The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 13, 2022

All of the normal things related to importance of information technology are there: securing the company’s networks, introducing new applications, educating users about security, etc. What CIOs need to do is to expand programs aimed at attracting and developing diverse tech talent , despite remote-work conditions.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 28, 2016

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation has released the largest study of its kind on corporate cybersecurity, the result of the study is: The State of Cyber Security Report. The State of Cyber Security Report addresses: One-third of in-house counsel have experienced a data breach. About the ACC Foundation.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Flyhomes, which helps home-buyers secure purchases with all-cash offers, laid off 20% of its employees in July, then reduced headcount again in November. Loftium launched its host-to-own program a year ago. “[This acquisition] gives us a way to expand the group of people that we can serve as customers,” he said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

So NCDIT officials took action, creating an internship program for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) students, a move that would open up for the organization a new pipeline for talent traditionally underrepresented in the IT industry. The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2022

The InfraGard ® program turned 25 years old last year. While the FBI is recognized throughout the world as a preeminent national security organization, many may be surprised to learn of this unique partnership between the FBI and members of the private sector that was established to protect U.S. critical infrastructure.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The most interesting part for me was reviewing the many impactful nominations, especially those that are directly tied to saving lives, curing disease, finding fraud, and helping the department of defense and the intelligence community support national security missions. Los Angeles Big Data Users Group. ? Security & Compliance. ?

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Program VP, Business Analytics and Big Data.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

George “Skip” Battle , the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Madrona Venture Group Photo). Skip Battle. Global Ventures Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Sullivan was previously head of product for the AI DevOps group at Amazon Web Services, where he led teams helping customers build and manage cloud-based applications. 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.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 24, 2023

Gene Kingsley has worked as a dedicated resource in the Information Security space for more than 25 years, among industries such as Higher Ed, Healthcare, Finance, Federal Government agencies, and others. I was with a group of about ten students, and we were lined up at the curb to cross the street at Woodland Ave. A : EXCITING!

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. SECURITY & COMPLIANCE. GOVERNMENT, NONPROFIT, & NGO. Program VP, Business Analytics and Big Data.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is structured as a nonprofit that owns a for-profit arm with “capped” profits : First-round investors would stop earning after their shares multiply in value a hundredfold , with profits beyond that going into OpenAI’s nonprofit. How much teeth the board has had in practice is debatable.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 20, 2022

Her pitch laid the groundwork for a pilot program in which Gusto covered the cost of a seven-month, full-time bootcamp while continuing to pay McGrath a salary and maintain her benefits and vesting. I had seen others leave to learn software engineering and not come back, which is why we advocated for this program.”.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2022

Feeding America is a nonprofit that behaves like most for-profits,” says Maryann Byrdak, chief information technology officer of Feeding America. “We The nonprofit brought her onboard with a mandate to build a roadmap to drive innovation and modernize the organization’s IT footprint. We source a lot of food.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

.” According to Google , here are the core objectives for the Frontier AI Model Forum: Research into AI safety is being pushed forward to encourage the careful creation of cutting-edge models, lessen potential dangers, and pave the way for impartial, standardized assessments of performance and security.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

He will help lead the company’s engineering, product management, data science, machine learning, AI, user experience, data security and corporate technology teams. He previously worked at Nike, Symantec and The Regence Group. At Amazon, Bacos also led Alexa Entertainment and Amazon’s homepage and navigation teams.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. She is currently a board member for cleantech investment group E8 Angels. million earlier this year.

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GeekWire

MAY 18, 2020

Today the startup announced the release of a new telehealth platform that uses Lyssn’s own secure video-conferencing system to provide remote mental healthcare. The startup has a dozen customers, primarily university programs that train counselors and therapists. Lyssn CEO Dave Atkins. Lyssn Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

He was previously CEO of Tibco Software, a business unit of Cloud Software Group and was an executive at BMC Software, Salesforce, C3.ai Portland-based Bucker was previously chief of staff at the Bay Area nonprofit and was also chief operating officer of Founder Gym, an online program training under-represented founders to build startups.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. She is currently a board member for cleantech investment group E8 Angels. million earlier this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2024

Snyder, secretary of the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Commonwealth CIO for Massachusetts, responded by overhauling the agency’s recruitment and retention practices. Year Up is a nonprofit organization offering skills-based training to young adults ; YUPRO Placement helps place Year Up participants in jobs.

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Vox

APRIL 8, 2022

In the face of a shortage of masks, a coalition of private, public, and volunteer groups coalesced to fill a void, their efforts centered on producing and distributing 3D-printed masks. As the country waited for US manufacturers to scale up PPE production and for supply chains to stabilize, a fascinating stopgap solution emerged: 3D printing.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon hired Anne Toth as director of Alexa Trust, a team focused on the privacy, security, accessibility, ethics and biases of Amazon’s voice platform. Zillow Group Photo). Zillow Group appointed Claire Cormier Thielke to its board of directors. million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group earlier this month.

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Vox

JULY 29, 2022

Their organizing efforts will spill beyond the fulfillment center floor and the truck cab, and could interfere with Amazon’s ability to secure construction approvals, routing preferences, air expansion, and other core functions of our operation,” the document added. The friend of my enemy is my … friend? Altruism this is not.

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GeekWire

JULY 6, 2021

were from non-white, underrepresented ethnic and racial groups. The initiative has support from major Northwest tech companies and provides a free, six-month training program for “board-ready” Black executives. Last year’s murder of George Floyd was an important motivation in creating the effort, according to Perkins Coie.

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GeekWire

APRIL 7, 2021

During the Obama administration, she helped lead the White House’s national STEM program. He was also previously CTO at network infrastructure and security technology company F5 Networks. Myerson previously led Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group before departing in 2018 after a 21-year career at the company. —

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

As AI becomes more advanced and potentially more dangerous, is it better for society if the code is under wraps — limited to the staff of a small number of companies — or should it be shared with the public so that a wider group of people can have a hand in shaping the transformative technology?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 8, 2023

And I was really fortunate to land the security beat right away. I wrote two books, one on IoT Security and another with Kevin Mitnick, then jumped around a couple of different jobs. What if you are a woman in information security? WANG : it was the security security practice. By accident. So I learned.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Behaviors to exclude me would happen in corporate [workplaces] and even in nonprofits where I volunteered, and I wasn’t prepared for them coming.” After closing his software company during the pandemic, Beasley turned toward the nonprofit space, working with several organizations, serving on the board of directors.

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A CIO's Voice

JULY 9, 2014

Develops new insights into situations; questions conventional approaches; encourages new ideas and innovations; designs and implements new or cutting edge programs/processes. Facilitates cooperation and motivates team members to accomplish group goals. Prepares, justifies, and administers the program budget. External Awareness.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

” A key component of AppDeployer empowers developers with point-and-click tools to rapidly prototype and deploy applications without programming. We partner with our customers to support their missions with security-cleared, dedicated and talented employees ready to deploy globally. Connect via: CLOUD COMPUTING WORKING GROUP.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

Welcome to the hacker mind and original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living. I've got a lot of industry certifications, but having all those paper degrees proved to be a poor equivalent to having actual hands on experience in information security.

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A Screw's Loose

MAY 30, 2012

A BYOD program was required if your company wanted to retain millennials. Most companies actually run a MBYOD program or managed BYOD. They set out only a few choices of devices and you need to pick from that list if you want to participate in the program. Pingback: Is BYOD a retention program?Nonprofit Nonprofit HR.

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GeekWire

MAY 7, 2020

Seattle security startup ExtraHop is one example. Maria Hess, partner at Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs , said it’s primarily data and security startups that are hiring at its studio. The computer science education nonprofit is hiring for a wide range of technical and curriculum positions. compared to last year.

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GeekWire

APRIL 18, 2024

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. And the auctions pay for programs that directly and indirectly benefit the tech sector, supporting job creation and climate tech companies working on decarbonization.

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