Rani Johnson

Biography

Rani Johnson is Workday’s CIO. She oversees global Information Technology, with responsibility for the internal deployment of both third-party tools and Workday products. Prior to Workday, Rani served as CIO at Cloud Software Group, CIO at TIBCO, CIO of SolarWinds, and CIO at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA). Rani began her career interning at NASA Johnson Space Center, and holds degrees in electrical and general engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Spelman College.

Sessions

1. The Invisible Infrastructure Is Writing Itself

   Tue, Nov 3, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM CT

   Track Engineering

   Every decision a company makes runs on data nobody is watching, until it breaks. Now AI is writing into that record faster than anyone can verify it. Rani Johnson has held the CIO seat five times. With Michelle Grover, she gets into where verification belongs, why an untraceable output is worse than a wrong one, and what it costs to build the check instead of auditing the damage later.