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Geeks Give Back at the GeekWire Awards: Meet three groups wielding tech for good causes

GeekWire

The Geeks Give Back category is presented again this year by BECU. Special thanks to Astound Business Solutions , the presenting sponsor of the 2024 GeekWire Awards. The half-day program runs for four weeks in the summer and is virtual so that it can reach a larger geographical area, including rural areas of Washington state.

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15 worthwhile conferences for women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The conference is named after Admirable Grace Murray Hopper, who is considered among the first computer programmers, and whose work is directly responsible for the development of COBOL. This years’ event will be a week-long virtual summit that is free to attend, with the aim of making it accessible to everyone.

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GeekWire Awards 2021: Geeks Give Back celebrates groups that better our community

GeekWire

On May 20 we will announce the winners live at the virtual GeekWire Awards , presented by Wave Business. The Geeks Give Back Award is presented this year by BECU. Ada Developers Academy. The nonprofit program provides six months of classroom training followed by a five-month internship at one of its corporate partners.

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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

CIO Business Intelligence

LGBTQ in Technology Slack The LGBTQ in Technology Slack is a safe space for LGBTQ+ people in tech to chat, support one another, and connect virtually over a Slack channel. The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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CTO of Center for Internet Security Expounds on Transforming InfoSec

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Here are a few other snippets from her presentation, but you'll have to register and join to hear her full insightful talk and take in the rest of both days' great speaker lineup. "We This is pretty powerful because now we all know how to secure systems and it's been validated by a third party that's a nonprofit and trusted.

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Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad

GeekWire

She moved to Seattle, worked briefly at a web development company and then convinced a colleague to start a company with her that focused on UX. ” Embracing the widespread surge in awareness over racial injustice triggered by last month’s death of George Floyd has presented another leadership challenge. “I Blink Photo).

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a voice assistant that blows Alexa and Siri away

Vox

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has shifted its long-term strategy away from its social media apps to focus on the metaverse, a virtual world where people wearing augmented/virtual reality headsets can talk to each others’ avatars, play games, hold meetings, and otherwise engage in social activities.