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Ackerley brothers, fresh off Leeds United stake, launch new investment arm for sports and tech

GeekWire

The Seattle-based brothers are part-owners of the Seattle Kraken and recently launched a new sports and media investment arm. Photo courtesy of Ted and Chris Ackerley) Ted and Chris Ackerley are on the hunt for companies at the forefront of sports and media innovation. Sports runs deep in the Ackerley family.

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SPACkerley: Why these sports business brothers in Seattle are bullish about their new SPAC deal

GeekWire

that is targeting an enterprise in the entertainment, sports, and hospitality sectors. As it relates to merging tech and innovation with sports and entertainment, Chris Ackerley said the focus has to be on the customer and creating a constant feedback loop. ” Sports runs deep in the Ackerley family. .

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Your Enterprise has too many Cyber-ish People

CTOvision

Cyber has been called the ultimate team sport: CIOs, CTOs, SysAdmins, Software Developers, CISOs, threat teams, red teams, testing groups, etc. It seems more like a jobs program that moves headcount from one part of the enterprise to the expensive nerdy-side. By John Scott. etc, but really should it be? So: constrain funding!

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Turn Failure Detection into a Team Sport

Information Week

Here's how Chaos GameDays and its spinoffs can enable enterprises to fortify their infrastructure resilience and detect failures before they occur.

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Has COVID-19 changed sports forever? UW, WSU athletic directors and Sounders owner look ahead

GeekWire

The future of sports, just like many industries across the world, is up in the air as COVID-19 continues spreading across the country and world. For now, professional leagues are playing condensed seasons inside “bubbles,” while some colleges are slashing sports programs altogether to cut costs.

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Amazon inks another sports deal as AWS will power NHL’s digital transformation and in-game analytics

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services is broadening its reach across the professional sports landscape, announcing a new partnership with the National Hockey League Wednesday to be the official cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning infrastructure provider for the league. (AWS Image).

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Customer Engagement: A Data-Driven Team Sport

Eric D. Brown

CIOs see the end-to-end connection [of different functions] across the entire company – how all these different processes need to work together to optimize the outcome for the enterprise, and, most importantly, for customers.” .

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