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

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.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Long-time Uber CTO Thuan Pham stepped down earlier this year shortly before the company cut 25% of its global workforce. Amazon Web Services sales leader Ernesto Chavarin joined Bellevue, Wash.-based Founded in 2014, Vettd.ai

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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

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Travelers Senior Vice President and Chief Data and Analytics Officer Mano Mannoochahr will discuss creating a data-first culture. Finally, we will introduce the winners of IDC’s Best in Future of Intelligence North America Awards. More immediately, data leaders can explore using citizen data scientists.

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Tech Moves: Smartsheet CFO joins Auth0 board; Outreach opens NYC office; Concure Oncology adds CEO; and more

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O’Leary most recently led marketing, sales and growth at startup Airlift, one of Create33’s members, and spent more than 12 years at Starbucks in business development. to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel. . to join London-based games technology company Improbable as general counsel.

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Young and visionary: Meet the finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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Khanna previously co-founded Glia Intelligence, a machine learning consultancy for physical retail. He also worked as an AI engineer at Amazon Web Services and interned at Microsoft Azure. Michael Petrochuk, co-founder and CTO of WellSaid Labs. Michael Petrochuk.

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South Africa’s King Price Insurance moves to cloud as business grows

CIO Business Intelligence

King Price, a South Africa-based, privately held short-term insurance provider, were able to radically transform their business strategy, increasing system resilience, customer expansion and market adaptability in the process of adopting cloud technology. These acquisitions rocketed our cloud adoption and expertise.

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We asked 24 startups in the new Techstars Seattle class about how AI is impacting their business

GeekWire

Founder: Bolbi Liu was previously a product manager at Amazon Web Services. GeekWire Photo / Nate Bek) Chassi The pitch: The startup helps robotics and embedded companies ship software by automating the development workflow. “You can [hire] a modular developer and have the AI co-pilot be a guiding hand.”

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Tech Moves: Seattle AI experts join national task force; Boundless co-founder departs; and more

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. — DefinedCrowd founder and CEO Daniela Braga and Allen Institute for AI CEO Oren Etzioni are part of the newly formed National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Task Force. Boundless co-founder and CTO Serdar Sutay has left the Seattle immigration startup. I'm proud to serve on this task force: The U.S.