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SXSW 2025 Schedule • 1st November 2024

Will AI Replace Healthcare Workers? No, But It Will Turn Them Into Tech Workers

AI will transform healthcare workers into tech workers in the next few years. The industry will no longer rely solely on medical pedigree but rather on how clinicians and other healthcare workers understand and apply technology to the work they do.

This skills transformation, and the creation of an AI-powered organization, will require a new model for education and hiring for the healthcare industry.

This dynamic panel will explore ways the healthcare workforce will evolve in the next few year...

JNJ.com • 16th October 2024

Johnson & Johnson named among Forbes’ best employers for tech workers 2024

At Johnson & Johnson, technology is at the heart of everything we do to advance human health. That’s why we are proud to announce that Johnson & Johnson has been named to Forbes’ inaugural America’s Best Employers for Tech Workers 2024 list, earning recognition as the only healthcare company ranked among the top 15 employers.This honor reinforces our commitment to fostering an environment where technology professionals can thrive, grow, and make a meaningful impact on patients’ lives around the...

JNJ.com • 10th October 2024

6 ways Johnson & Johnson is using AI to help advance healthcare

Using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare may seem cutting edge, but the technology has actually been around for decades. Research suggests the earliest incarnation of AI—the simulation of human intelligence in computers—dates back to the 1950s. Granted, the limitations of early models prevented widespread acceptance, not to mention application, in the world of medicine.By the early 2000s, however, AI began to make good on its early promise. Healthcare workers could use AI to screen for d...

Instagram • 27th March 2024

J&J @ SXSW 2024

Short reel about J&J's participation at SXSW 2024.

Commerce NJ Magazine • 1st January 2024

Commerce NJ Magazine

Article on J&J's innovation legacy in New Jersey by Diane Walsh.

CIO • 6th June 2023

CIO 100 Award

Senior Vice President of the Office of Enterprise Data & Technology Solutions

SXSW 2023 Schedule • 6th June 2023

SXSW 2023 Schedule

At J&J, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities and forward progress. And as the world’s largest and most broadly-based health care company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. We are blending our heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly impact health for humanity.

SXSW 2023 Schedule • 6th June 2023

Chatbots say Artificial Intelligence Could Transform Healthcare (and They Should Know)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future of healthcare – at least, that’s according to intelligent chatbots that understand messages and context to generate human-like responses. Healthcare experts will join ChatGPT, serving as a “panelist,” to discuss the merit of opinions produced by AI and share their own perspectives on how health and tech companies are practically unlocking the potential impact of AI and machine learning technology to improve health for humanity.

This dynamic debate will

Bechtel Corporate • 6th June 2023

Partnering with our customers to deliver energy to the world

As part of Gastech 2019, executives from Bechtel’s Oil, Gas & Chemicals (OG&C) business unit spoke with energy reporters about the company’s role in the current LNG market and its contributions to the broader energy sector.

Bechtel’s focus on collaboration, together with innovative approaches to productivity enhancements and workforce development, has allowed our customers to complete 15 large-scale LNG trains in just five years – enough energy for more than 85 million households per year. In f

Bechtel Corporate • 6th June 2023

Improving Safety on Construction Sites with XR

According to the International Labour Organization, more than 340 million occupational accidents are reported each year around the world. Statistics show the construction industry has a disproportionately high rate of recorded accidents in comparison to other industries.

Throughout the engineering, procurement, and construction industry, including Bechtel, many are beginning to explore new ways to overcome these health and safety challenges on jobsites. Extended reality is one of the fastest gr

GlobeNewswire News Room • 27th March 2023

CIO Celebrates Innovations in Business Technology with 2023 CIO 100 & Hall of Fame Awards

Boston, MA, March 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Foundry’s – the executive-level IT media brand providing insight into business technology leadership – is pleased to recognize the 2023 CIO 100 award winners and Hall of Fame inductees. Winners, attendees, and the industry at-large will come together this summer at the CIO 100 Symposium & Awards on August 14th-16th at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA to celebrate and recognize visionary, compassionate, and collaborative IT leaders.

WSJ • 5th January 2023

CIOs Contend With Pushback on AI Rollouts

Attendees at the AI Summit New York in December. Artificial intelligence has a mixed track record in the corporate world, much of it due to a lack of foundational data to train the algorithms and high-flown ideas about what it can accomplish.

Corporate technology leaders are having to work for organizational buy-in on artificial intelligence after years of mixed results and confusion over what the technology can actually do.

Overall enterprise adoption of AI has grown threefold since 2019 as a

InformationWeek • 21st December 2022

J&J CIO Jim Swanson: Current IT Projects and Best Career Advice

Ask Johnson & Johnson EVP and CIO Jim Swanson what he’s working on and he’ll recite a long list of projects. The list is probably way too long for most people to keep in their heads, let alone lead and manage. It includes IT-specific projects, such as data science and automation, sure, but also building technology into the mission of Johnson & Johnson and healthcare itself.

“We have an amazing CEO who is really thinking about technology as the core of the company,” Swanson says. “We work togeth

Forbes • 18th December 2022

The Next Digital Revolution Underway: Fewer Workers Left Behind

“No worker left behind” in the age of digital and artificial intelligence sounds like an admirable goal, and perhaps a bit unrealistic, especially if revenues tighten and management sees fit to keep automating greater parts of its operations. But there are some forward-looking organizations that do seek to better prepare their people to participate in the digital revolution — people well beyond the bounds of information technology departments.

The past three years have seen a huge rush to digit

Computerworld • 13th December 2022

Best Places to Work in IT 2023

What makes an organization a great place for technology professionals to work? Top salaries, benefits, and other perks are important, but so are opportunities to learn new skills, a flexible work environment, and a corporate culture that values diversity and teamwork.

Computerworld publisher Foundry surveyed large, midsize, and small organizations to discover the top employers for our 29th annual Best Places to Work in IT report. While in past years the survey has been offered only to US-based

NextDecade • 5th November 2019

and Bechtel host first series of LNG demonstrations in the Rio Grande Valley

NextDecade and Bechtel successfully launched the first series of LNG demonstrations for the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in October 2019. The aim of the sessions was to educate the public on the scientific properties and safety of LNG. During the week, the team presented to two STEM-focused high school groups and five community groups, roughly 300 people total. Community groups included local economic development councils and chambers of commerce, first responders and hospital executives, county emer

iTnews • 29th June 2018

Bechtel makes a game of its billion-dollar build projects

Bechtel - which engineered some of Australia’s largest liquefied natural gas projects - is turning to deep learning to sequence the construction of a new breed of multi billion dollar “mega” projects.

The privately held company is little known outside of the resources sector but has been in business about 120 years and has over 50,000 staff worldwide.

Its bread-and-butter is design and construction services for massive projects.

In Australia, it built all three liquefied natural gas (LNG) pla

iTnews • 29th June 2018

Bechtel makes a game of its billion-dollar build projects

Bechtel - which engineered some of Australia’s largest liquefied natural gas projects - is turning to deep learning to sequence the construction of a new breed of multi billion dollar “mega” projects.

The privately held company is little known outside of the resources sector but has been in business about 120 years and has over 50,000 staff worldwide.

Its bread-and-butter is design and construction services for massive projects.

In Australia, it built all three liquefied natural gas (LNG) pla

Bechtel Corporate • 1st May 2018

Bechtel Recognized for Innovative Use of Software Robots

Bechtel Recognized for Innovative Use of Software Robots

The company honored by CIO for application of robotic process automation to improve productivity

Bechtel, a global engineering, procurement, and construction leader, has been recognized by CIO, an executive-level tech media brand, as a 2018 CIO100 honoree for its innovative use of robotic process automation (RPA) technology. CIO100 is an annual awards program that recognizes organizations around the world for their innovative and strateg

Bechtel Corporate • 18th December 2017

Bechtel Wins Award for Digital Innovation

The company honored for development of a digital tool crucial to pipeline safety

Bechtel, a global engineering, procurement, and construction leader, has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Digital Edge 50 Award in recognition of its new Pipeline Integrity Management (PIM) tool. With support from Bechtel's Future Fund, an internal incubator which finances development of disruptive technologies, innovators from the Bechtel pipeline business designed the tool to help customers prioritize critical p

Bechtel Corporate • 9th October 2017

Bechtel Wins Award for Innovative Information Security Program

The company honored for its application of Information Classification and Protection program

Bechtel, a global engineering, procurement, and construction leader, has been recognized by CSO, a premier security media brand providing insight into business risk leadership, as a CSO50 honoree for its innovative implementation of the Information Classification and Security program across the enterprise. The program ensures security of company information and employee awareness of cyber threats and pr