GeekWire

AUGUST 17, 2021

Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. The company says its mission is to help de-escalate police use of force by providing transparency, technologies and tools that can replace deadly weapons. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The company, Yardstick , is making its debut today with a browser-based app that leads companies and hiring managers through the process of structured job interviews. Price describes the company’s focus as intelligent talent selection. Yardstick leads hiring managers through the process of structured interviews.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; CEO Joe Duffy; co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Pulumi Photo) As more companies move to the cloud and adopt AI tools, Seattle startup Pulumi is looking to capitalize. Startup wins contract to inspect space debris: NASA awarded Tukwila, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. Think globally, act locally Koushik is putting all this into practice at Rackspace, too.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Rivas is the co-founder and former CTO of Limeade, an employee experience software company based in the Seattle area that went public in 2019 via the Australian stock market. He also serves as co-founder and CTO of Keme IX , a “Chakra Healing Hotel & Holistic Center” in Tulum, Mexico. per month and $69.99

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are among the most important hires organizations are making today due to the business value that successful technology deployments can bring. To perform the job optimally in today’s fast-changing and unpredictable environment, CTOs must possess the right mix of skills and inclinations.

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GeekWire

MAY 11, 2020

A new spinout from Seattle-based startup studio Madrona Venture Labs wants to help companies protect data flowing through their various cloud apps. Simplata Technologies is led by co-founders Steve Banfield , CEO, and Bruce Roberts , CTO. Banfield previously led BMW ReachNow as CEO and was an executive at traffic data company INRIX.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. The company’s marketplace lets retailers purchase warehousing space on an on-demand basis, avoiding long-term warehouse leases. Longtime Microsoft executive Gavriella Schuster joined the board of cybersecurity company Open Systems.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

based company leveraging artificial intelligence to help develop new small molecule drugs, has raised $3.5 The six-employee company has partnerships with an undisclosed public biopharma company, the University of British Columbia, and others. Kim previously co-founded three other companies in the mobile marketing and AI areas.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

From left to right: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round.

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GeekWire

MAY 26, 2021

million in a seed funding round to help grow its calendar tool that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help users better manage their time. Timely time management: Effective time management has been an ongoing struggle for many people. The original Reclaim.ai New funding: Portland, Ore.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In fact, 80% of IT decision-makers say their companies plan to have modernized more than half of their custom applications before the end of 2022. With a significant push toward infrastructure modernization, many organizations have hired Chief Modernization Officers (CMOs) to help navigate the complexities of this undertaking.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2023

Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2021

In January, the company raised $150 million , bringing total funding to date past $1 billion. Microsoft and Amazon veteran Dirk Didascalou has been appointed the first CTO of Siemens Digital Industries, a business unit of the German multinational company. Guzmán was previously VP of local for media technology company WhereBy.Us

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GeekWire

APRIL 20, 2021

Seattle enterprise software startup Ally won last year’s award for a category that has honored companies such as Crowd Cow, Convoy, Arivale, Rover, and others in the past. Ozette co-founders Dr. Ali Ansary, CEO (left), and Greg Finak, CTO. The Series B round valued the company at close to $500 million. Ozette Photos).

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. Alexandr Wang, Scale AI’s CEO and founder, dropped out of MIT to start the company. “I’m joining Alex Wang and the team at Scale as CTO to help bring this vision to reality.” Scale AI Photo). Scale AI Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

He and other industry observers and IT leaders note, however, that an abundance of tools, managed services, and platforms are giving CIOs greater visibility into cloud costs and that alone is helping to lower the bills. After some time, people have understood the storage needs better based on usage and preventing data extract fees.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2024

Be strategic with reserve pricing Reserve pricing for cloud services can reduce resource usage costs by as much as 70%, says David McKee, who in his role as fractional CTO, tech founder, and digital twins thought leader at Counterpoint Technologies acts as a part-time CTO for nine companies in the US and Europe.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The real ethical concern lies in how companies safeguard against misinformation. Companies need both a practical plan and a transparent communications strategy in their response.” Companies must fortify against attacks that could mislead AI models and result in ill-informed decisions.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Then perhaps the government contracting world (we have previously written about software eating the government contracting world and DoD command and Control ). A full list of what we regard as the most virtuous and disruptive technologies in enterprise IT is available at our CTOvision Company Guides. Who is next?

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

She joined the company in 2020, after a three-year stint in a similar role at Lenovo. In the three years Xu led SAP’s AI initiatives, the company introduced AI technologies to many of its products, including tools for supply chain planning , expense management , customer experience , and online commerce.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2024

… Read More Where Amazon Web Services is still hiring after cutting hundreds of jobs this week Amazon Web Services announced hundreds of job cuts this week, in areas including training, sales, and physical stores technology, but noted that it’s still hiring in core areas of its business, with thousands of jobs currently posted.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Legal contracts. Last year’s winner was Common Room, a Seattle-area startup that aims to help companies deepen relationships with their users and customers. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology. Real estate ownership. Industrial AI. E-commerce fulfillment software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 28, 2023

City skyscrapers and office parks may remain scarcely occupied in the post-pandemic work era, but commercial real estate player JLL’s business is not slowing down, thanks to the company’s embrace of technology and high-growth opportunities to adapt and prosper. Generative AI and LLMs are changing all that.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2023

“While it’s critical to control costs continuously, it becomes even more imperative during times of economic pressure,” says Jon Pratt, CIO at security managed services provider 11:11 Systems. Consumption-based contracts are self-optimizing,” says Gartner’s Buchanan.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The savings are just too big to ignore for a ton of companies,” says David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish developer of Ruby on Rails and co-owner and CTO of 37signals, which completed a six-month total exit from the cloud last June. “‘Cloud exit’ became a big theme in 2023 and there’s good odds it’ll turn into a real trend for 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2024

What is a CTO? The chief technology officer (CTO) is the senior executive who focuses on the technological requirements, opportunities, and challenges within an organization. What does a CTO do? What does a CTO do? Years ago, the CTO most often led the infrastructure function.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 6, 2015

Ray Johnson, Former Lockheed CTO, Appointed to Terrestrial Energy’s Intl Advisory Board. New Online Tools Bring NASA’s Journey to Mars to New Generation of Explorers. FAST 50: Army Ranger rescues faltering company. NASA Notifies Congress About Space Station Contract Modification with Russia.

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GeekWire

APRIL 19, 2023

The company also announced $10 million in seed capital. He’s also the former CTO and co-founder of high-tech appliance maker Picobrew. The duo teamed up to figure out how to reduce the time and money required to create machine learning applications. Geiger is a longtime product design and engineering consultant.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company is developing tools to help companies engage with software customers, and has backing from a high-powered array of Pacific Northwest tech executives. It’s all about timing: Magnify’s tool optimizes onboarding and use of software. has come out of stealth mode with $6 million in funding.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2024

Of the 750 CIOs around the world surveyed by Lenovo, 81% said they are already leveraging third-party AI Tools or deploying a mix of third-party and proprietary AI. For Neeraj Kumar, CTO of Arkreach, the speed with which AI technologies are being developed itself poses a threat.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 25, 2022

Its Atlas Navigator tool integrates the database with customer clinical and financial systems, and aids in enrollment and reimbursement. In addition, the company’s advocates also work remotely and on-site to manage the process. The company notes that out-of-pocket medical expenses in the U.S. million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

The CIO’s biggest hiring challenge is clear: “There is simply not enough talent to go around,” says Scott duFour, global CIO of business payments company Fleetcor, for whom positions in areas such as AI, cloud architecture, and data science remain the toughest to fill. Geographical nuances are also arising. The net result?

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

A former vice president at REI, Garrard joined the Seattle company last year. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. Former FlyHomes VP of Marketing Amy Sellers was hired as chief marketing officer. The company is known for its advocacy and message of inclusivity. —

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

From improving customer experience to streamlining operations, technology has revolutionized the way hospitality businesses operate and given companies access to extremely valuable insights. Moreover, staff-scheduling software and real-time communication tools streamline workforce management and enhance staff productivity.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The companies include: Talc AI, a service for assessing large language models. Neum AI, a platform designed to assist companies in maintaining the relevancy of their AI applications with the latest data. It funded 229 companies, down from last year’s 240. Watto AI, an AI program that generates consulting reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2023

It’s also sparked conversations around ethics, compliance, and governance issues, with many companies taking a cautious approach to adopting AI technologies and IT leaders debating the best path forward. A lot of companies say, ‘We’re not letting people touch ChatGPT yet, we’re just not allowing it—it’s blocked.’”

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