Technology is the engine of change, say Tech Leaders Summit CTOs

"Technology is the engine of change," opened the CTO panel's moderator, Sandeep Roychowdhury, founder and director at SMEinnovation, during Information Age's Tech Leaders Summit. To navigate this "dark forest," as Roychowdhury put it, industry leaders are diversifying. Sharon Moore, CTO for Public Sector at IBM, explained that while IBM is a leader in cloud and infrastructure, "there was public opinion that we were behind with regards to public cloud, and I believe the Red Hat acquisition has assisted with removing that perception," she said. IBM has used collaboration to stake a claim in this environment and in Moore's view it's clear that "multi is the way forward. "Businesses must manage across multiple cloud providers.