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“We are at a unique point in time where we have proven that technology can help us achieve virtually anything,” Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said at Cisco Live. “And all of us have a role to play, as we shape the future of the world … Because in this future, technology will truly be at the heart of it.”
Speaking in a Cisco Live keynote address, Robbins established an important theme for the event: Despite the hardships and tragedies of the past year, CIOs, business leaders, and workers are looking to a future that will be more flexible, inclusive, and secure than ever before.
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Chief information officers in 2020 helped introduce or bolster initiatives to increase the ranks of minorities and women on their technology teams, as well as programs designed to retain and advance those underrepresented groups.
Also, in a year in which the police killing of George Floyd prompted many companies to address racial disparities internally and across American society, CIOs took steps to educate themselves about race and bias.
“While we’ve always talked about [diversity, equity and inclusion],” the killing of Mr. Floyd was “a real wake-up call,” said Maya Leibman, chief information officer at American Airlines Inc., one of 45 information technology executives who responded via email to CIO Journal’s annual end-of-year questionnaire, which surveyed them on diversity and other topics.