GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2022

Vizio CTO Bill Baxter retired at the end of 2021 after seven years with the consumer electronics company. The longtime Seattle tech executive served as CTO of BuddyTV and Cozi Group, spent more than a decade on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, and co-founded Bsquare. — Joseph Williams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

APRIL 11, 2023

(Adaptive Photo) — Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies , the company said today in a regulatory filing. The filing stated that “his service is being terminated by May 2023.” He was first hired by Adaptive as chief technology officer.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

The man, a cybersecurity consultant, tried covering his tracks. The startup launched in August 2023. Hutchins, who is CEO and co-founder of Certifi AI, has bootstrapped the company and is currently the only full-time employee. Her previous roles include product management at The Disney Company and Expedia.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2023

The five finalists for CEO of the Year in the 2023 GeekWire Awards are taking on a broad and important range of challenges: workplace equity; machine learning and AI creation; identification and tracking; immigration application processes; and fending off bots. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

CIOs are company executives and change agents first, and technologists second,” he says. Employee training on AI is essential, says Sam Ferrise, CTO at Trinetix, a tech consulting firm. CIOs and CTOs must also set the rules of the road for using AI and navigate or mitigate potential risk and ethics issues, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

in September, 2023, the price pressures facing IT have persisted. The technology talent gap continues to inflate labor costs, too, despite big layoffs in high tech, CIOs say, and they’ve seen double-digit increases in SaaS and cloud costs over the last two years. While inflation challenges have moderated in the US from a high of 9.1%

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to its 2023 research paper Total Enterprise Reinvention , “only 8% of companies are moving to adopt a strategy of Total Enterprise Reinvention.” One way they’re doing that is by reimagining the IT function, say management consultants, executive advisors, and CIOs themselves.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

To be sure, enterprise cloud budgets continue to increase, with IT decision-makers reporting that 31% of their overall technology budget will go toward cloud computing and two-thirds expecting their cloud budget to increase in the next 12 months, according to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

Gartner has forecast that 65% of organizations will adopt ERP applications that use one or more of what it calls “fourth-era hallmarks” by 2023. Those include AI, data-centric design, systems that can be used off the shelf, functions that augment decisions, developer enablement, and customer-facing technology.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If anything, 2023 has proved to be a year of reckoning for businesses, and IT leaders in particular, as they attempt to come to grips with the disruptive potential of this technology — just as debates over the best path forward for AI have accelerated and regulatory uncertainty has cast a longer shadow over its outlook in the wake of these events.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Sengupta acknowledges that layoffs at the tech giants in the past year or so eased the talent crunch a bit — but only for other big companies who could offer highly-competitive salaries to those laid-off workers. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees. 1 challenge listed.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024. The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

Phillips was a board member at Seattle-based F5 but the company announced this week that he was stepping down. chief research officer Leslie Wood. Photo) — TV advertising measurement company iSpot.tv appointed Leslie Wood as chief research officer. She held the position for more than a decade.

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

OpenAI is in turmoil, who is Emmett Shear, the new interim CEO of the company. The board of OpenAI has appointed Emmett Shear, the co-founder of the renowned live streaming platform Twitch, as its interim chief executive, an announcement confirmed on Monday. Who is Emmett Shear?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

(Y Combinator Photo) Seattle-area startups that just graduated from Y Combinator’s summer 2023 batch are tackling a wide range of problems — with plenty of help from artificial intelligence. The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 21, 2023

No one denies its transformative potential, but digital leaders say a majority of people seem to think generative AI, which Gartner recently placed at the peak of inflated expectations in its 2023 hype cycle , has more capabilities than it does — at least at this time. Consider some recent survey findings.

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GeekWire

JUNE 24, 2020

Relativity Space , a startup that was born in Seattle but grew up in Los Angeles, says it has signed an agreement to develop launch facilities at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and a contract with Iridium to launch satellites from those facilities. Future customers include Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. , ” .

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 29, 2023

With the merging of operational efficiency and embracing new technologies, today’s CIOs are under increasing pressure to do more with less and become both technologists and business leaders, says Sunny Azadeh, CIO at digital services company GlobalLogic. “In

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The changes will take effect with the 2023 release of software, which is now generally available. The biggest remaining difference in capabilities between the two platforms is around service management, enabling companies to track and bill for things like subscriptions or contracts for service or maintenance. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 26, 2023

IT leaders seeking to drive enterprise growth through technology investments are often saddled with budgets that make their tasks of increasing the top and bottom lines challenging. The year 2023 seems to be no different. on average for 2023, research firm Gartner points to a projected 6.5%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

As Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous, explains, “We do creative work. This is true for every technology company and, increasingly, for nontechnology companies seeking to implement technical solutions. That could be LinkedIn content or articles you post on your company site.” We’re creating things that don’t exist yet.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a year made notable by a range of unexpected, unpredictable, and fast-moving challenges that, despite seemingly having little to do with technology, had profound impacts on IT strategies. To guide an organization through uncertainty, IT leaders must help ensure everyone in the company is on the same page, Srivastava says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The economy may be looking uncertain, but technology continues to drive the business and CIOs are investing big in 2023. At the same time, they are defunding technologies that no longer contribute to business strategy or growth. The company is embedding AI into each level of the tech stack it sells to customers, he says. “We

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Dataconomy

MARCH 25, 2024

Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, has resigned from his leadership position and from the board of the high-profile startup, the company announced on Friday evening. Instead, Shan Shan Wong, the COO, and Christian Laforte, the CTO, have been designated as temporary joint CEOs, according to a company blog post.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Scope 3 reporting will come as a shock to a lot of technology leaders,” says Niklas Sundberg, CIO of global solutions at Swedish conglomerate Assa Abloy. “I Companies will be required to publish real numbers about sustainability across the supply chain—and much of the data will come from IT procurement.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 23, 2022

The resulting redefinition of their role is influencing their priorities as they prepare for the 2023 financial year. Her colleague, CTO Rajaneesh R Kini, agrees. Kini is working to make the company more agile and build a system that would enable the organization to leverage data to create insights that drive real business value.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

For example, it highlighted a 153% rise in global ransomware attacks from September 2022 to September 2023. A 2023 study titled “ Embracing modernization: From technical debt to growth ,” from DXC Leading Edge, sheds some daylight on the creature. For example, his company now moves 24 terabytes of data a minute.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 26, 2023

Ross Meyercord never set out to make the leap from technology leader to CEO, but a set of intentional and opportunistic career choices delivered the breadth of business experience and leadership skills required to land the job. Neal Sample A transferable skill set Meyercord would certainly make that case.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

The demand for cloud infrastructure combined with the rise in sales of SaaS services boosted Oracle’s fourth quarter revenue for fiscal year 2022, but the acquisition of healthcare tech company Cerner has chalked up a debt of $15.8 Total cloud revenue ( IaaS plus SaaS) for the company stood at $2.9

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Generative AI and, more specifically, ChatGPT captivated the corporate world in 2023, with board directors, CEOs, and other executives fawning (and sometimes fearing) the technology. with best-in-class companies “reaping an enviable 13% ROI.” IBM, for one, found that the average ROI on enterprise-wide AI initiatives at 5.9%

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 2, 2024

With AI being the talk of 2023, [there were questions on] how do we, as a company, handle its adoption, governance, and education about it to our employees,” he says. Chris Bowers,CIO of Boston Consulting Group, puts it this way: “In 2024, we’re going to go after generative AI very aggressively. We’re piloting, PoC-ing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. Then gen AI came out. This is where large language models get me really excited.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2023

Following that, she started working as an IT consultant and business advisor, work that she says illustrated the vast potential for IT to make a difference. “I I was able to see that the breadth of technologies I could use in education was small compared to the tech that could help global private-sector companies,” she says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2023

Signs of a tech talent shift are under way, with IT pros increasingly turning away from Silicon Valley and tech stalwarts in favor of new roles outside the technology industry. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Optum “was the holy grail of healthcare know-how and prowess,” says Bodnari, vice president of product at Optum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising.

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