How can technology fight modern slavery?

About this episode

This episode explores how technology can be utilized in the fight against modern slavery.

How can technology be used in the fight against modern slavery? This week, Technology Now is exploring the impact of modern slavery and how technology can be used to try and reduce it. We ask what the scale of the problem is today, we examine what modern slavery can look like, and we discuss how organisations and consumers can work together to try and combat this practice. John Schultz, Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary for HPE, tells us more. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week, hosts Michael Bird and Sam Jarrell look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations. About John: https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/john-schultz.html Sources https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/blog-post/2025/12/when-good-intentions-are-not-enough-the-importance-of-data-and-ai-in-solving-the-modern-slavery-epidemic.html https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/leadership-bios/john-schultz.html

People in this episode

Hosts: Michael Bird, Sam Jarrell

Guest: John Schultz

Topics covered

• modern slavery
• technology
• impact
• organizations
• consumers
• data
• AI

Keywords

• technology
• modern slavery
• impact
• organizations
• consumers
• data
• AI

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE

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