LLMs and more.
Leo LaBranche, Director at Amazon Web Services, joins Dion Hinchcliffe to share his insights on accelerating enterprise IT transformation through AWS's strategic cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

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