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Tech Moves: Former Ada Developers Academy CEO joins venture studio; Riveter co-CEO steps down; and more

GeekWire

(Conduit Venture Labs Photo) — Seattle tech leader Lauren Sato joined Seattle hardware startup studio Conduit Venture Labs as an entrepreneur-in-residence. “Ada was at a transitional point given the dramatic contraction in the tech talent market, and I am a builder/growth stage leader,” Sato told GeekWire. Kirkland, Wash.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

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. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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Innovation: 3 Key Elements for Success

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While the usual approach would involve hiring a bunch of consultants or a system integrator to overhaul the existing systems, our customer took a different approach. For communications services, those new technologies include Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), cloud and virtualization.

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Meet the latest Techstars Seattle cohort: 10 startups on how they’ve adapted to the pandemic

GeekWire

The latest Techstars Seattle cohort kicked off an entirely virtual 3-month startup accelerator journey in January. The virtual format offers some benefits such as eliminating commutes and broader investor outreach, despite lacking the in-person connections that typically drive the accelerator experience. Techstars Photo).

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Meet the 5 finalists for CEO of the Year at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

But if they have one thing in common, it’s that they are growing their companies at a time when the broader tech economy is contracting. He served as CTO before stepping into the CEO role in 2014. Create your own user feedback survey Chris Diorio , CEO of Impinj Chris Diorio, CEO of Impinj, at the 2018 GeekWire Summit.

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Four Cloud Computing Myths That Need To Die

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A third-party has control over the hardware and the network. Cloud platforms hire the best engineers to make sure their platforms are secure, which is why you hardly ever hear about a compromise that was the result of a mistake made by a cloud vendor. The reason is this: we live in a connected age. Moving To The Cloud Is Too Hard.

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DARPA Official: Human-Robot Teams Key to Disaster Response

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Launched in October 2012, the DARPA Robotics Challenge has held two of three competitions -– a virtual event in June 2013 and a live two-day event held Dec. The first competition tested software teams’ ability to guide a simulated robot through three sample tasks in a virtual environment.

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