Plus you will hear from the social Networks Global chief diversity officer. She tells us how facebook plans to double the number of female employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laun
Employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things that we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to systemically important
The number of female employees globally over the next five years. Why diversity seems to be the one big problem big tech cant solve. Itst, ibm has closed purchase of red hat, finalizing the worlds secondlargest tech deliver. Ibm was once synonymous with mainframe computing, but has been struggling to adapt in a cloudbased world. The company is playing catchup to market leaders and Offering Software and services over the internet. Bloombergs david westin spoke to the leaders of both ibm and red hat earlier. I think, a lot of times people think everything is going to move to one public cloud. That is not what we see clients need, want, and are even targeted to. I have an estate, like a house, im going to modernize it. And i have five to 15 public clouds already, private clouds, app, ii modernize an will put it where i want and secure all that. We give them a platform between red hat and ibm that runs on any can runand they it anywhere, secure it, and manage it. That is a distinct capabil
Goals aiming to double the amount of female employees globally over the next five years. My diversity seems to be the next why diversity seems to be the next problem big tex can solve. Ibm purchases redhat. Withas once synonymous mainframe computing. The company is playing catchup market leaders and Offering Software and services over the internet. Bloombergs david westin spoke to the leaders of both ibm and red hat earlier. I think, a lot of times people think everything is going to move to one public cloud. That is not what we see clients need, want, or are targeted to. Estate, like a house, i want to modernize it. Im going to put it where i want and im going to manage and secure all. Betweenthem a platform red hat and ibm, that runs on it and manageure it. That is a distinct capability and that is what i mean by the hyper cloud. Others talk it but they may just have a connection between their public cloud and private cloud. Youve got some other competitors out there in the cloud tha
Been waiting for. To hear from alex tapscott, the bestselling author himself. Im pleased to introduce him. Alex is an entrepreneur, a business author, a seasoned Capital Markets professional, focused the impact of emerging technologies such as blockchain and cryptocurrency, business, government and, society. Alex has been also the coauthor of, critically acclaimed nonfiction bestseller blockchain revolution, which i mentioned earlier. It was really a life book for me that changed the trajectory. My career and really my life. It has been translated into more than 19 languages and it has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. His other books include Financial Services, revolution 2020 Digital Assets 2022. Alex a sought after for his expertise, business and government audiences. He has delivered well over 200 lectures. Executive to business audiences at firms, goldman sachs, google alliance, ibm, microsoft, accenture, just to name a few. Alexs tedx talk, which is fantastic if you