GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

-based $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund , launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, appointed Paul Bodnar to help lead programs on climate finance, industry and diplomacy. Bodnar was previously chief strategy officer at the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), where he founded its Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Yakima, Wash.-based

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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. To secure executive support, CIO’s must first demonstrate value and need. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 16, 2023

The project last week secured $32.6 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. Kirkland, Wash.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2023

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He was previously SVP of global energy at Tesla and VP of North American customer fulfillment at Amazon. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. She was most recently CEO of NetHope, a consortium helping NGOs secure funding and apply technology to their missions.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

Techstars Seattle, which hosts a three month accelerator program, graduated its 11th cohort this year and is led by Managing Director Isaac Kato. The company offers mobile platforms for religious, education and nonprofit organizations. Turner joined CI Security in 2017, originally as an information security analyst.

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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 Digiconomist , a site started in 2014, calculates the energy and carbon footprints of Ethereum and Bitcoin networks in their entirety.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He was previously SVP of global energy at Tesla and VP of North American customer fulfillment at Amazon. Lauren Woodman , a former Microsoft general manager, is the new CEO of global nonprofit DataKind. She was most recently CEO of NetHope, a consortium helping NGOs secure funding and apply technology to their missions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

To earn this cert, candidates should know how to maintain and modify Sales Cloud and Service Cloud applications; manage users, data, and security; and construct dashboards, reports, and workflows. The certification emphasizes testing, governance, and integration with external systems within an organization’s infrastructure.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

The state is home to a multitude of climate tech startups tackling batteries, nuclear power, green aviation, hydrogen fuel and other clean energy challenges. Initiative supporters say the program amounts to a “hidden gas tax” that is harming Washington residents by raising prices at the pump and jacking up electric bills.

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The Verge

MAY 10, 2021

That leaves the nation’s energy infrastructure especially vulnerable, even though there are basic steps that could have been taken to prevent the crisis that’s unfolding now. Reiner says ransomware poses growing risks to critical infrastructure beyond energy, including health care and financial systems.

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Vox

OCTOBER 15, 2020

To play chess, they programmed in heuristics about chess. Releasing a program that writes convincing fake reviews or fake news might make those widespread, making it harder for the truth to get out. Once, we made progress in AI by painstakingly teaching computer systems specific concepts. they drew on the field of linguistics.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The switchover was supposed to start happening in 2018, but the program experienced multiple setbacks. The program was hit with further delays once the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

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GeekWire

JULY 24, 2020

In 2007, he co-founded Chronus , a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. Other finalists: Armoire, LevelTen Energy, Syndio Solutions, Uplevel. Itucas continues to lead product and operations at the startup, which participated in the 2018 Techstars Seattle accelerator program. Part of the U.S.

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Vox

MAY 22, 2023

When it came to applying for work, there was huge growth in the number of applications to jobs in government, law, and politics (84 percent); energy (53 percent); and pretty much every industry that isn’t tech, although that grew too (8 percent). Why are Gen Z grads so focused on job security and stability?

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GeekWire

APRIL 29, 2023

The c4 and mmc4 corpuses are both derived from data collected by Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that crawls the web, then provides its archives and datasets to the public for free. In addition to the full version of the corpus, two additional subsets have been constructed to make mmc4 more usable, secure and environmentally friendly.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. Intelligence Agency?

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Unfortunately, COVID-19 has delayed it indefinitely, along with Roam’s plans to add programs for snowboarding, hiking, running, and general mobility. When worn it bends freely with your back, but when it takes a high-energy impact it deforms and stiffens at the same time, so it both absorbs and spreads out the impact.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Nisreen Lahham. Location: Cairo, Egypt. Location: Islamabad, Pakistan. Twitter: @puruesh.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

He did, and was won over by David Domke , the nonprofit’s organizer, a University of Washington communications professor, and a powerhouse of persuasion. While most of the volunteers were older and white, he was committed to building a nonprofit staff that was diverse in race and age. Pushing back against voter suppression.

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