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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

GeekWire

In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. Arora spent more than two years at Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, most recently as part of the team building the space venture’s human landing system. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon.

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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. In November, Impinj introduced new tag chips, which work with automotive parts, pharmaceuticals and food products.

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Tech Moves: Starbucks tech leader departs; former T-Mobile exec joins Ossia board; and more

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Starbucks Senior Vice President of Technology Wouleta Ayele has departed the Seattle coffee retailer to join California fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen as CTO. During the pandemic, the startup has focused on its virtual events marketing solution. (Sweetgreen Photo). Michelle Newbery (left) and Karthik Sivakumar. Oakland, Calif.-based

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO Business Intelligence

Can I run it in my own virtual cloud?” Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. Insight has a partner contract management team that looks closely at vendor agreements. “If “How is the prompt data stored in their environment?” This isn’t just a theoretical concern. “Our

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2021 Predictions: Why these tech, science and startup leaders are upbeat about the year ahead

GeekWire

Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for AI; Leslie Alexandre, President and CEO of Life Science Washington; Leen Kawas, CEO of Athira Pharma; Peter Lee, CVP of Research and Incubations at Microsoft; Caroline Lewis, partner at Rogue Venture Partners; and Saad Bashir, CTO for City of Seattle.

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