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Uncommon Thinkers: MagniX CTO Riona Armesmith geeks out over electric aviation

GeekWire

million, five-year contract from NASA to demonstrate electric propulsion technologies for aircraft, and has branched out to build hydrogen fuel cells as well as electric motors. “It was a big program with a big budget, with a big partnership with Airbus and Siemens and various other suppliers,” she recalls.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

CIO Business Intelligence

IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.”

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5 ways to maximize your cloud investment

CIO Business Intelligence

No IT organization wants to get caught short on processing or storage resources that could negatively affect operations, or have to suddenly add resources that exceed the budget. In this way, you can take advantage of the cloud’s agile, on-demand approach with unlimited capacity without breaking the budget.

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Building digital fluency in the C-suite and beyond

CIO Business Intelligence

More frequently, IT leaders are seeing the value of educating their peers and stakeholders as a win-win for increasing buy-in and budget for digital initiatives. We get consistent investment year over year,’’ says Yao Morin, CTO of global commercial estate company JLL. The payoff can be significant. “We

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From CIO to CEO: IT leaders rise to the top

CIO Business Intelligence

The exercise taught me how to take a customer-first mindset to rethink your own operation and service delivery to drive different outcomes,” he explains. Hart leveraged CIO, CISO, CTO, and consulting positions to accelerate his trajectory and was named CEO of Segra, a fiber networking company, last year. Cultivate an appetite for risk.

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MACH37: America’s premier market-centric cybersecurity accelerator

CTOvision

” Rick Gordon, a leader in the cybersecurity industry, was hired in July as the Managing Partner of MACH37™. This new generation of technology increases the ability of Chief Information Security Officer’s to train, exercise, test, model and simulate through on demand replication of cyber infrastructure. CEO Shawn R. .

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

But as I aged, had project successes, earned budget and decision-making authority, and gained more confidence, power, etc., I recognized discrimination based on me being Black was happening to me and the fight for racial equity was and remains real,” he says of his time working his way up to IT director roles.

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