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What is the future of the IT department?

Trends in the Living Networks

I’ve teamed up with the outstanding strategist Greg Rippon of NetFocus , who I first worked with back in 1999 on a broad-ranging scenario project for a major bank, to create a one-day workshop for IT departments who want to take a structured look at the future and what it implies for their current strategy.

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Storytelling for CIOs: From niche to bestseller

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders and CIOs have also long recognized the power of storytelling, but only recently has the phenomenon become formalized with many saying they’ve attended workshops or seminars on the topic with the express intention of improving their sense of narrative and power to communicate and persuade.

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Astronomers set up a new center to address issues raised by SpaceX and Amazon satellite networks

GeekWire

The IAU Center for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky From Satellite Constellation Interference will be co-hosted at the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab in Arizona and the SKA Observatory’s offices at Jodrell Bank in Britain. “The initial budget is not a big one,” he said.

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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

Some didn’t have bank accounts to receive payments. Etsy helped clear a path, waiving their standard 5 percent transaction fees for a year and donating a $50,000 grant to support Nest in everything from photography, marketing, and brand-building workshops to financial literacy guidance. Some had zero experience filing taxes.

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Silicon Valley’s AI frenzy isn’t just another crypto craze

Vox

But despite the increase in overall funding in this space, many generative AI startups are on tight budgets, and some don’t have any funding at all. In February, San Francisco hosted a generative AI focused hackathon, women in AI lunch, and “Building ChatGPT from scratch” workshop, among dozens of other AI-focused events.

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Defense Innovation Unit explores Pacific Northwest’s national security tech frontier

GeekWire

Michael Madsen, the Defense Innovation Unit’s acting director, talks at a Seattle workshop. ” Whatever DIU is doing, it seems to be working, at least according to members of Congress who want to increase its budget. Jim Banks, R-Ind., NSIN via Twitter). It’s a hard problem.” ”

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking

ForAllSecure

To start, challenges, and workshop tables. So these informal sessions were always part of the hacker culture, but it was really fella named Kai and his friend doc and some other people from Colorado in the 719 area code day. They were the first that anyone really remembers in those early single digit days of DEF CON.

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