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Tech Moves: Microsoft Teams CVP joins UiPath; Sage Bionetworks names president; and more

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He began as a product manager and from 2005 to 2008 served as a technical advisor to Satya Nadella, who was then a senior vice president and is now Microsoft CEO and chairman. — Seattle biomedical research nonprofit Sage Bionetworks appointed Luca Foschini as president.

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Charge up: How the Pacific Northwest is boosting electric infrastructure as EV sales rise

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“This is a transformational time,” said Tonia Buell, alternative fuels program manager for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). Even Matthew Metz, the Seattle founder of the EV-boosting nonprofit Coltura , can’t say for sure if the infrastructure build out is on track to meet demand.

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LinkedIn and Year Up partner for a more diverse IT future

CIO Business Intelligence

LinkedIn is one such company giving IT pros an opportunity to make a difference as part of a longstanding partnership with job training nonprofit Year Up, which began in 2011 when LinkedIn’s first CEO, Jeff Weiner, saw the value in working with the Year Up to open the talent pipeline and to give back.

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Ukrainian delegation visits Seattle to learn about its life sciences cluster and plan for the future

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Ivashchenko and other delegates spoke with GeekWire at a life science networking event Wednesday at a pub in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. The Seattle office of the nonprofit World Affairs Council is hosting the delegates as part of the Open World Program , established in 1999 by the U.S.

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Meanwhile, the 2022 State of Tech Diversity: The Black Tech Ecosystem report from the NAACP and Kapor Center, a nonprofit addressing racial inequities in STEM education and the tech industry, found that the proportion of Black students receiving bachelor’s degrees in computer science decreased between 2016 and 2020, going from 9% to 8%.

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How BUiLT unites Black IT pros and builds equity

CIO Business Intelligence

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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2021 GeekWire Awards revealed: Big winners, surprise guests, and the best in Pacific NW tech

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Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab, Vikram Iyer is using tiny tech to solve big problems. They come from universities, public schools and nonprofits, and are working with kids from elementary school into college and supporting fellow teachers as well.

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