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Greek companies take a concrete step into diversity and inclusion supporting talented refugee women enter the workforce at Sistech networking event

Dataconomy

This will be the second Sistech Networking event in Greece, celebrating refugee women talents and the companies who do support their professional inclusion & hire them. Sistech offers free and holistic support based on three pillars: mentoring and training follow-up by volunteer professionals and networking events.

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Vote for Startup of the Year: Arrived Homes, Lexion, Phaidra, Shipium, WhyLabs

GeekWire

There are a limited number of table sponsorships available to attend the event. Contact our events team at events@geekwire.com for more information. Elwany worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird came from web development firm Pancake Labs.

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Twitter’s decentralized social network project finally has a leader

The Verge

Bluesky and Graber have also begun hiring for the project’s first developers, meaning the slowly gestating project might finally become a bit less “blue sky” and a bit more real. Graber was also one of the authors of a report Bluesky published in January detailing its research into decentralized web systems.

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BIPOC students gain web design skills while building sites for Black-owned businesses

GeekWire

of web developers and 5.9% of web and digital interface designers, according to 2020 data from the U.S. Web developers on average earn $73,760 annually and the number of jobs in this role are expected to grow by 8% over this decade. Nationwide, Black employees made up only 3.7% Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The CIO as a Cloud Supply Chain Manager

Fountainhead

To achieve those goals, IT departments are now looking at how they need to use and consume services, whether they’re internal apps, external SaaS providers, data sources, public API-generated microservices , and even IoT-generated event streams. becoming service creators themselves.

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How Blacks in Technology Foundation is ‘stomping the divide’

CIO Business Intelligence

When Greg Greenlee joined the IT industry in 2008, the lack of representation of Black IT professionals among attendees and speakers at tech conferences and events was readily apparent. “It So, he launched a blog to connect with and create a community for Black technologists.

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Meet Our Mayhem Heroes: Bailey Capuano

ForAllSecure

Bailey Capuano recognized the value of cybersecurity and joined us for the event. How did you first get into software development? “I took an introduction to web development course in middle school and was immediately hooked. From then onwards, I knew I’d want to do software development professionally.

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