Below are the Contents of our current ABL Technology Online News & Trendletter
March 23, 2023
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ABL-TECH MEMBER NEWS
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- Alvaka Announces Water Cybersecurity Partnership with Insurance Administrator & Lloyd’s
- California Lightworks Unveils SpectraMax 1000: The Ultimate LED Grow Light
- Coherent Named a Top-Rated ESG Company + Introduces WaveShaper & WaveAnalyzer
- CuraeSoft‘s coAmplifi Spotlighted in Biz Journals + Shares 4 Workforce Trends
- Delphi Display Systems Acquired by Toast
- LookinLA Ranks #60 on Inc. 5000 Regionals for Fastest-Growing Private Companies & CEO Publishes Articles
- Parasoft‘s Upcoming Webinar to Address AI-Enhanced Test Automation
- Project Insight Provides Webinars & Insights on Project Management Tools
INSIGHTS FROM ADAPTIVE TECH LEADERS
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- Dave Berkus on: Flexibility, Coachability & Controlled Euphoria
- Get Visible Provides Business Tools & Resources
- Adam Miller-Led Instil on: Convincing Your Board to Invest in Nonprofit Technology
- Profi on: How Tech Will Shape Coaching & Consulting Industries
- ProProfs on: How to Conduct Effective Skills Gap Analysis
- Marshall Toplansky on: Will AI Replace Us?
HEALTH IT MEMBER NEWS
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- Angle Health Extolled by Pruven Capital
- Eitan Medical Opens New Manufacturing Facility Bolstered by Semi-Automated Production Lines
- Elemeno Health Partners with URMC Golisano Children’s Hospital
- LigoLab Webinar Will Address Optimizing Lab Operations to Prevent Staff Burnout
- Nelson Hardiman Examines the Peril & Promise of Chatbot Therapy
WELCOME NEW MEMBER!
>>>Laith Pahlawan is Founder and CEO of The Orange Crew, a managed IT services and support company serving Orange County and Los Angeles. Orange Crew’s mission is to “Make it Ridiculously! Easy to work with IT.” The Orange Crew provides tailor-made services to all companies seeking IT support regardless of the size of their staff, budget, or operations. Seeing a gap in the IT services industry, The Orange Crew focuses on providing responsive IT support through both on-site and remote technology assistance. Today, fruitful IT solutions are custom designed to help the client’s valued customers achieve and maintain the ideal IT working environment to support their goals. The Orange Crew’s services include managed IT services, network and computer security, data backup and recovery, business telephone services, VOIP, and more. Industries served include accounting and law firms, engineering and design firms, small- to mid-size companies, municipalities, non-profits, and charter schools. Laith has led The Orange Crew since 2016, as well as its predecessor company, Acompuco, since 2002, when that company was merged with Latitude to create The Orange Crew. Earlier, he was IT Manager at TeleTech; IT Manager at Interwood Marketing Group; and Lead IT Support Specialist for Rider Travel Group. Laith has joined the West Los Angeles Round Table.
UPCOMING ABL-TECH ROUND TABLES
In April’s In-Person Round Tables (with a Zoom option), we’ll be discussing “Internal & External Business Sense Are Both Important: Are You Developing Both?”
April 6 – ABL-Tech OC Table – featuring Marshall Toplansky of Chapman Business School
April 7 – ABL-Tech SGV Table – featuring Ali Payani of LookinLA
April 14 – ABL-Tech WLA Table – featuring Ali Payani of LookinLA
TECH INDUSTRY NEWS & TRENDS
AI NEWS & TRENDS
- Microsoft’s Bing Chatbot Now Lets You Create Images Via OpenAI’s DALL-E
- ALSO, Microsoft to Add AI Functionality to Excel, Word, Outlook
- How to Use ChatGPT: “Everything You Need to Know”
- How AI is Saving Homes & Lives in California During Wildfire Season
- US Chamber of Commerce Pushes for AI Regulation, Warns It Could Disrupt Economy
- Google Announces More AI Partnerships + Launches Open Source Tools to Help Developers Build Digital Health Apps
WORKFORCE TRENDS
- Over a Quarter of the 100 Hardest-Working Cities in America are in California
- Survey: Hiring Outlook Remains Optimistic, but Upskilling is Needed
- Cost Control Edges Out Cybersecurity as Top Cloud Concern: Report
- What the “New Automation” Means for Technology Careers
- Holograms at Front Desk to Replace Real People at Some Best Western Hotels
TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT
Blog by Mimi Grant, President of ABL Organization
Re-Cap of Mimi’s Recent Participation at the FUTURES Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Mimi recently participated in the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” held at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building on the National Mall. Here, Mimi shares a brief photo journal, with captions, of her incredible experience.
In 1879, the “National Museum” – the nation’s first, was “crowned” on the Washington Mall. Last November, after being closed for the past 20 years, the renamed Smithsonian “Arts + Industries Building” (AIB) reopened its doors to host the “FUTURES” exhibit. Over the eight months of the exhibit, FUTURES looked at a number of themes, including the future of AI, Generative Design, Conservation, Energy, Transportation, Work, Fashion, Gaming, and “Healthcare – in 2050.”
On June 25th, the “Living Longer Festival: Health + Wellness 2050,” highlighted a special demonstration entitled, “The Doctor Is In (SPACE),” “demonstrating” how an astronaut using a MedWand on a patient in space could conceivably link with a terrestrial doctor for an exam. MedWand’s Co-Founders, Bob Rose, CEO, and Samir Qamar, MD, CMO, were frequently seen on-hand answering questions from the 12,000 visitors who toured the Exhibit on “Solstice Saturday,” when several of the Smithsonian museums, including AIB, stayed open late – some till midnight.
Later, I had the honor of moderating an outstanding panel of experts, supplemented with questions from the audience who “Interrupted Your Regularly Scheduled Panel” throughout “WIYRSP: Living Longer in the Future.” To kick it off we introduced “Elizabeth,” a great grandmother, who was captured on her grandson’s iPhone for the masses when she demonstrated her impressive moves as she got down to Bruno Mars at her 100th birthday party surrounded by friends and family…
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Vlog by Mimi Grant
To Boost or Not to Boost?: That is THE Question
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Podcast Episodes
Is It Time For a COVID-Era Marshall Plan?; 6/2021
Lessons We Can Learn Today From the Last Great Epidemic; 5/2021
Super-Charge Your Post-Pandemic Strategic Plan; 4/2021
Back to the “Skills of the Future”; 10/2020
The Importance of Brand Narratives; 10/2020
Winning in the COVID – Or Any – Economy; 10/2020
The Latest Silicon Valley Breakthrough: Liquid Biopsy; 7/31/20
Getting Back to Work in the Office – How to Do It; 6/23/20
The Four Pillars of the Latest “New Normal”; 5/26/20
Labs (and Tesla) Help California to Reopen; 5/12/20
Appreciating the Silver Lining in the ‘New Normal’; 4/15/20
Tips & Clips from the WFH Pros; 3/30/20
MITIGATION: California & ABL Members Respond to COVID-19; 3/24/20
The Robots Are Coming – It’s About Time; 9/16/19
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