GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2024

Generative AI, said Jim Reavis, CEO of the nonprofit Cloud Security Alliance, is “the change dynamic that’s sort of the elephant in the room.” More need for more pros Brent Lundstrom, director of CCoE, said AI is just one of several developments spurring demand for more professionals and new positions.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2023

They also gain access to training, events, and BECU’s networks. Stakana , based in Seattle, is developing AI-powered analytics tools to help credit unions and community banks segment audience bases, personalize outreach, and identify customer attrition. ” The startup is led by founder and CEO Dennis Williams.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

It is a whole new way in which to attract, recruit, onboard, develop, and manage. And they articulated job pathways and training plans, so they can approach recruitment, retention, and job culture holistically. We’re working with [these] organizations, who identify the individuals and partner with us on the foundational training.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

CodePath says it has trained nearly 20,000 students from a network of 500 colleges — and has active partnerships with 70 colleges and universities across the country, including 13 Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

Mariya Burrows wanted to make a career change to software development after taking an introductory course on the topic, but the last thing she wanted to do was take out more student loans. Beatrice Tohni found out about the program when a friend texted her a link to Ada Developers Academy saying, “This sounds like the perfect program for you.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. Girl Develop It. Girl Develop It offers web and software development courses at affordable rates in a “judgement-free zone.”

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Past winners for this category include the Year Up and Apprenti training programs, the Technology Access Foundation (TAF) and a campaign to end malaria. Ada Developers Academy. Ada Developers Academy is a Seattle-based, tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) job opportunities have risen 79% over the past three decades, and are forecast to increase 11% more through 2030, women account for only 16% of those earning a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences, according to according to Women Tech Network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When the timing was right, Chavarin honed her skills to do training and coaching work and eventually got her first taste of technology as a member of Synchrony’s intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) team, writing human responses to the text-based questions posed to chatbots.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2024

But according to data from a survey from Women Tech Network , women earn around $15,000 less per year than their male counterparts, with an average annual salary of $60,828 for women compared to $85,000 for men. The numbers are worse for Black and Latina women who earn even less with an average salary of $52,000 per year.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

— Seattle-based Ada Developers Academy, a non-profit, tuition free coding school for women and gender-diverse adults, added four new board members in its quest to expand its impact on the tech industry: Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Spector, Michele Broderick, Melina Garcia and Justin Beals. Ada Developers Academy Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

AllianceBernstein works directly with job training nonprofit Year Up , which connects the global asset management corporation with tech talent from underserved populations. Students are given training on hard and soft skills to prepare them for IT careers, along with hands-on experience in their desired field.

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Kitaboo

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This has brought about a sea of change in the process of collection development, their organization, and accessibility, and organizations are increasingly trying to capitalize on this development for business purposes. Here are 6 Reasons Why Associations & Nonprofits Need a Digital Archive. Maintain a Database of Records.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

A vast alumni network from the trucking marketplace company is fueling entrepreneurial activity in Seattle, where at least 25 startups are now led by former employees of Convoy. . … Read More ‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company take the wheel at their own startups The Convoy Mafia is growing in Seattle.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) , a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group and Madrona Venture Labs in order to expand its opportunities for training, mentoring and networking. (AWIP and Madrona Photos).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 13, 2022

All of the normal things related to importance of information technology are there: securing the company’s networks, introducing new applications, educating users about security, etc. What CIOs need to do is to expand programs aimed at attracting and developing diverse tech talent , despite remote-work conditions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

According to The State of the Tech Workforce 2023 report from training and certification organization CompTIA , professionals identifying as Black or African American made up 8% of US tech occupations (compared to 12% across all US occupations). We’re hoping that the interns will turn into full-time employees,” he says.

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. A longtime veteran of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Valdez joined the company as a senior manager of business development in 2005. Based in San Jose, Calif.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Greenlee believed that bringing Black technologists together and raising their awareness about conferences and events would help develop a sense of community and elevate career prospects for Black IT pros. So, he launched a blog to connect with and create a community for Black technologists.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 4, 2020

The next part of the solution is to find ways to go about training the people who do enter the field faster. What this means for CIOs is that they are going to have to come up with ways to go about training more cybersecurity professionals. Their salaries and training would all be paid for by the government. Peace Corps program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2023

“The pandemic and the aging population and growing population really put very high stress on every healthcare system, and Atlantic Health was no exception,” says Sunil Dadlani, chief information and digital officer and chief cybersecurity officer at the New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,” writing that business analysis “is a disciplined approach for introducing and managing change to organizations, whether they are for-profit businesses, governments, or non-profits.”

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Even though employees could donate to any eligible US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the late 1990s, the money was still processed by United Way and employees paid a pass-through fee. Employees expected their entire donation to go directly to the nonprofit of their choice and not to have to pay this fee.

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2021

They come from universities, public schools and nonprofits, and are working with kids from elementary school into college and supporting fellow teachers as well. that helps in-coming students adjust to the rigor of college while expanding their peer-support network. The organization serves 60 U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2024

Those challenges have IT leaders sharpening existing skills and developing new ones as ways to improve their leadership style, while others are exploring new opportunities or expanding work responsibilities to grow their executive profiles. All CIOs are going to have to present their vision on why IT is valuable,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. What we must do is continuously train our people.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 8, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t the first global pandemic experienced by Compass Health, a nonprofit caring for mental health and substance abuse patients. The quick pivot to telehealth also drew from the nonprofit’s experience shifting to electronic records a few years back. Your preferred social network?

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed some answers during a keynote speech about the company’s latest developments in AI. It’s the first time Meta has had an event solely dedicated to showcasing its AI developments, according to a Meta spokesperson. Also: Avatars in the metaverse still don’t have legs.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ferguson spoke on a call organized by a group that calls themselves the Real Facebook Oversight Board , along with Color of Change, a progressive nonprofit that led the call for a Facebook advertiser boycott over the summer, and UK-based nonprofit technology justice organization Foxglove.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

Amazon’s employee relations team was developing a separate “internally-facing strategy,” the memo said. Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien told Recode in July that his union is intent on “disrupting [Amazon’s] network until they get to a point where they surrender” and stop resisting workers’ unionization efforts.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Tony Hunt, chief development officer of Operation Safe Escape, a nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic violence escape their abusers, says deleting yourself from the internet could be exactly what the stalker wants. We can develop intentional boundaries on the internet, it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

“Open source drives innovation because it enables many more developers to build with new technology,” wrote Zuckerberg wrote in a separate Facebook post. “It Meta didn’t release the training data used to teach the latest model, which is a key component of any AI system; researchers say it’s crucial to measuring bias in AI systems.

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