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Tech Moves: Appen lands ex-Upwork CTO; DocuSign hires former Amazon GM

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Appen Photo) — Saty Bahadur is now chief technology officer at Appen, a publicly traded IT services and consulting company that provides training data for artificial intelligence systems. Bahadur was previously chief technology officer at freelancing platform Upwork and a general manager for Alexa at Amazon.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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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 200 rankings update: E-commerce, virtual event, fintech startups heat up

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After more than a year of lockdowns, states are reopening, travel is picking up, and employees are returning to the office. It recently hired longtime Amazon tech leader Dorothy Li as CTO. The startup reported a 15x increase in revenue last year. Notable mentions: virtual events startup Brandlive (No. The biggest movers.

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3 forces shaping the evolution of ERP

CIO Business Intelligence

The challenges of the past two years “are tipping the scales toward speedier adoption of next-generation ERP systems,” noted a team of analysts led by Neveen Awad in a report published by Boston Consulting Group. “It Recent events also exposed the relatively weak reporting capabilities of traditional ERP. “We

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Industrial headset company RealWear names CEO

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Parkinson has served as RealWear’s CTO since co-founding the company in 2016. He also ran a RFID consulting company and was a senior engineer at Alien Technology. RealWear sells rugged head-mounted voice-controlled devices that project a virtual Android tablet below a user’s line of sight.

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Tech Moves: Top Blue Origin engineer joins SpaceX; Axon hires HTC Vive exec; Porch adds to board

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. — Law enforcement technology company Axon added former HTC Vive exec Chris Chin as vice president of immersive tech. In his new role, Chin will be responsible for Axon’s virtual reality and augmented reality training platforms. billion contract to return astronauts to the moon. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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The 4 most overhyped technologies in IT

CIO Business Intelligence

A July 2023 report from professional services firm KPMG found that 97% of the 200 senior US business leaders it polled anticipate that generative AI will have a huge impact on their organizations in the short term, 93% believe it will provide value to their business, and 80% believe it will disrupt their industry.