When Ivanka Trump spoke at the nation's largest consumer electronics show, the hall was full and she was met with applause. But some would have preferred hearing from a woman more involved in tech.
There was no mention of the pushback about her appearance at the show. The hall was full, and she was met with applause. Organizers declined to say how many people were in the audience.robots are filling warehouses“We’ve had politicians speak before, cabinet secretaries and others who’ve come in,” Shapiro said ahead of the talk.“People need to be thinking about investing in their workforce so that they can enable those people to do their same job using different equipment tomorrow,” she said.
The technology industry has especially important issues pending with the U.S. government, including antitrust investigations into Facebook and Google, the trade war with China, immigration, election security and misinformation on social media. Ivanka Trump is “taking this slot at this conference where women have been saying for so long, ‘Hey, we are being overlooked,’” said Rachel Sklar, a tech commentator and founder of a professional network for women. “The whole category of women being overlooked are still being overlooked.”
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