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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

GeekWire

Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Facebook names a new CTO with a major focus on hardware

The Verge

Incoming CTO Andrew Bosworth wearing Facebook’s new smart glasses with Ray-Ban. On Wednesday, the company promoted Andrew Bosworth, the current head of its hardware division that makes Oculus and other consumer devices, to the role of chief technology officer, replacing outgoing CTO Mike Schroepfer when he becomes a senior fellow next year.

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Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report 2016

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Meeker also delves into artificial intelligence, Snapchat brand integrations, changes to live sports viewing habits, car industry innovation and the rise of millennial consumers, among many other topics. (We recommend downloading the entire report here ).

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Tech Moves: Former Amazon VP Brad Porter joins Scale AI as CTO; UW names new Communication Leadership director; and more

GeekWire

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo).

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Ascent B2B IT Forum – Machine Learning: How Artificial Intelligence is Invading the Enterprise

The Investing Edge

There’s no denying that machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are invading the enterprise at warp speed. Almost every industry is affected by the technology, and the innovation it inspires is fascinating. According to Gartner , machine learning is one of the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2016.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has appointed a new global head of artificial intelligence, Walter Sun, after the previous post-holder quit to found her own AI startup. Prior to that, she had worked for two decades at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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AI Gets Real at the GeekWire Summit: Speakers revealed for Oct. 19 at former Cinerama theater

GeekWire

Clockwise from upper left: Sci-fi author Ted Chiang, Redfin CTO Bridget Frey, Screenwriter Eric Heisserer, GitHub CPO Inbal Shani, Read AI CEO David Shim, Factory managing partner Diego Oppenheimer, Pollen Systems CEO Keith McCall, author and entrepreneur Juliette Powell, Overland AI CEO Byron Boots, and Microsoft President Charlotte Yarkoni.