• Many companies are wondering where they’ll get the skilled employees they need to succeed in the data economy, and the answer increasingly looks to be from online courses. Anno Saxenian will highlight the promise and challenges of educating students online, be it via massive online courses or her university’s online master’s degree in data science.

    Speaker

    AnnaLee Saxenian — Professor and Dean, UC Berkeley

    Moderated by

    Derrick Harris — Senior Writer, Gigaom

    About the Speaker

    Professor and Dean

    AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian is Dean of the U.C. Berkeley School of Information, which offers graduate degrees in information management and information and data science. More…

    About the Moderator

    Senior Writer

    Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for GigaOM since 2009. More…