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Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M seed and new state contracts

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Emerge Career is working on changing that, and its early success in putting formerly incarcerated folks to work is attracting investment from both VCs and government programs. Ultimately, we want to offer training programs for individuals from all walks of life.” Emerge Career’s pre-release job training lands $3.2M

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Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release

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Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs exist are far from sufficient. To be clear, though, this isn’t some new drain on state budgets.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

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It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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Why DEI programs are failing

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the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reported in October that Black and Latinx workers have endured far slower employment recovery rates compared to white employees. No matter how diverse your team is, your DEI efforts will fail if you don’t provide equitable programs and inclusive environments. for white workers.

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Top 8 ways to improve cybersecurity for your organization

CIO

As you plan your security budget, know that your recommendations to improve cybersecurity will be scrutinized more than ever before. No budget is unlimited. Get those in place, and you’ll reduce risks, build momentum, and gain buy-in for your cyber program. Awareness training is a core method to improve cybersecurity.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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3 key digital transformation priorities for 2024

CIO

Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Luckily, many are expanding budgets to do so. “94% Despite all that, CIOs should add generative AI initiatives to the much longer secondary list of transformation programs. These workstreams require documenting a vision, assigning leaders, and empowering teams to experiment.