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

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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. Gennev Photos) – — Gennev , a virtual healthcare company for women in menopause, hired three new leaders. Saty Bahadur.

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Tech Moves: Docker and Qualtrics leaders join Seattle startup Mason; Beyond adds Zulily director

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From left: Mason CEO Webb Stevens; Mason President Nancy Xiao; Mason founder Jim Gao; and Mason CTO John Timsen. Mason Photo) Mason , a Seattle startup that offers a turney hardware-software platform for companies managing device fleets, hired Webb Stevens as its new CEO and John Thimsen as its new CTO.

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Top Technology News for 15 June 2016

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MOSA Technology Solutions wins FBI contracts - Planet Biometrics. At WWDC 2016, Apple is finally embracing Not Apple - Macworld. IBM & Ponemon Institute Study: Data Breach Costs Rising, Now $4 million per Incident. Leading Federal-Mogul Powertrain Technologies Featured on All 2016 International Engine of the Year Award.

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

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As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. The company is hiring engineers in Berlin and Shanghai. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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Fed Tech Roundup August 20

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How to Get Ahead of 2016: Ensuring Federal IT Can Adapt to Leadership Transitions - Nextgov. Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. NIH funds new tools to crack genomic big data - GCN.com. Six Months In, White House Data Scientist Reflects on Progress - Nextgov.

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

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Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” ” Wang, who is in his early 20s, dropped out of MIT to found Scale AI in 2016. Scale AI Photo).

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TechNet Augusta 2016 “Cyber in the Combined Arms Fight”

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Source selection (contracting) methodologies: Government needs to figure out what they are willing to pay more for; it’s not just about lowest price technically acceptable. Technical data: need technical data rights for systems Army buys. Skillset balancing: 80% of the Army’s Software Development is contracted out.

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