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Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

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Leek: There’s everything from licensing technologies to identifying ways to support trainees who see themselves growing into a more startup-like community rather than going into academics. And then pouring the institutional support behind it can really explode cool ideas out into the public.

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

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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. And I’ll earn my A-class license on iRacing…. The tech backlash is real.

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