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GeekWire Awards: How these five Workplace of the Year finalists navigate challenging times

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Workplace of the Year finalists, clockwise from top left: Adaptive Biotechnologies co-founders Harlan and Chad Robins; the Helion team; Impinj offices in Seattle; Treasury4 team; Blink CEO Karen Clark Cole. This year’s finalists are Adaptive Biotechnologies, Blink, Helion, Impinj and Treasury4. Blink Blink CEO Karen Clark Cole.

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Fred Hutch’s president says a new strain of virus research center is needed to fight future outbreaks

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.” Among other highlights from today’s talk: Like many other experts, Lynch sees rapid and reliable testing as key to containing coronavirus while a vaccine is developed. “If you had something like that, you could screen people before they went to, say, T-Mobile Park to see the Mariners.

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Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market

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Software development openings on jobs site Indeed are down 32.8% “The shift in demand to online services, combined with a highly mobile workforce, may help tech weather the crisis better than other industries,” wrote Glassdoor senior economist Daniel Zhao. Seattle security startup ExtraHop is one example.

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Women in tech: Meet the trailblazers of STEM equality

Cloud Musings

Some include socialization for girls, subtle biases in school and at work, and how women approach the workplace. She is a scientist and a patent attorney with a focus on biotechnology. is a leading developer of image compression methods and co-inventor of jpeg. Shawna Lemon, Ph.D. a full-service intellectual property firm.

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The emerging technology trends revolutionizing our world

Dataconomy

As we traverse through the year 2023, we stand witness to the astounding culmination of years of research, development, and imagination as AI ascends to unprecedented heights of capability and influence. Collaboration and social interaction : Social VR platforms have emerged, allowing users to interact with each other in virtual spaces.

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The power of collaboration: SAP celebrates its innovation award winners

CIO Business Intelligence

For instance, after the war in Ukraine forced more than 8 million people to flee their homeland, professional services corporation EY (Ernst & Young) developed an emergency response application to access critical and time-sensitive information and direct the refugees to resources in 53 cities.

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

GeekWire

How will this year’s events — the pandemic, social justice movements, economic recession — affect the technology industry in 2021? Ideas such as “conscious capitalism,” which seek to align social responsibility with business growth, will get more attention. (GeekWire Photo / Clare McGrane). The tech backlash is real.

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