Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week: Greg Lavender, Intel’s CTO

Who: Greg Lavender is Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and General Manager of the Office of the CTO at Intel Corporation. As CTO, he is responsible for advancing Intel’s future technical innovation through his leadership of Intel Labs and Information Technology. Lavender oversees Intel’s Information Security and Product Security portfolios, as well as ongoing investments in security research. His responsibilities also include enabling Intel’s software strategy across artificial intelligence, confidential computing, and the growing need for open accelerated computing to support Intel’s range of business and hardware offerings.

Topic: Confidential computing and privacy preserving data sharing.

Quote: “Companies need to keep up with the rate of innovation happening in the tech stack. The technology has been developed (and proven) to help you share data securely. With AI accelerating at such a rapid pace alongside ongoing security threats, I strongly encourage all organizations to leverage these technical advancements, which are already available in the market, in order to keep their data and business safe and secure.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.