Finland’s technology sector has responded with deep unease to the conservative government’s immigration-based labour market proposals that threaten to curb the ability of companies to freely recruit foreign skills and talent. Industry chiefs are openly expressing fears that the far-reaching anti-immigration policies emanating from prime minister Petteri Orpo’s right-wing administration have the potential to deter…
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Young people from schools from all over the UK are being encouraged to test their cyber security nous and protect Cyber City from the evil clutches of Herbert the Hacker as they vie for a chance to be crowned Cyber Explorer Champions. The competition forms part of the established Cyber Explorers programme, which has already…
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Jarrod Phipps, CIO at Holman, says working for the automotive specialist is an all-encompassing leadership challenge. With two decades of technology experience built up at some of the largest consumer product, retail and healthcare companies in the world, Phipps was appointed as Holman’s CIO at the start of this year. “What gets me up every…
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Greg Lavender wears many hats at Intel. He is executive vice-president, chief technology officer (CTO) and general manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group (SATG). As CTO, he is responsible for driving Intel’s future technical innovation and research programmes, and as general manager of SATG, he is responsible for defining an artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Almost 60% of workers in the UK have had no training in digital skills, according to research by CV Genius. Looking into data from several sources, including the Industrial Strategy Council, the OECD and the Office of National Statistics, the career platform found 58% of people working in the UK claimed to have had no…
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Sitting down with Computer Weekly during a brief break from scouring London’s shops and malls for presents for his grandchildren, SailPoint founder and CEO Mark McClain reflects on how the concept of identity has similarly developed and evolved over the years, and the future it now faces as a core element of organisational cyber policy.…
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The government hopes new guidance from the Alan Turing Institute will provide useful information to help businesses upskill employees so they can use artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out tasks in the workplace, boosting productivity. AI skills for business competency guidelines covers areas such as the use of AI to evaluate the performance of projects,…
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Hexaware Technologies is opening an operation in the UK which will host 250 employees when fully up and running by 2025. The Indian IT and business services supplier, which has near 30,000 staff globally, is already in the process of recruiting the first 60 employees at the new site in Birmingham. After strong demand for…
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The shenanigans at OpenAI have continued overnight, with Sam Altman returning as CEO, which means interim CEO and former Twitch boss Emmett Shear lasted just two days. In a tweet announcing Altman’s rehiring, OpenAI said: “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial…
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It’s a bit of a journalistic trope, but let’s be honest – we’ve all done it. You conclude a CEO interview by asking, “So, if we’re talking again in 10 years’ time, what achievements do you expect to be looking back on?” Of course, given the tenure of most senior executives these days, the chance…
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