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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. Shaw previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, most recently as head of engineering, developer services, in the Azure and AI division.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back.

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

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“This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Even Matthew Metz, the Seattle founder of the EV-boosting nonprofit Coltura , can’t say for sure if the infrastructure build out is on track to meet demand.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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A delegation of Ukrainian health officials and policymakers is visiting Seattle to learn about the city’s life sciences cluster and develop relationships with its researchers and innovators. Ukraine is known for its lively tech sector , but its infrastructure for life sciences research is not as fully developed.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

GeekWire

How we can help companies do the best with internal and external talent — to develop, to hire, to retain, to redeploy. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab, Vikram Iyer is using tiny tech to solve big problems. . “We are in talent acquisition. We are the people company.”

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

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Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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