Issue 24 | Winter 2020
Contents
Cyber sills are improving
The global cybersecurity skills shortage has fallen for the first time
Room for investment
Europe’s industrial tech investment lags despite high growth potential
Why your organisation's digital maturity matters
IKE CEO Professor Sa’ad Sam Medhat explains why an organisation’s level of digital maturity provides an effective indicator of its adaptive capacity to respond to a crisis
The next tech hub is coming to a town near you
The UK's tech industry is moving away from its city-centric recruitment model
How coronavirus blurred the lines between public and private data
Views on building a healthy data ecosystem from the Open Data Institute’s 2020 summit
Covid-19 and the rise of automation anxiety
Oxford Martin School's Dr Carl Benedikt Frey on the impact of automation on the labour market
Answering today’s problems with yesterday’s research
How past innovations can help solve research challenges such as Covid-19
Companies turn to tech to weather the storm
How companies are using technology such as cloud computing to overcome challenges caused by the pandemic
A leap forward in automated translation
Facebook's new multilingual machine learning translation software raises the stakes
The dangers of algorithms that rule the world
Drupal founder and Acquia CTO Dries Buytaert discusses concerns around privacy and power in Big Tech
The startup decoding climate uncertainty
Cervest CEO and founder Iggy Bassi tells us abouts his plan to map climate risk for every building on the planet
Innovation takes flight
The UK Civil Aviation's head of innovation tells us about the future of aviation, from drone delivery to air taxis and beyond
Keeping smart cities safe with artificial intelligence
Patriot One Technologies shares insights into innovative security solutions for cities
Microsoft, Space X and the new space race
Microsoft and SpaceX join forces with Azure Space, a potential challenger to the space market
Using remote desktop securely
Advertorial: Xiid explains how it enables secure use of remote desktop