Telecom may "now have an opportunity to hire top talent who may have been far less likely to close over the past [three or more] years."

A blockchain evolution is going to take anodyne use cases being validated within the ecosystem to then “horizontally scale” into wider adoption.

Deque works with telcos like Verizon aiming to design "so thoughtfully that you can lose any one of your major senses and the design still holds true."

Daniel Brusilovsky of the Golden State Warriors discussed the buildout and deployment as a budding use case for Wi-Fi 6E.

Anthony Goonetilleke believes broadband needs to be seen as a basic necessity, like electricity and running water.

"For the enterprise, it’s all about efficiency and lowering operational cost," Andrew Coward, GM Software Defined Networking at IBM told SDxCentral.

“I'm not hearing like I used to that capacity is the issue in terms of technology. It's just a matter of applying it," Ciena CIO Craig Williams said.

“I'm very focused on getting women from the midpoint of their career to the top. It's not enough to get them in, burn them out, and let them go,"

Finding ways to create a true sense of purpose and achievement are powerful incentives for employees, said Ben Smith, field CTO of NetWitness.

“The solving of the problem is one thing. But the downstream impact of that and its impact on communities is significant," IBM VP Ray Harishankar said.

In the wireless industry "we’re perpetually inventing new things, and then expecting the public to accept them,” IEEE's David Witkowski said.

Brilliant Black Minds aims to add over 100,000 Black engineers to U.S. tech in the next decade, according to Karat President Jeffrey Spector.

The panel offered that while fiber may be the primary method in the eyes of operators, the wireless industry has a unique role to play in bridging the digital

Bridging the digital divide relies on “making sure that there's a partnership between public [and] private” sectors, Verizon VP Phillip French stated at MWC Las Vegas.

The decentralized structure creates cost savings for operators and consumers and enables blockchain technology to more accurately verify connection defects.

Cisco has pledged $50 million to the Student Freedom Initiative and $100 million directly to historically Black colleges and universities for tech upgrades.

The open source, cloud, and digital transformation creates greater demand for highly-skilled developers, Turing found.

If product designers don't understand customer perspective, “you're going to end up with all of the problems that we've been seeing in the tech world,” PMDojo Founder Mukherjee said.

Vijay Pendakur brings two decades of multi-sector diversity, equity, and inclusion experience to VMware as they tackle their 2030 Agenda.

Non-profit organization Apprenti remodels the apprenticeship structure to help grow diverse careers in tech with a 97% retention rate.

“Developed markets need to look to the elderly, low income, and indigenous communities and the physically impaired to ensure that no one is left behind,” Nokia stated.

The security vendor's report found more than half of companies are concerned about lax employee cybersecurity practices in hybrid-work environments.

Hiring platform company Turing uses their Talent Cloud to automatically source, vet, and manage engineers and developers across the globe based on skills, roles, and career trajectories.

Training this agility must be an interactive part of the day’s work, not sent to employees “on PowerPoint courses,” McKeown noted.