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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. What we must do is continuously train our people.

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Fed Tech Roundup August 20

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Video: Apps to Train Your Brain - Nextgov. Federal CTO Megan Smith to Receive Nonprofit Org’s ‘Charging Buffalo’ Award Sept. NTIA extends ICANN contract for another year. OPM: CDM will offer baseline security - FCW.com. 6 hidden costs of continuing resolutions - FCW.com. Here Are the Best TSA Yelp Reviews - Nextgov.

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Tech Moves: T-Mobile adds former U.S. intelligence director to board; Amazon execs depart; and more

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. — Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Raise hired Mike Cartwright as vice president of e-commerce.

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AI2 spinout BirchAI lands $3.1M for healthcare customer support platform

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BirchAI aims to cover “those expensive calls where you have people spending a lot of time after the call documenting what they just did,” said CEO Kevin Terrell , in an interview with GeekWire. BirchAI instead saves time by building a summary document after listening to the call. BirchAI CTO and co-founder Yinhan Liu.

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Top 10 barriers to strategic IT success

CIO Business Intelligence

And while CIOs are working to train internal candidates within IT and the business units for tough-to-fill tech jobs or are using contractors to fill in staffing gaps , Sengupta says those practices create talent challenges, too. Upskilling takes time, and contracted workers aren’t usually as close to the business as employees.

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Tech Moves: Ada Developers Academy bolsters board; Tune CEO steps down following acquisition; AWS execs promoted

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Michele Broderick , recently appointed CMO of The Esalen Institute , an education nonprofit based in Big Sur, Calif. She sees her role with the nonprofit as identifying liabilities and assessing risk factors in support of Ada’s growth. She was previously SVP of marketing for Automattic, WordPress’ parent company.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

“Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” Soon after founding Netwatch Solutions as CTO, Beasley realized he would face even more barriers when acquiring funding. So, I started my own tech company,” Beasley says.

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