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🆕 How should board leaders and executives approach adopting AI responsibly?   BSA's "Adopting AI Responsibly: Essential Questions for Board Leaders" offers key questions company leaders should be asking throughout the incorporation of AI tools and capabilities into their organizations. These questions address how companies should approach mitigating risk, legal compliance, external communications, and more.   Read the complete list of questions and learn more here:   https://lnkd.in/edhuC8kh

BSA joined over 50 industry associations across the economy in calling on the Biden Administration to pursue a comprehensive US trade policy that ensures economic growth, protects innovation, and strengthens national security.     Key points:    🔹 Open foreign markets to U.S. exports  🔹 Promote international standards  🔹 Enable digital trade  🔹 Support workforce development    Learn more and read the full letter here: https://lnkd.in/ex63tDDM

Meet Javier Cervantes, Director of Analytics and Internet Enforcement in our Washington, D.C. office. Javier, an undercover economist, believes that math and statistics — which he is fluent in — are paramount to pursuing a career in analytics. His journey spans diverse areas like microfinance, tax debt collection, anti-money laundering, and software license compliance. When not in the office, Javier is probably cycling, swimming, or playing soccer. Basically, he’s always on the move! 🚲 🏊♂️ ⚽ Read more about Javier here ⬇ https://lnkd.in/gBySvRVs

Harmonizing cybersecurity regulations benefits customers and companies alike, creating a more resilient digital ecosystem. In a new blog, BSA’s Henry Young outlines the 4️⃣ main benefits of harmonization, including:   🔸 Improving cybersecurity by reducing complexity and cost of compliance; 🔸Promoting innovation; 🔸Growing the economy and delivering for citizens by removing barriers to entry for innovative companies and guaranteeing customers and government agencies access to best-of-breed solutions; and 🔸Delivering secure government services by improving procurement processes and focusing resources on an agencies’ core missions.   Read the full blog to learn more about how Congress can act to avoid duplicative or conflicting rules or regulations through harmonization below 🔽

Rubrik Public Sector Chief Technology Officer Travis Rosiek takes the pen to talk about how AI can help reduce the vulnerabilities in code and much more in the latest #BSATechPost. Learn about how a robust #cybersecurity program can be enhanced by #AI by helping developers write more secure code and promote effective privacy controls on data here:

❔ How is Cisco using #AI tools to enhance privacy and #cybersecurity? Learn more from EVP and General Manager, Security and Collaboration Business Units Jeetu Patel during his Q&A with BSA SVP of Global Policy Aaron Cooper about how Cisco's products are incorporating AI technologies to create a better product for their customers. Read more in the newest #BSATechPost here:

#AI is having an impact on every industry including agriculture. Thanks to Nik Green, MS from CNH, Michael Jacobs from IBM, and Meredith Williams from AT&T for joining BSA's Bruce Miller earlier this week for a discussion regarding AI's impact in agriculture before 100+ Capitol Hill staff. AI affects every part of agriculture, from machinery manufacturing to the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of modern farming, and the reliability of our food supply chain. Find a recap of the full briefing here: https://lnkd.in/e_UbZghV The briefing was organized in conjunction with BSA's #DigitalTransformationNetwork and its latest report, "From Farm to Fork: Agriculture's AI Transformation," which highlights real-world instances of AI at work in agriculture. Find that full report here: https://lnkd.in/eDa4BM7Q

BSA Board Member and Palo Alto Networks EVP and General Counsel Bruce Byrd outlines how AI-powered cybersecurity is vital to protecting privacy in his latest #BSATechPost. AI is a transformative technology for every part of the economy, including businesses that are harnessing AI-powered cybersecurity tools to keep their infrastructure secure. Read more below.

The Spotlight shines on Venkatesh K. this week! “Global, process-oriented, and digital-first” is how Venkatesh describes BSA | The Software Alliance, but we believe this description fits him just as well! As Country Manager in India, he works on various files and is well-connected with colleagues worldwide. 🌏 Venkatesh believes in placing trust in people, and that life doesn’t rely on winners or losers. To learn more about Venkatesh, say hi at the Third Wave coffee shop in New Delhi, or read the TechPost below 👇 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eS8qYtb6

❔ NEW: BSA's AI Policy Solutions outline how AI technologies can work to advance cybersecurity and provide stronger privacy protections for consumers.  🔸 AI tools can help companies develop more secure code, as well as detect and mitigate cyber threats and vulnerabilities.  🔺 Privacy-enhancing technologies can become more attainable with the inclusion of AI tools during development and deployment.  Read more in the latest #BSATechPost and stay tuned for how some of our member companies use AI: