TECHx managed to secure an exclusive interview with Petra Jenner, General Manager and Senior Vice President – Europe, Middle East, and Africa Emerging Markets, Salesforce, to discuss women’s role in technology industry

In our series of interviews with “Women in Tech”, TECHx introduces inspiring women who have successfully gained a foothold in the IT industry. Today in focus: Reham Almusa, Managing Director, SAP, Bahrain.

The internet enabled society and economic activity to continue for those with access to this invaluable resource. But that’s only about half of the global population and the pandemic underlined the urgent need to expand access.

I think it is important for companies to keep abreast of which emerging technologies are likely to necessitate a future skill set need among their employees and then facilitate training programmes to get their employees the skills they will need down the road. The biggest barrier to training is time constraints.