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GeekWire Summit Preview: A glimpse of the future of tech, health, education, jobs and more

GeekWire

Other GeekWire Summit sessions including the future of education, the future of travel, and the future of business, will be affected by the vaccine rollout. Dr. Melanie Ivarsson, chief development officer at Moderna, one of the major pharmaceutical companies with a vaccine candidate in Phase 3 tests. Department of Education.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 7, 2024

GeekWire

in another big Seattle biotech deal Boston-based biotech company Vertex Pharmaceuticals agreed to acquire Seattle-based Alpine Immune Sciences for $65 per share, totaling about $4.9 million, including his base pay, the value of shares that vested during the year, and security costs, according to a new filing by the company.

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Generative AI usage gains traction among enterprises: McKinsey

CIO Business Intelligence

In contrast, manufacturing-based industries, such as aerospace, automotive, and advanced electronics could experience less disruptive effects due to limitations of the new technology’s usage in these industries as most work requires physical labor, the report said.

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Johnson & Johnson’s big bet on intelligent automation

CIO Business Intelligence

As the global COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to spread, the company, one of the world’s largest suppliers of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and consumer packaged goods, needed to reduce costs, speed up tasks, and improve the accuracy of its core business operations. Generally, J&J prefers everything in billions.”

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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

It isn’t a random group of people: one preprint paper found that working-class Americans were five times more likely to die from Covid-19 than college-educated Americans. Working-class Hispanic men had a mortality rate 27 times higher than white college-educated women.

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Why State & Local Governments Should be Prepared for Cloud

Cloud Musings

This educational webinar is brought to you by RISC Networks , and will be hosted on BrightTalk.com at 12:00 pm on March 26, 2014. RISC Networks services virtually every type of industry, including pharmaceuticals, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, banking, finance and technology.

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What is a data architect? Skills, salaries, and how to become a data framework master

CIO Business Intelligence

They understand data modeling, including conceptualization and database optimization, and demonstrate a commitment to continuing education. According to Dataversity , good data architects have a solid understanding of the cloud, databases, and the applications and programs used by those databases.

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