Welcome back from lunch. We have the deputy secretary of defense. Prior to assuming his current role, he worked for three decades in the aero space industry. As deputy secretary of defense, he supports secretary mattis priority of improving readiness to expanding and strengthening alliances and partnerships as well as reforming how the Defense Department does business. Hes an engineer with advanced degrees from m. I. T. He worked for the boeing company for some 30 years. He supervised my favorite science project. He personally wrote the recent d. O. D. Report on smas and is known around the pentagon to have corporate leadership mentality to include coming in early, staying late, and doing whatever is necessary to get the job done. Secretary shan han gets his work ethics from his father who served in the army in vietnam. His father then went on to serve in Law Enforcement for two decades. Secretary shan han views his current job as an opportunity to give back to the country. Ladies and
To speak to the city club audience regarding this topic it was march 3, 2004, 14 years ago. To quote from my talk at that time regarding the release of the National Review board report i said as a rational, thinking person and a legal professional i have had to recognize the difference between the church and the hierarchy. I hope we all do. While some of our leaders may have failed us others among them have sought to set things right. I believe they are begun to encompass us in convening the unprecedented labor on which i have been serving. It is a deep expression of the real willingness to respond to this crisis in the most effective and systemic way possible. That was 14 years ago. Now i realize i was mistaken in thinking the hierarchy in the Catholic Church would implement the recommendation in the report of the National Review board. It is my pleasure this afternoon to moderate this distinguished panel to assess the Current Crisis in the Catholic Church. Recurrent Sexual Abuse Scan
This afternoon we have the deputy secretary of defense, patrick shanahan. He worked for three decades in the Aerospace Industry in commercial aircraft operations. As deputy secretary of defense, he supports secretary mattiss strengthening of alliances and partnerships as well as reforming how the department does business. Hes an engineer with advanced degrees from mit, prior to joining the dod, secretary shanahan worked for the boeing company. While he worked mostly on commercial airliners, he supervised Ellen Pollock and my favorite project, the airborne laser. Secretary shanahan wrote the recent dod report on space. As he is known around the pentagon to have corporate leadership to include coming in early, staying late and doing whatever is necessary to the job done. Secretary shanahan gets his ethics from his father who served in the army and vietnam. His father went on to serve in Law Enforcement for two decades. Secretary shanahan views this job as his opportunity to give back to
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Not just universities but key activist groups. non-profits and amnesty international and had discussions. right on this floor. to say how do we make sure the products that we re selling and building and marketing are being used ethically and humanely. that s becoming a core and strategic value of salesforce. do you think other tech companies need these. or thinking about these things? people feel i have written this, that these tech ceos didn t take a humanity course. and the issues they re facing. it s hard to know what to do. we re at a point in the his history of technology. the fourth industrial revolution. every company in the industry will have to look at the ethical and humane use of the technology they re building. you can see ta already in different countries with different type of organization structures. they re using technology that here in the united states we would never permit. china. surveillance. europe is gdpr. saying enough is enough. we ll make sure you can