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

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. — Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. Freelancing platform Upwork hired former Amazon General Manager Saty Bahadur as CTO.

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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. Sweetgreen applies technology to manage its supply chain, restaurant operations, internal operations and its customer-facing app. (Sweetgreen Photo).

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Tech Moves: Providence leader returns to Amazon; Seattle marketing vet joins LiveRamp; and more

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Amazon has rolled out several healthcare-related products and services, including a virtual care platform called Amazon Care, as well as Amazon Pharmacy. Julia Williams , an eye care industry veteran, joined Visus Therapeutics , a Seattle-area pharmaceutical company, as vice president of clinical and medical affairs.

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

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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. Impinj went public in 2016. The manufacturer of radio-frequency identification devices and software reported revenue of $76.6

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A CIO’s first rule for automation: Have a clear business case

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As an example, the technology organization of the pharmaceutical segment at Cardinal Health collaborates closely with business leaders so they can identify current pain points and determine the right processes to automate, focusing on how these tools will improve the customer or employee experiences, says CIO Greg Boggs.

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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?” Vendors that specialize in, say, legal PDFs, financial PDFs, or those related to the pharmaceutical industry would still be able to provide value. When you look at business flow, you need to look at it end-to-end,” says Ram Palaniappan, CTO at TEKsystems, a systems integrator. “It

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

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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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