2024 CSO30 Middle East Awards: Nominations are now open

Foundry and IDC Middle East are proud to launch the first edition of CSO30 Awards in the UAE, KSA and Qatar, recognising the top 30 senior security executives in each country with outstanding leadership in driving positive business outcomes through effective risk mitigation strategies  Reflecting Foundry’s (formerly IDG Communications) and IDC’s increasing commitment to the…

US government enters the race for AI talent

US government agencies have ramped up their efforts to hire AI talent, filling newly created chief AI officer positions and aggressively seeking out AI-related skills. The Justice Department hired its first chief AI officer in February. That addition came on the heels of other recent CAIO appointments at the Education Department, the General Services Administration,…

Driving 15 years of IT transformation in 5

In 2018, the day after his employer publicly announced it was being acquired, Lynn Lovelady, then VP of IT at Energen, received a pivotal phone call that would reshape his career. It was from Charlie Nowlin, then CFO at McWane, who for more than a year had been searching for the company’s first chief information…

Pioneering 5G Acceleration, Indonesia Marks a Revolutionary Digital Era Through Its First 5G Warehouse

In a rapidly evolving global landscape, Indonesia acknowledges the crucial role of the digital economy in driving sustainable development and promoting inclusive growth. As such, Golden Indonesia Vision 2045 places a strong emphasis on leveraging digital technologies to enhance productivity, competitiveness, and resilience across all sectors of the economy. Indonesia’s digital economy is projected to…

AI Act, via libera dall’Europarlamento: tutto quello che i CIO devono sapere

Il Parlamento europeo ha approvato l’AI Act, la legge dell’Unione europea sull’intelligenza artificiale: dopo l’accordo raggiunto con gli Stati membri lo scorso dicembre, c’è il via libera dei deputati (con qualche modifica nel testo definitivo rispetto all’accordo politico di fine anno). Il regolamento deve essere ancora formalmente approvato dal Consiglio, ma, in pratica, è fatta:…