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Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector and industries at Amazon Web Services and a six-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in an article published Wednesday on the World Economic Forum website that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technology adoption and organizations seeking to benefit from technologies should “support the development of a workforce with digital skills.“ She said there are four “must-have conditions“ to help meet the need around skills development and build a future-ready workforce and one is equal access to skills training and education.

Fortinet will continue to offer its catalogue of self-paced Network Security Expert Training Institute courses for free in a bid to meet the demand for cybersecurity professionals and bridge skills gap.

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for space business at Lockheed Martin, said the company has volunteered its satellites for World Economic Forum's “space sustainability“ rating system, Breaking Defense reported Thursday.

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's space business and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said in a video interview aired Tuesday he predicts NASA will send humans back to the moon via a lunar gateway within the next decade.

Microsoft President Brad Smith has urged the Trump administration to back a nonbinding statement of principles setting acceptable behavior in cyber space, The Washington Post reported Friday. The Paris Call advances a set of principles such as the application of international law in cyber space, information sharing between companies about cyber threats and condemnation of large-scale cyber attacks and election hacking activities.

Tom Patterson, a vice president and chief trust officer of Unisys, will join the Cyber Future Dialogue 2019 on Tuesday to discuss how citizens and governments can utilize emerging technology such as artificial intelligence in efforts to ensure privacy and increase security.

Fortinet has joined the World Economic Forum's Center for Cybersecurity as a founding partner in a move to help deter cyber crime. WEF established the center to encourage collaboration among members of industry, government, international organizations, academia and civil society to address global cybersecurity challenges, Fortinet said Wednesday. Ken Xie, CEO …

The World Economic Forum has introduced a program that seeks to address a global skills gap and job displacement challenge in the information technology sector. PwC said Tuesday the IT Industry Skills Initiative seeks to train and provide resources for 1 million people via the SkillSET portal by January 2021. The …

BMC Software has teamed with Andreessen Horowitz, LifeLock and PayPal to launch a program that seeks to educate former U.S. military personnel about digital skills required for potential careers in the technology sector. All four sponsors of the BreakLine Tech program will hold educational sessions on culture, organizational design, talent management and expected future trends to guide …

Volunteers from Lockheed Martin's space systems business have developed an online portal that works to provide post-disaster information from the ground with the use of DigitalGlobe satellite imagery, Denver Business Journal reported Wednesday. Greg Avery writes that the HelpNowMap.com website is currently in beta version and uses open source software code. The service works …

Computer Sciences Corp. will offer three new services to enterprise and public sector customers as part of the company’s work to expand its cloud cybersecurity portfolio, CSC said Tuesday. CSC’s Cloud Cybersecurity Services program works to offer tools from vendors in an effort to help customers migrate into cloud environments and …

A new McKinsey & Co. study has highlighted the potential economic risks posed by a growing number of cyberattacks amid companies with cybersecurity capabilities that are still in the emergent stage. Poll authors Tucker Bailey, Andrea Del Miglio and Wolf Richter, who conducted the study in collaboration with the World Economic …

A study by McKinsey & Co. and the World Economic Forum found that more than 50 percent of professionals worldwide believe that cybersecurity threats pose strategic risks to their organizations. The research also sought to find out how executives view cybercrime, its impact on business operations and companies’ response to …

A new study from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company has found the lack of cybersecurity measures and increasing complexity of cyberattacks can hamper development and cost the global economy about $3 trillion by 2020, ZeeBiz.com reported Monday. The “Risk and Responsibility in a Hyperconnected World” report tapped …

Consulting firm A.T. Kearney has been selected to offer insights and advice for the World Economic Forum as part of the nonprofit group’s partner program for the professional services industry. Three partners from copmany offices in Amsterdam, Singapore and Dusseldorf, Germany, will assist the forum on different projects, a company …