Tag: PBN Summit
Promise, threats associated with AI, cybersecurity take center stage at PBN...
WARWICK – When talking about artificial intelligence, Rhode Island College professor Tim Henry encourages his students to think of the software like an uneducated...
PBN summit: Life sciences, blue economy growth face challenges in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Justin Fallon, a professor of neuroscience, psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, co-founded his company, Bolden Therapeutics Inc., in Rhode Island....
PBN workforce summit: Flexibility ‘the best asset you can have at...
PROVIDENCE – With Rhode Island now having regained more than 90% of jobs lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers may feel that the...
PBN summit: Cannabis sector ‘a struggle’ but making progress
PROVIDENCE – As the R.I. Cannabis Control Commission takes the next several months to draw up the state's crucial first set of regulations on...
Panel: Offering flexible workplace is now a must
From an employer perspective, the labor market may appear to be in poor shape as many fear the U.S. is nearing, or is already...
PBN Summit: ‘Human capital is your single greatest investment’ for a...
PROVIDENCE – As Rhode Island’s largest private employer, Lifespan Corp. hires about 100 new employees each month.
While that’s an improvement on earlier COVID-19-induced hiring...
Business leaders encourage flexibility, creativity to meet workforce needs
PROVIDENCE — With employers in nearly every industry reporting recruitment and retention as among their largest challenges – if not the largest – employers...
PBN summit: ‘Every conversation is crucial’ in diversity efforts
WARWICK – Top-down leadership, organizational involvement, empathy and persistent efforts are essential to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace, according to business...
PBN summit: Communication, transparency, goodwill key to reopening workplaces
Reopening workplaces as states allow it and as COVID-19 fades will be a delicate process heavily dependent on expert guidance, excellent communications and transparency...
PBN’s Business of Cannabis Summit approaches
PROVIDENCE – PBN’s 2020 Business of Cannabis Summit will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at the Omni Providence Hotel.
The summit...