Irving Wladawsky-Berger
Confidence 0.75 · 2 sources · last confirmed 2026-07-15
Co-host, with Allan Tate, of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium’s inquiry framework and weekly podcast series. ASR badly garbles his name across the wiki’s two symposium sources (“Irving Vladaskki Burgerer” on the keynote transcript; “Irving Velasi Burger” on the podcast transcript) — identification is confident on content grounds (same co-host role, same symposium, same voice across both transcripts) despite the ASR noise. Writes a weekly blog since 2005 (formerly syndicated in the Wall Street Journal CIO Journal); has sat on the Linux Foundation’s research advisory board for roughly five years and has been associated with the Foundation since its 2000 founding.
Wiki contributions
- 2026-05-28-from-event-to-ecosystem-rethinking-how-technology-leaders-build-knowledge-in-the-ai-era — named as delivering a symposium session on “the changing role of the CIO”; origin story of the inquiry framework (a hallway conversation with Tate about an AI-consciousness article).
- 2026-07-10-when-ai-becomes-common-organizational-capability-becomes-the-advantage-ep-16 — the episode’s primary analytical voice: walks through the Linux Foundation State of Tech Talent report (net hiring +26%/+31%, full-stack skills gap), reads from an unpublished blog post built on Thomas H. Davenport’s “organizations, not technology” Substack thesis, and argues Chinese firms are outperforming U.S. firms on concrete AI applications while U.S. attention is captured by AGI/ASI.
Why he is an entity (promotion note)
Promoted on his second wiki source-page appearance (per §Author-entity promotion): first cited dangling on the 2026-05-28 keynote page, promoted here on the 2026-07-15 batch ingest of the weekly podcast episode.
Open questions
- Confirm the correct spelling against a non-ASR source (a byline on his blog or the Wall Street Journal CIO Journal archive) — both wiki transcripts garble the name differently.