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TouchCast raises $55M to grow its mixed reality-based virtual event platform

TechCrunch

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

CIO

It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. You see the systems that must be repaired (or built) if the firm is to comply with SOX.

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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

These global events have also underscored the crucial significance of safeguarding our critical infrastructure against domestic or foreign attacks. As technology advances, so too does the sophistication of threats to these essential systems. The impact of these disruptions reverberated worldwide, reaching beyond just our economy.

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What CIOs everywhere can learn from Canada’s nationwide internet outage

CIO

Some of the non-profits that I serve lost the ability to record meeting the needs of vulnerable people for a day or two,” says Helen Knight, Virtual CIO and Strategic Technology Consultant for Canadian non-profits. Peavey Mart is equally diligent about checking for vulnerabilities in its data supply chain. “We Build redundancy.

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO

Copilot for Service is intended to help agents in contact centers, ingesting customer information and knowledgebase articles and integrating with Teams, Outlook, and third-party systems, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zendesk. These will offer more memory per GPU to improve data processing efficiency.

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Meet the CableLabs Experts Speaking at the All-Virtual SCTE•ISBE Cable-Tec Expo® 2020

CableLabs

This year, our colleagues at SCTE•ISBE are taking full advantage of the power of connectivity to make one of the biggest industry events completely virtual—and FREE —to all attendees. Greg White | Distinguished Technologist of Next-Generation Systems. Session : Current Events in CBRS for Cable. remote OLT.

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Top 5 Online Events on new technologies and trends 2021

Apiumhub

And one of the fastest and most enjoyable ways to keep learning is to attend events on new technologies and trends. Keeping in mind the unstable situation with Coronavirus, many events have decided to shift to virtual or hybrid format this year. Let me share these events with you. World Data Summit 17 – 18 May 2021.