The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and France Digitale, the leading startup association in Europe, announced a partnership to co-host the CES 2024 Tech Trends – formerly CES Unveiled Paris – a global kickoff event for CES 2024. The CES 2024 Tech Trends will be held on September 20, 2023, at the Musee des Arts Forains in Paris. It will take place during France Digitale’s FDDay 2023, a key startup and innovation event that convenes entrepreneurs and investors from across Europe to propel the tech industry forward. Owned and produced by CTA, CES 2024 returns to Las Vegas January 9-12, 2024.
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus will deliver the first-ever keynote from a beauty company at CES 2024. A nine-time CES Innovation Award honoree, L’Oréal’s keynote will demonstrate how the company’s ongoing technology transformation ensures that it remains prepared for a future of its business that is at once physical, digital, and virtual.
Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, regarded as the place where money does business, is launching Money20/20 Asia set to take place April 23-25 of 2024 in Bangkok at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center.
In a world rapidly shaped by technology, even the most traditional industries are experiencing profound change.
A new survey has revealed that Michelle Obama is the UK public’s dream boss.
Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s-first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots, announced a major step forward with the unveiling of its sixth-generation general-purpose robot named Phoenix.
The UK economy suffers a loss of £1.5 billion every year due to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) skills shortages, and the future of engineering has never been more important. With a shortage of 173,000 workers, 49% of engineering businesses are struggling to recruit skilled workers.
There has been a 10% increase in the number of girls taking GCSE computing, rising for the second year in a row, which follows a number of consecutive years of uptake declining as they outperform their male peers at all grade levels.
Post-pandemic, we had the Great Resignation – the movement where hundreds of thousands of people changed or left their jobs.
The security threat landscape is rapidly evolving, and the emergence of AI-powered cyber attacks means that businesses of all sizes risk more frequent and sophisticated breaches than ever before.
As the landscape of energy costs continually evolves, pursuing financial prudence has led many small businesses to explore switching energy suppliers.
Glasgow event in November helps businesses to navigate AI and emerging tech. Global experts including DowJones emerging technology director and a top New York based virtual AI fashion expert will join Scottish businesses at Scotland’s annual CAN DO Innovation Summit, on 7th November.
A recent UK SME survey found that 29% of those surveyed said the ongoing shortage of skilled workers poses a high or very high risk for their business – so much so that their digital modernisation ambitions have stalled, due to a lack of job-ready digital talent.
“From the biggest rocket to the smallest adult pleasure aid, all devices are at risk of attack,” says Simon Bain, OmniIndex CEO.
Sourcing talent has been challenging recently but hiring the correct talent has been painful for a lot longer.
The UK economy is expected to shrink between July and September which could tip the nation into a recession, according to the S&P Global/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) report which has seen interest rates rise and household spending decrease.
PROSPECT 100, a UK-based startup, has successfully raised $750,000 to build the go-to platform for co-creation; a digital space which allows brands to connect and collaborate with creative talent around the world.
The Venture Capital Trust Association (VCTA) has published new data gathered from over 600 early-stage companies that have benefited from VCT funding, which shows that deployment of capital into early-stage startups grew 8% year-on-year to £664 million, proving resilient in context of wider UK venture capital funding, which fell by almost a quarter (23%) in 2022.
Ineffective diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies are risking businesses’ ability to retain diverse tech employees, with 64% of UK businesses reporting that they have lost employees from diverse backgrounds.
Occupop, a user-friendly recruitment software tailored for SMBs, has introduced an innovative AI prompt library, known as the ‘ChatGPT Prompt Library for Recruitment’.
