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Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multiple tech stacks, enabling a multi-cloud strategy, and internal communications and learnings.
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- BB&T to buy Suntrust in $66B “merger of equals”)
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**Topic 1 - **Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking about your background, and the scope of the transformation you’ve been driving at Truist Bank.
**Topic 2 - **Beyond the merger of two large banks, how did you think about the business challenges that you were trying to solve?
**Topic 3 - **Walk us through how you tried to rationalize two technology stacks, and how you’ve been planning for a more cloud-centric future?
**Topic 4 - **Every transformation has to balance existing (“old”) and new. How did you work through priorities, leveraging new technologies, maintaining existing systems, learning curves, etc?
**Topic 5 - **Have you been able to create any unique ways to manage through the transition of so many technology stacks?
**Topic 6 - **How are you measuring progress, success, alignment to business goals, etc?
**Topic 7 - **How are you communicating the evolution to the teams, as well as management and stakeholders? Any lessons learned?
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