The AI Safety Summit, convened by the UK government, is the latest in a series of regional and global political initiatives to shape the role AI will play in society. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sees the summit as an opportunity for the UK, sidelined since its departure from the European Union, to create a role…
Like so many IT leaders, Richard Wiedenbeck wears multiple hats. Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt. In his chief…
The past decade in IT has been all about digital transformation. Under the aegis of digital transformation, IT initiatives have become more customer-centric, with a greater emphasis on people, not technology — all in an effort to redefine how the organization operates and to ensure it can keep up with the pace of change, capable…
In June, the Lufthansa Group’s Digital Hangar touched down in Barcelona. A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business…
Certifications give your resume more credibility and can make you more marketable to recruiters and hiring managers. And at the entry-level, they’re a great way to stand out from other candidates — and even boost your pay. As you grow in your career, you’ll want to consider more advanced certifications to continue your professional development. By…
AWS posted a stable 12% revenue growth in the third quarter of 2023 buoyed by demand for generative AI-led services, despite customers trying to optimize their cloud spending. For the last few sequential quarters, revenue growth for AWS has been on a constant decline. The 12% growth in the September quarter is a sign of…
As the tech economy has adjusted to the current economic environment, there has been a great deal of debate in both the vendor and investor communities about vendor consolidation. While there is little doubt that companies have been cutting back on expenses generally in response to economic uncertainty, startups in particular have been feeling the…
You don’t have to look further than recent headlines to know generative AI has garnered outsized attention in 2023. And for good reason. GenAI has been estimated to increase skilled worker performance by up to 40% with the potential to add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy. This is because GenAI brings…
IT leaders are grappling with a critical question as they seek to deploy generative AI workloads today: Is it better for my business to run GenAI applications in the public cloud or on-premises? The question inspires spirited debate from both sides of the hosting aisle. Most IT leaders say, “It depends.” True, but it also…
It wasn’t that long ago that the cloud transformed the IT world. For some, this transformation played to their strengths. Others took it as a wake-up call. After all, the swipe-your-credit-card-and-go era demonstrated that developers could leap-frog procurement cycles to gain access to what they desired: abundant access to cloud resources. Either way, IT ultimately…