Cybersecurity landscape, emerging threats and competing with the private sector for recruitment and retention of workforce talent. This discussion was part of the 14th annual billington cybersecurity summit in washington, d. C. Good morning. Thank you all for joining this session and thank you for having a discussion with us today. Is my pleasure. General nakasone, after he was here for the opening we had a meeting later that day and he was saying i got to open, it was so much fun and he was talking about the conversation he had and he said you are closing it and we will have its really exciting frankly conference for us because we focus so much on these issues and so its frankly an honor for me to be here. You really got the best of it from paul so its all downhill from there. Thank you. Lets jump into the topic of an workforce. We recognize the importance of a talented and Diverse Workforce and cybersecurity particularly given a lot of the challenges we face. Theres been some amazing
The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
The senate, Small Business and entrepreneurship, three women testified about their experiences running companies. And working to promote and increase ownership and investment rolls for women in American Business and industry. This is about an hour. I know everybodys having a good time and networking, and moving the enterprise forward. We really should get started. We have two votes starting at noon, were going to be on a bit of a short string here. That shouldnt in anyway denny great the importance of this hearing of the Small Business committee. What were going to do is explore ways to help Women Owned Businesses reach their full potential and grow the american economy. I want to thank my colleague for working together on this. This is of great importance to all of us and all america. As you know, october is National Womens Small Business month. Fee malentrepreneurs employ more than 9 million workers, they contribute 1. 6 trillion in sales to our national economy. And are capable of e
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