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Note: Jon Fortt is on vacation. Today's newsletter is written by Dennis O'Brien, executive producer of CNBC Events.
Good afternoon. While Jon is enjoying some well-deserved R&R, we're gearing up to head out to Chicago for Tuesday's @Work Human Capital + Finance Summit. Not to worry though, we'll get Jon back in time to join us there. He'll be interviewing IBM's Martin Schroeter, who many think is Ginni Rometty's heir apparent at Big Blue. They will be talking about the new analytics IBM is creating in partnership professional sports teams, leagues and events like Wimbledon, the Masters, and the just-completed Women's World Cup (go USA!). Their goal: help athletes achieve peak performance by measuring, well, practically everything.
Speaking of peak performance, the Chicago Bulls' mental performance coach Dr. Wendy Borlabi will tell us about the techniques she uses to help elite athletes focus and perform under pressure, and what lessons can be gleaned by managers to help their own employees excel.
These conversations are part of our morning program, 'The Business of Sport, the Sport of Business.'
In the 'main' afternoon program, we will be talking with a top computer science professor from the University of Chicago, who studies the use of AI and voice recognition to help workers leverage data in their jobs more easily and efficiently. There is a dark side, however, as he's seeing hackers become more and more sophisticated in their scams … going beyond online bots to creating voice-mail messages and deep-fake videos in phishing schemes.
CNBC senior economics correspondent Steve Liesman will have an exclusive with Chicago Fed President Charles Evans about the labor markets. Should be an interesting conversation, given Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Congressional testimony this week about the job market. Despite low unemployment, he doesn't see any evidence to "call this a hot labor market." To view the full event agenda, go here. There are a few tickets left if you'd like to join us in person.
In this week's newsletter articles, we take a look at America's Top States for Business study. Every year, all 50 states are ranked for business competitiveness. Not surprisingly to readers of this newsletter, perhaps, is the fact that this year's winner was ranked tops in the education and the supply of STEM workers categories. Also this week, using virtual reality in employee training, and determining what your online social data is worth. |
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