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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. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. Homeland Security Today: Invincea Addresses Billion Dollar Malvertising Problem.

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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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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She joined the Seattle SaaS startup in 2016. Lauren Sato was named CEO in December.

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Tech Moves: Hiya adds startup vets; Bellevue College taps former governor as interim president; and more

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Seattle-based Hiya, a caller ID startup that spun out of Whitepages in 2016, named Hillery Nye as general counsel and John Novak as SVP of marketing. He recently joined the board of nonprofit research organization The Allen Institute. This is a unique and challenging time for our community and our college. Hiya Photo).

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Tech Moves: Bill-Gates backed Kymeta adds new co-CEOs; ex-Zillow exec joins Roofstock board

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Seattle health tech startup Optimize Health has hired Todd Haedrich as CEO. million in September 2020 and hired three other new executives in August. Founded in 2016, CityBldr makes software that analyzes zoning and land data to assess properties redevelopment potential. Todd Haedrich. Optimize Health Photo). It raised $15.6

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Tech Moves: Leafly announces new board ahead of SPAC merger; Amazon vets depart; and more

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Blaise Judja-Sato , founder of Seattle-based global health nonprofit VillageReach. A company spokesperson confirmed Grosse’s departure and said the company would not be hiring a CMO in the foreseeable future. Real estate property management startup Doorstead hired Philip Lee as CTO. Merida Merger Corp.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

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It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. The company is betting a lot on this concept succeeding. AFP via Getty Images.