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Meerah Rajavel

Chief Information Officer, Palo Alto Networks

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Recent appearances

  • How AI is transforming cybersecurity | With Meerah Rajavel | CIO, Palo Alto Networks

    January 15, 2026 · 📺 Mala's Podcast

    Meera Rajavel, CIO at Palo Alto Networks, joins Mala Ramakrishnan to share a candid journey from a small town in India to the C-suite of global technology companies. Meera breaks down what it really takes to build a long-term career in engineering, IT, and cybersecurity. She shares lessons from startups and large enterprises, how CIOs think about outcomes, why security must be frictionless, and how AI is reshaping the speed and risk of cyber threats. The conversation also covers leadership, risk-taking, and what founders must get right to sell into the enterprise. ---------------------------…

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  • Palo Alto Networks CIO On What Today’s CIOs Expect From Partners

    January 14, 2026 · 📺 CRN

    At Women of the Channel East, Palo Alto Networks CIO Meerah Rajavel shares how today’s CIOs set priorities, evaluate partners and balance security, growth, efficiency and employee productivity. As the first customer of Palo Alto Networks, Rajavel offers candid guidance for solution providers on selling to CIOs, leading with real business problems, grounding conversations in ROI, and building long-term partnerships that extend beyond the initial deal.

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  • Meerah Rajavel: Breaking Barriers- From Small-Town India to Global CIO

    January 12, 2026 · 📺 Career In Progress

    How often do you get the opportunity to hear honest, direct career advice from one of the most influential women executives in the world? In this episode, I sit down with⁠ Meerah Rajavel,⁠ Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Palo Alto Networks, for a deeply inspiring and refreshingly candid conversation on leadership, careers, family and navigating complexity in the AI era. This is one of those episodes you’ll want to listen to every minute- packed with wisdom for leaders, early-career professionals, and women navigating growth and barriers in tech. 🎧 Episode Chapters for easy listening:…

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  • AI That Fixes Real Problems

    November 27, 2025 · 📺 Palo Alto Networks

    CIO Meerah Rajavel explains how internal AI agents like Panda AI are reshaping the employee experience. Instead of forcing AI to copy old workflows, the team analyzed 280,000 annual tickets across IT, HR, and finance, and used AI where it’s strongest: retrieval, summarization, deterministic requests, and repeatable actions. The result is real transformation. Nearly 20 percent of information requests never reach a human, and 89 percent of deterministic service requests are fully automated. Want more? Listen to David and Meerah talk through the real impact of agentic AI, workflow automation, and…

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  • Meerah Rajavel : Protect Your Code to Cloud with AI - Keynote | TiEcon2024

    May 28, 2024 · 📺 TiE Silicon Valley

    Watch Meerah Rajavel, Chief Information Officer at Palo Alto Networks, as she delves into cutting-edge AI strategies for protecting your code and cloud infrastructure. Learn how AI is revolutionizing next-gen security from one of the industry's top experts. For more details, visit: https://tiecon.org/ #TiEcon2024 #AIVisionaries #ArtificialIntelligence #InnovationLeadership Visit https://tiesv.ai/ Follow us on   / tiesv   Follow us on   / tiesiliconvalley   Like us on   / tiesiliconvalleychapter   Tweet us at https://x.com/tiesv

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  • FedTalks 2018 — Meerah Rajavel

    August 28, 2018 · 📺 FedScoop

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