Welcome Lori Boisjoli, 229Project's Newest Principal

October 22, 2026: Lori Boisjoli has sat at 229 tables as a CIO. Now she is joining 229Project as a Principal, and this conversation with Bill Russell is her welcome to the community. She learned BASIC in high school, took a coding job at IDX in Burlington, Vermont, and soon decided she could not just sit in a cube. She later became CIO of the six-hospital University of Vermont Health system, which went through a cyber attack nearly five years ago. Other CIOs still ask her to share that experience with their executives, sometimes to "scare the hell out of our C-suite."

Now she will host those tables, and she wants each room to leave with more than a takeaway: if a group agrees AI belongs in contract language, she wants that group to propose the language. That instinct goes back to Sharp HealthCare, where she spent the better part of nine months building the hospital side, and the team threw her a baby shower for her firstborn. "It is about the relationships," Lori said. For members, that means a host who was recently in their chair and wants every session to give them something they can use.

Key Points:

• 0:00 Welcome, Lori

• 1:03 Atlanta and the resilience panel

• 3:52 Restore by service, not by tier

• 5:07 Sharing the story with other C-suites

• 7:01 AI before joining 229Project

• 9:25 Agents that work while you sleep

• 11:31 Carve out time for innovation

• 12:53 From IDX and Allscripts to the provider side

• 16:27 "It is about the relationships"

• 19:20 What she hopes to build with members

• 21:08 Hosting the room

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