Simply Business CTO Hasani Jess says his major priorities for 2020 are talent acquisition, growth - and making a big technology play in machine learning. Recognised with his team in the 2019 CIO 100, Jess was speaking to CIO UK Senior Online Editor Thomas Macauley at the 2019 CIO Summit, held at the Langham Hotel in London. Jess said that the discussions around the cultural side of transformation and CIO-CISO relations at the conference had been particularly relevant to his role as the technology leader at the online broker of business insurance for SMEs, and added that finding the right people to develop the company's machine learning capabilities was his CTO priority for the next year. "I think the number one challenge is talent acquisition, getting the right people into our business. And we've been doing a lot of work around that this year. Diversity is a really big topic and issue for us, one we've been making a big push on," he said.