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Tech Moves: Microsoft vet named CEO at EnterpriseDB; Adaptive CCO departs; Temporal hires ex-Hashicorp EVP

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Dallas spent almost 25 years at Microsoft, most recently as vice president of cloud and artificial intelligence business development. The Boston-based private equity firm acquired EDB in 2019. Temporal Photo) — Temporal, a Seattle-based developer productivity startup, hired Preeti Somal as senior vice president of engineering.

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Tech Moves: Lighter Capital names new CEO; Amazon exec joins Uber as CTO; and more

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The company now has 25 employees and plans to hire. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. is a natural language data platform to help admissions and human resources teams review applicants. Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai Microsoft Photo).

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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

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” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI , the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has the potential to reshape some of its biggest products. Microsoft disclosed its initial $1 billion investment in OpenAI in 2019.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

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Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. Publicis Groupe India names Roopesh Pujari as CTO. Roopesh Pujari has been promoted to CTO at marketing and advertising firm Publicis Groupe India. He joined Publicis Media in 2019. February 2022. Kamal Goel Web Werks. January 2022.

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IT leaders explore footing amid shifting needs and the AI power struggle

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During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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

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It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. The platform has built-in diversity filters to help reduce unconscious bias; an automated messaging tool; and a search engine that understands past hiring patterns and needs based on job descriptions. .

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

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Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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