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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

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A new area of digital transformation is under way in IT, say IT executives charged with unifying their tech strategy in 2025. Adopting emerging technology to deliver business value is a top priority for CIOs, according to a recent report from Deloitte. But that will change. “As

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Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar industry

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Allison Xu is an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where she focuses on investments in the fintech and property tech sectors. As one of the least-digitized sectors of our economy, construction is ripe for technology disruption. A construction tech boom. Technology startups are emerging to help solve these problems.

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Security is dead: Long live risk management

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Traditional security approaches have become unsustainable for technology leaders navigating todays complex threat landscape. In todays digital economy, business objectives like becoming a trusted financial partner or protecting customer data while driving innovation require more than technical controls and documentation.

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CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much.

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Most CIOs and CTOs are bullish on agentic AI, believing the emerging technology will soon become essential to their enterprises, but lower-level IT pros who will be tasked with implementing agents have serious doubts. Other AI experts have warned organizations about building AI agents without outside help.

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How Can We Stop Under Utilizing a Key User Experience Champion?

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

In the world of ever-changing technology, customer representation has become a key factor for a product’s success. With quality assurance/control already embedded in our development process, what if we expand the role of our developers to champion usability and customer delight? Review customer feedback surveys.

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RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa

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Some technologies have helped deal with this menace; for instance, radio frequency identification, which works by assigning serial numbers to containers of each product. More modern approaches are being adopted these days, which is the case of RxAll , a startup using deep technology to provide quality medication to patients.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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And also by improvements to its quality control processes as CrowdStrike added a check for that particular problem after the outage, as well as other tests, deployment layers, and checks. Its worth doing that extra step of diligence because it can save you problems down the road, she says. Trust, but verify.