As AI Becomes Pervasive CTOs Need to Talk to Clients and Educate their Bosses

As more businesses rely on technology, CTOs and CEOs need to speak the same language.

Now, as artificial intelligence and agents become pervasive at companies, CTOs have another executive to collaborate with: their bosses. In an interview with Fast Company editor-in-chief Brendan Vaughan during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Cloudflare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince and CTO Dane Knecht made the case for technology chiefs as strategic partners to CEOs.

The C-suite syncs up

Prince says Knecht has been instrumental in pushing him to adopt AI beyond fun use cases such as creating amusing images for company slide presentations or invitations for his kid’s birthday party. “The best CTOs in the world are going to be the ones saying to even the 51-year-old or 61-year-old or 71-year-old CEOs, ‘You can do this too,’” says Prince, whose company provides customers with tools to protect and improve the performance of their websites. “And if you can do that, it’s going to actually help you build better companies.”

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