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The Data Impact Awards: This is the “academy awards” of data solutions

CTOvision

But I don’t care now, I’ve been on the stage in the big data community version of that gala. 2014 Finalists Announced for Data Impact Awards. Second Annual Awards Program, Presented by Cloudera, Honors Big Data Achievements. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). ? Oct/09/2014.

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

CIO Business Intelligence

Bob McCowan, SVP and CIO, Regeneron Regeneron To promote more cross-pollination of expertise, Regeneron has created pathways for scientists with some technology background and an interest in new areas such as big data and AI to be cultivated into a liaison role within the IT organization.

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The Final DATA Act: Here’s What It Means, Here’s What It’ll Do

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The House has passed the DATA Act twice already , so it seems likely that this bill will soon be on President Obama’s desk for his approval or veto. What data standards are Treasury and OMB going to establish? Can we be more specific about what data standards will be set up? That all starts at the Data Transparency Summit.

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

GeekWire

At Amazon she oversaw the worldwide public sector business, along with sales to the healthcare and financial industries. Splunk is a publicly-traded big data company based in San Francisco with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. Prior to AWS, she spent nine years at Microsoft leading sales to federal government agencies.

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Allen Institute for AI takes over Vulcan’s portfolio of environmental big-data projects

GeekWire

the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. ” AI2’s CEO, Oren Etzioni, said the new researchers will represent a substantial addition to the 120 employees currently involved in nonprofit research activities at the institute. Maybe,” he said.

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Tech Moves: Zillow co-founder joins Palantir board; Hootsuite names new CEO; and more

GeekWire

Zillow Group co-founder and former CEO Spencer Rascoff joined the board of Palantir Technologies, a big data company backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Microsoft alum Rahul Auradkar was named chief product officer of New York-based financial technology platform Capitolis. Former Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff. Eric Emans.

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Microsoft launches cloud-powered marketing, supply chain, and retail solutions

Venture Beast

Microsoft launched new cloud-powered marketing, supply chain, retail solutions, and more at its Ignite 2021 conference. Read More.

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