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Seattle Angel Conference launches new health startup competition to help educate angel investors

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The program is modeled after the Seattle Angel Conference, which has been educating new investors and funding new companies for more than ten years, mainly through its startup competition. Apis Health Angel Conference program manager Elizabeth Cross Nichol. Apis Photo). Each contributes $5,000.

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Google is shutting down its VR field trip app Expeditions

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The app, which offered educational VR tours, will be removed from iOS and Android app stores on June 30th, 2021. We’ve heard and recognize that immersive experiences with VR headsets are not always accessible to all learners,” writes Jennifer Holland, Google’s director of education program management. “As

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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. Bamboo previously offered voice-based apps for Amazon’s Alexa devices. Freed will continue to serve on the board of Bamboo Learning and as an advisor.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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These include the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the UW’s International Training and Education Center for Health, which supports Ukraine in providing services for people with HIV. Ukrainian delegates to Seattle at a visit to the Space Needle.

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Cloud Computing In Government Lesson's Learned From On The FrontLines Magazine

Cloud Musings

A few of the educational gems enclosed in this 20 PAGE ISSUE: Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP Program Manager, GSA - “The first one is security is largely not a technical issue. If you look at any sort of management of anything, technical things and problems are usually pretty easy to solve and there’s a quick ability to do that.”

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Stand By For Reporting From the Intelligence and National Security Summit 18-19 Sep 2014 #Intelligence2014

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Deputy Program Manager. Office of the Program Manager, Information Sharing Environment. Director, Center for Intelligence Research and Education. Program Manager, Office of Smart Collection. Program Manager. Director Program Management Office. Dr. David Honey.

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Can a 42-member AI task force get anything done? Hearing raises questions about Wash. state plan

GeekWire

As reported by GeekWire in December , the group including representatives from the legislature, state agencies, tribes, trade groups, civil liberties organizations, education, consumer advocates, businesses, and many others. Ferguson worked Sen. Joe Nguyen, D-White Center, and Rep.