GeekWire

AUGUST 30, 2023

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. The organization previously said a lack of internships for its students was due to decreased demand for software development talent.

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GeekWire

MAY 24, 2023

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event on Jan. Jenny Crooks Photo) Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, laid off 45% of its workforce, the nonprofit confirmed to GeekWire Wednesday.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In a post last week on the Seattle Transit Blog, OBA co-creator Kari Watkins wrote that the non-profit Open Software Transit Foundation, created to maintain the project, needs “an influx of cash.” Borning helped create the Open Software Transit Foundation.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A new nonprofit is trying to keep the momentum going. Feldblum is part of the team that helped Fair Pair Workplace develop the rules and standards used to set the bar for certification. Black Lives Matter and #MeToo movements inspired many companies over the past year to pledge their commitment to fighting inequities.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Apple Photo) First up this week on the GeekWire Podcast: an inside look at developing software for the Apple Vision Pro spatial computing headset. Related story: Apple Vision Pro: Why one longtime software shop is jumping head-first into spatial computing Then, we dive into AI, politics, and a new attempt to defuse deepfakes.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In June, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it hired Angela Jones , the well-regarded CEO of Washington STEM , the statewide education nonprofit that connects underserved students with STEM education and opportunities. Roshandel was the chair of the university’s Computer Science and Software Engineering Department.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Avalara Photo) — Seattle-based tax software company Avalara named Ross Tennenbaum as its new president. It plans to host events, provide an advisory service, and launch a nonprofit dedicated to responsible AI regulation. He later launched Jetson , a startup developing probiotics, and was its CEO. Ross Tennenbaum.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ada Developers Academy graduates at a graduation event Jan. Ada Developers Academy , the Seattle-based tuition-free software development boot camp for women and underrepresented sexual, gender and racial minorities, is spinning out from its parent organization and going independent. Jenny Crooks Photo).

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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. Mariya Burrows, software engineer, RealSelf. Mariya Burrows. A no-cost academy with a mission.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Seattle biotech company Athira Pharma named Rachel Lennington as chief development officer and Samantha Willing as chief people officer. Seattle-area satellite startup LeoStella named Paula Tomlinson as director of software engineering. Lennington joined Athira in 2021 and Willing joined last 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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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The nonprofit consortium MLCommons has released a massive, license-free dataset for speech recognition system development and testing. Read More.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2023

Here’s more info about the winning startups: My Financial Therapist , based in Seattle, is developing an AI-powered app that creates personalized roadmaps and insights to help individuals, nonprofits, higher education institutions, and enterprises “meet their financial goals and improve financial literacy.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2024

… Read More Former Convoy engineers take another swing at trucking tech with new Seattle startup Andrew Huff and Oliver Jones aren’t done trying to build software for the trucking industry. … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B … Read More Jama Software to be acquired for $1.2B

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Environmental sustainability Dell Technologies and Equinix have developed joint solutions to support our customers in this critical area by enabling businesses to deploy their infrastructure on Dell architecture within Equinix’s low-carbon colocation infrastructure covered by 96% renewables globally1.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Scrum is a powerful framework for implementing agile processes in software development and other projects. The Scrum master not only addresses all facets of the agile development process but also serves the business, product owner, team, and individuals and facilitates communication and collaboration between all these elements.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

Hess , a software engineer and entrepreneur who developed the Family Tree Maker product line in the 1990s. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy. Sylvain Chiron , the founder of Brasserie du Mont Blanc , one of the largest craft breweries in France.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Ada Developers Academy is a nonprofit, cost-free coding school for women and gender expansive adults that also prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and low-income people. Participants also take part in a paid “applied learning internship” that teaches students how to write code and the skills to become a software developer.

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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

APRIL 2, 2021

Organizations have pledged a total of $480,795 to match City dollars with at least 50 percent in cash or in-kind contributions of labor, professional services and donated hardware and software. This is how we build back better.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. Today, the once technology recycling program is now a robust nonprofit focused on offering tuition-free IT training to help diversify the tech talent pipeline.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

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. 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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GeekWire

JANUARY 16, 2024

Photo) — Vahé Torossian , a longtime former corporate vice president at Microsoft , joined software development startup Builder.ai Vahé Torossian. as president and chief partner officer. London-based Builder.ai uses AI and other tech to help companies build and maintain apps across various verticals. “Today I join Builder.ai

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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

JANUARY 4, 2023

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. CIO Wetmur is taking things a step further at Morgan Stanley with a more sustainable approach to application development.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

— Barry Christ joined the board of Perth, Australia-based software company Buildkite. Buildkite’s products support the building, testing and deployment of software, and enable customers to run pipelines on their own infrastructure. Barry Crist. It has more than 1,000 customers, including Chef and other Seattle startups.

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GeekWire

MARCH 10, 2023

The funds from Ballmer Group will help the organization expand its beginner-level courses, develop partnerships with community colleges in key regions where Black students reside, and add financial literacy offerings to its Career Center services suite, according to a news release.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The former CEO of BoldIQ, Yarkoni was most recently an executive at Check Point Software and previously EVP of customer operations and strategy at Apptio. Thill was previously an HR leader at Medallia, a San Francisco software company. Ada Developers Academy Photo). — Karat raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1

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GeekWire

JUNE 14, 2023

He previously worked as VP of platform engineering at Paris-based carpooling platform BlaBlaCar and was an engineer at Chef Software. Sybil Tasker was hired as the chief medical officer at Inventprise, a Seattle-area startup developing a pneumonia shot. . — Seattle startup CalmWave hired Seth Falcon as VP of engineering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

American Association of Blacks in Energy The American Association of Blacks in Energy (AABE) is dedicated to ensuring African Americans and other minorities have input and a voice in the discussion and development of energy policies, regulations, R&D technologies, and environmental issues.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

Shaw previously spent 23 years at Microsoft, most recently as head of engineering, developer services, in the Azure and AI division. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president. Bamboo previously offered voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa devices.

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2023

She also worked at iLink Digital for nearly two years and helped run a software development services company. SeaCiti, a nonprofit of the Washington Technology Industry Association that aims to help tech workers create local impact, hired Terrence Stevenson as director. Joseph L u, founder of Portland, Ore.

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GeekWire

APRIL 16, 2024

Megan Hulsey of Craft3, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution. At the same time, connecting with people working remotely in Spokane can be hit and miss, said Megan Hulsey , a Spokane-based vice president and business lender with Craft3 , a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2023

Hyros Photo) — Seattle marketing software company Banzai hired Inman Breaux as CEO for Hyros , an Austin-based marketing optimization startup it is acquiring. nonprofit Greater Washington Partnership, and president and CEO of the Atlanta Housing Authority. He moves from business spend management platform Coupa Software.

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GeekWire

MAY 12, 2021

Ramesh, who works for Amazon as a software engineering manager, was so excited to welcome his little boy. And during his first year, Sanath and Ramya tried so hard to help their son grow and develop like a typical child. Ramesh: I’m a software engineer by training. And a mutation is, in software terms, a bug.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using the company’s hardware and software, which was first developed at the University of Washington. ” Computer vision software can measure cube utilization, count items, and detect missing or damaged items. .

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. He also served as CEO of IT solutions company Astreya and of Everest Software, which was sold to Versata. BMS’ research organization will report to BMS executive Robert Plenge.

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