Tag: PBN Summit
PBN Summit: Tax cuts to bring stimulus with rise in consumer...
PROVIDENCE – It’s going to be a "gangbusters” year for the consumer in 2026 as income generated from labor begins to outperform the financial...
PBN Summit: Panelists advise caution, not fear, when incorporating AI
WARWICK – When Rhode Island College professor Tim Henry thinks about artificial intelligence, the modern technology brings an ancient myth to mind.
Specifically, Henry, who...
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...



















