Epic's Pace Is Blistering: Can You Absorb the Roadmap? | Newsday with 229Project
Episode Description
August 24, 2026: Bill Russell, Sarah Richardson, and Drex DeFord debrief Epic UGM from the week they were in the room. Last year was aspirational. This year has a roadmap, and the pace is blistering enough to consume an entire IT shop. Drex's read: a lot of CIOs have already conceded technical innovation to Epic. What is left is implementation, scale, and governance. Sarah's test: distinguish integration from dependency. The constraint is not whether Epic can ship. It is how much you can absorb, what it costs, and whether operations will own the work.
Key Points:
00:00 Epic can consume your entire IT shop
06:23 Conceding innovation to Epic
07:49 The pace is blistering
11:14 Rangers, Gold Star, and your career
19:45 The dollars are in operations
22:01 The CIO role is bifurcating
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