Ron Bruder: ‘There’s A Social And Structural Barrier’ Toward Women

Education for Employment’s president and CEO Jamie McAuliffe, along with founder and chair Ron Bruder, sat down with HuffPost Live at Davos on Saturday where they discussed youth unemployment.

Bruder said EFE particularly aims to help women.

“We strive to have the majority of our graduates female,” he said said.

“I don’t think there’s an official barrier but there’s a social and structural barrier in a lot of these countries toward women,” Bruder added.

Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:

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“Could there be a piece of technology that figures out an intelligent next question to ask somebody? Yeah,” McAfee said.

“For 200 years of industrial technology, we’ve been making workers obsolete,” McAfee said.

McAfee said nobody knows if we’re reaching the point where technological developments could lead to unemployment.

Andrew McAfee of the MIT Sloan School of Management on HuffPost Live

Woods said it’s normal for government entities to reach out to consulting groups, but usually the process takes a lot more time.

“The coordination has been better than I’ve ever seen it on a global scale,” Woods said.

Courtois said new devices are “enabling people to do more stuff, to do great stuff.”

Courtois also spoke about new technology being developed by Microsoft that will allow users to interact with 3D holograms.

Courtois shared how Microsoft played a role after the recent terror attacks in Paris, partnering with French law enforcement and the FBI to get police information they needed within 45 minutes of the attack’s start.

Jean-Philippe Courtois on HuffPost Live

Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, spoke about the steps his company is taking to maintain the public’s trust as data moves further into the Cloud.

Courtois said Microsoft has been focusing on several aspects: improving how they anchor the data; certification and compliance of infrastructure; and transparency.

“This is a big deal to actually report back to society what we do with data and how we deal with government requests,” Courtois said about being a transparent company.

Valerie Keller and Cheryl Grise of the EY Beacon Institute talk with HuffPost Live about how to transform your business through a better sense of purpose.

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