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CTO shares tips for impact and efficiency from a career spanning startups, government and NGOs

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Tyrone Grandison, chief technology officer for Pearl Long Term Care Solutions. Grandison, who lives in Seattle, has launched and led numerous startups, worked for the White House and government agencies during the Obama Administration, holds an adjunct professorship, and done research and consulting.

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2014 Analyst Forum: Data Analytics and Ancestry.com

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Academia, government, and industry came together to provide a comprehensive approach to investigating how we can better extract knowledge from information see our recap here. Scott Sorensen , the Chief Technology Officer with Ancestry.com , delivered a keynote that examined issues relevant to analysts from throughout the community.

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Innovators, Integrators and Tech Vendors: Here is what the government hopes they will buy from you in 2015

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Everyone knows it can be very hard to do business with the government. The most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to be informed on government mission needs. How else can you determine if you have what the government really wants from you? But you can take steps to make it easier to serve.

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

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If you are in or know people in government, non-profits or NGO’s that have leveraged Hadoop in service to missions please nominate them for recognition as part of the 2014 Data Impact Awards presented by Cloudera. This year there is a special category for government, non-profits and NGOs. SOCIAL IMPACT. By Bob Gourley.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

Few would swap sunny San Francisco and the innovation of Silicon Valley for a train ticketing company serving disgruntled UK commuters, but try telling that to Trainline CTO, Milena Nikolic. There’s a reported international expansion on the horizon, government contracts to win and a new CDO, hired from Meta, now reporting into Nikolic. “I

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Tech CEOs: How can you learn government mission needs?

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By Bob Gourley If you are a tech CEO building an awesome new capability there is a very high likelihood that government technologists will have an interest. Here are my top ten tips on identifying the government mission needs most relevant to your activities: Top Ten Ways To Learn Government Mission Needs Relevant To Your Technology.

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Marc Andreessen on the future of technology and the nature of government services

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In this post we provide some of Marc’s views around the nature of government services in the near future. Gourley: In the near future of 2030, do you have thoughts on services that government currently delivers to citizens that will be done better or perhaps rendered obsolete because of new personal computing technologies?