GeekWire

JANUARY 7, 2022

She also spent four years at Airbnb, most recently as general manager of its transportation business. Brain circuitry expert Rui Costa took over from founding Allen Institute CEO Allan Jones as CEO and president of the nonprofit research organization. She was most recently vice president of digital design at Nike.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 19, 2021

The new capital will fund some 40-50 startups, according to Bloomberg News , and will focus on some of the trickier green technologies in development, including climate-friendlier steel and cement production, long-haul transportation, and technologies for capturing carbon from the air.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 18, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions — a number that’s almost certain to grow as air travel increases while ground transportation and the power grid cut their fossil fuel use. “We’re ZeroAvia , a hydrogen-powered aviation startup, is growing its research and development capabilities at its facility at Everett’s Paine Field.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

Marc Hagle , the president and CEO of Tricor International, a residential and commercial property development corporation. Sharon Hagle , the founder of SpaceKids Global, a nonprofit organization focusing on STEAM+ education, with a special emphasis on empowering girls.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 1, 2023

The service is a partnership between Visit Bellevue and Circuit , a transportation company operating in about 34 cities across the U.S. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) We were dropped at Spring District Park, a small green space in the middle of the massive office and housing development. Jones found the Circuit job via Indeed.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2023

Maritime Blue , a former Department of Commerce program that is now a nonprofit, has facilitated seven accelerator cohorts over four years with 51 marine-focused startups from the U.S. The nonprofit is slated to be the anchor tenant of the innovation center. and abroad. which is based in San Francisco. OCOchem , a Richland, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

MARCH 1, 2023

. “They’re focusing on making smart investments in things that have real-world implications both near- and far-term,” said Gabriel Scheer , director of innovation for the investment and accelerator nonprofit Elemental Excelerator. Roughly 30% of the companies that Amazon backs are in green transportation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We The nonprofit brought her onboard with a mandate to build a roadmap to drive innovation and modernize the organization’s IT footprint. We source a lot of food.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2021

Arnold spent time at the Gates-owned Corbis, at PATH, which has a close partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and now Microsoft, where Arnold is CTO of the company’s nonprofit-focused Tech for Social Impact. For many nonprofits, it’s not a lack of willingness to modernize, it’s simply not knowing where to start.”

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Topics works by pinpointing five of your interests, such as “Fitness” or “Travel & Transportation,” based on your web activity, as measured by participating sites, for one week. The company plans on launching a developer trial for Topics in Chrome, but there’s no information on when exactly that will begin.

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CTOvision

MAY 29, 2015

In order to compete with other states and globally, we must focus on early stage economic development. Eastern Virginia Eye Institute (Chesapeake), Corneal Endothelial Allograft Transport and Transplant Device , Dr. Sandeep Samudre, $100,000, Life Sciences. SBIR Matching Funds Program. BlueTherm Corp. Cell Free Bioinnovations Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 2, 2022

The new nonprofit the Data & Trust Alliance , whose members include influential American corporations lik e Nike, Starbucks, American Express and Meta , is seeking to develop a new literacy for organizations to help them adopt responsible data and AI practices.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 1, 2022

“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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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2020

In Seattle, Gig4Good will provide nearly $200,000 in driving value, or 13,000 driving hours — to nonprofit partners in June. The company allows neighbors in housing developments to share an electric vehicle. By the end of 2019, all three announced they would exit Seattle.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As the world scrambles to staunch carbon emissions from every possible source — construction, transportation, electricity and agriculture included — essentially every industry is going to need to embrace its own “wave of change” and find planet-saving ways of operating. The construction field is not alone in this challenge.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

My role was to develop the “Distributed File System” in Windows. This kind of work needs developers to be very precise in development work and to write code that is very optimized since any sloppiness in performance here affects all applications on Windows. Transportation analyst at Cambridge Systematics.”.

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

The company says this reduction is “in line” with targets it is developing through a nonprofit group that works with companies reducing their emissions, the Science Based Targets Initiative. The second-largest source was from “other indirect emissions” such as third-party transportation and packaging.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Thielke is currently managing director of Hines Asia Pacific, a global real estate investment, development and management firms. Moore previously held senior human resources roles at Mercedes-Benz’s research and development subsidiary, Apple and Samsung Electronics. Sally Moore (Strike Graph Photo). Vancouver, Wash.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

A nonprofit organization with Pacific Northwest ties has spun out its first venture capital fund totaling $60 million for investing in climate tech companies. The sector is working to strip the carbon emissions out of transportation, energy production, agriculture and construction. Elemental Excelerator Photo).

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CTOvision

MARCH 7, 2014

The Innovation Gym helps develop young minds, turning students loose to solve real-world problems under tight deadlines, overcoming intermediate failures as they learn to innovate. By funding the Innovation Gym, the gift helps to develop the next generation of innovators equipped to solve emerging problems.”. “My

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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 suite of telehealth tools, dubbed Compass Health Bridge , helps remove patients’ barriers to treatment, including transportation and childcare challenges.

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Vox

OCTOBER 16, 2023

His goal is to develop a technology that helps humans “merg[e] with AI” so that we won’t be “left behind” as AI becomes more sophisticated. In March, many of them, including Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause on developing AI systems more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4. Both animals were euthanized.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The lack of transparency has really been outrageous on this project,” Emily Timm, the co-executive director of Workers Defense, a Texas nonprofit, told The Verge in a phone call. “It It seems like there’s been a an extra effort to really hide the ball on what’s going on here.”.

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

But with the onset of digital publishing, and with major educational publishers like Pearson developing digital textbooks and at the same time earning high profits, other K-12 publishers also had to follow suit to keep their businesses running. August 22, 2019 | Digital Publishing , Nonprofit. Pearson Adopts a Digital-first Strategy.

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GeekWire

MARCH 30, 2021

That includes two Pacific Northwest-based efforts working to create trustworthy platforms for carbon exchanges: the nonprofit Blockchain for Climate Foundation and a startup called Nori. “I ” At the same time, the NFT controversy could provide a wake-up call for Ethereum blockchain developers to step up their carbon game. “I

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Engineers, developers, and backup drivers were told to stay at home, as the city’s shelter-in-place order made public road testing impossible. Nuro was using its driverless delivery vehicles to help transport medical supplies to two Bay Area field hospitals.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

Jay Inslee to the right and Albert Gore, executive director of the Zero Emission Transportation Association, to the left. The funds are also covering a significant share of the state’s transportation infrastructure projects. Seattle-based First Mode opened the clean-tech factory in February.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Even though the economic flywheel has provided jobs and created wealth for spending and investment in leading tech cities, it has not solved the social challenges of homelessness, inadequate education, public safety, and transportation. Flat-out crazy, local leaders and transportation experts said. Cities need both flywheels to thrive.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2023

But the climate tech sector — which includes low-carbon innovation in clean energy, construction, transportation, agriculture and carbon removal — is getting buffeted and bolstered by larger forces at play. Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit that has invested in more than 150 climate startups.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bold Reuse has developed a tool for customers to calculate the amount of waste they’re diverting by using its service. The venue for now is mostly using recyclable aluminum cups, but Rob Johnson, senior vice president of sustainability and transportation for the arena and the Seattle Kraken hockey team, is a fan of Bold Reuse.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

” So the San Francisco-based nonprofit is leading an effort called the Carbon Call that includes Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and 11 other international organizations to support the development of a comprehensive, comparable, interoperable system of carbon tracking ledgers. . “There is no one single ledger.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2021

One part is defining what we should be building right now and working with our developers to design solutions with a deep understanding of the data scientist’s needs when they build. ” Transporter, Time Machine or Cloak of Invisibility? Transporter. As a data science lead at Kaskada, I have three parts to my job.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

Alpharetta, Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which has the largest fuel pipeline, was forced to shut down its oil and gas pipeline system on Friday after a ransomware attack that has slowed down the transportation of oil in the eastern U.S. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Prior to Flexe, Glick spent almost two decades at Amazon and was VP of Amazon’s transportation and fulfillment technologies. 44 on the GeekWire 200, develops software to help schools, clubs and activity teams fundraise securely online. McAllister also spent more than a decade at Amazon as part of two separate stints.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Facebook also said it’s doesn’t want to be the only one developing the metaverse. The graphics have come a long way since I last used a VR headset (just a few years ago), and that made my experience transporting. Mark Zuckerberg shows an early version of Facebook VR tech at a developer conference in 2016. AFP via Getty Images.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

In 2015, shortly after the Jeep hack, the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) released a study suggesting that someone could take wireless signals within an airplane and perhaps cause mischief. We continue to develop those kinds of CTF challenges and we're working with partners now to bring that in. Or a satellite in space?

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Vox

JANUARY 26, 2022

The data also shows sizable jumps in people starting transportation and warehousing businesses, which do things like coordinating package deliveries or processing returns. Chris Nelder quit his job last year at a clean energy nonprofit to work full time on his subscription podcast about moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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