GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Typeface Photo) A new generative AI startup with ties to Seattle just raised $65 million from Microsoft’s M12 and others to help enterprises produce content. Tech giants including Microsoft are also rolling out their own services powered by generative AI. ” Parasnis was previously CTO at Adobe.

Adobe 108

Adobe CTO Enterprise Enterprise 108

GeekWire

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll , the former chief technology officer at Lululemon Studio, joined Seattle startup Littlebird as CTO. A year later D’Ambrosio-Correll became CTO of Mirror, which was rebranded to Lululemon Studio. Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll. Littlebird Photo).

CTO 116

CTO Microsoft CTO Hire Google 116

GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2024

CreatorsAGI Photo) Joseph Sirosh , a former corporate vice president at Microsoft who was most recently at Amazon leading search and Alexa efforts, just launched a new startup that aims to let creators build their own conversational AI agents. Joseph Sirosh. The company, CreatorsAGI , was incorporated in January and is still in stealth mode.

CTO 77

CTO Microsoft Real Estate Authentication 77

GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2024

Technology leader Gurdeep Singh Pall , a longtime Microsoft executive, is joining experience management technology company Qualtrics as its first president of artificial intelligence strategy. Pall left Microsoft last fall after a 33-year career that spanned from Windows NT to Microsoft Teams, Lync, Skype, and Bing.

Strategy 76

Strategy Microsoft CTO Artificial Intelligence 76

GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2024

(LinkedIn Photo) Jason Taylor , the former vice president of infrastructure at Meta, joined Microsoft as corporate vice president and deputy CTO for the company’s AI supercomputing efforts. Previously he was CTO at ink2 and founded a gift certificate company called Lucidity in 1999. John Aisien.

CTO Hire 64

CTO Hire Microsoft CTO Vmware 64

GeekWire

JULY 19, 2021

Amazon-owned live streaming platform Twitch named Christine Weber as its new CTO. Weber was most recently chief information officer and interim chief technology officer at communications company Liberty Latin America. Sqoop founder Bill Hankes joined Forbes as chief communications officer.

CTO 101

CTO Adobe Journal Strategy 101

GeekWire

MAY 8, 2024

Predict.law co-founders, from left: CEO Pat Wilburn, CPO Stan Zaporozhets, and CTO Dave Contreras. Applying AI and machine learning training on precedent case history and the fact patterns associated with those cases, Predict.law uses technology to replace the current process of manually searching for relevant prior cases. .

Fractional CTO 76

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Real Estate 76

TechSpot

MAY 2, 2024

In June 2019, Microsoft CTO and Executive Vice President of AI Kevin Scott initiated the email thread with the subject line, "Thoughts on OpenAI." He addressed it to CEO Satya Nadella and company co-founder Bill Gates. Most of the email was redacted, but what came through was Scott's concern that. Read Entire Article

Microsoft 66

Microsoft CTO Company 66

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, and Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison on a live stream from Redmond, announcing plans to expand their partnership with a new service called Oracle Database@Azure. where Microsoft is based, which speaks in part to fierce nature of the longtime rivalry between the companies.

Oracle 132

Oracle Microsoft Cloud CTO 132

GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2023

(LinkedIn Photo) — Kristina Behr , a former exec at Microsoft, joined Google as vice president of product management for collaboration and apps at Google Workspace. Behr spent 17 years at Microsoft, most recently as a vice president of product for Microsoft Teams.

Fractional CTO 130

Fractional CTO Google Microsoft CTO 130

GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2022

. — Mobile marketplace OfferUp hired former Splunk VP of Engineering Melissa Binde as its new CTO. She oversaw Splunk’s cloud engineering business while CTO at the software giant. Binde succeeds Ameesh Paleja who served as OfferUp’s CTO for two years. He previously spent more than 13 years at Microsoft.

CTO Hire 114

CTO Hire CTO Data Center Data 114

CTOvision

DECEMBER 5, 2014

On Thursday 11 December 2014, join noted enterprise CTO and publisher of CTOvision Bob Gourley, Cloudera’s Sr. Director of Technology Solutions at Cloudera where he strives to bring Hadoop technologies and business objectives together. For more and to register see: [link]. Web conferencing'

Fractional CTO 299

Fractional CTO Intel CTO Big Data 299

GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2023

The original Microsoft HoloLens, above, and Apple’s new Vision Pro, below. The device, which looks like a pair of high-tech ski goggles, lets users navigate with gestures in a manner very similar to Microsoft’s mixed reality headset, the first version of which was unveiled in 2015 and shipped in 2016.

Apple 135

Apple Microsoft CTO Social 135

The Verge

AUGUST 27, 2021

Another day, another major Microsoft vulnerability. Microsoft has warned thousands of its Azure cloud computing customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, about a vulnerability that left their data completely exposed for the last two years. Microsoft paid Wiz $40,000 for the discovery, according to Reuters.

Microsoft 145

Microsoft Cloud CTO Insurance 145

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

(IonQ Photo) — Margaret Arakawa , a longtime Seattle-area marketing leader, joined IonQ as chief marketing officer. She also spent two decades at Microsoft in various leadership roles. Former Microsoft principal researcher Joseph DeGol joined Irvine, Calif.-based based forensics technology startup Steg.ai

Research 73

Research Microsoft CTO Insurance 73

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at OpenAI DevDay on Nov. He added that Microsoft will be more resolute in ensuring that its customers won’t be surprised, and will “definitely take care of all other governance issues and anything like that.” 6 as Sam Altman looks on. “That was the case on Friday. ”

Microsoft 124

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence CTO Government 124

Computerworld Vertical IT

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Shear would be replacing Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, who was initially named OpenAI’s CEO after the company board shunted out 38-year-old Sam Altman on November 17.

CTO 79

CTO Microsoft Video Report 79

CTOvision

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

On Thursday 11 December 2014, join noted enterprise CTO and publisher of CTOvision Bob Gourley and Cloudera’s Sr. Director of Technology Solutions Webster Mudge in an examination of an architectural exemplar and repeatable design patterns you can use to enhance your use of data. Webster Mudge is Sr.

Fractional CTO 274

Fractional CTO CTO Intel Big Data 274

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

.” — Uber appointed Sukumar Rathnam as its new chief technology officer. Rathnam spent almost a decade at Amazon, most recently as a vice president, and previously was a general manager and partner software architect at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo). based Behavox as its first chief product officer.

Fractional CTO 73

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Microsoft 73

GeekWire

MAY 10, 2023

Helion’s co-founders, left to right: Chris Pihl, chief technology officer; David Kirtley, CEO; and George Votroubek, director of research. Helion Photo) Microsoft and Helion Energy on Wednesday announced a historic agreement that could pave the way to the world’s first fusion power plant.

Microsoft 140

Microsoft Energy Data Center CTO 140

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 16, 2023

Equipped with experiences across a range of industries, a healthy dose of self-awareness, and a passion for learning and people, Allen is redefining the art of the possible as a strategic and innovative CTO. I’ve been in four industries, but while I was at Microsoft, I served several more — healthcare and retail, for example.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire CTO Industry Strategy 98

GeekWire

MARCH 2, 2023

(Armoire Photo) — Online clothing rental startup Armoire hired Seattle investor and Microsoft veteran Laura Butler as its chief technology officer. Butler spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, starting as an engineering intern and becoming the first female distinguished engineer and technical fellow at the company.

Microsoft 106

Microsoft CTO Engineering Real Estate 106

GeekWire

JUNE 23, 2021

A series of pictures documents the construction of an Azure Orbital ground station at Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Wash. Microsoft Azure via YouTube). Microsoft is joining the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center as a founding member, with a mission to strengthen cybersecurity for critical space assets.

Industry 121

Industry Microsoft CTO Web Services 121

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The world’s largest and most northerly commercial satellite ground station, KSAT’s Svalbard Station in Norway’s Arctic archipelago, will be part of Microsoft’s Azure Orbital network. ” Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich at the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit. Microsoft Graphic). KSAT Photo).

Microsoft 142

Microsoft Cloud CTO Data Center 142

GeekWire

DECEMBER 22, 2023

LinkedIn Photo) — Pacvue , a software startup that helps brands boost e-commerce revenue, hired Microsoft vet Sunava Dutta as senior vice president of product. Dutta previously spent more than 18 years at Microsoft, most recently as a product leader for robotics and emerging technologies within Azure. Sunava Dutta.

Microsoft 69

Microsoft CTO Banking Energy 69

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Gradial execs, from left: Deip Kumar, CTO; Anish Chadalavada, COO; Doug Tallmadge, CEO. Founded last year by former managers at SpaceX and Microsoft, the company’s software allows brands to build websites, campaigns, and other marketing-related experiences by simply typing written sentences.

Microsoft 112

Microsoft Software Software CTO 112

GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

Brad Porter, who was until recently the Amazon Robotics leader, will become Scale AI’s first CTO. “He will manage our entire technology stack, with combined ownership of product direction and engineering, to turbocharge our ambitious technology roadmap.” He previously worked at Microsoft, HP and Altair.

CTO 106

CTO CTO Hire Microsoft Programming 106

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, on stage with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI Dev Day in San Francisco this month, before Altman’s dismissal — and eventual return — to the company. It’s not clear who from Microsoft will be on the new board. 21 that Altman would return as CEO, under a newly formulated board.

Microsoft 93

Microsoft Government CTO Company 93

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The 10-person company is led by CEO and co-founder David Aronchick , a longtime Seattle tech vet who previously worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, where he helped create Kubeflow, an open source platform for machine learning operations. Expanso’s founding CTO Walid Baruni also worked at Amazon.

Open Source 105

Open Source Google Microsoft Data 105

GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

GeekWire File Photo). — Miguel de Icaza , who joined Microsoft after the tech giant acquired Xamarin in 2016, is leaving the company, according to a report from ZDNet. He was co-founder and chief technology officer at Xamarin, a mobile app development platform founded in 2011. Xamarin co-founder Miguel de Icaza.

Microsoft 85

Microsoft CTO Open Source Program Management 85

GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Ali Spain, the Microsoft Alumni Network’s outgoing executive director, opens the Connect 2023 conference in Redmond on Thursday morning. Microsoft will turn 50 in less than two years, and attendees spanned many of the company’s decades. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert at the Microsoft Alumni Network conference.

Microsoft 108

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Sports Conference 108

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

PwC and Microsoft are committed to developing local AI talent in Saudi Arabia with the launch of an artificial intelligence Centre of Excellence in Riyadh. By investing in local talent, PwC is set to pioneer a new era of technological excellence that will not only serve the Kingdom but also the wider region.

Microsoft 78

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence CTO Engineering 78

GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

. — Graham Sheldon , former corporate vice president of product for Microsoft Teams, is now chief product officer of UiPath, an artificial intelligence and automation company. UiPath is based in New York City and has an office in Bellevue, Wash. Sheldon spent more than 20 years at Microsoft in various roles.

Microsoft 120

Microsoft Fractional CTO CTO Engineering 120

GeekWire

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that Microsoft has held talks in recent months to acquire Pinterest. The talks, which are “currently not active,” could have led to Microsoft’s largest acquisition to date, given Pinterest is valued upwards of $51 billion. Microsoft Azure trails AWS and Google Cloud is in third.

Microsoft 143

Microsoft Social Web Services Cloud 143

CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the past 18 years, Sun worked at Microsoft, most recently as VP of AI for its business and applications platform group. Sun has a PhD from MIT and continued to publish academic research papers during his time at Microsoft, in addition to teaching at Seattle and Washington universities.

SAP 105

SAP Microsoft CTO Hire Artificial Intelligence 105

CTOvision

APRIL 4, 2014

On March 27 th , Microsoft’s Word, Excel, and PowerPoint became available in the App Store for the iPad. Microsoft asserts that the new applications maintain the functionality and familiarity associated with Microsoft Office, “while offering a fantastic touch experience built from the ground up for iPad.” By ShannonPerry.

Microsoft 264

Microsoft CTO Mobile Applications 264

GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The surprise removal of the OpenAI CEO on Friday is the buzz of the tech industry — raising questions about the company’s role in the AI revolution, the ambitions of Altman and his team, the impact of his exit on the rest of the tech industry, OpenAI’s complex corporate structure, and its unusual partnership with Microsoft.

Microsoft 126

Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Nonprofit Enterprise 126