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Next Tech Titan: MotherDuck, Rec Room, Statsig, Submittable, Zuper vie for pivotal GeekWire Award

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Rec Room , the virtual reality community and gaming platform, a mainstay of VR and mixed reality platforms including the Meta Quest and, more recently, the Apple Vision Pro. Submittable , a social impact platform that helps corporations, governments, and nonprofits manage programs focused on social good.

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Junior Geek of the Month: Archika Dogra discovers how she can use tech to make a positive impact

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Wrapping up her first virtual semester at Princeton University, the Bellevue, Wash., Somewhere along the way, Dogra determined that she could do more with technology to impact the social causes that were important to her. The nonprofit has held more than 200 programs, camps, and events for more than 3,200 youths across 12 countries.

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Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent

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Social media management tool Hootsuite appointed four new board members: Angel investor and HubSpot board member Julie Herendeen , who will serve as board chair. Founded in 2018, Esper raised $90 million this year over two funding rounds. Lyft hired Elaine Paul, previously CFO and VP of Finance for Amazon Studios, as its new CFO.

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Solar power nonprofit goes digital to bring installation instruction to underserved communities

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In 2019, Remote Energy traveled to Kenya to train women in solar photovoltaic installation in partnership with a nonprofit called Women in Sustainable Energy and Entrepreneurship, which works with women in Eastern Africa. Their nonprofit, Tacoma, Wash.-based Photo courtesy of Katie G. Carl Bickford Photo).

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

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We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. She also thanked the “No.

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

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So I also have recently launched a nonprofit called the Forte group. I shouldn't say I launched I along with a number of InfoSec women leaders launched the nonprofit and we have about 85 cyber and high tech leaders in the group and it is a networking and support group for senior women in cyber and technology. They are huge.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

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CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. Vamosi: in 2018, the Federal Communications Commission the FCC had an auction to sell off parts of the electromagnetic spectrum to make way for the new 5G wireless that was still being created.