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Ben Richardson

CEO

Ben Richardson is the director of Acuity Training, one of the UK’s leading providers of classroom-based Excel training.

Richard Conn

Senior Director

Richard Conn is the Senior Director for Demand Generation at 8x8, a leading communication platform. Conn is an analytical and results-driven leader with a track record of achieving major ROI improvements in fast-paced, competitive B2B environments.

Doug Kersten

Chief Information Security Officer

Doug Kersten is the Chief Information Security Officer at Appfire. Kersten brings more than two decades of security leadership experience to this role, having led IT and security programs for some of the world’s top financial institutions and law firms.

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When people use machine learning without investing enough time in planning, it’s no surprise that the results will...

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I think I look at this a little different than most. At the very minimum, you need mid-level Excel skills, curiosity, cr...

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and fake news seem to be inescapably linked together. On one hand, critics of the newest te...

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The idea that “technology” may cause addiction and brain damage is likely nothing but a vastly exaggerated m...

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As one of the top tools for machine learning (ML), Google's TensorFlow open-source resource pack for neural networks...

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As one of the most fundamental questions in the technology world, this one is a little tough to answer. The long and sho...

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Professionals involved in working on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been making a lot of money for a whi...

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It's a big question – all over the IT industry, cybersecurity professionals are very much in demand. Companies...

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There are many ways that companies can use virtual machine use cases to learn more about how virtualization components w...

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There are a few different reasons why people are talking about the “tipping point” of machine learning and h...

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Natural language processing (NLP) is one of the latest applications of artificial intelligence (AI). NLP allows computer...

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Data analytics is an extremely popular topic in the tech industry, and big data professionals are in high demand. Analyt...

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IT security is, by nature, an intangible and hard-to-measure objective or service. It can be extremely difficult to accu...

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There are a few predominant reasons why experts in cybersecurity will talk about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining being...

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A virtual local area network (VLAN) is an abstracted LAN that is created to operate through the data link layer (layer 2...

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Scaling up and scaling out are two IT strategies that both increase the processing power and storage capacity of systems...

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A: Mobile hotspots and tethering services offer similar results for users, but they work a little bit differently. A mob...

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Car manufacturers are realizing there’s extensive untapped revenue to unlock by drawing attention to the passenger...

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In times of uncertainty, companies are under pressure to make the right decisions for their customers quickly and reliab...

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While hyperautomation is an extremely important term in today's technology conversations, it's also one that is ...

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