MNCs see rise in women leaders
BENGALURU: Ten years ago, MNC IT companies boasted six women at the helm. Prominent leaders included Accenture India’s Chairman Rekha Menon, IBM’s Vanitha Narayanan, HP’s Neelam Dhawan, Capgemini’s Aruna Jayanthi, and Intel’s Kumud Srinivasan. Back then, Meta (Facebook) was headed by Kirthiga Reddy. Several of...
EU Leaders Hold Emergency Summit On Defense And Ukraine Aid As U.S. Pulls Back
BRUSSELS (AP) — Facing the prospect that the United States might cut them adrift under President Donald Trump, European Union leaders launched a day of emergency talks Thursday in a bid to beef up their own security and ensure that Ukraine will still be properly...
Arab Leaders Meet To Endorse Counterproposal To Trump’s Gaza Plan
CAIRO (AP) — Arab leaders meeting in Cairo on Tuesday are set to endorse a counterproposal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the Gaza Strip to be depopulated and transformed into a beach destination, even as the continuation of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is uncertain....
European Leaders Hold Emergency Meeting In Paris After Trump Diplomatic Blitz On Ukraine
PARIS (AP) — European leaders gathered in Paris Monday for emergency talks on how to react to the U.S. diplomatic blitz on Ukraine, which has thrown a once-solid alliance into turmoil and left the Europeans questioning the reliability of their key transatlantic partner. Shortly before...
HR Leaders in APAC Are Adopting AI for Efficiency Gains
HR teams across the Asia-Pacific region increasingly deploy AI and machine learning technologies to create more efficiencies in managing their workforces. A survey of 1,515 business and HR leaders in the region, conducted by HR and finance platform Workday, found 69% of organisations are using...
AI Bias: Accenture, SAP Leaders on Diversity Problems and Solutions
Generative AI bias, driven by model training data, remains a large problem for organisations, according to leading experts in data and AI. These experts recommend APAC organisations take proactive measures to engineer around or eliminate bias as they bring generative AI use cases into production....
Australian Tech Leaders Urge Industry Peers to Embrace Change
Senior leaders from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, QBE Insurance Group, and commercial property investment firm Charter Hall spoke on the importance of embracing change — particularly as it relates to emerging technologies and their associated strategies — during the Gartner Symposium/Xpo...
World Leaders Gather In New York For An Expectedly Gloomy U.N. General Assembly
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on modernizing the international institutions born after World War II so...
U.N. Leaders Decry Attacks In Gaza After Israeli Strike Kills 6 Relief Agency Workers
United Nations leaders and others in the international community have fiercely denounced the escalation of violence against humanitarian sites and aid workers in Gaza after Israeli forces killed at least 18 people sheltering at a U.N. school complex overnight on Wednesday, including six staff members...
INDIA bloc leaders to meet in Delhi on Saturday to discuss strategy, TMC and PDP likely to skip
Senior leaders of the INDIA bloc met here on Saturday to discuss their strategy for the counting of votes on June 4, even as the TMC and PDP skipped the meeting. Senior leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, CPI-M, CPI, DMK, JMM, AAP, RJD, Shiv...
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