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Tech Moves: UiPath CTO lands at Talkdesk; Elastic hires AWS vet; ex-Redfin leaders join LLM startup

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(Talkdesk Photo) — Munil Shah , a former engineering leader at UiPath who previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, has joined San Francisco startup Talkdesk as chief technology officer. Shah, based in Seattle, was most recently a CTO at UiPath, the robotic process automation software giant. million investment round.

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Tech Moves: Salesforce-backed Oleria hires CTO; Microsoft vet joins Lyra Health; and more

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Oleria’s new CTO Siva Garudayagari. Oleria Photo) — Salesforce-backed cybersecurity startup Oleria hired Siva Garudayagari as its chief technology officer. He previously worked as the planning and controls lead at publicly traded autonomous trucking company Embark Trucks.

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Amazon vet Dorothy Li joins trucking startup Convoy as CTO, says company is at ‘inflection point’

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The Seattle startup today named Li its new chief technology officer. Convoy is one of a handful of privately-held companies in the Seattle region valued at more than $1 billion, raising $400 million at a $2.7 Last August the company hired former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom as president and COO. trucking industry.

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To the moon! Amazon Web Services lists first startups for AWS Space Accelerator

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The first 10 companies to participate in Amazon Web Services’ accelerator program for space-centric startups are targeting territory ranging from low Earth orbit to the surface of the moon and Mars. (Lunar Outpost via YouTube). Today’s announcement follows up on the unveiling of the AWS Space Accelerator in March.

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Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

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Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and made it clear that Amazon’s own ambitions increasingly extend well beyond its core cloud capabilities.

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GeekWire Podcast: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the rapid progress of AI, and its impact on society

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sits down for a wide-ranging conversation on the GeekWire Podcast at Amazon in Seattle, focusing on issues including AI and social responsibility. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Early versions of generative AI were “like a dancing bear,” says Werner Vogels , the Amazon chief technology officer.

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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

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Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).