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AI Literacy Starts with Staying Human
Employers often ask universities to ensure their graduates are “AI literate,” but this isn’t something you can simply check off a list, according to Superhuman’s own Chris Cummings. With the constant shifts in AI development, any system built today to promote AI literacy will likely look different in a year. The greatest thing we can be doing right now is helping our students recognize the power they have as humans and how they can maintain their human voice in this world.
There is no Thames Barrier for heat
There are a range of measures for building in resilience to record-breaking temperatures (from left): Chris Cummings and Sarune Ringelyte. (Savills) By Chris Cummings, Sarune Ringelyte July 27, 2026 | 12:37 P.M. The UK is experiencing a hot summer, with record-breaking temperatures, prolonged dry spells and hosepipe bans. Heatwaves are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense as the climate warms.
Why some are getting the consolidated tape wrong
By Adam Farkas, David Postings and Chris Cummings Following recent debate around the UK consolidated tape, Adam Farkas, chief executive of AFME, David Postings, chief executive of UK Finance, and Chris Cummings, chief executive of The Investment Association, share their insights, asserting that a full consolidated tape including both pre-trade and post-trade data is essential to improve ensure transparency, competition, fairness, and trading outcomes across UK markets.
Enhance Employee Experience through Outsourcing
With the global market for Human Resource outsourcing set to reach US$65.3 billion by 2030, growing at nearly 6% over the next five years, leaders are increasingly turning to expertise outside their organisations to fuel growth. While employee experience (EX) has traditionally been viewed as an internal challenge, organisations around the world are now recognising the value of external support in shaping meaningful, high-impact employee journeys.
Workforce issues put new demands on municipal water management
America’s drinking water supply seems inexhaustible. It’s everywhere: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, underground aquifers. Turn the faucet on and it pours out almost by magic. But it’s not magic. A complex network of assets created and maintained by an army of specially trained engineers captures, purifies, and sends the water along a two-million-mile network of pipes to homes and businesses across the U.S. Unfortunately, this marvel of engineering is in trouble.
From Crisis to Control: AI Offers New Hope for Water Management
Nearly 40 million people — roughly 12% of the U.S. population — rely on the Colorado River for water. This iconic river, which stretches across seven states, supports irrigation, generates power, and serves as a vital source of drinking water. Yet its flow has diminished by about 20% over the past century — a seemingly modest decline that carries significant consequences. A mere 10% reduction in flow jeopardizes $1.4 trillion in economic activity.
Water Scarcity in the West: Why Smarter Solutions Can’t Wait
Credit: Oldcastle Infrastructure Credit: Oldcastle Infrastructure Credit: Oldcastle Infrastructure Previous Next Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 7:30 am Stretching across seven states, the Colorado River fuels agriculture, generates power, and provides drinking water for nearly 40 million people. Yet its reliability may be waning as the primary source for what amounts to around 12% of the U.S. population.
The investment industry is primed to support the government’s growth agenda
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Making a Positive Impact on the Workplace
Wellbeing at Work, organisers of the global series of Wellbeing at Work Summits, global workplace community called The Wellbeing at Work Hub and C-Suite community driving change across the world called Wellbeing at Work Bespoke. He is also Co-Founder of The InsideOut Awards in the UK and is an advisor to organisations with purpose around the world.
The End of ESG Might Be In Sight and That’s Good News for the Planet
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IA's Cummings: Further regulation on sustainability is not appropriate
Proportionate and balanced regulation has a central role in setting out standards and expectations on sustainability and climate-related goals and can drive positive change. That’s why an open dialogue between our industry and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on the shape of the future UK regulatory framework for sustainable finance is essential if the UK is to achieve its net-zero targets and remain a globally competitive investment management hub.
Investing in a healthy workforce can lead to a successful business
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Why MSPs Are Poised To Capitalize On The Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Boom
By Chris Cummings, FalconStor Three ongoing trends are coming together today to create a significant opportunity for MSPs: Enterprises are standardizing on hybrid cloud architectures for their IT operations in the post-pandemic landscape. Data protection, often a behind-the-scenes activity, is under increasing levels of scrutiny given the rise in ransomware attacks and the market is growing fast.
Wellbeing at Work Summit Canada 2025 in Toronto
The Wellbeing at Work Summit Agenda Overview Our agenda is created in collaboration with our Global Advisory Board of leading employers from across the region and is dedicated to tackling the challenges and opportunities of making Wellbeing at Work a strategic priority and driving employee satisfaction and performance. Three days, two locations, one mission: To Make Wellbeing a Strategic Priority that Empowers Performance.
Middle East 2022
The 6th Wellbeing at Work Summit Middle East takes place 21-23 February 2022. The three-day festival will attract senior-level HR, reward, wellness, benefit and business leaders from across the region like you, who want to take their health and wellbeing strategies to the next level.
Anticipating NFD25
It's time for another Networking Field Day, however, this one is a bit different. This time, Yours Truly is going to be an NFD delegate! Apparently Stephen and Tom will let just about anybody in.
Colliers State of the Food Industry 2021
It’s no secret that the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has profoundly impacted virtually every industry worldwide. Perhaps one of the most evident and most crucial sectors hit has been the food industry. The effects were quickly apparent as stories ranging from food shortages to food waste and processing plant closures decorated headlines across the U.S. and worldwide. However, these stories just scratched the surface of a systemic issue throughout the entire food supply chain.
A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Cold Storage
Food distribution centers and cold storage facilities have become an overnight phenomenon, adapting to a global pandemic that has forced the world indoors out of concern for public health and safety.
London Conference
Until the event on 18 November 2021 The 17th edition of the ALFI London Conference provides its traditional forum for the UK and Luxembourg fund industries to share, analyse and debate their most topical challenges and opportunities. Over 1,400 fund industry experts are expected to register to attend the event. Where: etc. venues 133 Houndsditch, London EC3A 7AH, United Kingdom When: 18 November 2021, 8.00 a.m.-3.45 p.m., UK time This event is in ‘hybrid‘ format.
CARES Foundation seeks local support
The Maryland Association of Social Services Boards (MASSB) Foundation is comprised entirely of volunteers who serve on local boards in all 23 counties in the state of Maryland. For those of you who are not familiar with the Kent CARES Foundation, the local MASSB affiliate, our mission is to provide financial assistance to support at risk families, children and vulnerable adults where no other governmental funding is available.
CARES Foundation
The Maryland Association of Social Services Boards (MASSB) Foundation is comprised entirely of volunteers who serve on local boards in all 23 counties in the state of Maryland. For those of you who are not familiar with the Kent CARES Foundation, the local MASSB affiliate, our mission is to provide financial assistance to support at risk families, children and vulnerable adults where no other governmental funding is available.
7 strategies to help you navigate a district tech upgrade
Several school district officials have told us they want to embrace our philosophy of empowering students and teachers through technology innovation, but lack the right infrastructure to support this vision. After our district completed a three-year, district-wide technology refresh cycle, we wanted to share our top takeaways to help our peers get more educational benefits from your network infrastructure.
Climate change tops agenda at UK voting season
The starting gun has fired on one of the busiest periods of the year for investors. With more than 450 annual meetings in the UK in the coming months, investment managers will be making their views heard and shaping the direction of corporate Britain. As climate change dominates the headlines with images of ferocious wildfires and widespread flooding, so too is it a focus for investors.
An Increase in Imported Produce Brings Commercial Real Estate Opportunities to U.S. Ports
Over the last two decades, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) created new rules that opened the door for previously restricted fruit and vegetable imports. Now, treatments to make the imports safe for consumption are helping to meet the increasing consumer demand for year-round produce. These new treatments, most notably cold treatments, are bringing more commercial real estate opportunities to U.S. ports.
7 strategies to navigate a tech upgrade
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Coming to Grips with Earned Value Management
Earned value management (EVM) has been a central project management concept since the 1950s, when it emerged from the United States Navy's Polaris Nuclear program. That project set off an evolution of increasingly sophisticated approaches to project cost accounting used in U.S. Department of Defense (Unshod) contracts. Companies can take different routes to master EVM and ensure enterprise software is fit for purpose.
How Heathers references Doris Day and Sly Stone’s non-family affair
The Review/Short Read/ A Tale of Two “Serás”: How Heathers references Doris Day and Sly Stone’s non-family affair Two soundtrack cuts from the teen classic slyly cite a long-running Hollywood rumour Heathers screens on Friday, November 23 as part of TIFF Cinematheque Special Screenings.
French Hill: High on the Wall Street Flunky' list
A group called Wall Street Flunkies Project has included Republicanon its baker's dozen list of the top Wall Street Flunkies for the campaign money the 13 receive from the banking/finance industry and the legislative services they provide in return.Hill, himself a millionaire former banker, has long depended on the financial sectorcash.
7 lessons for surviving a tech upgrade
Several school district officials have told us they want to embrace our philosophy of empowering students and teachers through technology innovation, but lack the right infrastructure to support this vision. As we’ve recently completed a three-year, district-wide technology refresh cycle, we thought we’d share our top takeaways to help our peers get more educational benefits from your network infrastructure.
Brexit: Britische Banker hoffen auf die Anlegerpanik
Nun kämpft Cummings den vielleicht wichtigsten Kampf seiner Karriere, aber was er auch tut: Es nützt nichts. Am 23. Juni entscheiden die Briten, ob sie aus der EU austreten. Cummings will das unbedingt verhindern. Doch sein Verband kann noch so viel mahnen und warnen, kann noch so viele düstere Studien veröffentlichen, wie verheerend dieser Schritt wäre: Die Brexit-Befürworter können laut Umfragen weiterhin auf einen Sieg hoffen.
What if publishers served ads, not JavaScript?
Chris Cummings is CEO of Curiosity Media, which operates the Spanish learning websites SpanishDict.com and Fluencia. The CEO of Google recently said that programmatic advertising is “on fire.” He was referring of course to the rapid growth in programmatic ad sales. But you could also interpret programmatic advertising as on fire because of the conflagration of ad quality problems it has unleashed on the industry.
Financial and professional services employment in London up in 2012
Increase in legal services offsets decreases in insurance and banking Employment in financial and professional services in London increased by 0.4% in the first six months of 2012 to 666,400, building on the 3.8% growth seen in 2011. The net increase of some 2,700 jobs in the first half of the year was largely due to professional services, including legal services, accounting and management consulting, which together were up by 1.5%. This increase offset a 0.5% decline in financial services jobs.
Global private equity activity remains subdued in first half of 2012 as UK bucks trend
Published : 12 years ago, on 31/07/2012 By Chris Cummings, Chief Executive of TheCityUK The global private equity sector has seen a significant downturn in activity since the start of the economic downturn. However, the industry is gradually recovering and remains an important source of funds for start-up and young firms, firms in financial distress and those seeking buyout financing.
UK banks improve stability and see assets at record levels
Published : 12 years ago, on 14/05/2012 The UK is the leading centre for international banking and home to several of the largest global banks. Its banking sector assets were up 3% in 2011 to a record £8,119bn according to TheCityUK report Banking 2012.
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