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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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Tech Moves: AWS vet lands at health startup; ex-Qualtrics exec joins Typeform board

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LinkedIn Photo) Harshit Shah , a former head of engineering at Amazon Web Services, is now chief technology officer at Boston, Mass-based healthcare software company Kyruus Health. Harshit Shah. Shah, based in the Seattle region, most recently held the same position at Spring Health, a mental health company.

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Former Amazon leader and Army vet launches Seattle wellness startup to support new moms

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Stephiney Foley, founder and CEO of Yuzi, with her husband Harper Foley, who is also a Yuzi co-founder and chief technology officer, and their children. Army for more than seven years, serving as a platoon leader in Afghanistan and Hawaii and a supply chain and operations officer in California. .

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Microsoft alumni reunite in Redmond, look ahead to what’s next in AI and the world

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(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) The serious nature of the crowd was underscored during a Q&A session with Charlie Bell, the Microsoft executive vice president in charge of security technologies, who joined the company after a long tenure with Amazon Web Services. “It’s an AI device,” she said.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?

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Seattle startup that helps companies protect their AI and machine learning code raises $35M

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From left: Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson, CTO Badar Ahmed, and president Daryan Dehghanpisheh. It primarily sells to large enterprises in regulated industries including finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, government, and tech. Protect AI’s tools work in Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Evaluating Commercial Cloud Services for Government – A Progress Report. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Proven Strategies for Promoting Innovation and Technology Adoption. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Data Security—What’s New and What’s Next?