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

"The primary challenges CIOs and executives face are addressing shortcomings in data management and infrastructure," MIT's Laurel Ruma 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.

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.

Uber's internal systems were breached; a new federal cybersecurity grant program is announced; and D2iQ claims to be "Switzerland" of Kubernetes.

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.

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

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.

"Half the malware downloads we see originate from cloud apps, and attackers do that to bypass block lists to exploit trust," said Netskope's Ray Canzanese.

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

Implementing DevOps consistently reduces time-to-market, increases enterprise agility, and makes businesses more resilient, says Forrester.

"Lacework, Cybereason, OneTrust — three vendors, over $3 billon dollars in funding, and over a thousand out of work," Forrester analysts wrote.

In a keynote address, Starbucks CISO Andy Kirkland spoke about how words and actions can affect leadership and work productivity in both a positive and negative way.

Most SSE products are just rebranded and repackaged SASE services that’ve been stripped of their SD-WAN capabilities.

Women in IT face marginalizing everyday behaviors that progressively and successively teach them they aren't valued, Gartner's Christie Struckman said.

“What we do is noble,” Trellix CEO Bryan Palma said. “It’s to make the world safer. We have purpose and mission on our side.”

IT professionals are reassessing priorities, and the job market hasn’t been this hot, enriching, or lucrative for jobseekers in a very long time.

Adopting managed services doesn’t solve the talent shortage, it just makes it someone else’s problem.

An MIT study identified a 13% average quit rate for the enterprise software industry, but analysts credit that trend to the skilled developer shortage.

Broadband equipment suppliers like Adtran, Calix, and Nokia along with fixed wireless internet vendors and fiber and related equipment companies will benefit from the investment.

“We think [hybrid work] is going to be a net positive” for the environment, Cisco's Director of Corporate Affairs Mary de Wysocki said.

“If you want to get all the people who are skilled to apply for your job, then your job has to account for all the people who are skilled,”

“It’s one thing to say that an employee is going to work from home. It’s another thing to say the employee and their entire family is going to work