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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. The program’s second cohort is focusing on data in digital health care transformation. Emans was most recently CFO and treasurer for nonprofit A Place for Mom.

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

GeekWire

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Burns served as CEO of Xerox for seven years and as chairwoman for another seven, stepping down in 2017. During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program.

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Allen Institute for AI takes over Vulcan’s portfolio of environmental big-data projects

GeekWire

Skylight is a maritime monitoring program that will be transferred from Vulcan Inc. the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. ” New AI-based applications that take advantage of data from satellites and sensors are sure to be on the agenda.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

The following list provides a brief profile of 178 fabulous female futurists [up from 78 in the original list of September 2015, 143 in the update of November 2015, 158 in January 2018, 167 in February 2017, and 178 in the 2018 revision]. For nearly 11 years, Pride designed and led the New Zealand State Service Commission’s Futures Program.

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