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MAY 11, 2020

A new spinout from Seattle-based startup studio Madrona Venture Labs wants to help companies protect data flowing through their various cloud apps. Simplata Technologies is led by co-founders Steve Banfield , CEO, and Bruce Roberts , CTO. Banfield previously led BMW ReachNow as CEO and was an executive at traffic data company INRIX.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities. Enterprise Applications, SAP

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. The technology taps into a company’s network of cameras to gather real-time data. ”

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

But on the other hand, AI and generative AI in particular, as well as the speed at which intelligence barreled its way into organizations, have disrupted many IT plans, says Taglienti, chief data officer and distinguished engineer at tech firm Insight. “It It hit us all and kept us from looking at the things we were working on,” he says. “We

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

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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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2023

Founded in 2014 by Madrona Venture Group, the 12-person studio fast-tracks the startup journey for entrepreneurs. The startup studio said about 84% of the companies it backs fit into its core theme: intelligent applications. However, it has evolved from “big data and intelligent applications into the generative AI movement.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2023

Recruiting and hiring high-end IT talent is among the most challenging tasks IT leaders face today. The IT skills shortage is critical, with CIOs losing talented employees faster than they can hire them,” said Mbula Schoen, senior director analyst at Gartner, in a recent Q&A. “IT CIOs, and their recruiting teams, are well aware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Cera Group appoints Manish Chandegara as group CIO. Manish Chandegara has joined Cera Group as group CIO. Prior to that, he worked at Maahi Milk Producer, KSP solutions, Magna Seatings, and Adani Group. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Web Werks India hires Kamal Goel as director of IT. February 2022.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Christoph Wollersheim, a member of the services and artificial intelligence practices group at global consulting firm Egon Zehnder, pinpoints five critical areas most organizations need to address when implementing AI: accuracy, bias, security, transparency, and societal responsibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 10, 2023

Reducing technical debt Lowering technical debt by decommissioning legacy applications ranks among the most important and toughest aspects of digital transformation as it involves mindset changes. This would’ve brought UB on the same page as the other 70 group companies, lending it transparency into HR policies and initiatives.

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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. The net result?

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Temporal co-founders Samar Abbas, CTO, and Maxim Fateev, CEO. Temporal announced a $20 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Addition Ventures, and Amplify Partners. . The company has 15 employees and will hire with the fresh funding. Temporal Photo). million.

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JANUARY 18, 2015

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Fifty-two percent of organizations plan to increase or maintain their IT spending this year, according to Enterprise Strategy Group. This includes spending on strengthening cybersecurity (35%), improving customer service (32%) and improving data analytics for real-time business intelligence and customer insight (30%).

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

But if there are any stop signs ahead regarding risks and regulations around generative AI, most enterprise CIOs are blowing past them, with plans to deploy an abundance of gen AI applications within the next two years if not already.

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MARCH 13, 2023

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. Any engineer throughout history has probably been motivated in large part by the impact they can have on society,” says Rau, who joined Eli Lilly two years ago after a decade at Apple.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

He also was a representative on several government-wide information sharing committees and councils; and was assigned line and staff management roles in applications programming, training and education, contract and program management. Bob Gourley, Founder and CTO, Crucial Point LLC. Analysis CTO Cyber Security DoD and IC'

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Uber board member and former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns joined the advisory board of contract management startup Icertis. billion and sells its contract management software in 90 countries. 31 was down 5% to $2.23

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

All-star backers: Investors include Madrona Venture Group, Decibel Partners, and northwest SaaS executives, including: Bill Richter , CEO of Qumulo; Christal Bemont , CEO of Talend; Elissa Fink , former Tableau CMO; Jon Gelsey , former Xnor and Auth0 CEO; and Will Arora , CTO of Assurance.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The Cloudera Federal Forum, now in its 4th year, has always been filled with lessons learned, best practices and informative glimpses into what is coming from the big data tech community. Big data and its effect on the transformative power of data analytics are undeniable. Enabling Business Results with Big Data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The September Monthly Threat Intelligence Report from cybersecurity firm NCC Group delivers plenty of reasons to worry. And it called out a 76% increase in the quantity of double extortion ransomware groups between these time periods, adding that the number suggests “that the interest in ransomware for profit is by no means dwindling.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Embrace cloud-native principles.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

AI is quickly becoming an essential part of daily work. It’s already being used to help improve operational processes, strengthen customer service, measure employee experience, and bolster cybersecurity efforts, among other applications.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

The good news is that, for managers, the best time to attract and retain talent is during economic downturns. Hiring and retaining the best people with the right skills is always the best strategy to improve overall performance.” “We need to improve overall performance while we adapt to the changing business environment,” Liu says.

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APRIL 26, 2016

This creates a risk, of course, because any newly hired employees may be provided with unwarranted access to business applications and systems that they should not be privy to. Their most important consideration is enabling newly hired employees to do their job rather than focusing on the assignment of excess access privileges.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2021

NEU co-founder and CTO Claudius Mbemba is an investment director. F5 Networks hired Microsoft CVP Yvette Smith as SVP of customer success and business transformation and promoted Gail Coury to SVP and chief information security officer. Seattle e-commerce startup Fabric added Umer Sadiq as CTO and Nevin Shetty as CFO.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Seattle angel investor and cloud technology guru Charles Fitzgerald said the hire makes a lot of sense. In fact, the managing director at Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group said Jassy’s biggest challenge as the incoming CEO of Amazon was finding his own replacement at AWS. ” The news was first reported by CNBC.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2020

. “In these tumultuous times, organizations need the sales ‘system of action’ that Outreach provides. Oak View Group, the firm leading t he new Seattle Center Arena project , and Seattle Hockey Partners named Hewan Teshome as SVP and general counsel for the new arena and NHL Seattle. Mason Hollis. WattBuy Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 30, 2024

Never pass up the opportunity to have a conversation with someone, regardless of their level or area of expertise,” suggests Kevin Miller, CTO of IFS North America. “If Contribute posts, comment on others’ posts, join groups, and answer questions on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

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GeekWire

MAY 20, 2021

Keep reading for all the winners, honorees and acceptance speeches from the 2021 GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business : Startup of the Year, presented by West River Group. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. Winner: SeekOut.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2014

I’m the FirstNet State Point of Contact (SPOC, commonly pronounced “spock”) here in the Other Washington on the west coast. I’ve been speaking to groups of public officials and police chiefs and emergency managers and firefighters and other responders in Washington State about FirstNet since May, 2013.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Flexe CTO and Crowd Cow board member David Glick. Seattle meat and seafood marketplace Crowd Cow hired Ian McAllister as chief product officer, Julie Pruitt as chief merchant, and Jeremy Sievert as VP of operations. It also appointed David Glick , CTO of on-demand warehousing startup Flexe, to its board. Flexe Photo).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Her global IT organization comprises five business-segment CIOs, as well as shared services provided by the CISO, CTO, and the leader of enterprise business systems. As part of that role, I got involved with computer control of manufacturing processes, and that’s when I started to code. This is just one example.

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JUNE 15, 2022

By housing our own data via the new order management system, we can also enable all sorts of applications both now and in the future,” says Stanbridge. The work that is not repetitive is changing at a remarkable pace,” says Jon Walden, Blue Prism’s CTO for the Americas. The work continues as part of its cloud migration work.

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