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Cengage Group CTO Jim Chilton on the P&L difference

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After the show, we spent some more time talking about Chilton’s experience as a P&L leader and how that has contributed to his success as a CTO. Step two is about making sure your leadership team is developed. Making a strong team makes you incredibly relevant, and it’s part of our obligation.

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Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

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He was most recently the trade association’s VP of public policy and external affairs. Cummings joined Life Science Washington in 2015 and was previously director of policy and external affairs for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He joined PNNL in 2019 after serving as a tech policy advisor to Washington Gov.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

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The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

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Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as chief technology officer. Prior to joining Rover in 2013, Porad was CTO for Cheezburger and held multiple director roles at Bellevue, Wash.-based Dolly currently has 40 full-time employees and plans to double its headcount and sales in the upcoming year.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Sorensen’s speech actually came out of Ancestry.com’s policies and procedures for sharing its data with students. ancestry CTO Scott Sorensen says [link] 's business is all about data and telling stories from that data #DataAnalytics. "Also, we've had great success hiring social scientists as our data scientists."

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CIOs eager to scale AI despite difficulty demonstrating ROI, survey finds

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CIOs were least likely to identify as AI-ready business areas such as new product lines (22% of respondents), corporate policy on ethical AI use (24%), or their supply chain (26%) as the least AI-ready, while 49% rated their IT departments’ own technical skills as AI-ready.

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CIOs grapple with the ethics of implementing AI

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Making ethical AI a team sport Plexus Worldwide is one organization using AI to identify fraudulent account creation and transactions, says Alan McIntosh, CIO and CTO of the $500 million global health and wellness company. We continue to iterate and evolve our policy, but it is still in development.

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