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The Aspen Cybersecurity Group today announced commitments from fifteen industry representatives to address the mounting shortfall in the nation’s cyber security workforce.

The report takes a comprehensive approach to reforming the entire “criminal justice continuum,” with emphasis on how each segment has a direct causal effect on the others.

Today, CityLab DC, the preeminent summit on global cities organized by The Aspen Institute, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, kicked off its 7th annual two-day conference in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Vasquez, who is a founding member of the AILAS Advisory Board, succeeds Monica Lozano, a respected businesswoman, president of the College Futures Foundation, and co-founder of AILAS.

Attending are more than 45 mayors representing cities around the world, along with 300+ city innovators, business leaders, urban experts, artists, and activists. Prior summits have been held in New York, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Paris, and Detroit. 

$26 million investment from Mastercard will power a new Aspen Institute initiative aimed at building an economy where people and communities around the world can thrive

During the day-long event, Summit attendees will present new partnerships, grant announcements, and ongoing commitments to establish inclusivity and equity as fundamental guiding principles for economic growth.

A member of the Fellowship’s inaugural class, Grayson will assume leadership of the program beginning in January 2020, following a period working alongside founding Executive Director Mickey Edwards.

The interactive projects cover a number of topics ranging from a loophole in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), to defining tech buzzwords, data-driven school safety in Florida, digital ad buying systems and the technology industry gender gap. The projects range from toolkits and operational plans to videos and mock regulatory language.

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub D.C. Demo Day will highlight research by the Aspen Institute program’s inaugural class of fellows, a distinguished group of tech entrepreneurs, engineers, data scientists and researchers developing outside-the-box policy solutions at the intersection of technology and society.