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Tech Moves: WTIA elects new board leadership; Adriane Brown joins American Airlines board

GeekWire

Seattle venture capitalist Adriane Brown is joining the board of American Airlines Group, one of the largest airlines in the world. Last year, use of the company’s software surged and it raised $30 million in funding. Kao previously led product marketing for the Modern Applications solution at AWS. Adriane Brown.

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Averting turbulence in the air

CIO Business Intelligence

The diversification of payment methods and gradual increase in the volume of online transactions have cast a spotlight on the need for payment security compliance within the airline industry. Understanding the business of the airline industry As previously mentioned, the revenue streams are becoming diversified in the airline sector.

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Delta takes off with modernized blend of mainframes and cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

When it comes to IT, Delta Airlines is climbing higher into the clouds even as it keeps its footing on solid ground. We have hundreds of applications that we’re in the process of moving to the cloud but a lot of our main capabilities are underpinned by workloads on the mainframe and it’s definitely with us for the foreseeable future.”

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Decoding Salesforce’s plausible $11 billion bid to acquire Informatica

CIO Business Intelligence

The deal could be a significant opportunity for Salesforce, according to Park, as it comes at a time when the average enterprise, especially the large ones, have over 1,000 applications and data sources, which throws up the challenge of cleaning up long-tail data and matching it with core enterprise data.

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GeekWire launches climate tech reporter internship funded by AI expert Oren Etzioni and family

GeekWire

The company is partnering with Alaska Airlines to retrofit the aircraf with ZeroAvia’s powertrain. Deadline: Applications due by March 15, 2024. The nose of ZeroAvia’s Q400. GeekWire’s climate-related coverage can be found on its Sustainability channel.

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New list highlights 40 top startups solving business problems with artificial intelligence

GeekWire

Four Seattle-area companies made a list of top private companies building business applications with artificial intelligence and machine learning. Amperity , which helps brands such as Alaska Airlines and Kroger organize and analyze individual customer data. 50 judges across the firms narrowed the list down from more than 220 nominees.

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Winning team at UW pitch competition wants to disperse fertilizer on farms via autonomous planes

GeekWire

The team recently competed in the 2023 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge , winning the grand prize of $15,000 to grow the business. A challenge for Freyr will be convincing customers they need a software platform to monitor fertilizer volumes.