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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. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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Tech Moves: RealSelf appoints interim CEO; Hootsuite hires new CFO; Tune CEO lands at Roku

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Kizilbash is a recent hire at the Seattle-based company, joining in June as vice president of corporate development. Tune CEO Peter Hamilton at the company’s 2017 Postback conference. Nderitu has served as a DEI consultant for nonprofits Doctors Without Borders and One Acre Fund. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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As mental health needs surge, this Seattle startup offers AI-powered analysis of therapy sessions

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Over many years, the researchers developed measures for evaluating mental health sessions, and using thousands of hours of recordings of treatments, they trained their AI-powered system to perform the otherwise laborious, time consuming evaluation of the interactions. In 2017, the team officially launched Lyssn. Lyssn Image).

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IT leaders uplift women to fill tech talent gaps

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Yet in the cybersecurity field, women only account for about one quarter (24%) of the overall workforce, albeit, up from 11% in 2017, according to the ISC2 Women in Cybersecurity report. Vipin Gupta, chief innovation and digital officer, Toyota Financial Services. Grace Brosnon, chief technology officer, City of Tacoma.

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

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. — Intellectual Ventures named former TiVo executive Arvin Patel as chief operating officer of the Bellevue, Wash.-based based patent holding and technology company’s Invention Investment Fund. Founded by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures is one of the world’s largest patent holders.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. Auth0 was co-founded in 2013 by Eugenio Pace , who formerly ran the patterns and practices group at Microsoft, and Matias Woloski , a software engineer who remains the company’s CTO. We are the people company.”

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How technology is trying to address bias in policing — and why experts say it won’t be enough

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develops technologies for police, such as Tasers and body cameras, intended to reduce violence and use of force. Axon launched a “Sprint for Justice,” bringing together 200 engineers to develop eight new product features designed to improve justice and equity in law enforcement.

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