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3 nonprofits committed to empowering women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

While diversity still lags in the IT industry, McKinsey has found that organizations leading the way with DEI strategies are making significant gains over those that “have yet to embrace diversity.” Diversity and Inclusion, IT Training , Mentoring, Nonprofits, Women in IT. Here are three of note.

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Diversity-focused school Ada Developers Academy cuts 45% of staff amid tech industry hiring pullback

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Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.

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Ada Developers Academy ‘significantly’ reduces headcount, pauses admissions, names interim CEO

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(Jenny Crooks Photo) Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy has conducted another round of layoffs and named a new interim leader, a month after CEO Lauren Sato resigned from the tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft CVP joins Builder.ai as president; Moonbeam hires Seattle marketing vet

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Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai Rogan spent nearly 16 years at Microsoft in various leadership roles, most recently leading the company’s Global System Integrator strategy globally. Vahé Torossian. London-based Builder.ai

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19 organizations advancing women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer.

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Tech Moves: Accolade appoints execs; Vacasa adds board member ahead of SPAC deal; and more

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Stacey was most recently a VP at Microsoft and previously VP of global strategy and operations at SAP Concur. The former CEO of BoldIQ, Yarkoni was most recently an executive at Check Point Software and previously EVP of customer operations and strategy at Apptio. Accolade is based in Seattle and Philadelphia.

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What is a Scrum master? A key role for project success

CIO Business Intelligence

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. It is a nonprofit association with more than 500,000 certified practitioners worldwide. Develop strategies for managing risks, as well as risk tracking. Manage all stakeholders and their expectations.

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