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Seattle-area mentoring nonprofit with a global reach adds generative AI to toolkits for job seekers

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GMI Photo) A Seattle-area nonprofit helping disadvantaged job seekers around the world is adding generative artificial intelligence to the toolkit for its participants. The organization is supported by corporate sponsorships and grants, and its backers include Microsoft, LinkedIn, Expedia, healthcare provider Providence and others.

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Meet the startups that just graduated from Creative Destruction Lab’s accelerator in Seattle

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CDL Photo) Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), a nonprofit that runs 13 startup accelerators across the world, just graduated another swath of early stage companies from its Seattle program. The latest cohort, the third to graduate from CDL-Seattle, admitted 40 startups that qualified from a batch of nearly 300 applications.

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Tech Moves: Flying Fish adds principal; Tanium names new CEO; and more

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That consumer interest provides extra momentum to a field with a growing talent base and will yield new applications that will be met with broader market acceptance, she said. — Healthcare analytics software company Advata hired Brian Taylor as chief revenue officer.

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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Sheldon’s other roles at the tech giant included principal lead program manager for Bing and principal engineering manager for Dynamics Applied Research, where he led a team of data scientists and engineers to build predictive systems for business applications.

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Salesforce certification guide: Roles, paths, exams, cost, training, requirements

CIO Business Intelligence

The most performant CRM system today, Salesforce is a core technology for digital business, and its associated applications and ecosystem help make it in a leading platform for those seeking a lucrative IT career. Prerequisites include earning Salesforce Application Architect certification (see above).

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Tech Moves: AWS exec named Splunk president; Amazon vet joins Overstock as CMO; and more

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At Amazon she oversaw the worldwide public sector business, along with sales to the healthcare and financial industries. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to help Truveta become a leader in ethical healthcare innovation,” said Heiner. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies.

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25 Years Later: InfraGard Leads the Way Toward a Safer America

SecureWorld News

The private sector component of the InfraGard program is represented by InfraGard National Members Alliance (INMA), an FBI-affiliated independent nonprofit organization. Currently, the IT sector has the highest number of members in InfraGard, followed by the financial services and healthcare/public health sectors.