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IDC Foundry India CIO Summit 2024: How CIOs Are Transitioning into the AI Era

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The highlight session promises to be rendered by contemporary artist and cyborg activist Neil Harbisson, who has brought man and machine together in himself since getting an antenna implanted in his skull in 2004.

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Climate Innovators in the Information Age

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Today it can actually mean better profit, stronger customer loyalty, and longer company sustainability. According to a recent McKinsey report , global sustainable investment is more than $30 trillion, a tenfold increase from 2004. Doing good for the planet is not inversely proportional to doing good business.

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Why Today’s Leaders Need to Be Perpetual Learners

Harvard Business Review

Born to immigrant parents in the Australian outback, he would eventually rise to the top of the corporate world, taking over in 2004 as CEO of Dow Chemical. In that job, which he held for 14 years, he won widespread credit for pushing an ambitious sustainability agenda, no easy task at one of the world’s biggest chemical producers.

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NCWIT digitally transforms the DEI journey to help uplift women in IT

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Founded in 2004, NCWIT’s mission has always been to “increase the meaningful and influential participation of women in tech” while respecting intersecting identities, with an overall emphasis on avoiding “treating women as a monolithic group,” says Catherine Ashcraft, a senior research scientist at NCWIT. “It

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Oleksandr Medovoi, President & CEO of AltexSoft, Elected to the Council of Representatives of the IT Ukraine Association

Altexsoft

About the IT Ukraine Association The IT Ukraine Association was founded in 2004 by leading IT companies of Ukraine – Miratech, Mirasoft, ProFIX, SoftLine, SoftServe, and Ukrsoft. The mission of the Association is to help create favorable conditions for the sustainable development of the Ukrainian IT industry.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

“Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. NEW YORK – DECEMBER 6: Packets of the popular sugar substitute Splenda are seen December 6, 2004 in New York City. That’s made form a sustainable source but also biodegradable.” Those chemicals.

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AoAD2 Chapter: Teamwork (Introduction)

James Shore

Beck 2004]. The “Energized Work” practice: Work in a way that the team can sustain indefinitely. The Purpose, Context, and Alignment practices are lifted straight from Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies’ excellent book Liftoff: Start and Sustain Successful Agile Teams [Larsen and Nies 2016]. Extreme Programming Explained.