GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

. — Armughan Ahmad is now CEO of Appen , an Australian artificial intelligence company with its U.S. He was previously president and managing partner of digital at KPMG and senior vice president and general manager at Dell Technologies. headquarters in Kirkland, Wash. as well as its global portfolio.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Hill most recently led business development and strategy for Microsoft News in North America and Asia.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Founders : CEO Ryan Frazier and CTO Kenny Cason were previously at Simply Measured. Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 10, 2024

But for Rob Clark, president and CTO of AI developer Seekr, such questions are business-critical. The company quickly gravitated to the Intel Developer Cloud, a sandbox and infrastructure service specifically aimed at developers looking to build and deploy AI at scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2024

However, the effort to build, train, and evaluate this modeling is only a small fraction of what is needed to reap the vast benefits of generative AI technology. We have developed an AI platform that combines foundational generative AI models combined with our expertise in data engineering, AI solutions, and proprietary data sets.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

No one has been identified and prosecuted for creating the graphic and sometimes violent images of Swift using artificial intelligence tools. So Hutchins launched Certifi AI , a Seattle startup that is developing technology to identify and hopefully reduce the harm to girls and women who are targeted by deepfake bad actors.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He has a doctorate degree in computations chemistry and molecular visualization from the University of Manchester, and his intellectual property led to the development of RealWear’s flagship line of headsets.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. Seattle-based home services technology company Porch Group added two new board members : Imagination Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Rachel Lam , and former Aviva plc Group CEO Maurice Tulloch. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 10, 2023

James Mullin , chief pilot, left his position last month, while head of flight test operations Robert Dreer announced on LinkedIn he will join vertical take-off and landing startup Opener. Benn Bollay is now CTO at B2B software startup ReachSuite. He was also a CEO-in-Residence at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. —

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

— Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Graham Sheldon. LinkedIn Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Our responsibility as CIOs is certainly to fund and empower work to develop and implement AI tools safely in our workplace.” Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. Artificial Intelligence, Staff Management With gen AI, there’s more enthusiasm.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

An overwhelming 94% of organizations worldwide are embracing a next-generation ERP strategy that involves migrating to cloud platforms and adopting high-end analytics such as artificial intelligence to overcome the limitations of legacy applications and modernize their businesses, according to a survey of 1,675 IT executives by Boomi. .

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GeekWire

MARCH 11, 2021

Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco , a Tokyo mobile gaming company, as chief technology officer. . Previously, he was a software development engineer at Microsoft. (Playco Photo).

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TM Forum

JUNE 9, 2022

The country’s economic situation is also impacting the CSP’s purchasing power, since technology investments are made typically in foreign currencies such as the dollar, while income is in pesos. ” But that does not mean it is seeking quick technological fixes. .” In-house automation. One step at a time.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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GeekWire

MARCH 17, 2022

Other personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: João Freitas departed from Defined.ai , a Seattle-based artificial intelligence startup, where he served as the chief technology officer. He is now general manager at PagerDuty. Russ Vetrano , another Defined exec, left in February.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 3, 2023

Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering. based enterprise software company EnterpriseDB (EDB).

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The Accidental Successful CIO

APRIL 14, 2021

Often seen as “servant-leaders”, these CIOs know that their value is derived from the trust and partnership they have with the business and other technology executives such as the Chief Experience Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Data Officer. Gaining Expertise In Technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

On the one hand, artificial intelligence has helped both technology departments and the business units to work better, faster, and cheaper. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

Travelers Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Mano Mannoochahr will discuss creating a data-first culture. Finally, we will introduce the winners of IDC’s Best in Future of Intelligence North America Awards. More immediately, data leaders can explore using citizen data scientists.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

What they are finding is that the line between advancing technologically and ensuring AI doesn’t result in detrimental outcomes is thin. Organizations must create a thorough plan and focus on developing a governance framework and AI policy before implementing and exposing the technology. We intend to implement it in Q1 2024.”

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Vox

JULY 20, 2022

While the modern Mayflower is far from the first vessel to make that voyage, this small robotic boat is the largest to ever do so navigated by artificial intelligence with no humans aboard. By using those same technologies, we can reduce carbon emissions — and fuel burn overall.”. Not all robo-boats are created equal.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

“With a focus on automation for customer service and telesales functions, we’re looking at intelligent automation solutions that can help improve customer engagement and self-help capabilities,” says Chris Pendergast, the company’s SVP and CTO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2022

More companies in every industry are adopting artificial intelligence to transform business processes. But the success of their AI initiatives depends on more than just data and technology — it’s also about having the right people on board. An AI designer works with developers to ensure they understand the needs of human users.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports. Talc AI Talc.ai co-founders Matt Lee (left) and Max Kerr.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

based startup that combines artificial intelligence and human empathy to help people stay on task and get stuff done, has checked a major item off its to-do list: the company has raised $3 million from Apollo Projects , the venture fund run by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his brothers. Shelpful Photo) Shelpful , a Portland, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 19, 2023

Some of the hardest roles to fill include security, and development and data professionals. This often leads to non-compliance and millions of dollars in penalties, or people getting stuck in contracts with no exit. This trend, he says, can cause increased competition for talent, as is the case with any shortage in the market.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2023

As technology projects, budgets, and staffing grew over the past few years, the focus was on speed to market to maximize opportunity, says Troy Gibson, CIO services leader at business and IT advisory firm Centric Consulting. This is no longer true. “As Venables believes that legacy IT presents a significant challenge to security teams.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2020

is taking the technology out of the lab, aiming to put it in the hands of couples everywhere. Affective Software is developing apps and online services for couples and therapists, using the Gottman Institute’s data-driven approach to assess and help couples strengthen their relationships.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 9, 2023

The need to grow smartly Gil Westrich’s company, ClearML, is benefiting from increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) technology. But the CTO and co-founder says that scaling to meet that demand presents its own challenges, which require self-reflection.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Maria Karaivanova departed Madrona Venture Group, where she was a principal, to join Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence spinout WhyLabs as a co-founder and COO. Hunder joined Silverback Therapeutics at the beginning of 2019 and was most recently senior vice president of clinical research and development. Madrona Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

Is your organization giving its teams the training they need to keep pace with the latest industry developments? Emphasizing the wrong goals A big mistake many IT leaders make is relying on a training structure that prioritizes career advancement over skill development. Training technology is also rapidly advancing.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. . to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2024

The makings of a close partnership Even as industry luminaries call for caution on AI, most corporate giants, including Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Investments, Procter & Gamble, American Express, Gilead Sciences, and many others, have gone public about developing and deploying LLMs internally to boost productivity and innovation.

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