GeekWire

JULY 15, 2023

(WTIA Photo) Terrance Stevenson is bringing his passion for peace-building, community development, and innovation to the Seattle tech industry. Stevenson this week was named director of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that launched in 2018 and aims to help tech workers engage with civic issues.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 21, 2021

Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the 22 tech startups that have been selected for the organization’s recurring Founder Cohort Program on Thursday. Launching a startup can be a lonely journey, but it doesn’t have to be,” Parker, the board chair for WTIA’s Startup Program, said in a news release.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) trade group is laying off 11 employees, or 14% of its workforce, with cuts mostly affecting positions in its non-profit tech worker apprenticeship program Apprenti. In 2021, the program helped springboard the tech careers of about 420 people. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 19, 2022

She researched “low-cost options to break into the technology industry,” and when she came across the Ada Developers Academy, she didn’t believe it was real at first. “It After connecting with a former Adie — the nickname for students in the program — and confirming the program was indeed real, Burrows says she “couldn’t wait to apply.”.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2024

He was a leader at Startup Weekend and Code Fellows, and led the Founder Cohort program for the Washington Technology Industry Association. She joined the nonprofit in 2022 after stints with Spokane International Airport and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. Kelly Fukai was named chief operating officer at WTIA.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Photo courtesy of Devon Horace) RAIN Catalysts , a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship for underrepresented groups, is accepting applications for its first tech accelerator. The free and virtual 10-week program, funded by the U.S. Devon Horace, director of the RAIN Tech Accelerator.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 26, 2023

“South Asians are a critical part of the city of Seattle, because of the tech industry, because of the universities here,” Khobragade said. Soma” Somasegar has been around the tech industry for 34 years, including nearly three decades at Microsoft, where he was head of the tech giant’s Developer Division.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 30, 2023

. “The next iteration of Ada will be lean and laser-focused on sustainability, driven by the evolving workforce dynamics in the tech industry today. The nonprofit cut 45% of its workforce in May, impacting about 34 of 76 employees at the time. Ada cited the ongoing economic downturn and its impact on the tech industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

While the tech industry has made more of an effort to foster greater workplace diversity in recent years, there’s still a lot of progress to make for LGBTQ+ workers. The organization aims to connect LGBTQ+ tech workers and to create more visibility for queer, female, trans, GNC, and POC leaders in the industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To do so, the organization collected retired computers and laptops from companies, fixed them up, and redistributed them back into the community through schools and nonprofits. The plan worked, but with a twist: Talent Ayala recruited and trained would eventually leave after a year for jobs in the technology industry.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2024

Kennedy to enter an Air Force flight training program that was regarded as a pathway to NASA’s astronaut corps, and went on to win an Air Force recommendation to join NASA. In 2001, Hess founded Science Buddies , a K-12 nonprofit that’s based in California and focuses on STEM literacy. with her husband of 40 years.

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GeekWire

MARCH 14, 2022

Jarris had eight employees and loyal customers in the maritime industry at the time. The company had momentum, winning business plan competitions and joining Washington state’s first maritime business accelerator program. RELATED: Seattle researchers aim to stop the spread of COVID-19 infections in Alaskan fishing industry.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 22, 2022

Today’s networking and advocacy landscape finds a growing array of programs and organizations for girls, women, and anyone who identifies as a woman — and plenty are also open to male allies. While women are underrepresented in STEM fields, that’s even more true for women of color working in the industry. Girl Develop It.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 28, 2022

AllianceBernstein stands out in the financial services industry as a company that offers employees more than just competitive pay and benefits. The list of programs that AllianceBernstein has in place to diversify its talent pipeline is extensive. Diversifying the talent pipeline. The Nashville, Tenn.-based Karl Sprules.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

” As the pandemic boom times fade for the life sciences industry, Patel is not the only CEO in the Seattle area re-assessing how to run a business. In Washington state, the response to the broader downturn is mixed, according to interviews with CEOs and other industry leaders. Google screenshot).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) has selected 30 Washington state tech startups for its seventh Founder Cohort Program. The virtual program is designed to help seed-stage startups grow and scale over the course of six months. (BigStock Illustration). Agitare Technologies, Inc.

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Computerworld Vertical IT

APRIL 12, 2022

The technology industry is expected to see a 13% uptick in employment through 2030. Black Americans, however, are notably underrepresented in the industry. While Black workers account for almost 12% of the overall workforce in the US, Black men represent 7.4% of the technology labor pool, and Black women represent just 3%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For decades, we’ve been investing in innovation, partnerships, and programs that apply our technology, scale, and talented workforce to drive human progress – all intending to have a measurable influence on some of the complex challenges important to our business, customers, the communities we serve and society at large.

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GeekWire

JULY 20, 2020

The wireless industry veteran is certainly keeping busy these days as CEO and chairman of the Seattle Mariners, a position he took on in 2016 following decades of leadership roles at VoiceStream Wireless (the predecessor of the modern day T-Mobile), Clearwire Corp, McCaw Cellular, and Western Wireless. .” I love what I’m doing.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 8, 2024

The organization, which started with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and about four or five employees, has since grown into a global nonprofit with more than 1,500 change leaders, universities, companies, nonprofits, and government organizations on board.

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ComputerWorld IT Management

APRIL 12, 2022

The technology industry is expected to see a 13% uptick in employment through 2030. Black Americans, however, are notably underrepresented in the industry. While Black workers account for almost 12% of the overall workforce in the US, Black men represent 7.4% of the technology labor pool, and Black women represent just 3%.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Collaborating with nonprofit carriers Regence BlueShield and Asuris Northwest Health, ALLtech boasts one of Washington state’s most extensive healthcare networks. Our partnership, dating back to 2014, ensures that Washington’s tech businesses can access competitive health insurance plans akin to industry giants.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While the onus of change rests in large part on employers to alter their approaches to hiring and inclusivity in the workplace, the following 17 professional organizations are dedicated to advancing the careers of Black IT pros and increasing Black representation in the tech industry through training, networking resources, and more.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Despite public and internal corporate support programs, and increased awareness of male/female disparities in the workplace in terms of positions and salaries, women still come up short of equity in tech job placements. Launched a Veterans Leadership Program. It’s important to remember that confidence starts young.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

The tech industry has long been known for its lack of diversity and, as a result, there’s been a big push for companies to take DEI strategies seriously. The report also found that diverse management increases revenue by 19% and gender-diverse companies report performing 15% higher financial returns than the industry median.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), a national nonprofit and SecureWorld association partner, has announced a first of its kind study to help understand why women in cybersecurity are not being accurately represented and the potential changes that need to happen to evolve this.

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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. “We The HBCU internship program launched in 2023.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But some of the growth in recent years may be slowing as a result of layoffs affecting the tech industry amid inflation and the broader stock market downturn. After the fireside chat, we spoke with five elected officials about the tech industry’s responsibility to help the city address important issues.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” – Michael Greer, president and CEO of the Seattle nonprofit ArtsFund Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon’s CEO two years ago, is still relatively new to large-scale philanthropy and his charitable track record provides limited clues to his future giving. among other nonprofits.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Ada announced Monday that it is growing at a scale where it will serve more students, expand its impact and implement new support for programs. Founded in 2013, Ada’s mission is to diversify the tech industry. Implementing a corporate training program to reduce barriers to entry and support safe spaces for marginalized folks.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

CyManII has identified three high-priority areas to focus research and development to help US manufacturers in preventing these cyberattacks: securing automation, securing the supply chain network, and building a national program for education and workforce development. manufacturing enterprise.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Other key personnel changes across the Pacific Northwest tech industry: — Adaptive Biotechnologies named Kyle Piskel as its new chief financial officer. Techstars announced one month later that it was shutting down the Seattle program. F5 reported $693 million in revenue for its most recent quarter, down 1% year-over-year.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 9, 2014

The solicitation targets research and commercialization performed by Virginia public and private universities, nonprofit research institutions, and young companies. Awards from the CRCF further the goals and industry opportunities set forth the in the Commonwealth Research and Technology (R&T) Strategic Roadmap.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 7, 2023

Therefore, we have programs to educate all directors on cybersecurity. We have a formal Cyber-Risk Oversight Certificate Program for our members, created in partnership with the CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and Ridge Global. It requires due diligence. The last piece is education.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The California-based nonprofit puts out an annual guide for recommended animal charities, and it just released its list for this year. It engages in scientific research, industry partnerships, and government advocacy that improves the odds of alternative proteins going mainstream. It also conducts grassroots legislative advocacy.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 3, 2023

In 2020 he wrote a guest post for GeekWire on lessons learned from two decades in the logistics tech industry, titled “Robots aren’t taking over.” Juan Barraza joined VertueLab , a Portland nonprofit that supports climate tech startups, as director of innovation and entrepreneurship.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JULY 13, 2022

Last year people in the CIO position helped introduce or bolster initiatives to increase the ranks of minorities and women on their technology teams, as well as programs designed to retain and advance those underrepresented groups. of those employed in core IT occupations across all industry sectors in the U.S. of IT jobs.

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